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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 18, 1919.
No. 328. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Subadar BHAGAT SINGH, 74th Punjabis, to be one of his Honorary Aides-de-Camp, with effect from this date.
17th July, 1919.
No. 329.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. NORMAN LOCKHART SMITH to act as Assistant Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol, in addition to his other duties, during the absence on leave of Mr. JOHN WILLIAM FRANKS, with effect from the 21st July, 1919.
18th July, 1919.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.
No. 330.-The censorship of international telegrams, whether by cable or by wireless, will be abolished as from midnight, 23rd-24th July, 1919.
No. 331.--It is hereby notified that the Blockade of Germany has been raised as from July 12th, 1919. A General Licence has been issued by the Board of Trade authorising Imports and Exports Trade between the United Kingdom and Germany, subject to the remaining United Kingdom prohibitions. Exports to Holland may be consigned direct to importers instead of to the Netherlands Overseas Trust, or to the Société Suisse de Surveillance Economique. Consignment of goods to order is now permissible, and certificates of origin are no longer required for imports from any country.
The General Licence referred to is as follows:-
Board of Trade on behalf of His Majesty and in pursuance of powers reserved in the Trading with the Enemy Proclamations and all other powers there- unto them enabling do hereby give and grant Licence to all persons, and bodies of persons, resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom, to trade and have commercial and financial transactions with persons or bodies resident or carrying on business in Germany: Pro- vided always that any Licence necessary in respect of any transactions under any prohibition of export or prohibition of import for the time being in force in the United Kingdom or in respect of any remittance money out of the United Kingdom covered by Regulation 41D Defence of the Realm Regulations is first obtained: Provided also that this Licence shall not permit any person or body of persons to pay to or for the bene- fit of any person or body of persons resident or carrying on business in Germany any sums of money which by terms of the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Acts, 1914, and 1915, or either of them, are required. to be paid to the Custodian appointed under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914; but such sums of money must be paid to the said Custodian: Provided further that this Licence shall not permit any person or body of persons to pay or deliver any sums of money or pro- perty which is or but for the war would have been due or deliverable to any person or body of persons resident or carrying on business in Germany in respect of transactions entered into before the outbreak of
war.
A licence in similar terms has been issued referring to trade with German Austria.