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No. 10,

PROCLAMATION.

Norma

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY Max Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor sed Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by the fifteenth section of the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance 1910 it is enacted that the Governor may by proclamation whenever it appears to hit advisable to do so by reason of war muse all or any members of the Volunteer Reserve to be enrolled as members of the Volunteer Force and that all the provisions of the Volunteer Ordinance 1893 shall in so far as they are applicable extend and apply to every such member on being so enrolled to all intents and purposes as if such members had signed the engagement and taken the oath under the said Volunteer Ordinance and that every member so unrolled shall reuniu and continue subject to the provisions of the said Volunteer Ordinance and shall be entitled to the benefits thereof until the Governor shall by proclamation cancel such enrolment whereupon all members so eurolled shall again become subject to the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance 1910 as members of the Volunteer Reserve :

And Whereas it appears to me advisable to do so by reason of war :-

Now Therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Dis- 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 do hereby by this proclamation cause all the members of the Volunteer Reserve to be enrolled as members of the Volunteer Force.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 6th day of August, 1914.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Claudlevem

Colonial Secretary.