No. 7..
PROCLAMATION.
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Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENDY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Die- tinguished 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 t
Whereas by section 180 of the Army Act it is enacted that where the Governor of a Colony in which any of Elis 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 publien- tion in general orders of any such declaration the forees to which the declaration apples shall be deemed to be on active service for the period mentioned in the declara- tion 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 Gazatie 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 by Proclamations made on the 4th day of November 1914, 3rd February, 30th April, 30th July, and 29th October 2015, 2nd February, 2nd May, 28th July, and 27th October 1918, 2nd February, 2nd May, 2nd August and 2nd November 1917, the said declaration was renewed for a period of three months from time to time:
And Whereas by a Proclamation made on the 1st day of February 1918 the said declaration was renewed for a period of three months from the 3rd day of February 1918:
Aud Whereas the said period of three months will expire on the 3rd day of May 1918 Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HESKY May Knight Commander of the Most Dis- tinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief