CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10] — Page 291

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Government do not propose

to

issue a Proclamation of Neutrality,

no formal

there having been no

declaration of War between

France and China, but that the provisions of the Foreign

Enlistment Act must be

enforced at Hongkong

These instructions

have been

communicated

by

me to eAdmiral Sir William

Dowell, K&B, Commanding Her Majesty's Naval Forces in China,

and to Commodore Morant at

HongKong,

Hongkong; and also to Major- General Sargent, C.13., Commanding the Troops.

3.

The French Admiral

Lespès having arrived at Hongkong from Foochow in his Flag-ship, the ironclad Frigate La Galissonière, with two other French men-of-n

-of-war, I notified

instructions in a

to him

my

of

which

a

enclosure! letter

copy is enclosed;

to which he replied in a letter

Enclosure 2. appended in the original French.

It will be seen that Admiral

Lespès