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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1914.

No. 13.

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PROCLAMATIONS.

FRANCIS HENryTM May,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished 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.

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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 being satisfied thereof by information received by me do hereby proclaim that war has broken out between His Majesty and Austro-Hungary.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 13th day of August, 1914.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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