ملف ٢٩٠٨/١٩٠٧ الجزء ٣ "الخليج الفارسي: الحجر الصحي؛ شكوى ألمانية" [و‎‎١‎١‎٩] (٢٥٠/٢٣٧)

Subject to the foregoing' instructions, I authorise you to sign the
Convention on behalf of His Majesty’s Grovernnient.
I have, &c..
The British Delegates Bansdowne.
to the Sanitary Conference at Paris.
Sir,
Enclosure No. 8 .
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office,
15th January 1904.
\Vith reference to the letter from this Office of the 1 st instant
relative to the Paris Sanitary Convention I am directed by the Marquess
of Lansdowneto inform you that Count Bernstorff called at this Office
on. 13th January, and stated that the German Government saw no
objection to ratitying the Convention recently concluded at Paris, but
before doing so, they would like to be informed whether His Majesty’s
Government (and other Powers) intend to ratify it.
Lord Lansdowne would be glad to be informed with as little delay as
possible whether the Secretary of State for India concurs with his
Lordship in thinking that the Convention should be ratified by this
countrv. J
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State p. pp Yilliers.
for India.
Sir,
Enclosure No. 9 .
India Office to Foreign Office.
B. and S. 135. India Office,
T . . 22nd January 1904.
In reply to your letter of 15th January 1904 on the subject of
the Paris Sanitary Convention I am directed by the Secretary of State
for India in .Council to say that Mr. Secretary Brodrick sees no
objection to His Majesty’s Government ratifying the Convention.
I am to invite attention to Mr. Villiers’ letter of 12 th December 1903
and to my letter B. and S. 5130, dated 10 th December 1903, and to’
request that this Office may be supplied with a copy of the proce's-
verbaux ot the several Commissions and of the plenary sittings of the
Conference, and also with a copy of the reports of the British Dele«-ation
during the sitting of the Conference, in order that the Government of
India may be consulted as to the application of the stipulations of the
Convention to His Majesty s Indian Possessions.
The Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
I have, &c.,
Horace Walpole.
Enclosure No. 10.
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office,
r . Hth February 1904
I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to vo
herewith copies of the International Sanitary Convention signed "
Pans on the 3rd of December last, at the conclusion of the Internation*
14048. F ‘
Sir,