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ally decided upon, representing the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, the Royal Society, the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, &c. These arrangements would, no doubt, hold good under the altered conditions, and there only remains to be considered the question of cost.

16. The estimated annual cost of the International Bureau was £2,000, but this made provision for a larger distribution of literature, and therefore, for more printing, postage, stationery, &c., than would be necessary if the Bureau were to be free of obligation to the other Powers concerned, and it is probable that an annual sum of £1,200 would suffice for its maintenance. This sum would be expended as follows:-

(a) Salary for the working Director in charge of the Bureau, who would be a properly qualified expert, would be constantly employed, and would require a salary of about £500 a year.

(b) Salary for a translator, whose services could probably be obtained for

some £150 a year.

(c) Cost of clerical assistance, which can probably be obtained from the sub-

ordinate staff of the Royal Society for another £150 a year.

(d) Miscellaneous expenses, such as printing, postage, stationery, &c. 17. It is proposed that the Bureau should be established on a purely temporary footing for four or five years, so that the whole question can be carefully reconsidered when the present emergency has passed. It may be mentioned that a provision to this effect was contained in the Draft Convention submitted to the recent Conference in London-amongst other reasons in order to meet the objections of the French and Italian plenipotentiaries described above.

18. The Sudan Government have stated that the present scheme meets with their hearty support, and that they are prepared to make an annual contribution of £300 towards it. The balance of the expenditure Lord Elgin would ask their Lord- ships to sanction as a charge against Imperial funds. In view of the urgency of the matter, which it will have been seen from the narrative given above of the proceed- ings at the Conference has already been too long delayed, he would be glad to receive as early a reply as possible to this letter, and he earnestly trusts that the reply will be favourable.

I am, &c.,

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No. 20.

TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 8 April, 1908.)

C. P. LUCAS.

SIR,

Treasury Chambers, 7 April, 1908. I HAVE laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury Sir C. P. Lucas's letter of the 3rd instant (11619/1908),* stating that, owing to the failure of the International Conference on Sleeping Sickness, held in March last, to come to an agreement on the question of the establishment of a Central Bureau for the collection and dissemination of information respecting this disease, the Earl of Elgin proposes that this country should establish instead a National Bureau intended to serve as far as possible the same purpose.

My Lords note that the Royal Society has offered to accommodate this Bureau free of charge at Burlington House, and that the Sudan Government are prepared to make an annual contribution of £300 towards its expenses.

In these circumstances, and on the understanding, expressed in the letter under reply, that the Bureau will be established on a purely temporary footing for four or five years, my Lords sanction the charge of the balance of the expenditure, estimated at about £900 per annum, to Imperial funds.

I am to add that, with a view to the work of the Bureau being kept on practical lines, and the avoidance of useless elaboration, my Lords look to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to keep it under active supervision and control, and they desire that, to this end, provision may be made for the expenditure under the

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Colonial Services Vote, a special subhead being raised for the purpose. For the current year a note of explanation should be inserted in the Appropriation Account.

I am, &c.,

G. II. MURRAY.

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SIR,

No. 21.

COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. J R. BRADFORD AND OTHERS.*

Downing Street, 8 April, 1903. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to inform you, with reference to the recent Conference on Sleeping Sickness, that the proposal to establish an International Central Bureau for the collection and dissemination of information regarding the disease having fallen through, it has now been decided to establish a National Bureau in this country for the same purpose.

2. Lord Elgin proposes to appoint you to be a member of the Committee of Management of the Bureau, and, if you are willing to act in this capacity, I am to ask you to be good enough to attend at this office on Monday, the 13th instant, at 2 p.m., to discuss the arrangements which should be made.

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SIR,

No. 22.

I am, &c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE. [Answered by No. 29.]

Downing Street, 13 April, 1908. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir E. Grey with reference to your letter of the 1st April, the accom- panying copy of the lettert which was finally sent to the Treasury on the subject of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau which it is proposed to establish in this country, and a copy of the letters which has been received in reply.

2. It will be seen that the necessary funds are now available for the establish- ment of the Bureau, and Lord Elgin would be glad if Sir E. Grey would select some member of the Foreign Office to represent the Government of the Soudan on the Committee of Management.

3. Lord Elgin desires to take this opportunity of expressing his appreciation of the patience and skill with which Lord Fitzmaurice presided over the recent Confer- ence on Sleeping Sickness, and of the efforts which his Lordship made to conduct its deliberations to a successful issue. Although, for reasons with which Sir E. Grey is already familiar, it was not possible to arrive at an International Agreement of the kind originally proposed, Lord Elgin is of opinion that the arrangements which are now being made will not only be equally satisfactory from the point of view of this Department, but will, in some important particulars, be far more advantageous.

12472

SIR.

I am, &c.,

No. 23.

FRANCIS J. S HOPWOOD.

COLONIAL OFFICE to SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY.

Downing Street, 13 April, 1908.

I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you the accompanying copy of correspondence from which it will be seen that it is proposed to establish ́ a Bureau in this country for the collection and dissemination of information regarding sleeping sickness.

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† 11619 not printed.

Samely, Sir 1. Manson, Sir R. Bayee, an 1 Colonel D. Bruce,

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