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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1918.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 416.-The following despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies is published for general information.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Colonial Secretary.
25th October, 1918.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
10th August, 1918.
SIR, I have the honour to invite your attention to the provision in No. 14H of the Defence of the Realm Regulations, which was added by the Order in Council of 19th July, 1918, and amended by the Order in Council of 2nd August, 1918, prohibiting the assumption or use after 18th August, 1918, by a person other than a natural born British subject, of any name other than that by which he was ordinarily known at the date of the commencement of the War.
2. Publicity should be given to the Order in the territory under your administration in case any persons affected thereby should contemplate offering themselves as recruits for His Majesty's Forces or as volunteers for war work, or coming to this country in any other capacity.
The Officer Administering the Government of
I have, &c.,
WALTER H. LONG.
HONGKONG.
Extract from the London Gazette of the 26th July, 1918, No. 30815.
Defence of the Realm Regulations.
Order in Council dated 19th July, 1918.
5. After Regulation 140 the following regulation shall be inserted:-
“14H (1) A person not being a natural born British subject shall not for any purpose assume or use, or purport to assume or use, or continue after the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the assumption or use of, any name other than that by which he was ordinarily known at the date of the commencement of the war, and if he does so, he shall be guilty of a summary offence against these regulations.
"(2) Where any such person as aforesaid carries on, or purports or con- tinues to carry on, or is a member of a partnership or firm which carries on, or which purports or continues to carry on, any trade or business in any name other than that under which the trade or business was carried on at the date of the commencement of the war he shall for the purpose of this regulation be deemed to be using, or purporting or continuing to use, a name other than that by which he was ordinarily known at the date of the commence- ment of the war.
"(3) A Secretary of State may, if it appears desirable in any particular
case, grant an exemption from the provisions of this regulation.