Show EunivLiT nr DCMiAiti Dy the courtesy of Peter Itanse Ksq Danish consul of this dy the News has been furnished with a cop of a state paper Issued by the DanIsh Epvernment which declares tho neu rality of that government I In the pre rnt war Uitwrcn the United States and pain envoys Instructions I to Danish trade nnd shipping In relation to Ittos war and warns Danish subjects not to xtend aid to either belligerent power Tartly for the purpose of acquaInt tnt ourcca does wllh th contnl in of the mper many of whom being lia Ives of Denmark will be Interested In It and partly as a sample royal proclamation the most Important boor Ion of the document Is here repro uced vcrbatlmi Translation PROVISIONAL LAW prohibiting Danish subjects to support belligerent powers V7U CHRISTIAN IX by the Grace 01 God King to Denmark etc etc make hereby known As It U I of Import I IIl1ee In the pesen001rvu moo 000cm Ihat i thing be done by Danish ubJects en nngealng the neutrality ot this Coun It O or giving foreign powers legitimate reason to oroplaln 01 the stat or Denmark ns rnP neutral power wo have deemed It uf urgent necessity ae cording to section li of the Constltu lon by provisional law to give the nu horlty wanted 10 prohibit nnd In case of transgression to puninh 1 such actions withIn the Kingdom and the Danish WestIndies fhrelote We order and command IS follows I 11 In case 01 the outhreak 01 a war III which the Dnlllh Sinte I sneute al tboe ubjccts nre piohlbitcd I In any quality whatever to take service In the army of the belligerent belliger-ent powen or on board their Government Gov-ernment ships furthermore to pilot their warships or transports out 01 Danish ollotwnters or except Incase In-case of stress to give them any help to the nun Igabtom 2 to build or to niter to sell or otherwise to transfer directly or Indirectly to any cf the belligerent powers phlps which are kno Iota or are auppoool t b dosllnd lor wnr tappocosasmveilasInsnywol on or from Dallish terrllory to con tilbutn to bhs equipment or outfit of such shlpu to war operations 3 on or from Danish tenltory to aid nny of the belligerent powers In tbei operations ns for Instinee by providing their ships with things to ba reckoned among contraband 01 war or on accounl 01 any 01 the toebll gomen t posers to do work In hnde1 10 Inoreae 1 the avemueolof their chips or othenlse augment theIr strength or mobility for war purposes I 4 to cnrry contrahnnd 01 nor on account ac-count nf any 01 the belilgereni powr or 10 hli e out or to chartt to them hlps that nr hnown or nolpaOseeO to be Intndd to such use 6 publicly to Invite to take service In the army or the navy of the belligerent bellig-erent rowers or In any other way to lend them military aid and upon up-on the government saltIng n sppclal prohibition publicly to In vile to slurs In public loans to any of the belligerent potvera I The tranBgrcslonol S tbe above rgu atlons Is I punishable by prison or fines essahean lop penalty Is I provided for by other laws Complicity in and attempts at these offenses will be dealt with In the Kingdom according to the prlnclples of the criminal Law and In the Danish WentIndles according to Ihe principles of the criminal legUla Jon In force there This law comes Into force Immedl tely In the Kingdom Given Amallenborg on tbe 29th of April 1S08 Under Our Roval Hind and Seal CHRISTIAN It L 8 |