EMERGENCY
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1940
POWERS
Hong Kong Brought Into Line With Britain New Regulations Published
instrument determining their func-ing that area in compliance with the
order.
tions.
(4) In this regulation-
Accommodation
(a) the expression "essential work" If the Governor is satisfied that it means work appearing to the compe-is necessary that special steps should tent authority to be essential for de- be taken to provide accommodation fence or the efficient prosecution of for persons who have left or are like- the war or to be essential to the life ly to leave their homes in consequence of or in apprehension of attacks by of the community; and
(b) the expression "undertaking" the enemy, or who have become home- means any public utility undertaking less in consequence of such attacks, or any industrial or commercial enter- he may appoint or authorize the ap- "in relation to any such enterprise, regulation subject to any general or and any person acting in pursuance of an appointment under this paragraph may require the occupier of any pre- mises to provide, subject to the fol- lowing provisions of this regulation, accommodation in those premises for such persons as the person so acting may assign thereto.
Billeting
NEW DEFENCE REGULATIONS, bringing official powers into line with those taken by the British Government in the U.K. under the Emergency Powers (Extension) Act passed a few weeks ago, were published in a "Government Gazette Extra-means the person by whom it is car- special instructions of the Governor ordinary” to-day and came into immediate tied on; effect.
prise, and the expression "undertak-pointment of persons to act under this
.
and any reference in this regulation to articles shall be construed as in- cluding a reference to substances,
vehicles, vessels or animals.
Passive Defence
'Regulations made from time to time since August 26, 1939, are repeated, but new powers are taken
The Governor may, if it appears to for dealing with sabotage, control of highways him to be necessary or expedient so to do for the purpose of meeting any and lines of communication for defence pur-actual or apprehended attack by the A competent authority may cause enemy or of protecting persons and to be served upon the occupier of any poses, for the general control of industry, power property from the dangers involved in premises a written notice (hereinafter any referred to as "a billeting notice"), re- to occupy land or property, to compel evacua-such attack, make, as respects
area in this Colony, either or both of quiring the occupier of those premises tion of danger areas, to require conformity with the following orders, that is to say-to furnish therein, until further no- tice or during such period as may be billeting orders, etc.
specified in the billeting notice, cording as that notice may direct, ac- commodation (by way of lodging food or both, and either with or with- tice may direct) for such number of persons as may be so specified, being either persons in the service of Majesty or persons who are in the service of a local authority and engaged in the performance of essen- tial services.
Control Of Industry
(a) an order directing that after such time as may be specified in the
vehicle order, no person,
or vessel other than a person, vehicle or vessel of such a class as may be so specified mission of such authority or person as may be so specified;
ac-
or
His
are
The Sabotage Regulation, No. 26 says: (1) No person shall do any act with intent to impair the efficiency or A competent authority, so far as impede the working or movement of appears to that authority to be neces-shall be in that area without the per-out attendance, according as the no- any vessel, aircraft, vehicle, machinery,sary in the interests of defence of the apparatus or other thing used or in-efficient prosecution of the war, or for tended to be used in His Majesty's ser-maintaining supplies and services es-
(b) an order directing that any such vice or in the performance of essen-sential to the life of the community, animals or things in that area as may tial services, or to impair the useful-may, subject to any general or special be specified in the order shall, by such ness of any works, structure or pre-instructions of the Governor, by order time as may be so specified, be remov- mises used or intended to be used as provide
ed from that area or, if they cannot
(2) The lodging or food to be furn- aforesaid:
(a) for regulating or prohibiting the reasonably be so removed before that
with a billeting Provided that a person shall not be production, treatment, keeping, stor-time, be destroyed or rendered use-ished in accordance guilty of an offence against this re-age, novement, transport, distribution, less so far as practicable, and that notice, and the price to be paid in res- gulation by reason only of his taking sale, purchase, use or consumption of after that time no such things or ani- pect of any accommodation so furn- part in, or peacefully persuading any articles of any description, and, in mals shall be brought into the area ished in any premises shall be such, other person to take part in, a strike. particular, for controlling the prices except under such permission as afore- and shall be paid to the occupier of the premises by such authority, as may (2) The preceding provisions of this at which such articles may be sold;
be determined by order of the Gov- regulation shall apply in relation to
ernor, any omission on the part of a person to do anything which he is under a duty, either to the public or to any person, to do, as they apply in rela- tion to the doing of any act by a per-
son.
said.
