No. 5
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 Foreign Affairs I request that you will call special attention to the Report by Mr. Casement, His Majesty’s Consul at Boma, upon his recent visit to certain districts of the Upper Congo, and that you will at the same time inquire when an answer may be expected to my despatch of the 8th August last.
I am, &c.
(Signed) LANSDOWNE.