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cargoes or portion of cargoes, should make enquiries 
in London at the Offices of His Majesty’s Procurator- 
General, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, and in the 
case of the outports of the United Kingdom, at the 
Offices of the agents for His Majesty’s Procurator- 
General, whose addresses ean he obtained from the 
Collectors of Customs at such outports, 
„His Majesty’s Procurator-General will require 
proof of ownership and particulars as to freight, 
whether paid or unpaid.“ 
In cases where the title of British Subjects or of 
persons domiciled in allied or neutral States, or of 
friendly aliens domiciled in this country, who are 
interested in such cargoes, is clear and estabh'shed 
without doubt to the satisfaction of the Procurator- 
General, such cargoes or portions of cargoes will he 
released with as little delay as possible, provided that 
no question of contraband arises, and Subject to the 
adjustment of any matters relating to freight or other 
charges falling on the cargo. In more doubtful cases 
recourse to the ordinary Prize Court procedure will be 
necessary. It will in most cases be convenient that Ihe 
parties should communicate with the agent of the 
Procurator-General at the port where the ship is, rather 
tban with the Procurator-General himself. 
Duo notice will be given of the Institution of 
proceedings in cases in whicli vessels are in the custody 
of the Prize Courts in the United Kingdom. Vessels 
which have been detained in or brought into British 
ports outside the United Kingdom will be brought 
befere the Prize Courts established in His Majesty’s 
dominions overseas, and interested parties should take 
steps to have their Interests represented before those 
Courts. 
It is hoped that arrangements may shortly be 
made for the Publication of similar notice in respect 
of proceedings in those Prize Courts. 
His Majesty’s Government are endeavouring to 
obtain from the Governments of France, Russia, and 
Japan lists of merchant vessels which may be similarly 
detained or captured by (he armed forces of those 
States. All such Information as soon as received will 
be published in the same way. 
A separate notification is being published as 
regards German vessels detained in Belgian ports on 
the outbreak of hostilities. 
All the Information in the possession of His Ma 
jesty’s Government will in this way he made public, 
and it is hoped that the necessity of applying to 
Government Departments for Information in particular 
cases will be eliminated. 
Statement appearing in the Press, Friday, 
November 27th, 1914. 
A Committee has been appointed by His Majesty’s 
Government to receive and consider Claims made by 
British Allied or Neutral Third Parties against Ships 
or Cargoes which have been condemned, or detained 
by Order of Prize Courts, and to recominend to wbat 
extent in wliat manner and on wbat terms such olaims 
should be met or provided for out of the prize funds. 
The only Claims which the Committee are autho- 
rised to consider are Claims against ships and cargoes 
on which sentence has heen passed by the Prize Courts. 
Any graut made in respect of them will be made as 
of grace and ont of the bounty of the Crown. 
Any person desiring to submit Claims for the 
consideration of the Committee should forward them 
to the Secretary, Prize Claims Committee, at the Board 
of Trade. 
Announcements will be made in the press as to 
the latest date on which Claims against particular ships 
and cargoes should ho made. 
Auf Grund einer neuerlichen Erklärung der briti 
schen Regierung Wird zur öffentlichen Kenntnis gebracht: 
Nach der Rechtsprechung britischer Prisengerichte werden 
vor ihnen feindliche Ausländer zur Wahrung ihrer 
Rechte zugelassen, wenn sie sich dabei auf eines der 
Haager Abkommen von 1907 berufen können. Das 
britische Prisengericht in Alexandrien hat auch die 
Klagen feindlicher Ausländer angenommen, die auf 
Verträge über den Suezkanal oder auf die besonderen 
Beziehungen Großbritanniens zuÄghpten gestützt wurden. 
sFrankfurter Zeitung vom 16./4. 1915.) 
Notification by bl. IVl.'s Oovernrnent as to 
Enemy Ships in The Suez Canal. 
His Majesty’s Government have issued a notifi 
cation in the following terms to the Representatives 
of Foreign Maritime Powers in London, and have 
asked them to communicate itto their Governments: — 
Lines the outbreak of war certain ships of enemy 
countries have remained in the Suez Canal. 
Lome of these vessels were detained by the 
Egyptian Government on account of hostile acts com- 
mitted in the Canal; some because there was reason 
to apprehend that they contemplated hostile acts; 
others, thongh perfectly free, have refused to leave 
the Canal in spite of the oster of a free pass, thus 
disclosing their Intention to use the ports of the Canal 
merely as ports of refuge, a measure which is not 
contemplated by the Suez Canal Convention. 
His Majesty’s Government do not admit that the 
conventional right of free acoess to and use of the 
Canal, enjoyed by merchant vessels implies any right 
to make use of the Canal and its ports of access for 
an indefinite time to escape capture, since the obvious 
result of permitting any such course must be greatly 
to incommode and even to block the use of the ports 
and Canal by other ships, and they are consequently 
of opinion that the Egyptian Government are fully 
justified in the steps which they are taking to remove 
from the Canal all enemy ships which have been long 
enough in the Canal ports to show clearly that they 
have no Intention of departing in the ordinary way, 
and that they are putting the Canal and its ports to