New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 41

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✨ Restrictions on German Commerce

Numb. 41.

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1915.

Restrictions on German Commerce.

HIS Excellency the Governor hereby notifies, for the information of the public, that the following Order in Council has been issued by His Majesty on the eleventh day of March, 1915.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the German Government has issued certain orders which, in violation of the usages of war, purport to declare the waters surrounding the United Kingdom a military area in which all British and allied merchant vessels will be destroyed irrespective of the safety of the lives of passengers and crew, and in which neutral shipping will be exposed to similar danger in view of the uncertainties of naval warfare: And whereas in a memorandum accompanying the said orders neutrals are warned against entrusting crews, passengers, or goods to British or allied ships: And whereas such attempts on the part of the enemy give to His Majesty an unquestionable right of retaliation: And whereas His Majesty has therefore decided to adopt further measures in order to prevent commodities of any kind from reaching or leaving Germany, though such measures will be enforced without risk to neutral ships or to neutral or non-combatant life, and in strict observance of the dictates of humanity: And whereas the Allies of His Majesty are associated with Him in the steps now to be announced for restricting by further measures the commerce of Germany:

His Majesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order and it is hereby ordered as follows:—

No merchant vessel which sails from her port of departure after the 1st March, 1915, shall be allowed to proceed on her voyage to any German port. Unless the vessel receives a pass enabling her to proceed to some neutral or allied port to be named in the pass, goods on board any such vessel must be discharged in a British port and placed in the custody of the Marshal of the Prize Court. Goods so discharged, not being contraband of war, shall, if not requisitioned for the use of His Majesty, be restored by order of the Court upon such terms as the Court may in the circumstances deem to be just to the person entitled thereto.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1915, No 41

NZLII — NZ Gazette 1915, No 41

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🌏 Order in Council Restricting German Commerce

Domain🌏 External Affairs & Territories
Dated11 March 1915
KeywordsGerman Commerce, Restrictions, Order in Council, World War I, Maritime Trade
👩‍💼 Officials

His Excellency the Governor
His Majesty

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