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Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Hay.

British Embassy,
Washington, December 13, 1898.

Sir: On behalf and at the request of my colleagues, the representatives of France, Italy, and Russia, as well as on behalf of my Government, I have the honor to transmit to you for the information of your Government the inclosed communication relative to the raising of the blockade in Cretan waters, the institution of which I had the honor to notify to Mr. Sherman on March 24th last year.1

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.
[Inclosure in British note of December 13, 1898.]
Washington, December 13, 1898.

We, the undersigned, representatives of France, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia, have the honor to inform the Government of the United States that the admirals of the four powers in Cretan waters have issued a notice that the blockade of Crete has been raised from the 5th of December instant, but that the importation of arms and munitions of war is absolutely prohibited.

  • Julian Pauncefote,
    H. B. M. Ambassador.
  • Count Cassini,
    Ambassador of Russia.
  • Thiebaut,
    Chargé d’Affaires de France.
  • G. C. Vinci,
    Chargé d’Affaires d’Italie.
  1. Printed in Foreign Relations, 1897, p. 254.↩