SOIT
DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY.
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特門 轅港 香
Published by Authority.
No. 49.
號九十四第
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1894.
日九初月八年午甲 日八初月九年四十九百八千一
VOL. XL.
簿十四第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 331.
The following Circular Despatch and its enclosures are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th September, 1894.
CIRCULAR.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
8th August, 1894.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you copies of Her Majesty's Proclamation of Neutrality on the occasion of the War between China and Japan, together with copy of letter from the Foreign Office embodying Rules which Her Majesty has directed to be observed on the same occasion; and I have to request that you will cause both documents to be immediately published throughout the Colony under your Government, and that you will not fail to conform to Her Majesty's Commands.
I have the honour to be,
The Officer Administering the Government of
Sir, Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
RIPON.
HONGKONG.
VICTORIA R.
BY THE QUEEN.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS We are happily at peace with all Sovereigns, Powers, and States;
And whereas a state of war unhappily exists between His Majesty the Emperor of China and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and between their respective subjects and others inhabiting within their countries, territories, or dominious;
And whereas We are on terms of friendship and amicable intercourse with each of these States, and with their subjects and others inhabiting within their countries, territories, or dominions ;
And whereas great numbers of Our loyal subjects reside and carry on commerce, and possess property and establishments, and enjoy various rights and privileges, within the territory of each of the aforesaid States, protected by the faith of Treaties between Us and each of the aforesaid States;
And whereas We, being desirous of preserving to Our subjects the blessings of peace which they now happily enjoy, are firmly purposed and determined to maintain a strict and impartial neutrality in the said state of war unhappily existing between the aforesaid States;