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Reichstagsakten 1888/89, 7. Lp., Vol. 121, Attachment 41: Collection of Documents pertaining the Uprising in East Africa, No.44: Directive to the Imperial ambassadors.
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Berlin, December 4th 1888
Your etc. I ask most humbly to inform the government there of a note similar to
the draft attached proclaiming the blockade of the mainland coast of the
Sultanate of Zanzibar. I look forward to receiving a report on the execution of
the instruction.
signed Count Bismarck
to the Imperial ambassadors in Constantinople, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rome,
Vienna, Madrid
to the imperial emissaries in Brussels, Copenhagen, Washington, Den Haag,
Lisbon, Stockholm
attachment to no.44
After the establishments founded based on treaties with the Sultan on the
mainland coast of Zanzibar have been attacked by rebellious crowds of
inhabitants of the Sultanate and of adjacent areas, under the leadership of
local slave traders, the government of His Majesty the Kaiser has regarded it
necessary to establish the blockade of the respective coastal stretches, and
after communicating with the Royal British government the blockade has been
proclaimed by the commanders of the British and German squadrons in those
waters.
The signed has the honour to attach the text of the proclamation as published in
the Reichsanzeiger of the 4th of this month with the suggestion to inform the
concerned circles of it.
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Originaldokument [S.417]
translation and English language table of contents: AG
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