1020 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Lord Elgin to Governor MacGregor. 



[Telegram.] 



(Sent 12.45 p. m., September 14, 1907.) 



Your telegram llth September. His Majesty's Government 

 regret that the resume^ of your Ministers' Minute which they give 

 affords no ground justifying the revocation of the Order in Council. 

 I am anxious, in the difficult position which has arisen, to show your 

 Ministers all possible courtesy and consideration, but I cannot encour- 

 age any hope that the Order in Council will be revoked without publi- 

 cation unless your Ministers accept without reserve the modus 

 vivendi and undertake to carry it out in its entirety. I will delay 

 publication as long as possible to enable your Ministers fully to con- 

 sider the situation, but I cannot consent to run any risk of further 

 complicating the difficult international position by allowing the 

 possibility of His Majesty's Order in Council being questioned on 

 the ground of non-publication: and while I authorize you to with- 

 hold publication for the present, it is only on the distinct understand- 

 ing that you are instructed to publish tne Order in Council immedi- 

 ately on the arrival of the American fishermen, unless before that 

 date your Ministers have accepted the modus vivendi. 



Acceptance of modus vivendi will not prejudice modification or 

 supersession by agreement with American fishermen. ELGIN. 



Governor MacGregor to Lord Elgin. 



[Telegram.] 



(Received 5.22 p.m., September 15, 1907.') 



The "Gresham" arrived here on the 14th instant. Shall I publish 

 the Order in Council or wait for the fishing vessels? MACGREGOR. 



Lord Elgin to Governor MacGregor. 



[Telegram.] 



(Sent 1.45 p.m., September 16, 1907.} 



Your telegram 15th September. You should inform your Ministers 

 arrival of "Gresham" renders it essential for you to publish Order in 

 Council unless they are prepared to accept modus vivendi, and you 

 should ask for an immediate reply, which you will at once send to 

 me. Your Ministers should clearly understand that in the event of 

 unfavourable reply His Majesty's Government will have no alter- 

 native but to at once publish Order in Council, a course which, 

 though inevitable, is to be regretted, and the responsibility for which 

 will, in the circumstances, rest on your Government. 



If hi the meantime fishing ships arrive you must, in order to avoid 

 greater complications, publish without further instructions. ELGIN. 



