No. 4.
Gotemor.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir FascIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished 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 forous are serving declarus at any time or tinies 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 publica- tion in general orders of any such declaration the forces to which the declaration applies shall be deemed to be on active service for the perial mentioned in the declaration so that the period mentioned in any one declaration do not exceed three months from the date thereof:
And Whereas 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 thercof as if they were on active service:
And Whereas by Proclamations inade on the 4th day of November 1914, 3rd February, 30th April, 30th July, and 20th October 1015, 2nd February, 2nd May, and 28th July and 27th October 1916 the said declaration was renewed for a period of three months from time to time:
And Whereas by a Proclamation made on the 2nd day of February 1917 the said declaration was reuewed for a period of three months from the 3rd day of February 1917: