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No. 5.

PROCLAMATION.

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Govertor.

By His Excellency 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.

Wheres by Section 13 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1898, it is enacted that the Governor tay in case of great national emergency or in case of actual or apprehended invasion of or attack on the Colony by Proclination call out any Volunteer Corps for actual military service, and whereas is also enacted by the aforesaid section that the period of such service shall continue so long as the Gorvernor-in-Council shall consider necessary and shall end only by order of the Governor.

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 acting with the advice of the Executive Council to the effect that such culling out is necessary and should be continued for the present do by this Proclamation call out the Hongkong Volun- teer Corps for actual military service mutil my further order.

A Magistrate or Justice of the Peace will be in attendance at the Supreme Court and at the Magistry to enrol members of the Hongkong Volunteer Reserves as members of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, and to enrol acklitional members for that corps.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoris, Hongkong, this 5th day of August, 1914.

By Command,

God Save THE KING.

Claud Seven

Colonial Secretory.