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The German South-West Africa Protectorate, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Rhodesia; further correspondence. Includes position of the British South Africa Company in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, application by an African for a farm in an area of white settlement, return of Chief Mphoeng, settlement of Sekgoma Letsholathebe near the Linyanti River, Bechuanaland Protectorate Mining Proclamation, constitution of Southern Rhodesia, alienation of land, position and rights of Africans, proposed introduction of Chinese labourers into Katanga (385 pages).

The German South-West Africa Protectorate, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Rhodesia; further correspondence. Including Rhodesia-Angola, Caprivi Zipfel and Orange River boundaries, death of Sekgoma Letsholathebe and resettlement of his followers, application by an African for a farm in an area of white settlement, position of the British South Africa Company, introduction of Chinese labour into Katanga, political situation in Southern Rhodesia, taxation of Africans, land ownership, 'Rhodes' clause of the Southern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1898. (385 pages).

Sketch map of British Central Africa showing limits of district intended to be secured by treaties already made and in process of making, and showing routes of Consul H.H. Johnston and Mr A. Sharpe and expeditions of British South Africa Company. MS. About 64 miles to an inch.

Contains among other things: The British South Africa Company. Memorandum of the Terms and Conditions upon which persons are permitted to prospect for Minerals and Metals Verordnung über das Schürfen vom 25. Sept. 1895 Resolutions of the German Colonial Congress, 1902 "Aus dem deutsch-ostafrikanischen Schutzgebiet. Contributions to the Geology of the Southern Part of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a" (German-Eastern Africa)

Memorandum and enclosures submitted by Wilson-Fox to Sir L.S. Jameson, President of the British South Africa Company, and left by the latter with Long, reviewing proposals for the administrative and commercial development of Rhodesia, German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa by the B.S.A. Company. [Papers minuted by H.C.M. Lambert and Sir G.V. Fiddes.]

German South-West Africa Protectorate, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Rhodesia; further correspondence. Includes the case of Sekgoma Letsholathebe; Lewanika's concession to the British South Africa Company; the boundary of the Caprivi strip; amalgamation of North Western and North Eastern Rhodesia; recruitment of labour, etc. (201 pages).

Folio 154: telegram from Commander-in-Chief, Cape to Admiralty 20th August 1914, Germans have abandoned fort on Rovuma river and they have troops on Portuguese frontier near Palmas; there is a German vessel like Tabora hiding in vicinity of Rovuma river. Request permission to send HMS Pegasus to destroy ship referred to. There is a considerable quantity of coal at Seychelles which Germans may seize. telegram from Admiralty to HMS Pegasus 20th August 1914, [German ship] Tabora may be captured as Red Cross presumed fraudulent. telegram from Britannia, Simonstown to Admiralty 20th August 1914, [German ship] Tabora captured. Folio 155: telegram from British Consul, Lourenco Marques 20th August 1914, German ship Zieten, North German Lloyd with 460 passengers and crew arrived Mozambique. Folio 159: telegram from Commander-in-Chief Simonstown to Admiralty 21st August 1914, HMS Pegasus to remain at Zanzibar. Folio 160: telegram from Commander-in-Chief, Simonstown to Admiralty 21st August 1914, German steamer Zieten met [German light cruiser] Konigsberg 9th August near Cape Guardafui and took from her 17 of crew of British steam vessel City of Winchester [Ellerman Hall Line] captured by Konigsberg. Folio 161: Notes by Lt.Cdr Bosanquet relating to the capture of the City of Winchester [Ellerman Hall Line]. Folio 163: telegram from British Consul-General, Lourenzo Marquez to Admiralty 21st August 1914, German ship Zieten disguised funnels with British India S.N.Co. colours and hoisted British red ensign when approaching Mozambique. Now flying German flag Naval Reserve. Has on board no guns, 30 armed marines. August 10th Konigsberg [German light cruiser] reported between Cape Dog and Khorya Morya islands. Folio 164: telegram from Commander-in-Chief, Simonstown to Admiralty 21st August 1914, City of Winchester [Hall Line] captured 300 miles east of Aden and taken first to Makallo. Folio 169: telegram from HMS Black Prince to Admiralty 21st August 1914, reported German auxiliary cruiser Zietun landed part complement of City of Winchester [Hall Line] at Mozambique. Eastern Telegraph Company reports unknown ships in company sighted 16 miles of Mombasa 18th August. Residents at Perim Island reports one Turkish gunboat at Hodeida and 4 Turkish gunboats at Camaran. Folio 170: telegram from British Vice Consul, Lourenco Marques to Admiralty 21st August 1914, marines on German ship Zieten have (been) disarmed, wireless telegraphy sealed up by Governor of Mozambique. Folios 171-171f: telegram from the Governor of the East Africa Protectorate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies 21st August 1914, Germans have occupied or threatened Vanga. Two companies King's African Rifles have been sent. Folio 171c: letter from India Office to War Office 21st August 1914, no battalion will be sent from India to Singapore; nor to the Cape; despatch of a battalion from India to Mauritius had been authorised when naval situation permits, (paper M 01490/14). Folio 171d: Sir H.B.J. [Admiral Sir Henry Jackson] 22nd August 1914, information is required as to date and port of departure. C.O.S. [Chief of War Staff], if this movement is not essential cruisers may be released for prime duty of hunting the enemy, (paper M 01490/14). Folios 171e-f: draft and copy of letter to I.O. [India Office]. Provision of convoy is doubtful until date and port are known. In view of demand on HM ships for convoys and protection of trade, further demands are at present inadmissable, (paper M 01490/14). Folio 177: telegram from A.S.[Admiral Superintendent] Malta to Admiralty 22nd August 1914, Captain of German ship Sudmark states German cruiser sank City of Winchester [Hall Line] after removing passengers and crew. Folio 178: telegram from Reuter, Cape Town 22nd August 1914, German liner Somali with [German light cruiser] Konigsberg. Folio 179: telegram from Consul General, Lourenzo Marquez to Admiralty 23rd August 1914, German ship Essen arrived today from Australia. Wireless telegraphy dismantled by Portuguese. Folio 184: telegram from S.N.O. [Senior Naval Officer] Zanzibar 23rd August 1914, visited Bagamoyo today, could not come to terms, eventually bombarded Custom House. Germans refused to allow anyone to land. Military appeared to be in charge. Folio 185: telegram from Admiralty to French Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 23rd August 1914, Admiralty proposes that HMS Dublin and HMS Weymouth should hunt out [German light cruiser] Konigsberg. Folio 187: History Section Precis, (paper M 15664/14). 20th August 1914. b: letter from Foreign Office 20th August 1914, reference blockade by HMS Astraea of Dar-es-Salaam, Sagamoyo and Tanga; the blockade has since been raised. Folio 187c: Head of M 21st August 1914, An informal blockade had better not in future be communicated to other Departments. Sir E.S [Vice Admiral Sir Edmund Slade] 21st August 1914, most undesirable that informal blockade be given official prominence. Also questionable whether Captains of cruisers should agree to terms of truce. Suggest Admiralty refuse to ratify arrangements already come to (paper M 15664/14), pencil note, see (paper M 01481/14). Folio 188a: History Section Precis, (paper M 01505/14). Folio 188c: telegram from C.O. [Colonial Office] to Governor, Nyasaland 23rd August 1914, You should not ask for or accept Portuguese assistance without instructions. Wire fully present position. d: telegram from Governor, Nyasaland to C.O. [Colonial Office] 23rd August 1914, Have received information enemy intends to attack us tonight. Our forces are, I hope, strong enough to resist. e: telegram from C.O. [Colonial Office] to Governor, Nyasaland 23rd August 1914, Situation does not justify asking assistance from Mozambique. You should communicate with authorities N.E.Rhodesia. British South Africa Company is being asked to instruct police to co-operate.

