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Lord Lansdowne also reports that it is rumoured in Victoria that 
orders have been issued by the United States Government for the 
seizure of all sealers found this season in Behring’s Sea, 
T request that you will inform Mr. Bayard of the report in question, 
and that you will earnestly represent to him the extreme importance 
that Her Majesty’s Government should be enabled to contradict it. 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
188 No. 109. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, March 30, 1888. 
Str: I have laid before the Marquis of Salisbury your letter of the 
28th instant, inclosing a telegram from the Governor-General of Can- 
ada, from which it appears that the vessels and crews now preparing 
for the seal-fishing season in Behring’s Sea are betng armed with a 
view to offering resistance to their capture in that sea. 
I am to request that you will inform Lord Knutsford, in reply, that 
Sir L. West has been instructed to call Mr. Bayard’s attention to the 
rumour current in Victoria that orders have been issued by the United 
States Government to capture British ships fishing in Behring’s Sea, 
and he has been further directed to represent earnestly the extreme 
importance that Her Majesty’s Government sh ould be enabled to con- 
tradict the rumour in question, 
On receipt of Sir L. West’s reply a further communication will be 
addressed to you. 
Iam, &e. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, 
No. 110. 
Sir L. West to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received April 2.) 
WASHINGTON, March 19, 1888. 
My Lorp: I[ have the honour to inclose to your Lordship herewith 
copy of a telegram which I have received from Mr, Foster, the Cana- 
dian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, as well as copy of a dispatch 
which I have addressed to the Marquis of Lansdowne in reply thereto, 
and which is based on unofficial communication with the State Depart- 
ment. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 110.—Telegraphic.] 
Mr. Foster to Sir L. West. 
OrTTawa, March 6, 1888. 
It seems that Canadian sealers are required to carry appeal to United States 
Court, or, by failure to do that, will forfeit bonds. Can they be allowed, pending 
definite settlement between United States and Great Britain, to bond vessels and 
skins without obligation to appeal? 
Bes; PTV. 14 
