(Extract.) On the Nile, near Kiro, January 21, 1903 I have just visited the Belgian stations of Kiro and Lado, as also the station of Gondokoro in the Uganda Protectorate. Your Lordship may like to receive some remarks on the impressions I derived as regards the Belgian positions on the Upper Nile. I should, in the first instance, observe that Commandant Hanolet, who is in charge of the district, was absent in the interior of the country; but Sir Reginald Wingate and myself were most courteously

My Lord, Brussels, September 19, 1903. I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a note, together with its inclosures, which has been addressed by the Congo Government to the Representatives at Brussels of the Powers parties to the Act of Berlin to which your Lordship’s Circular despatch of the 8th August respecting the affairs of the Independent State of the Congo had been communicated. [1] M. de Cuvelier, in handing me these documents, stated that he had been instructed to follow the same

My Lord, London, December 11, 1903. I HAVE the honour to submit my Report on my recent journey on the Upper Congo. I left Matadi on the 5th June, and arriving at Léopoldville on the 6th, remained in the neighbourhood of Stanley Pool until the 2nd July, when I set out for the Upper Congo. My return to Léopoldville was on the 15th September, so that the period spent in the Upper River was one of only two and a-half months, during which time I visited several points on the Congo River itself, up to

Sir, Foreign Office, February 11, 1904. With reference to Sir C. Phipps’ despatch of the 19th September, 1903, I transmit to you herewith a Memorandum which has been prepared in reply to the note respecting the condition of affairs in the Congo addressed by the Government of the Independent State on the 17th September last, to the Powers parties to the Act of Berlin. I request you to communicate this Memorandum to M. de Cuvelier, and in doing so to call special attention to the inclosed Report b

The Marquess of Lansdowne to His Majesty’s Representatives at Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburgh, Rome, Madrid, Constantinople, Brussels, The Hague, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Lisbon. Sir, Foreign Office, February 12, 1904. I transmit to you, for communication to the Government to which you are accredited, a collection of papers, as marked in the margin, [25] which relate to the present condition of affairs in the Independent State of the Congo. In handing these documents to the Minister for

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. February 1904. LONDON: PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS. AFRICA. No. 7 (1904). FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF THE CONGO. [In continuation of “Africa No. 1 (1904)”.] LONDON: PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY. ——— And to be purchased either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE & SPOTT

My Lord, Brussels, March 13, 1904. I HAVE the honour to inclose the rejoinder on the part of the Congo Government to the Report of His Majesty’s Consul at Boma on the condition of the Congo. In handing these “Notes” to me this afternoon M. de Cuvelier was instructed to call my attention to the passage where his Government expresses a desire to be placed in possession of the full Report, including names, dates, and places referred to. The “Notes” will be communicated to-morrow to the Representati

Foreign Office, April 19, 1904. Sir, THE “Notes” prepared by the Congo Government, and handed to you on the 13th ultimo as a preliminary reply to Mr. Casement’s report, contain statements, to the careful consideration of which some time must be devoted. His Majesty’s Government desire, however, to express at once their great satisfaction at learning that the Congo Government concur in their view of the general principles which should prevail in dealing with the native African races, and at the a

(Extract.) Boma, April 7, 1904. I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith, for your Lordship’s information, a copy of the Judgment in Appeal in the cases of M. Caudron and Silvanus Jones. I am informed that the Procureur d’État demanded the severest punishment for Caudron, accusing him of being the direct cause of the murder in cold blood of over 122 natives (this is the number verified, but many more are supposed to have been murdered of which there is no record) during his expeditions and raids i

My Lord, Brussels, May 14, 1904. M. de Cuvelier handed to me this evening a Memorandum, of which I have the honour to inclose copy, which has been drawn up at the Congo Ministry in rejoinder to the points raised in your Lordship’s despatch of the 19th ultimo, on the subject of the administration of the Congo. I have, &c. (Signed) CONSTANTINE PHIPPS. Memorandum. LA dépêche de Lord Lansdowne du 19 Avril, 1904, dont copie a été remise par Son Excellence Sir Constantine Phipps au Gouvernemen

Sir, Foreign Office, June 6, 1904. WITH reference to my despatch of the 19th April, I transmit to you, for communication to the Congo Government, a Memorandum on the remaining points in the “Notes” handed to you on the 13th March which would appear to His Majesty’s Government to call for observation. I request you, in presenting this Memorandum, to take the opportunity of stating that His Majesty’s Government much regret that, in M. de Cuvelier’s Memorandum of the 14th May, a more definite reply

The Marquess of Lansdowne to His Majesty’s Representatives at Paris, Berlin, Rome, St. Petersburgh, Vienna, Madrid, Constantinople, Brussels, Lisbon, the Hague, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. Sir, Foreign Office, August 8, 1903. The attention of His Majesty’s Government has during recent years been repeatedly called to alleged cases of ill-treatment of natives and to the existence of trade monopolies in the Independent State of the Congo. Representations to this effect are to be found in Memorials f