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No. 37.

MAURITIUS.

GOVERNOR SIR C. BOYLE TO MR. LYTTELTON.

(Received 6.3 P.M., December 14, 1904.)

TELEGRAM.

[Copy to Foreign Office, December 16, 1904; 1049: noi printed.]

[Answered by No. 39.]

YOUR telegram of 23rd August and subsequent instructions as to supplies for the Russian feet. I learn from Admiral of the East Indian Station that five volunteer cruisers with four Russian ships of war and vessels were leaving Djibouti yesterday, probably for Madagascar. Are the volunteers and all the other vessels to be treated alike?

42505.

SIR,

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No. 40.

FOREIGN OFFICE TO COLONIAL OFFICE

(Received December 17, 1904.)

[Answered by No. 45.]

Foreign Office, December 16, 1904. WITH reference to the second paragraph of my letter of the 7th [6th] instant,* which deals with the question of the Russian squadron, in the event of its visiting Table Bay or other port in Cape Colony, being permitted to send leave parties on shore, I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, that it has been represented to his Lordship that the landing of a large number of seamen at, e.g., Cape Town might give rise to a disturbance.

Lord Lansdowne is of opinion that necessary precautions should be taken to guard against such a contingency, and I am accordingly to suggest that the local authorities should be authorized to stipulate that the crews of Russian war-ships should not be landed in too great numbers, and also, if necessary, to impose restrictions, as to the places which they are to be allowed to visit, and the duration of their stay on shore.

I am,

F. A. CAMPBELL.

&c.

42054.

No. 38.

MR. LYTTELTON TO THE GOVERNORS OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, -AND FIJI.

(Paraphrase.)

(Sent December 14, 1904.)

TELEGRAM.

RESPECTING [Identical with No. 24 A] Enlistment Act, 1870.

(Very Secret.)

It is reported that Marshall Islands may be used as base of operations and for coaling by Baltic fleet. Therefore one of the local authorities defined in section 21 of the Foreign Enlistment Act should detain any collier that may be ascertained to be habitually taking cargoes of coal to the Russian fleet at the Marshall Islands from the ports of the Colony,

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42946.

No. 41.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON TO MR. LYTTELTON. (Received 12:56 P.M., December 20, 1904.)

(Paraphrase.)

TELEGRAM.

[Copy to Foreign Office, December 23, 1904, L. F.]

I HAVE received following telegram from His Majesty's Consul in Netherlands India :-

"I learn on reliable authority that Netherlands Indian Government intends to grant Russian men-of-war permission to take steam coal from the shore or from their own colliers in Netherlands Indian waters to the extent mentioned in Rule 3 of Foreign Office Circular No. 23 of 1898."

42810.

No. 39.

MAURITIUS.

MR. LYTTELTON TO GOVERNOR SIR C. BOYLE.

(Sent 6 P.M., December 15, 1904.)

TELEGRAM:

[Copy to Foreign Office, December 16, 1904; 1049: not printed.]

YOUR telegram of 14th December.† All vessels connected with Russian Squadron should be treated in accordance with my telegrams of 26th November and 8th December.‡

• No. 12.

† No. 37.

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No. 42.

CAPE.

(Paraphrase.)

MR LYTTELTON TO ACTING GOVERNOR BROOK.

(Sent 5:45 P.M., December 20, 1904.)

TELEGRAM.

It is alleged by Russian Government that Japanese sailors have been despatched by their Government along the path of Russian fleet, for instance to the Cape. Your Government, no doubt, will take possible precautions for the prevention

any

violation of, neutrality.

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No. 28.

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