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

Mr. Morey to Mr. Day.

Consulate of the United States at Ceylon.
Colombo , April 26, 1898 .

No. 567.]

Sir: I inclose herewith in duplicate a proclamation by the governor of Ceylon respecting local neutrality during the present conflict between the United States and Spain.

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I am, etc.,

W. Morey,
United States Consul.

[Inclosure.]

government notification.

War having unhappily broken out between Spain and the United States of America, his excellency the governor hereby strictly charges and commands all British subjects and other persons within the island of Ceylon and its dependencies to observe the strictest and most impartial neutrality between the belligerents.

His excellency further calls the attention and desires the obedience of all persons to the requirements of the foreign enlistment act and of the following rules, which were published on two similar occasions in the Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary of the 30th August, 1894, and of the 29th May, 1897, and which, mutatis mutandis, shall forthwith apply to the present state of hostilities between Spain and the United States of America.

By his excellency’s command:

E. Noel Walker,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Colombo , April 25, 1898 .

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(Then follows the term of the act in regard to the conduct of British subjects and the rules governing ships of belligerents, as given in the proclamation of neutrality of Great Britain, see p. 865.)