The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-29
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MORE NEUTRAL POWERS
An Official Notification That
France Has Issued a De-
cree Of Neutrality.
PORTUGAL TO BE NEUTRAL
OFFICIAL GAZETTE TO PUBLISH
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PORTUGAL TO BE NEUTRAL
OFFICIAL GAZETTE TO PUBLISH
a DECREE TO-DAY.

N1e4lcOs argentine hepuDI1c, AOrea ana
Belgium Proclaim Neutrality-Korea's
Decree Important Owing to Her Prox-
unity to Philippines-German Not
Heard From But State Department Has
Attention Now .Csnters in Course Austria
will Take.
Washington, April 2S.-The French
embassy has received a cable dispatch
from the foreign office at Paris an
nouncing that a decree of neutrality
between the United States and Spain
has been issued and that detailed
copy will be forwarded by mail. On
the receipt of the dispatch the French
ambassador M. Cambon, wrote to the
state department informing it of
Frances neutrality. The cable notice
is brief, stating only that the decree
follows the treaty of Paris of 1856. The
state department has also been inform
ed that Mexico, Argentine Republic,
Korea and Belgium has proclaimed
neutrality. Korea's neutrality is con-
sidered important owing to her prox-
unity to the PHILIPPINES.
Germany Not Heard From.
The state department has heard
nothing from Germany, but this causes
no apprehension, owing to the strong
assurances Germany has given that
she will observe strict neutrality be-
tween the two belligerents. This assur-
ance was conveyed to Ambassador
White and is looked upon as practical
1y equivalent to formal declaration
of neutrality.
Portugal.
The apprehension as to Portugals s
course was considerably removed to-
day by the call cf Viscount DeSanto
Thyrso, who gave strong assurances to
the state department that Portugal
would remain strictly neutral. He
pointed out that in matter of this
Importance there had not been suffi-
cient time for official action. War, he
said, was not declared until the oath,
the fact became public on the 25th and
the official notifications considering the
difference in time could not have reach
ed Lisbon until the 26th. A cabinet
council then had to be summoned and
although not officially advised from
Lisbon the minister felt confident that
he would receive official information
very soon.
Concerning an Alleged Threat.
AS to the report from London that
the United States had sent a threaten
ing notification to Portugal that she
would be regarded as an ally of Spain
unless the Spanish fleet was ordered
from Cape Verde Islands, no conf1rma-
ton could be secured from the state
department officials or from the Portu-
guese minister. When the minister's
attention was called to dispatches an
nouncing that no news would be allow
ed to leave Cape Verde concerning the
movement of the Spanish ships, he said
this, of course, did not apply to official
information transmitted by United
States officials at Cape Verde and else
where to the United States govern
ment so that the authorities here will
not be curtailed in their series of in
formation as to the movement of the
Cape Verde islands fleet
Austria.
Attention is now being centered on
the course of Austria. Her delay in
declaring neutrality causes no material
inconvenience as Austria has no ports
at which Spanish ships can take refuge
but it discIoses that Austria's strong
tendencies are with Spain.