The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-03-16
A NEW BRITISH
ORDER ISSUED
II Applies to Vessels of All Ma
tiOnalities and Is En-
phatiC.
RETALIATION MEASURE
Goods Will Be Taken From All
Ships and Carried to Prize
Court-Vessels From Ger
many to Be Stopped.

LONDON, March l5.-The British
order in council decreeing retaliatory
measures on the part of the govern
ment to meet the declaration of the
Germans that the waters surrounding
the United Kingdom are Il military
area was made public today.
The text of the order in council fol-
lows:
Whereas the German government
has issued certain orders, which, in
violation of the usages of war, pur-
port to declare that the waters sur
rounding the United Kingdom are n
military area in which all British and
allied merchant vessels will be de-
stroyed irrespective of the safety and
the lives of the passengers and the
crews, and, in which neutral shipping
will be exposed to similar danger in
view of the uncertainties of naval war
fare
"And, whereas, in the memorandum
accompanying the said orders, neu-
trails are warned against entrustinG
crews, passengers or goods to British
or allied ships
And, whereas, such attempts on the
part of the enemy tod give his males
ty i'm unquestionablc right Of retalia-
ton.
and whereas, His Majesty has
therefore decided to adopt further
measures in order to prevent com
modities Of any kind from reaching
or leaving Germany although such
measures will be enforced without
risk to neutral ships or TO neutral or
noncombatant life and in strict OBJ
servance 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 further the commerce of
Germany, His Majesty is, therefore.
pleased by and with the advice of his
privy council to order, and it IL here
by ordered as follows:
First No merchant vessel, which
sailed from her port of departure
after March |. 1915, shall be allowed
TO proceed on her voyage to any Ger
man port. Unless this vessel receives
a pass enabling her to proceed TO
some neutral or allied port to be
named in the pass, the goods on board
any such vessel must be discharged
in Il British port and placed in Gus.
tody of the marshal of the prize court
Goods so discharged. if not contraband
Of war shall be requisitioned for the
use of His Majesty, be restored by or
der of the court and upon such terms
as the court may in the circumstances
deem to be just to the persons entitled
thereto.
Shall Be Stopped.
Second No merchant yessef
which sailed from any German port
after March /, 1915. shall be allowed
to proceed on her voyage with any
goods on board laden at such port.
All goods laden at such port must be
discharged in a British or allied port.
Goods so discharged in a British port
shall be placed in the custody of tlV
marshal of the prize court and If not
requisitioned for the use of His Males.
ty shall be detained or sold under the
direction Of the prize court
THE proceeds of the goods so sold
shall be paid into the court and dealt
with in such a manner as the court
may in the circumstances deem Just.
provided that no proceeds of the sale
of such goods shall be paid out of the
court until the conclusion Of peace.
except on the application of a proper
officer of tho crown