CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 443

Nussian Thips, I shall of

Course

D

comply implicitly with your

Lordship's instructions;

bound to

-say

but Tam

that I should be

most glad for

Mirtioned

in

the reasons.

my correspondence

with Admiral Salmon, if Nor Majesty's Government should

fit

sel ist to

to modify

them.

If

we look at the matter.

from the Russian point of view,

the feelings of

by conceiving the people of Vladivostock who,

at a time.

when the relations

of Great Britain and Russia

were not

of

the friendliest, woke

ass.

13

up

441

morning to find that

one m

a British fleet of thirteen vessels had come in during the night,

And were anchored between the

Town and their own vessels,

wonder at the regulations

Can

scarcely

which have been imposed, in

order to prevent the recurrence

accident.

of such an

8. If the corresponding

you restrictions on our

part added

in any appreciable degree to our security,

I should be the last

to deprecate it; but siewing

As

a

it

regards this Port simply as

measure of retaliation, I cannot

but