Letter
Edwin Stevens to John Russell Young, February 27, 1885
[Inclosure 1 in No. 696.—Extract.]
Mr. Stevens to Mr. Young.
United States Consulate, Ningpo, February 27, 1885.
Sir: * * * As our nation is at peace with both France and China, I would regard it as a questionable right upon my part to enter and clear a ship flying the American flag loaded with contraband articles of war for either of the contending fleets, and more especially so if she had cleared for another port than this.
Upon this important point I should be much pleased to have your excellency’s instructions.
I am, &c.,
EDWIN STEVENS.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.