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No. 26.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 28TH MAY, 1898.
VOL. XLIV.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 239.
With reference to Proclamations No. 2 of the 23rd April, 1898, and No. 3 of the 25th idem, published in the Government Gazette Extraordinary of the 23rd and 25th April, respectively, and to Government Notification No. 193 of the 23rd April, the following Circular Despatch, with its enclo- sures, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th May, 1898.
CIRCULAR.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
26th April, 1898.
SIR,With reference to my telegrams communicating to you the Rules for the observance of the duties of Neutrality to be in force during the existing state of War between Spain and the United States of America, I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, embodying those Rules, together with copies of Her Majesty's Proclamation of Neutrality.
I have to request that you will cause both documents to be immediately published throughout the Colony under your Government, referring to the Proclamation or Notifications you may have already issued on receipt of my telegraphic instructions on the subject, and that you will not fail to conform to Her Majesty's commands.
I have the honour to be,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
The Right Honourable Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., M.P., to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty*:-
MY LORDS,
FOREIGN OFFICE,
April 23, 1898.
HER Majesty being fully determined to observe the duties of neutrality during the existing state of war between Spain and the United States of America; being, moreover, resolved to prevent, as far as possible, the use of Her Majesty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within Her Majesty's territorial jurisdiction, in aid of the warlike purposes of either belligerent, and to insure, by every lawful means in Her power, the due observance by Her subjects towards both belligerent Powers of
* Similar letters have been addressed to the Treasury, Home Office, Colonial Office, War Office, India Office, Scottish Office, and Board of Trade.