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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 19, 1916.

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Whereas by Article 19 of the said Declaration it is provided that whatever may be the ulterior destination of a vessel or of her cargo, she cannot be captured for breach of blockade if, at the moment, she is on her way to a non-blockaded port; and

Whereas it is no longer expedient to adopt Article 19 of the said Declaration;

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:---

1. The provisions of the Declaration of London Order in Council No. 2, 1914, shall not be deemed to limit or to have limited in any way the right of His Majesty, in accor dance with the law of nations, to capture goods upon the ground that they are conditional contraband, nor to affect or to have affected the liability of conditional contraband to capture, whether the carriage of the goods to their destination be direct or entail tran- shipment or a subsequent transport by land.

2. The provisions of Article 1 (ii) and (iii) of the said Order in Council shall apply to absolute contraband as well as to conditional contraband.

3. The destinations referred to in Article 30 and in Article 33 of the said Declara- tion shall (in addition to any presumptions laid down in the said Order in Council) be presumed to exist, if the goods are consigned to or for a person, who, during the present hostilities, has forwarded imported contraband goods to territory belonging to or occu- pied by the enemy.

4. In the cases covered by Articles 2 and 3 of this Order, it shall lie upon the owner of the goods to prove that their destination was innocent.

5. From and after the date of this Order, Article 19 of the Declaration of London shall cease to be adopted and put in force. Neither a vessel nor her cargo shall be immune from capture for breach of blockade upon the sole ground that she is at the moment on her way to a non-blockaded port.

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6. This Order may be cited as The Declaration of London Order in Council, 1916."

And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty' Treasury, the Lords Commissioners. of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, all other Judges of His Majesty's Prize Courts, and all Governors, Officers, and Authorities whom it may concern, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

ALMERIC FITZROY,

No. 217. The following additional list of firms which are being wound up under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1916, is published for general information. The previous lists appeared in the Gazettes of the 20th April and 5th May, 1916.

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY AMENDMENT ACT, 1916.

Orders have been made by the Board of Trade requiring the undermentioned busi- nesses to be wound up :-

24. The Polack Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush, London, W. Controller: Sydney Tubbs, 28, Basinghall Street, London, E.C. 6th March, 1916.

25. Bradshaw Asphalte Co., Ltd., Copperas Street, Deptford, London, S.E. Con- troller: W. C. Jackson, 58, Coleman Street, London, E.C. 6th March, 1916.