Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 403.
Baron Fava to Mr. Bayard.

[Translation.]

Italian Legation,
Washington, May 1, 1887. (Received May 2.)

Mr. Secretary of State:

By a cablegram dated to-day the Royal Government instructs me, and I have the honor to notify your excellency, that, in consequence of the state of war which exists with Abyssinia, the general commanding our forces of occupation at Massana has established a blockade of the coast from Amphylla to the point opposite to the Island of Dufnein, and that the prize court will eventually sit at Massana.

Be pleased to accept, etc.,

Fava.