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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 7, 1916.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 296. The following notification which appeared in the London Gazette of 12th May, 1916, is published for general information.

NAVAL SALVAGE MONEY.

Admiralty, 10th May, 1916.

Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein, that preparations are now being made for the intended distribution of the award of Prize Salvage for services ren- dered to the S.S. Pontoporos by H.M.S. Yarmouth on the 12th October, 1914.

Agents or other persons having any just and legal demand, unliquidated, against the Award are required to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Registrar of the Admiralty Division of H.M. High Court of Justice, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that Officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said court.

Due Notice will be given, by future advertisement in the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the commencement of Distribution, and at the same time, the amount of an Individual's Share in the respective Classes will be announced.

No. 297. The following notification which appeared in the London Gazette of the 12th May, 1916, is published for general information.

TREATMENT OF GOODS DISCHARGED FROM GERMAN VESSELS

REQUISITIONED BY THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT,

His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received, through H.M. Ambassador at Rome, the following Memorandum from the Italian Government on the subject of goods discharged from German steamers which have been requisitioned by them :-

TRANSLATION.

In order to regulate in a definite and uniform manner the treatment to be accorded to goods discharged from German steamers requisitioned in the ports of the Kingdom and Colonies, the following rules have been laid down :---

a. The State Departments concerned will within as short a delay as possible pro-

ceed to requisition all such goods as can be utilised.

h. Goods originally belonging to subjects of neutral States may, subject to the observance of the rules laid down under heading (e), be freely imported and re-exported abroad; in the latter case subject always to the existing regulations governing the exportation and transit of goods included in the lists of absolute and conditional contraband.

c. As regards non-requisitioned goods of German ownership, the Customs may, subject to the observance of the formalities and precautions indicated under (e) allow unlimited re-exportation abroad, or importation into the Kingdom, of such of these goods as may be shown by production of reliable documents to have been acquired and paid for by subjects of allied States before February 10, 1916.