THE HONG KONG OVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 7, 1940.

No. 631.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ORDINANCE,

No. 25 of 1914 (SECTIONS 16 AND 17).

Particulars required by the Custodian of Enemy Property.

The duty of all persons under this Ordinance to notify the Custodian of property held or managed by them on behalf of enemies applies also to all moneys which but for enemy occupation would be payable to persons or concerns in enemy occupied territory and to any property held or managed in this Colony for or on behalf of such persons or

concerns.

All persons, who have not already done so, are required to make a return of such money and property to the Custodian of Enemy Property, Official Receiver's Office, Supreme Court, within one month from the date of this notice or within one month of the date the enemy occupied territory is notified in the Gazette.

The enemy occupied territory already notified is as follows:

G.N. No. 858 of 1939.-Protectorates of Bohemia and

Moravia, Slovakia and the Free City of Danzig. G.N. No. 434 of 1940.--The Kingdom of Denmark. excluding the Kingdom of Iceland, the dependency of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

G.N. No. 499 of 1940. That part of Poland within the region of Suwalki and areas west of a line Kolno- Lomza-Ostrolenka-Malkin-River Bug (up to South of Sokal), thence north of a line Rawa Ruska- Jaroslav, thence west of the River San to its

source.

G.N. No. 600 of 1940.-The Kingdom of Norway with the exception of northern provinces (Nordland, Troms, Finmark and Svalbard (Spitzbergen)). The Kingdom of Netherlands.

The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.

G.N. No. 629 of 1940 --The Kingdom of Belgium, excluding the Belgian Congo and the mandated. territories of Ruanda and Urundi.

In case of doubt as to whether any territory is in enemy occupation reference should be made during office hours to the Custodian of Enemy Property, Supreme Court.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Colonial Secretary.

7th June, 1940.

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