THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 5, 1914.
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10. In the event of information reaching one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State that British merchant ships which cleared from their last port before the declaration of war, but are met with by the enemy at sea after the outbreak of hostilities, are allowed to continue their voyage without interference with either the ship or the cargo, or after capture are released with or without proceedings for adjudication in the Prize Court, or are to be detained during the war or requisitioned in lieu of condemnation as prize, he shall notify the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty accordingly, and shall publish a notification thereof in the London Gazette, and in that event, but not otherwise, enemy merchant ships which cleared from their last port before the declaration of war, and are captured after the outbreak of hostilities and brought before the Prize Courts for adjudication, shall be released or detained or requisitioned in such cases and upon such terms as may be directed in the said notification in the London Gazette.
11. Neutral cargo, other than contraband of war, on board an enemy merchant ship which is not allowed to depart from a port to which this Order applies, shall be released.
12. In accordance with the provisions of Chapter III of the Convention relative to certain Restrictions on the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Maritime War, signed at The Hague on the 18th October, 1907, an undertaking must, whether the merchant ship is allowed to depart or not, be given in writing by each of the officers and members of the crew of such vessel, who is of enemy nationality, that he will not, after the conclusion of the voyage for which the pass is issued, engage while hostilities last in any service connected with the operation of the war. If any such officer is of neutral nationality, an undertaking must be given in writing that he will not serve, after the conclusion of the voyage for which the pass is issued, on any enemy ship while hostilities last. No undertaking is to be required from members of the crew who are of neutral nationality.
Officers or members of the crew declining to give the undertakings required by this Article will be detained as prisoners of war.
And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and all Governors, Officers, and Authorities whom it may concern are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
Note:-The standard local time corresponding with the Greenwich Mean Time men- tioned in Article 3 of the above Order in Council is 8 a.m. on Saturday, the 15th day of August, 1914.
PROCLAMATIONS.
No. 9.
[L.S.]
FRANCIS HENRY MAY,
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C. M.G., Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same,
Whereas by the Military Stores (Prohibition of Exportation) Orlinance, 1862, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council by proclamation to prohibit for such period as may be therein mentioned either to be exported from the Colony of Hong- kog or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony arms ammunition and gunpowder military and naval stores and any articles which the Governor may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores provi- is or any sort of victual which may be used as food by ina.or any or either of such arms ammu ition gunpowder stores goods or articles respectively subject to any permission which may be obtained under the provisions of Section 3 of the said Ordinance :
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Now, therefore, I. Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K..M.G., Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony do by this Proclamation prohibit for a period of six months from and including the 5th day of August, 1914, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony :
Ammunition and explosives, and the materials used in their manufacture. Animals, pack saddle and draught, suitable for use in war.
Arms, Guns and Gun-mountings of all descriptions with their component parts. Arms, Rifled of all kinds, and their component parts.