I again give the most formal orders that all the State officials co-operate to repress violations of these strict prohibitions.
The Governor-General,
(Signed) WAHIS.
Boma, October 20, 1900.
Inclosure 6 in No. 3.
(See p. 56.)
Note of Information taken in the Charge of Cutting off the boy I I’s hand, preferred to Mr. Casement by the People of E*.
At village of E* in the C D* country, on left bank of E D*, tributary of the X* River.
Y Y, with many of the townsmen and a few women and children, also present.
A lad, about 14 or 15 years of age, I I by name, whose left hand had been cut off, the stump wrapped up in a rag, the wound being yet scarcely healed, appears, and, in answer to Consul’s question, charges a sentry named K K (placed in the town by the local agent of the La Lulanga Society to see that the people work rubber) with having done it. This sentry is called, and after some delay appears with a cap-gun.
The following inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the loss of I I’s hand then takes place:—