302 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 8, 1914. ~
Now Therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony do by this Proclamation prohibit for a period of six months from and including the 8th day of August 1914 the exportation to all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Sea and on the East Coast of Asia between the twentieth and fiftieth degrees of latitude with the exception of those of France Russia (except the Baltic ports) Spain and Portugal of the following articles which I have judged capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quan- tity of arms ammunition or military or naval stores that is to say:
Aluminium.
Aluminium alloys.
Armour plates.
Armour, quality castings and similar pro-
tective material.
Asbestos.
Cables, telegraph and telephone.
Camp equipment, articles of.
Cannon and other ordnance, and parts
thereof
Carbolic acid.
Carriages and mountings for cannon and
other ordnance and for machine guns, and parts thereof.
Coal, steam, large,
Compasses and parts thereof, including
fittings, such as binnacles.
Cresol and nitro-cresol.
Engine and boiler packings. Explosives of all kinds. Fuel, manufactured.
Implements and apparatus designed ex-
clusively for the manufacture of muni- tions of war, for the manufacture or repair of arms, or of war material for
se on land and sea.
India-rubber sheet, vulcanised. Manganese.
Mercury.
Mica.
Mineral jellies.
Mines, and parts thereof. Molybdenum.
Nitrates of Ammonium.
Nitrates of Potassium.
Nitrates of Sodium.
Nitric acid.
Nitrotoluol.
Picric acid and its components.
Range finders and parts thereof. Rope, steel wire, and hawsers. Saltpetre.
Sounding machines and gear.
Steam vessels, lighters and barges of all
descriptions.
Sulphur.
Sulphuric acid.
Swords, bayonets and other arms not being
firearms and parts thereof.
Tin.
Tin plates.
Torpedo tubes.
Torpedoes and parts thereof.
Tungsten.
Vanadium.
Wagons, four-wheeled, capable of carrying
one ton and over.
Two-wheeled carts capable of carrying fifteen
cwts, and over.
Harness and saddlery of all kinds. Barbed wire.
Horse and pony shoes.
Materials for telegraph, wire telegraph and
telephones.
Field glasses and telescopes.
Railway materials both fixed and rolling
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stock.
Men's marching and shooting boots. Heliographs.
Portable forges.
Farriers, carpenters, wheelers and saddlers'
tools.
Glycerine.
Alcohol as covering rectified spirits.
Uniform clothing and military equipment. Accoutrements.
Walnut wood of scantling which can be made into rifle butts and fore-ends.
Provided that nothing in this proclamation contained shall be deemed to affect in any way the proclamation made by me under the provisions of the said Ordinance on the fifth day of August 1914.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th day of August, 1914.
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By Command,
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
Printed and Published by NORONHA & Co., Printers to the Hongkong Government.
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