CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885 — Page 81

capture

the high seas; and of your further letter

of the 6th instant, forweiding Copy of a note from thi

French Ambassade at

This court, suggesting that

a

proclamation, shoes

beised prohibiting this

of arms Export, should be issued at Hangking, under thighing a

local Ordinance, at

viz. Order no. 307 1862.

2. Iam to enclove,

for

convenience of reference, a copy of that Ordinance, and to

observe that the power to prohibit thereunder

in 6530

would seem to exist;

indeed the fovernor of

Hongkong, supported for bequistimated in a desp.

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which was founded to "the 29th of April

m.

last, requested to be

instructed whether in

the event of war

being

declared between France

whether

Hhina, he was

to

make

and

use of this Law for

kup stopping the export of arms -

The issuing fauch

a

prohibition at the present time is a

question of policy, and I am to inquire what action Lord Earl framville

wishes