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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 17, 1916.
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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 114. It is hereby notified that, having assumed the additional surname and arms of FANE, Mr. RICHARD PONSONBY, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, will henceforward be known as RICHARD PONSONBY FANE.
No. 115. It is hereby notified that the Riverside Flour Code (5th edition) has been added to the list of authorised codes as from the 16th instant.
No. 116.—It is hereby notified for the information of the public that it will tend to expedite the despatch of telegrams in one of the authorised codes, if decodes are handed in with the code messages.
No. 117. The Government desire to warn importers that goods which originated in an enemy country, even though they may have left enemy territory and become neutral property before the war, are liable to seizure under the Trading with the Enemy Second Amendment Ordinance, 1915, if imported without permission of the Government.
Such permission is as a rule granted only upon production of incontrovertible evidence that the identical goods which it is desired to import left enemy territory before the war.
The evidence should be produced and the authority of the Government obtained before any steps are taken to have the goods shipped to this Colony.
No. 118. The following is published for general information.
PRESS BUREAU,
6.10 p.m., December 17th, 1915.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is informed by the United States Ambas- sador that the Turkish Government desire that, in future, remittances of money not exceeding £5 from private persons for British prisoners of war in Turkey should be despatched to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva for transmission to the Ottoman Red Crescent Society at Constantinople, by whom payment to the recipients will be effected and a receipt returned to the International Committee at Geneva.
Letters and parcels should also be sent to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva for transmission. Such letters and parcels are post free. Money should be remitted by international money order, which can be obtained at any Post Office, and which should be made payable to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva and sent on with full name, number, and regiment of the prisoner of war to whom the money is to be paid.
Information has also been received from the United States Ambassador that prisoners of war in Turkey are now allowed to write only one letter a week, limited to four lines, and that this regulation applies also to letters addressed to them. Letters of greater length will not be delivered.