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[right]Tuesday 2nd January, 1900[/right]

To the Most Honourable Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury,

[indent]Having received your telegram of Monday 1st January, 1900, at 21:50, requesting the immediate deployment of a squadron to the Horn of Candor, I write to inform you that I have been unsuccessful in procuring the agreement of His Sacred Majesty to this request. However, His Sacred Majesty has permitted that an extra flotilla be deployed to the region so as to better protect against unsavoury incidents.[/indent]
Yours sincerely,
The Most Honourable Lord John Fisher, 1st Marquis Fisher, Lord Grand Admiral, Admiral of the Fleet

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[right]Tuesday 2nd January, 1900[/right]

To the Most Honourable Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury,

[indent]His Sacred Majesty received your telegram of the previous night and has instructed me to write this letter in response. While this matter of importing automobiles from the Kaiserreich of Antenland is of interest to His Sacred Majesty, he is most averse to allowing citizens of the Kaiserreich - experts or not - entrance into the Sacred Kingdom. It ill behoves us to permit these undesirables access to our Kingdom and involvement in its development. His Sacred Majesty thus instructs me to inform you that his wishes are to focus on the complete modernisation and expansion of the railway networks across the home isles and colonies. We trust you will be able to secure the necessary technology from more advisable trading partners.[/indent]
Yours sincerely,
The Right Honourable Lord Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, Private Secretary to the Sovereign