Commercially the importance of Sierra Leone is small as compared with its easterly neighbours, the Gold Coast Colony with its hinterland Dependencies of Ashanti and the Northern Territories, and the huge new Colony of Nigeria made up of three older Colonies, but of all our West African Colonies Sierra Leone is probably the best known to the British public, and with the fine harbour and important coaling station at Freetown, its capital, Sierra Leone is a valuable link in the great chain of Imperial communication.
APPENDIX
DESPATCH FROM THE GOVERNOR OF SIERRA LEONE REPORTING ON THE MEASURES ADOPTED TO DEAL WITH UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES IN THE PROTECTORATE
The GOVERNOR to the SECRETARY OF STATE
(Received 21 July, 1913.)
Government House, Sierra Leone,
9th July, 1913.
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit, for your information, a report on the steps taken to deal with unlawful societies in the Protectorate.
I have, &c.,
E. M. MEREWETHER,