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File 4327/1911 Part 1 'Turco-Italian War: HMG's Proclamation of Neutrality' [207r] (85/88)
The record is made up of 1 item (43 folios). It was created in Oct 1911-Dec 1911. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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7185
The London Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY.
fJuMfefielr iij autjonts.
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TUESDAY, 3 OOTOBEE, 1911,
By the KINCx.
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGE, R. I.
Whereas we are happily at Peace with all
Sovereigns, Powers and States:
And whereas a State of War unhappily
exists between His Majesty The King of Italy,
and His Imperial Majesty The Sultan of
Turkey, and between their respective Sub
jects, and others inhabiting within their
Countries, Territories or Dominions:
And whereas We are on Terms of Friend
ship and amicable intercourse with each of
these Powers, and with their several Subjects,
and others inhabiting within their Countries,
Territories, or Dominions :
And whereas great Numbers of Our Loyal
Subjects reside and carry on Commerce, and
possess Property and Establishments, and
enjoy various Rights and Privileges, within
the Dominions of each of the aforesaid Powers,
protected by the Faith of Treaties between
Us and each of the aforesaid Powers:
And whereas We, being desirous of pre
serving to Our Subjects the Blessings of
Peace, which they now happily enjoy, are
firmly purposed and determined to maintain a
strict and impartial Neutrality in the said
State of War unhappily existing between the
aforesaid Powers:
We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with
the advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this
Our Royal Proclamation:
And We do hereby strictly charge and com
mand all Our loving Subjects to govern them
selves accordingly, and to obse’rve a strict
neutrality in and during the aforesaid War,
and to abstain from violating or contravening
either the Laws and Statutes of the Realm in
this behalf, or the Law of Nations in relation
thereto, as they will answer to the contrary
at their peril:
And whereas in and by a certain Statute
made and passed in a Session of Parliament
holden in the 33rd and 34th year of the reign
of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled
“ An Act to Regulate the conduct of Her
Majesty’s Subjects during the existence of
Hostilities between Foreign States with which
Her Majesty is at Peace,” it is, among other
things, declared and enacted as follows:-—
“ This Act shall extend to all the Dominions
of Her Majesty, including the adjacent terri
torial Waters.
“ Illegal Enlistment.
“ If any Person, without the License of Her
Majesty, being a British Subject, within or
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Part 1 consists of correspondence relating to Britain's position of neutrality during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya in 1911. The papers include a royal proclamation in the London Gazette stating Britain's position (folios 207-208) and the according rules of conduct for authorities in British territories, as set out by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey (folio 205).
Several incidents relating to these rules are covered by the papers:
- reports of Italian attempts to recruit Somali servicemen in the Aden region;
- the refusal by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Aden to allow the Italian merchant vessel Vespucci to coal at the port;
- reports, later proved false, that an Italian cruiser was at Perim for repairs.
The correspondence is between the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , Foreign Office, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Aden, Privy Council Office, and the Italian Embassy in London.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
The subject 4327 (Turco-Italian War) consists of one volume divided into four parts.
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- File 4327/1911 Part 1 'Turco-Italian War: HMG's Proclamation of Neutrality'
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- 207r:208v
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- London Gazette
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