Letter books, 1897-1902; telegrams, 1893-1903; index, including for collection MSS. Afr. s. 228).

Letters and telegrams received, arranged by the original subject headings as follows: Administrators [Rhodesia], 1897-1902 Cape Colony, 1890-1900 Charter (Matabeleland

This series contains correspondence relating to the High Commission territories of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, and to those neighbours with which the High Commissioner conducted relations - chiefly German South-West Africa, Portuguese East Africa, the Union of South Africa and its predecessors, and the British South Africa Company as administrator of Rhodesia.

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 1672/1905; EndVNr: E 2263/1905; and others: Cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, pp. 95, the Egyptian Museum, pp. 60 et seq., 118 et seq., and the Numismatic Collection, Berlin, (1905), pp. 60 et seq. - Donation to the Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Berlin, (1922), pp. 271 - Exchange of doublets with the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, (1905, 1906), pp. 243 et seq. Cooperation with the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, (1905), pp. 56 et seq. - Cooperation with the High Command of the Schutztruppe, (1906), pp. 251 et seq., and the Psychological Institute of the University, Berlin, (1905), pp. 334 et seq. Collaboration with the universities, Chicago, pp. 72, 304, Vienna, pp. 137 f., the Liederkranz-Club, Johannesburg, pp. 53 f., and the British South-Africa Company, Cape Town, (1905), pp. 229 ff - Collaboration with missionaries, pp. 43 f., 80 ff., 163, 235, 322 ff., and the Basler Mission, (1905), p. 47 - by Luschan: Report on the purchase of a bark boat, Abschr., p. 143, Report on the purchase of the comp. Andrews and denture deformations with the Barotse and Batonga, (1905), p. 154 ff - Busch: Donation of stones with Bushman drawings, (1905), pp. 67 ff. - Deetjen: Report on upper lip jewellery of Makalanga women, pp. 128 ff., Report on the change of utensils, the disappearance of snuffboxes and grass fabrics, (1906), pp. 169 ff. - Peters: "The Exploration of Ruins in Zambesia.", (o.D.), Ztg.-Article, p. 132 - Andrews: "The Webster Ruin.", (1906), p. 183 ff - Government of Rhodesia: Rejection of the exhumation of skeletons, (1905), p. 190 - Schweinfurth: Offer of "Palaeolithic siliceous manufacts" from Upper Egypt, p. 259, "Type series of the Eolithic manufacts of Thebes.", p. 260 ff, "Type Series of the Palaeolithic Manufacts of Thebes", pp. 265 et seq., "List of the localities exploited by me in the surroundings of Thebes for the collection of pebble manufacts", (1905), Druckschr.., Bl. 269 f.- Ankermann: Report on the Collection Schauer, (1905), Bl. 286 f.- Hochapfel: Erklärung von Buschmann-Motiven, (1905), Bl. 307 f.- Donation of the Collection Mittelbachert to a Society, (1905), Ztg.-Artikel, Bl. 339.