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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 12, 1915.
PROCLAMATIONS.
No. 67. The following Proclamation of His Majesty the King is published for general information :-
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By the KING.
A PROCLAMATION
Revising the List of Articles to be treated as Contraband of War.
GEORGE RI.
WI
HEREAS on the fourth day of August, 1914, We did issue Our Royal Proclama- tion specifying the articles which it was Our intention to treat as contraband of war between Us and the German Emperor; and
Whereas on the twelfth day of August, 1914, We did by Our Royal Proclamation of that date extend Our Proclamation aforementioned to the war between Us and the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary; and
Whereas on the twenty-first day of September, 1914, We did by Our Royal Procla- mation of that date make certain additions to the list of articles to be treated as contra- band of war; and
Whereas on the twenty-ninth day of October, 1914, We did by Our Royal Proclama- tion of that date withdraw the said lists of contraband, and substitute therefor the lists contained in the schedules to the said Proclamation; and
Whereas it is expedient to make certain alterations in and additions to the said lists:
NOW, THEREFORE, We do hereby declare, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, that the lists of contraband contained in the schedules to Our Royal Proclama- tion of the twenty-ninth day of October aforementioned are hereby withdrawn, and that in lieu thereof during the continuance of the war or until We do give further public notice the articles enumerated in Schedule I. hereto will be treated as absolute contra- band, and the articles enumerated in Schedule II. hereto will be treated as conditional contraband.
SCHEDULE I.
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. Ingredients of explosives, viz., nitric acid, sulphuric acid, glycerine, acetone, calcium acetate and all other metallic acetates, sulphur, potassium nitrate, the fractions of the distillation products of coal tar between benzol and cresol inclusive, aniline, methyl- aniline, dimethylaniline, ammonium perchlorate, sodium perchlorate, sodium chlorate, barium chlorate, ammonium nitrate, cyanamide, potassium chlorate, calcium nitrate,
mercury.
5. Resinous products, camphor, and turpentine (oil and spirit).
6. Gun mountings, limber boxes, limbers, military wagons, field forges, and their distinctive component parts.
7. Range-finders and their distinctive components parts.
8. Clothing and equipment of a distinctively military character.
9. Saddle, draught and pack animals suitable for use in war.
10. All kinds of harness of a distinctively military character.
11. Articles of camp equipment and their distinctive component parts.
12. Armour plates.
13. Ferro alloys, including ferro-tungsten, ferro-molybdenum, ferro-manganese, ferro- vanadium, ferro-chrome.