Officers of the Crown, that, in
view of the cessation of
Kostilities between France and
China, the Governors of Her Majesty's Eastern Colonies
be directed to remove the
may
strictions which had been
to the
imposed with regard
supply of coal to French
Cruisers in Kritish ports.
I am, however, to transmit
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Waddiction May 8.1885.
Earl of Derby, a copy of a
223
note which Lord panville
has addressed to the French
Ambassador at this court,
inviting him to give Her
Majesty's Government a
positive assurance that
circumstances,
under exccting co
that is to cay, pending the
conciusion of a definitive
Treaty of Peare, the Frined
t
you,
to be laid before the
Earh
Government