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. 404.
Mr. Bayard to Baron Fava.

Department of State,
Washington, May 3, 1887.

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 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.