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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 6, 1914.
And Whereas it appears to me advisable to do so by reason of war :-
Now Therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Dis- tinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby by this proclamation cause all the members of the Volunteer Reserve to be enrolled as members of the Volunteer Force.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 6th day of August, 1914.
By Command,
GOD SAVE THE KING.
NOTICES.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
THE
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 293.-The Order in Council for the Granting of "Days of Grace" published in Government Notification No. 291 of the 5th August, 1914, is hereby cancelled and the following substituted therefor.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
6th Augsut, 1914.
Order in Council for the Granting of "Days of Grace".
HIS Majesty being mindful, now that a state of war exists between this country and Germany, of the recognition accorded to the practice of granting "days of grace
to enemy merchant ships by the Convention relative to the Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities, signed at The Hague on the 18th October, 1907, and being desirous of lessening, so far as may be practicable, the injury caused by war to peaceful and unsuspecting commerce, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1. From and after the publication of this Order no enemy merchant ship shall be allowed to depart, except in accordance with the provisions of this Order, from any British port or from any ports in any Native State in India, or in any of His Majesty's Protec- torates, or in any State under His Majesty's protection or in Cyprus.
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2. In the event of one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State being satisfied by information reaching him not later than midnight on Friday, the 7th day of August, 1914, that the treatment accorded to British merchant ships and their cargoes which at the date of the outbreak of hostilities were in the ports of the enemy or which subsequently entered them is not less favourable than the treatment accorded to enemy merchant ships by Articles 3 to 7 of this Order, he shall notify the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty accordingly, and public notice thereof shall forthwith be given in the London Gazette, and Articles 3 to 8 of this Order shall thereupon come into full force and effect.
3. Subject to the provisions of this Order, enemy merchant ships which
(i.) At the date of the outbreak of hostilities were in any port in which this
Order applies; or
(ii.) Cleared from their last port before the declaration of war, and, after the outbreak of hostilities, enter a port to which this Order applies, with no knowledge of the war: