Loading a transport in hostile seazone right after DOW

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Here's the situation (1940 2nd ed)...

Japan has several warships and transports in one sea zone, UK has one destroyer there, Japan is up and declares war that turn...can the Japan transports be loaded and then moved somewhere else to offload in the combat move phase (i.e. load in the zone with the destroyer then leave that zone to offload)? I'm googling and finding mixed results. I know transports can't normally load/offload in hostile zones, but because Japan declared war that turn then moved out during the combat phase, I thought this was a legal loophole.

Who knows for sure? Thanks!

Normal nicht in hostile seazones, aber hier gibt es eine Ausnahmeregel:

Once a state of
war is entered into, all territories and sea zones
controlled by or containing units belonging to
the power or powers on which you declared war
instantly become hostile to your units, and the
normal restrictions of moving into or through hostile
spaces apply, with one exception. During your
Combat Move phase in which you entered into a
state of war, your transports that are already in sea
zones that have just become hostile may be loaded
in those sea zones (but not in other hostile sea
zones). In effect, transports may be loaded in their
initial sea zones for amphibious assaults before war
is declared, while the sea zone is still friendly.

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