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.
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.)
