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d) BloEadecrklaruiigen. 
a) Deutsch-Ostafrika. 
A la date du 35 fdvrier 1915, le gouvernement 
de Sa Majestd Britannique a fait connaitre au Gouver- 
nement de la Bdpublique sa ddcision de ddclarer le 
blocus de la cöte de l’Bst africain allemand L partir 
de minuit, dans la nuit du 28 fdvrier au 1 er mars 1915. 
Le blocus sMtendra h toute la c6te de cette colonie 
allem ande, y compris les lies, c’est-ä-dire de 4"41, 
latitude Sud ä 10°40 latitude Sud. 
Quatre jours de gräce, depuis le ddbut du blocus, 
ont dtd accordds pour le ddpart des navires neutres 
de la Zone bloqude. 
(Journal officiel 5 mars 1915.) 
b) Kleinasien. 
Die „London Gazette" meldet, die britische Re 
gierung hat über die Küste Kleinasiens die Blockade 
verhängt, die am 2. Juni mittags begonnen hat. Das 
Blockadegebiet erstreckt sich von 37 Grad 35 Minuten 
bis 40 Grad 5 Minuten nördlicher Breite, und umfaßt 
den Eingang der Dardanellen. Neutrale Schiffe dürfen 
72 Stunden nach Beginn der Blockade das blockierte 
Gebiet verlassen. 
(Deutscher Neichsanzeiger Nr. 131 vom 7. Juni 1915.) 
e) lnckult (Days of Grace). 
Order in Council Relating to the Detention of 
German ships in British Ports or in any Ports 
of any Native State in india, or in any of His 
Majesty’s Protectorates, or in any State under 
His Majesty’s Protection or in Cyprus. 
1914. No. 1248. August 4th 1914. 
His Majesty being mindful, now that a state of 
war exists beetwen this country and Germany, of the 
recognition accorded to the practiee of granting „days 
of grace“ to enemy merchant ships by the Convention 
relative to the Status of enemy Merchant Ships a the 
Outbreak of Hostilities, signed at the Hague on the 
18th October, 1907, and being desirous of lesseningi 
so far as may be practicable, the injury caused by 
war to peaceful and unsuspecting commerce, is pleased, 
by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to Order, 
and it is hereby ordered, as follows: — 
1. Brom and after the publication of this Order 
no enemy merchant ship shall be allowed to depart, 
except in accordance with the provisions of this Order, 
from any British port or from any ports in any Native 
State in India, or any of His Majesty’s protection or 
in Cyprus. 
2. In the event of one His Majesty’s Principal 
Secretaries of State being satisfied by Information 
reaching him not later than midnight on Priday, the 
seventh day of August that the treatment accorded to 
British merchant ships and their cargoes which a the 
date of the outbreak of hostilities were in the ports 
of the enemy or which subsequently entered them is 
not less favourable than the treatment accorded to 
enemy merchant ships by Articles 3 to 7 of this Order, 
he shall notify the Lords Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury and the Lord Commissioners of the 
Admiralty accordingly, and public notice thereof shall 
forthwith be given in the „London Gazette“, and 
Articles 3 to 8 of this Order shall thereupon come into 
full force and effect. 
3. Subject to the provisions of this Order, enemy 
merchant ships which 
(i) A the date of the outbreak of hostilities were 
in any port in which this Order applies; or 
(ii) Cleared from their last port befere the decla- 
ration of war, and after the outbreak of hosti 
lities, enter a port to which this Order applies 
with no knowledge of the war: 
shall be allowed up tili midnight (Greenwich mean 
time) on Priday, the fourteenth day of August, for 
loading or unloading their cargoes, and for departing 
from such port: 
Provided that such vessels shall not be allowed 
to ship any contraband of war, and any contraband 
of war already shipped on such vessels must be 
discharged. 
4. Enemy merchant ships which cleared from their 
last port before the declaration of war, and which 
with no knowledge of the war arrive at a port to which 
this Order applies after the expiry of the time allowed 
by Article 3 for loading or unloading cargo and for 
departing, and are permitted to enter, may be required 
to depart either immediately, or within such time as 
may be considered necessary by the Customs Offleer 
of the port for the unloading of such cargo as they 
may be required or specially permitted to discharge. 
Provided that such vessels may, as a condition of 
being allowed to discharge cargo, be required to pro- 
ceed to auy other specified British port, and shall 
there be allowed such time for discharge as the 
Customs Officer of that port may considor 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 Offleer of the port may consider to be 
necessary; or she may be required to proceed, if 
necessary under escort, to any other of the ports 
specified in Article 1 of this Order, and shall there 
discharge the contrabänd 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 and 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 purposes of this Article. 
Such vessels will remain liable on adjudication by the 
Prize Court to detention durmg the period of the war,