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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

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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