ملف ٢٩٠٨/١٩٠٧ الجزء ٣ "الخليج الفارسي: الحجر الصحي؛ شكوى ألمانية" [و‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٢٥٠/٢٢٩)

^Delegates that it is a project which had better stand oyer for subsequent
discussion through diplomatic channels.
mi xr •. o, I have, &c.,
Ihe Unaer Secretary of State, a. Godley.
Foreign Office
Enclosure No. 4.
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office,
25th November 1903.
lam directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you
herewith copy of a Despatch from the British delegates to the Paris
Sanitary Conference, containing their general report on the results of
the Conference and requesting instructions with regard to the draft
Convention which will be submitted for signature on Monday the
30th instant. ^
l am also to enclose a copy of a further Despatch from the delegates
enclosing an uncorrected copy of the draft Convention.
I am to state that Lord Lansdowne proposes, subject to the concur
rence of the Secretary of State for India in Council, to give the requisite
authority to the delegates to sign the Convention, with such reserves as
may be thought expedient, e.g., as to the Persian Gulf, the Constantinople
Board of Health, the Tangier Sanitary Station, &c.
Similar letters have been addressed to the Local Government Board
and the Board of Trade.
The Under Secretary of State
for India.
I am, &c.,
F. A. Campbell.
Annex.
British Delegates, Paris, to Foreign Office.
No. 20 . Paris
Ford, _ 22 nd November 1903.
The practical work of the Sanitary Conference came to an end
with the sixth plenary meeting, held on Wednesday last the 18th instant.
We are now awaiting the text of the draft Convention, which is to
embody all the four previous Conventions, with the modifications and
additions resulting from the labours of the present Conference.
A small Committee has been named, which will control and, where
necessary, correct the text of the new Convention before the Conference
finally meets, for its signature, on Monday, 30th November.
We are desirous of obtaining your Lordship’s instructions in the
matter of our signing the Convention. Another day or two may still
* c- t , elapse before we are able to for-
Smce drafting the above, the text has j .
been received and we are forwarding it under U . 1 , , > t)Ut we think it
separate cover. ~ desiranle not to delay any longer,
and to summarise at once °the
results obtained by the present Conference, to point out to what extent
British interests would gain or lose by the acceptance of the Convention
and to indicate the reasons which induce us to hope that vour LorrLhin
will authorise us to accept and sign it. ^ ^P
It will be most convenient to consider, firstly, the principal modi
fications in existing Conventions, and secondly, the additions to those
instruments which are embodied in the new Convention. We shall in
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