Provided that such vessels may, as a condition of being allowed to discharge cargo be required to proceed to any other specified British port, and shall there be allowed such time for discharge as the Customs Officer of that port may consider to be necessary.
Provided also that, if any cargo on board such vessel is contraband of war or is requisitioned under Article 5 of this Order , she may be required before departure to discharge such cargo within such time as the Customs Officer of the port may consider to be necessary; or she may be required to proceed , if necesary under escort, to any other of the ports specified in Article I. of this Order, and shall there discharge discharge the contraband under the like conditions.
5. His Majesty reserves the right recognised by the said Convention to requisition at any time subject to payment of compensation enemy cargo on board any vessel to which articles 3 andd 4 of this Order apply.
6. The privileges accorded by Articles 3 and 4 are not to extend to cable ships or to sea-going ships designed to carry oil fuel, or to ships whose tonnage exceeds 5,000 tons gross, or whose speed is 14 knots or over regarding which the entries in Lloyd's Register shall be conclusive for the purpose of this Article. Such vessels will remain liable on adjudication by the Prize Court to detention during the period of the war, or to requisition in accordance, in either case, with the Convention aforesaid. The said privileges will also not extend to merchant ships which show by their build that they are intended for conversion into warships, as such vessels are outside the scope of the said Convention, and are liable on adjudication by the Prize Court to condemnation as prize.
7. Enemy Merchant ships allowed to depart under Articles 3 and 4 will be provided with a pass indicating the port to which they are to proceed, and the route they are to follow.
8. A merchant ship which, after receipt of such a pass, does not follow the course indicated therein will be liable to capture.
9. If no information reaches one of His Majesty's Principals Secretaries of State by the day and hour aforementioned to the effect that the treatment accorded to British merchant ships and their cargoes which were in the ports of the enemy at the date of the outbreak of hostilities, or which subsequently entered them, is, in his opinion, not less favourable to that accorded to enemy merchant ships by Articles 3 to 8 of this Order, every enemy merchant ship which, on the outbreak of hostilities, was in any port to which this Order applies, and also every enemy merchant ship which cleared from its last port before the decleration of war, but which, with no knowledge of the war, enters a port to which this order applies, shall, together with the cargo onboard thereof, be liable to capture, and shall be brought before the Prize Court forthwith for adjudication.
10. In the event of information reaching one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State that British merchant ships which cleared from their last port before the decleration of war, but are met with by the enemy at sea after the outbreak of hostilities are allowed to continue their voyage without interference with either the ship or the cargo, or after capture are released with or without proceedings for adjudication in the Prize Court or are to be detained during the war or requisitioned in lieu of condemnation as prize, he shall notify the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty accordingly, and shall publish a notification thereof in the "London Gazette" and in that event, but not otherwise, enemy merchant ships which cleared from their last ports before the decleration of war, and are captured after the outbreak of hostilities and brought before the Prize Courts for adjudication, shall be released or detained or requisitioned in such cases and upon such terms as may be directed in the said notification in the "London Gazette".
11. Neutral cargo, other than contraband of war, on board an enemy merchant ship which is not allowed to depart from a port to which this order applies, shall be released.
12. In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of the Convention relative to certain Restrictions on the exercise of the Right of Capture in Maritime War, signed at The Hague on the 18th October, 1907, an undertaking must, whether the merchant ship is allowed to depart or not, be given in writing by each of the officers and members of the crew of such vessel, who is of enemy nationality, that he will not, after the conclusion of the voyage for which the pass is issued engage while hostilities last in any service connected with the operation of the war. If any such officer is of neutral nationality, an undertaking must be given in writing that he will not serve, after the conclusion of the voyage for which the pass is issued, on any enemy ship while hostilities last. No undertaking is to be required from members of the crew who are of neutral nationality.
Officers or members of the crew declining to give the undertakings required by this Article will be detained as prisoners of war.
And the Lord Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commisioners of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State, and all Governors, Officers, and authorities whom it may concern are to give the neccessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
*This time corresponds to 40 minutes, 40 seconds past 7 o'clock, p.m., Bermuda standard Time.
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BERMUDA, Alias Somers Islands.
By His Excellency
L.S.M. Lieutenant-Colonel
George Bunbury
G.B. McANDREW McAndrew, Officer
Lieut.-Colonel, Administering the
Officer Adminis- Government, Com-
tering the Gov- mander-in-Chief and
ernment. Vice Admiral in
and over these Islands,
&c., &c., &c.
A PROCLOMATION!
I, the Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief and Vice Admiral aforesaid, being satisfied thereof by information received by me, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM that War has broken out between His Majesty and the German Emperor
Given under my hand and the
Great Seal of these Islands
this fourth day of August,
A. D. 1914.
By His Excellency's Command,
R. POPHAM LOBB
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
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