No. 20.
PROCLAMATION.
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By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distín- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and "Vice-Admiral of the same :
Whereas by Section 189 of the Army Act it is enacted that where the Governor of a Colony in which any of His Majesty's forces are serving declares at any time or times that by reason of the imminence of active service or of the recent existence of active service it is necessary for the public service that the forces in the Colony should be temporarily subject to the said Act as if they were on active service then on the publication in general orders of any such declaration the forces to which the declaration applics shall be deemed to be on active service for the period mentioned in the declaration so that the period mentioned in any one declaration do not exceed three months from the date thereof:
And Wherens by declaration made on the 5th day of August 1914 it was declared by Proclamation published in the Government Gazette Extraordinary dated the 5th day of August 1914 to be necessary for the public service that His Majesty's forces in the Colony be subject to the said Act for the period of three months from the date thereof as if they were on active service :
And Whereas the said period of three months expires to-day Now, therefore, I Sir FRANCIS HENRY Mar, K.Q.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same being of opinion that the necessity of His Majesty's forces in the Colony being subject to the said Act continues do hereby declare that by reason of the irominence of active service it is necessary for the public service that His Majesty's forces in this Colony be subject to the said Act for the further period of three months from the date hereof as if they were on active service.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 4th day of November 1914.
By Comund,
GOD SAVE THE KING.
Aspaistevem
**Colonial Secretary.