against the German army, or against any authorities
or functionaries established by it, the culprit will be sent to
hard labour for ten years.

ARTICLE IV.--Any person usurping a public office, or who
commits any act or issues any order in the name of a public
functionary, will be imprisoned for five years, and fined L150.

ARTICLE V.--Any person who voluntarily destroys or abstracts
any documents, registers, archives, or public documents
deposited in public offices, or passing through their hands in
virtue of their functions as government or civic officials,
will be imprisoned for two years, and fined L150.

ARTICLE VI.--Any person obliterating, damaging, or tearing down
official notices, orders, or proclamations of any sort issued
by the German authorities will be imprisoned for six months,
and fined L80.

ARTICLE VII.--Any resistance or disobedience of any order given
in the interests of public security by military commanders and
other authorities, or any provocation or incitement to commit
such disobedience, will be punished by one year's imprisonment,
or a fine of not less than L150.

ARTICLE VIII.--All offences enumerated in Articles I.--VII. are
within the jurisdiction of the Councils of War.

ARTICLE IX.--It is within the competence of Councils of War to
adjudicate upon all other crimes and offences against the
internal and external security of the English provinces
occupied by the German Army, and also upon all crimes against
the military or civil authorities, or their agents, as well as
murder, the fabrication of false money, of blackmail, and all
other serious offences.

ARTICLE X.--Independent of the above, the military jurisdiction
already proclaimed will remain in force regarding all actions
tending to imperil the security of the German troops, to damage
their interests, or to render assistance in the Army of the
British Government.

Consequently, they will be PUNISHED BY DEATH, and we expressly
repeat this, all persons who are not British soldiers and--

(_a_) Who serve the British Army or the Government as spies, or
receive British spies, or give them assistance or asylum.

(_b_) Who serve as guides to British troops, or mislead the
German troops when charged to act as guides.

(_c_) Who shoot,