NEW WAR REGULATIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3994, 29 July 1915, Page 7

NEW WAR REGULATIONS.

IM POUT ANT NOTIFICATIONS TO THE PUBLIC WHAT MAY AND MAY NOT BE DONE. The iww regulations which are contained in the latest Gazette provide that every person shall he deemed to ho an. alien enemy who is or lias at any time been a subject of any State with which His Majesty is now at war, notwithstanding the fact that such person may he also by birth, naturalization, or otherwise a British subject, or may have in any manner ceased to bo a subject of any such State. No person shall publish, or cause to bo published, any statement or matter likely to interfere with the recruiting, training, discipline, or administration of His Majesty’s Forces, whether by sea or land, or with the effective! conduct of -the military or naval operations of Jlis Majesty or his Allies in the present war, or likely to bo injurious to the public safety in tho present war, or to prejudice His Majesty’s relations with foreign powers, or any false reports relative to tho present war and likely to cause alarm, or any statement or matter which in any manner indicates disloyalty or disaffection in respect to tho present war. In this regulation tho term '‘publish’’ moans to make known either to individuals or to the public at large, and the term “His Mojrsty’s I‘Vre, -v' includes the New -.-■ other military or 1: -- r- iV4;.-rs .

by tho Govert;'**-'TO. *1 Y.r.-'N:: possession. A Collector of Customs may, on the receipt of a warrant or telegraphic instructions from a military authority in that behalf, refuse the clearance of any ship. If any goods the exportation of which is subject to any prohibition or restriction are shipped as stores on board any ship, a Collector of Customs may refuse the clearance of that ship so long as such goods remain on board, unless he is satisfied that the goods have been laden in good faith as stores and not for exportation contrary to any such prohibition or restriction. No person shall commit any breach of a contract to servo His Majesty in any capacity on board a transport. No person shall incite or attempt to incite any other person to break any such contract or to refuse to enter into any such contract. In this regulation the term "transport” means any ship belonging to or in the possession of or chartered -by or on behalf of His Majesty for any purpose in connection with the present war. No alien enemy shall, without the consent in writing of the Minister of Defence, leave or attempt to leave, or do any act with intent to leave, New Zealand. No owner, charterer, or muster of a ship shall knowingly receive on board that skip for carriage from New Zealand 1 any person whom he knows or has ground for suspecting to be an alien enemy, unless that person has the written permission of the Minister of Defence to leave Now Zealand. Nothing in this regulation shall apply to any alien enemy who has arrived in New Zealand as a member of the crew of-any ship and who leaves New Zealand as a member of the crew of the same ship. All powers of arrest and detention of alien enemies conferred upon military authorities or other persons •by the War Regulations may be exercised against all persons reasonably suspected of being alb n enemies. No sentence passed by a courtmartial' under the War Regulations •made on the 10th day of November, 1914, shall have effect until confirm? od by the Governor; and the Governor may'in confirming any such sentence commute it- to a sentence of imprisonment with hard labor for such term as he thinks fit.. No British subject shall bo tried by court-martial under the War Regulations. Any person authorized in that behalf by a military authority may, with all necessary assistants, enter into and s-arch any ship and all cargo, stores, or goods therein, and may /or that- purpose open a’.l packages and receptacles, or remove the same for opening and examination else where . Any postmaster or other officer of die post office may detain any postal packet having attached thereto or appearing thereon any seal, stamp, mark, or other <l-vice which purports, nop sirs, or is believed by such officer to have been issued, made, or used in | -New Zealand for the purpose of or in ! connection with any scheme (whether I established in N w Zealand or elsc- { wiior ) for the raising of moneys for j any purpose* relative to the present war. For all the purposes of the War Regulations territory in the military eeci; puation of any State at war with His Majesty shall be deemed to be the territory of that State.