482 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 11, 1914.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 442.-It is hereby notified that by an Order-in-Council bearing date the 29th day of October, 1914, His Majesty the King has been pleased to command that the Order-in- Council bearing date the 20th day of August, 1914, adopting the provisions of the Declara- tion of London with certain modifications shall be repealed and that the Declaration of London shall be followed throughout the British Empire during the continuance of hostili- ties with Germany and Austria-Hungary, subject to the following modifications :-
Firstly. That the lists of absolute and conditional contraband contained in Articles 22 and 24 of the said Declaration and the lists substituted therefor contained in Notification No. 358 published in a Gazette Extraordinary on the 16th Septem- ber, 1914, be substituted by the following:--
Schedule I.
Absolute Contraband.
(1.) Arms of all kinds including arms for sporting purposes and their distinctive
component parts;
(2.) Projectiles charges and cartridges of all kinds and their distinctive component
parts;
(3.) Powder and explosives specially prepared for use in war;
(4.) Sulphuric Acid;
(5.) Gun mountings limber boxes limbers military wagons field forges and their
distinctive component parts;
(6.) Range finders and their distinctive component parts;
(7.) Clothing and equipment of a distinctively military character;
(8.) Saddle draught and pack animals suitable for use in war;
(9.) All kinds of harness of a distinctively military character;
(10.) Articles of camp equipment and their distinctive component parts;
(11.) Armour plates;
(12.) Hæmatite iron ore and hæmatite pig Iron ;
(13.) Iron pyrites ;
(14.) Nickel ore and nickel ;
(15.) Ferrochrome and chrome ore;
(16.) Copper unwrought;
(17.) Lead, pig, sheet or pipe ;
(18.) Aluminium ;
(19.) Ferrosilica ;
(20.) Barbed wire and implements for fixing and cutting the same;
(21.) Warships. including boats and their distinctive component parts of such a
nature that they can only be used on a vessel of war ;
(22.) Aeroplanes airships balloons and aircraft of all kinds and their component parts together with accessories and articles recognisable as intended for use. in connection with balloons and aircraft;
(23.) Motor vehicles of all kinds and their component parts;
(24.) Motor tyres rubber;
(25.) Mineral oils and motor spirit except lubricating oils;
(26.) Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war, for the manufacture of and repair of arms or war material for use on land and sea.
Schedule II.
Conditional Contraband.
(1.) Foodstuffs.
(2.) Forage and feeding stuffs for animals.
(3.) Clothing fabrics for clothing and boots and shoes suitable for use in war.
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