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SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1914.

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FRANCIS HENRY MAY,

Governor.

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:

Whereas by the third section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1862 as enacted by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor by and with the advice of the Executive Council by proclamation to prohibit for such period as may be therein mentioned the exportation of all or any of the following articles namely arms ammunition military and naval stores and any article which the Governor shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of arms ammunition or military or naval stores to any country or place therein named whenever the Governor by and with the advice aforesaid shall judge such prohibition to be expedient in order to prevent such arms ammunition or military or naval stores being used against His Majesty's subjects or forces or against any forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or naval operations in co-operation with His Majesty's forces:

And whereas I by and with the advice aforesaid judge it expedient to prohibit the exportation of the articles hereinafter mentioned in order to prevent their being used as in the said Ordinance stated: