v3 Chapter 426： Dutch warships circumnavigate the island of Sri Lanka?

On September 2, 1868, newspapers in international countries were full of explosive-Fried-Xing News- "Five warships of the Kingdom of the Netherlands around the British Far East Indian Ocean Sri Lanka Chagos Islands."

According to reports from The Times and the Financial Times, the Whig newspapers close to the British opposition, it turns out that the Dutch warships in the Sri Lanka-Chagos Islands, a colony of the British Far East in recent days, have made Britain nervous.

The British Ministry of Defence stated on September 3 that five Dutch warships sailed northward from Jakarta, the largest city in the Dutch East Indies at 9:00 a.m. on August 27, 1868, and began to pass through the Netherlands in the southern part of Singapore-Singapore-Poland, the British possession of Malacca. The coast of Sumatra, the westernmost part of the territory of the East Indies, arrived at the Port of Banda Aceh after being repaired, entered the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, followed the British Foot Cobar Islands, and began to detour around Sri Lanka and the Chagos Islands.

The British Ministry of Defense was shocked by this news. According to the news released by the British Ministry of Defense Navy at 4 p.m. on September 2, the navy of Sri Lanka Island in the Indian Ocean monitored five Dutch warships on September 1. After leaving the Chagos Islands at 11:00 a.m. on September 2, the fleet sailed towards Perth, west of mainland Australia.

The 5 battleships include a steam battleship "Jakarta" and three tier 5 sail battleships and one tier 3 sail battleship.

The British Indian Ocean Fleet dispatched a fleet including the sailing battleship "Sri Lanka" to monitor and collect intelligence on the Royal Netherlands Fleet IV.

The Financial Times reported that the Dutch Ministry of Defence announced that a large-scale naval exercise involving 20 Dutch warships will be held this month in the Indian Ocean near Haeju, between northern Australia and southern Dutch East Indies, according to a British Ministry of Defence official. These five Dutch warships seem to participate in this exercise.

At present, the British Ministry of Defence is continuing to analyze the purpose of the Dutch voyage, maintaining vigilance and more monitoring from the Dutch Navy in the Indian Ocean.

To this end, the British Prime Minister Disrely said at the press conference of the Prime Minister's Mansion at No. 10 Tangning Street that the British Empire expressed "concern", and the British Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet will continue to do a good job of "warning and surveillance"

"Regarding the ever-expanding military activities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' navy in the Indian Ocean, the British Navy is conducting vigilance surveillance and gathering intelligence information. We are concerned about the overall activities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the surrounding areas of our British Empire's Far East colonies, and we will monitor the basic the development of the Royal Netherlands Naval Forces, and full vigilance and monitoring activities in the waters surrounding the jurisdiction of our British Empire.”

British Prime Minister Disrely replied.

In addition, the British Ministry of Defense said on the evening of September that the British Navy had confirmed that a fleet of five Dutch warships had now arrived at Darwin Port in northern Australia.

British Foreign Minister Russell said on the same day when talking about the Dutch Navy's movement that he felt about the military trends of the Netherlands: concerned about the eyes and continued to "collect intelligence and alert"

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"Hurry up to the British Foreign Office. This time, the British Foreign Secretary and the Dutch ambassador to the UK will hold a press conference for both sides. It is said that there will be a head-to-head dialogue. Don't miss their wonderful 'performance'."

"The meeting between the two will take place at ten o'clock in the morning. It's only nine o'clock now, so it's still early."

"Yes, yes, at present, it seems that the UK and the Netherlands seem to be in conflict. The UK is willing to privately support the Rothschild family's involvement in the United States. Obviously, the UK has expected the Netherlands to be dissatisfied, but did not expect the Netherlands to come. So so dazzling reaction "

"Who said no? Obviously the Dutch do not want to give up their current dominant position in the Commonwealth of Millikin, and yes, that country is willing to give up its vested power, not to mention that the Netherlands is currently rising rapidly, and there is a shadow of a big power in Europe. If it can get the influence of the United States of America in the Americas, then although the Netherlands cannot catch up with the six European countries in the European mainland, but with the extra-territorial blessing of the Far East, Africa and the Americas, it can offset the deficiencies of Europe.

What's more, the Netherlands has run the Nordic Union in recent years, with Sweden and Denmark as the auxiliary, and the Duchy of Nassau and the Duchy of Luxembourg under the Nassau Orange family under the rule of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, plus the father of King William IV of the Netherlands. William III is currently the king of the Greek kingdom. Under the heart of each other, whoever dares to ignore the influence of the Dutch Kingdom in Europe, and does not look at the strength, such as France and Prussia, all of them are favored by the Netherlands '' "?

"Brother said very well, which newspaper are you from? I'm Luo Yin from the Austro-Hungarian "Crown Newspaper"

"Yeah, brother is wonderful, I'm Luxen from Le Figaro from the French Empire"

"You two are very welcome, I'm Merck of the New York Times from the Commonwealth of America"

"All three are sensible people, let's go, I'm Sappho from "Spanish Herald" in the Kingdom of Spain, everyone, please hurry up This London does not allow horses to only walk, their foreign ministry , it's weird."

So under the urging of the "Spanish Herald" reporter, several people and their colleagues accelerated to the British Foreign Office two kilometers away.

On September 1, 1868, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed some dissatisfaction with Britain's meddling in the internal affairs of the Commonwealth of Millikin at an ordinary press conference. Dutch Foreign Minister Hesbert Feng expressed that he did not understand the purpose of the British. Actually intervened in the internal management affairs of the United States.

In this regard, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the British Empire is very dissatisfied. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country publicly stated that the Netherlands should not criticize the British policy against the United States, and the Netherlands has no right to criticize the foreign policy of the British Empire.

在这样的背景下，1868年9月4日大英帝国外交大臣罗素亲自召见了荷兰王国驻大英帝国大使麦克.戴维斯，两人在英国外交部总部外继续的一次面对面发布会上进行了给Media surprise quarrel.

Time was starting at 10 am that morning.

British Foreign Secretary Russell: "The British Empire is based on partnership and respect for each other's interests, while the Netherlands implements coercive diplomacy and retaliates against other countries. Other countries, other countries to sanction, and return a pure and fair competition environment in Europe "

Minister Russell's words made the reporters from all over the world stunned. The 76-year-old British veteran diplomat is still so brave.

However, as a rising star in Dutch foreign politics, how could Mike Davis, who has made a name for himself in Europe, easily "compromise", so many reporters present were also looking forward to his counterattack.