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be forfeited. At the same time I think you agree that the

section should be used sparingly in cases where we could

not take Prize Court proceedings".

and on 27th. November, 1916:-

"I think that it would be better not to take proceedings

"for forfeiture. The cargo, however, should not be allowed

"to go forward"..

The case and dealt with nccordingly, and in enquiry from the Consul

General for the Netherlands was answered as follows:-

8th March, 1917: In reply to your letter of the 2nd.

February I am directed to say that asthe goods in question came from a firm on the Statutory List the Government are unable to allow them to be exported from Hongkong as any handling of the

goods would amount to an offence under the law relating to

trading with the enemy.

Illustration 2.

C.S.0.3746/16. 25 cases of bottled beer, transhipment cargo ex "Dairen Karu", consigned in May, 1916, to (S) La Société Colomale Indo-Belge, Batavia, from San Francisco. I minuted as follows on 16.12.16

"We have allowed cargo consigned to persons on the General

"Black List to be returned to the shippers in various (7808

"ns there is no legal means of forfeiting such cargo or of "prosecuting persons concerned in its carriage".

"We have not allowed cargo consigned to firms on the

"statutory list to be returned to the shippers, except in

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Cases where the cargo was shipped before the nme appeared

"on that list. At least, I cannot find any notes of any such

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"We could take proceedings to forfeit the cargo under

*Ordinance No. 22 of 1915, se-otion 11, as applied to the "statutory list firms by Ordinance No. 4 of 1916 and the "proclamation and Order in Council made thereunder. I think, "however, that we should be very careful about using this "power in cases where we could not condemn the cargo in the