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No. 2.
Instructions to Governors of Eastern Colonies.
REFERRING to 10th section of Foreign Enlistment Act public ships of either belligerent should not be allowed supplies such as would assist naval operations. There- fore no more coal should be furnished to any belligerent ships than would be necessary for moving to the nearest national port or nearer destination. Also repairs of belligerent ships and supply of provisions for crew should be restricted to such as are necessary to enable belligerent ship to hold the sea on voyage to such destination as aforesaid. You should allow no repairs to be effected or supplies furnished to belligerent ship except under supervision of local authorities, whose duty it would be immediately to report to the Governor in each case in which the limits imposed were being infringed.
Repeat telegram to Governor of Ceylon and Governor of Straits Settlements.
M. l'Ambassadeur,
No. 3.
Earl Granville to M. Waddington.
Foreign Office, January 31, 1885. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 29th instant in which you acquaint me that the French Government, whilst fully recog- nizing the correctness of the attitude of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the enforcement of the Foreign Enlistment Act, in view of the hostilities between France and China, do not feel themselves any longer in a position to waive the full exercise of the rights accorded to belligerents by international law, and that instructions in that sense are about to be addressed to the French Naval Commanders.
Her Majesty's Government cannot contest the right of the French Government to avail themselves of all the precautions allowed by international law against the transport of contraband of war, and they take note with pleasure of your Excellency's assurance that the French Naval Commanders will be instructed to exercise their duties in this respect with all possible moderation and respect for the legitimate interests of British
commerce.
I had the honour, M. l'Ambassadeur, at our last interview, to explain fully to your Excellency the obligation imposed upon Her Majesty's Government by the Foreign Enlistment Act, and the nature of the instructions which have been sent to the Governors of Her Majesty's Eastern Colonies in this respect; and it only remains for me, therefore, to assure your Excellency that Her Majesty's Government do not contemplate any change in their attitude on this question, which is now, as previously, confined to the enforcement of the Act in question.
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