No. 404.
Mr. Bayard to Baron Fava.

Baron: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt oil your note of the 1st instant, announcing that Italy, now at war with Abyssinia, has established a blockade of the coast of that power from Amphylla [Page 651] to a point opposite the Island of Dufnein, and that the prize court will eventually sit at Massana.

Publicity is given to the announcement to the end that all whom it may concern may take cognizance of such effective blockade as maybe maintained upon the coast in question by the naval forces of Italy.

Accept, etc,

T. F. Bayard.