No. 2.
PROCLAMATION.
Binez
Garemtor.
By His Excellency Sir Francis Hesar May, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same.
Whereas by the fourth section of the Royal Naval Reserve (Volunteer) Act, 1859, it ia enacted that it shall be lawful for the King on such occasions as His Majesty shall leem fit (the occasion being first communicated to Parliament or declared in Council and notified by Prolatuation if Parliament be not sitting or in being) to order and direct that the Volunteers under that Act, or so muy or such part of them as His Majesty may deem necessary shall be called into actual service":
And whereas by the first section of the Naval Reserve (Mobilization) Act, 1900, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the King, in case of any such order and direction, to authorize the Admiralty to give, and when given, to revoke or vary, such directions as may seem necessary or proper for calling out all or any of the said Volunteers as the occasion may require:
And whereas the King has communicated to Parliament (or lus declared in Council) and notified by Proclamation that owing to the state of public affairs and the demands upon bie Naval Forces for the protection of the Empire, an occasion has arisen for ordering and directing as in the said first-mentioned Act is provided :
It is hereby notified that the King has ordered and directed that the Royal Naval Reserves, or such part of them as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may direct, be called into actual service.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 2nd day of August, 1914,
By Commnul,
GOD SAVE THE KING.
CandSever
Colonial Secretary,