No. 94.
General Schenck to Mr. Fish.
I have just received the following from Lord Granville:
[Earl Granville to General Schenck.]
Sir: In a telegram which I have this morning received from Sir Edward Thornton he remarks with reference to the first of the two passages which, in my letter to you of the 5th instant, I stated that Her Majesty’s Government proposed to insert in the Article, in lieu of the amendments last proposed by them, that Mr. Fish had frequently, in conversation with him, objected to the use of the word “belligerent,” and wishes that indirect claims arising out of acts committed by persons other than recognized belligerents, as well as belligerents, should be agreed to be not admissible for the future. If Mr. Fish should still entertain the same opinion, Her Majesty’s Government would be quite content that the passage in question should run thus: “The remote or indirect losses mentioned in this agreement, being losses arising remotely or indirectly, and not directly from acts of war.”
I only add that I have given Lord Granville no ground for believing that you will assent to any expression of the rule except that of the Senate amendment.