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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 10, 1916.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
No. 101.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
3rd January, 1916.
SIR, I have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of an Order of the King in Council, of 22nd December, 1915, for the requisition of the whole of the insulated spaces in all British steamships registered in the United Kingdom.
I have, &c.,
A. BONAR LAW.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 22ND DAY OF DECEMBER, 1915.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS a state of war exists between His Majesty and the German Emperor, the Emperor of Austria King of Hungary, the Sultan of Turkey, and the King of the Bulgarians:
And whereas His Majesty holds it to be His Prerogative Duty as well as His Pre- rogative Right to take all steps necessary for the Defence and Protection of the Realm:
And whereas it has been made to appear to His Majesty that it is essential to the Defence and Protection of the Realm that the whole of the insulated spaces in all British steamships registered or hereafter to be registered in the United Kingdom, now fitted or hereafter to be fitted for the carriage of refrigerated produce, not being insulated spaces already requisitioned or liable to be requisitioned under any existing Order in Council, should be made liable to requisition in manner hereinafter prescribed for the carriage of such refrigerated produce:
Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in the exercise of His Prerogatives as aforesaid, and of all other powers Him there- unto enabling, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the whole of the insulated spaces, except as aforesaid, in the British steamships before specified may until further order be requisitioned by or on behalf of His Majesty for the carriage of such produce, and such requisition is to take effect upon Notice of Requisition being served as hereinafter pro- vided on the Owner of any such steamship, and upon the Owner of any such insulated space if the insulated space be owned separately from any such steamship.
And His Majesty is further pleased, by and with the advice aforesaid, to authorize the President of the Board of Trade to give effect to this Order by causing Notice of Requisition to be served on the Owner of any such steamship and upon the Owner of any such insulated space if the insulated space be owned separately from any such steam- ship.