Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Stowe to Mr. Cridler.

Consulate of the United States,
Cape Town , May 26, 1898 .

No. 81.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith copy³ of the proclamation of Her Majesty’s Government regarding the neutrality to be observed during the continuance of hostilities between the United States and the Kingdom of Spain.

I have, etc.,

J. G. Stewe,
United States Consul-General.

3. Not printed. The proclamation, after the usual preamble, quotes the rules in regard to illegal enlistment and shipbuilding and the use of British ports by vessels of belligerents which were published in the proclamation of neutrality by Great Britain, see p. 865.