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No. 12.
PROCLAMATION.
Binag
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS Henry Max, K.O.M.G., Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same :
Whereas by the third section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1862 as enacted by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor by and with the advice of the Executive Council by proclamation to prohibit for such period as may be therein mentioned the exportation of all or any of the following articles namely arms ammunition military and naval stores and any article which the Governor shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful iò increasing the quantity of arms ammunition or military or naval stores to any country or place therein named whenever the Governor by and with the advice aforesaid shall judge such prohibition to be expedient in order to prevent such arms ammunition or military or naval stores being used against His Majesty's subjects or forces or against any forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or naval operations in co-operation with His Majesty's forces:
And whereas I by and with the advice aforesaid judge it expedient to prohibit the exportation of the articles hereinafter mentioned in order to prevent their being used as in the said Ordinance scated:
Now Therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony do by this Proclamation prohibit for a period of six months from and including the 8th day of August 1914 the exportation to all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Sea and on the East Coast of Asia between the twentieth and fiftieth degrees of latitude with the exception of those of France Russia (except the Baltic ports) Spain and Portugal of the following articles which I bave judged capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quai- tity of arms ammunition or military or naval stores that is to say :--