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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 Gouvernement
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 Regierung
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 declaration
of war, and after the outbreak of hostilities,
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 proceed
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,
