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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 30, 1937.
NOTICES
No. 534
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
The following extract from an Order of His Majesty in Council (the Arms Export Prohibition Order, 1937) (S. R. & 0. 1937 No. 525) is published for general information.
The effect of section 1 (2) (b) of the Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Munitions to Spain) Act, 1936, which was published for general information as Government Notification No. 64 in the Gazette of the 29th January, 1937, and Article 2 of the Order in Council as now published, is to add the various articles mentioned in Article 1 to the list of articles the prohibition of the export of which to Spanish territory is prohibited.
This prohibition extends to this Colony and to all ships registered therein or licensed under its laws.
27th July, 1937.
R. A. C. NORth,
Colonial Secretary.
THE ARMS EXPORT PROHIBITION ORDER, 1937.
1. As from the 15th June, 1937, the following articles shall be, and the same are hereby prohibited to be exported from the United Kingdom, or to be shipped as ship's stores on vessels proceeding to foreign ports, that is to say:
Mustard gas (dichlorethyl sulphide);
Lewisite (chlorvinyldichlorarsine and dichlordivinyl-
chlorarsine);
Methyldichlorarsine;
Diphenylchlorarsine;
Diphenyleyanarsine;
Diphenylaminechlorarsine;
Phenyldichlorarsine;
Ethyldichlorarsine;
Phenyldibromarsine;
Ethyldibromarsine;
Monochlormethylchlorformate;
Trichlormethylchlorformate (diphosgene);
Dichlordimethyl ether;
Dibromdimethyl ether;
Cyanogen chloride;
Ethyl bromacetate;
Ethyl iodacetate;
Brombenzylcyanide;
Bromacetone;
Brom-methylethyl ketone; Chlorpicrin.
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