para- the
(a) may prescribe the routes by which persons or property, or any particular classes of persons or pro- berty, are to leave or be removed from the area;
(2). An order made under (b) for regulating the carrying on of any undertaking engaged in essen-graph (1) of this regulation for tial work, and, in particular, for con- removal of persons or property from trolling the charges which may be any area- made by the undertakers in respect of the doing of any work by them;
(c) for requiring persons carrying (3) Any person convicted on indict-on, or employed in connexion
with, ment of an offence against this regu- any trade or business specified in the lation shall be liable to imprisonment order to produce to such authority or for any term not exceeding fourteen person as may be so specified any years or to a fine not exceeding ten books, accounts or other documents thousand dollars or to both such im- relating to that trade or business, and prisonment and such fine.
for requiring any persons to furnish to such authority or person as be specified in the order such estim- ates or returns as the competent au- thority may require;
If, with intent to assist the enemy, any person does any act. which is like- ly to assist the enemy or to prejudice the public safety, the defence of this Colony-or any-other-part of-His-Ma- jesty's dominions or the efficient pro- secution of the
without war, then, prejudice to the law relating to trea- son, he shall be guilty of an offence on against this 1egulation and shall, conviction on indictment, be liable to imprisonment for life.
Highway Control
Without prejudice to any other of these regulations, the Governor may
Essential Work
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(3) A competent authority, if it ap- pears to that authority to be necessary so to do in the interests of public safe- ty, defence or the efficient prosecution of the war, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community may, subject to any gen- eral or special instructions of the Gov- ernor, carry on the whole or any part of any existing undertaking, or au-
(b) may prescribe different times as different the times by or at which classes of persons or property in the area are to leave or be removed there- form;
(3) If the occupier of any premises feels aggrieved by the requirements of any billeting notice, he may, within fourteen days from the beginning of the day on which the notice is served on him, complain to a magistrate, and thereupon the magistrate, if satisfied that the furnishing of accommodation in accordance with the notice would burden otherwise impose an undue upon the occupier, may by order an- nul the notice or direct that it shall
(c) may prescribe the places to have effect subject to such modifica- which persons are to proceed on leav-tions as may be specified in the order.
R.A.F. FAR AND
RANGES
WIDE IN
BOMBING IN REICH
London, To-day.
by order provide for the regulation of thorize a person to carry on the whole AN AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE states that on
traffic on highways, and, without pre- judice to the generality of the power aforesaid, any such order may in par- ticular provide-
of
or any part of the undertaking, in ac- cordance with any instructions of the competent authority; and while by virtue of this paragraph a competent authority or a person so authorized is carrying on the whole or any part of an undertaking--
(a) the said authority or person shall be deemed to be acting as the
Monday our bombers, although hampered by bad visibility, attacked aerodromes at Eind- hoven, Schipol and Waalhaven, which are bases in occupied Dutch territory from which enemy bombers can set out to bomb this country.
agent of the undertakers, except that The operations were continued during the night and
any
(1) for determining the routes to be followed by any particular class vehicles proceeding on highways, circum- either generally or in such stances as may be determined by or in accordance with the order;
(2), for prohibiting or regulating the the undertakers shall not have use of vehicles or any class of vehi- right to control the carrying on of the cles on highways or the use by vehi-undertaking or part of the undertak- tles of specified roads or classes of ing; and
(b) the undertakers shall not be
The aerodromes at Mulheim and All our aircraft returned safely roads, either generally or in such cir- cumstances as may be so specified; bound, or, as the case may be, shall and may be made so as to apply not in respect of such matters as may Kessea (Westphalia) were also bomb- from both the day and night opera- either generally or to any specified be specifled by order of the competented. area, and may make different provi- authority be found, by any obligation sion for different parts of the area to which the order applies.
Schipol was again attacked as well as the aero-
drome at Delooy.
tions.
Other formations of our bombers
or limitation imposed on them by or attacked the naval base at Helder,
Ares by virtue of any Ordinance or other where explosions and
caused.
were
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At Dortmund, oil depots and mar- shalling yards were bombed as well as targets at Kamen, east of Dort- mund, and Kassel, where the aircraft works was set on fire.
Aerodrome buildings and aircraft works at Delchhausen, near Tiremen, were also attacked.
Canal Gates Bombed ·· Other aircraft bombed the Dort- mund-Ems canal where lock-gates and barges were hit.
Railway junctions and stations near Emmerich, between the Ruhr and the Dutch frontier, were also damaged."
. An Anson aircraft of the Coastal Command was attacked by four Messerschmidt single-engine fighters while patrolling over the English
• Channel.
one in
In the ensuing engagement Messerschmidt was
shot down flames. The other enemy fighters abandoned the pursuit and our air- craft returned safely to its base. Reuter.
Berlin Report
Rome, To-day.
Stéfani A Berlin telegram to the agency states. British planes bombed of Duisburg and the German towns Bielefeld, causing numerous fires and destroying houses-Reuter.