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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 22, 1915.
PROCLAMATIONS.
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No. 468.--The following Proclamation of His Majesty the King is published for general information :
By the KING.
A PROCLAMATION
ADDING TO THE LIST OF ARTICLES TO BE TREATED AS CONTRABAND OF WAR.
GEORGE R.I.
WHER
HEREAS on the 23rd day of December, 1914, We did issue Our Royal Proclama- tion specifying the articles which it was Our intention to treat as contraband during the continuance of hostilities or until We did give further notice; and
Whereas on the 11th day of March and on the 27th day of May, 1915, We did, by Our Royal Proclamations of those dates, make certain additions to the list of articles to be treated as contraband of war; and
Whereas it is expedient to make certain further additions to the said lists:
Now, therefore, We do hereby declare, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, that during the continuance of the war or until We do give further public notice, the following articles will be treated as absolute contraband in addition to those set out in Our Royal Proclamations aforementioned :-
Raw cotton, cotton linters, cotton waste, and cotton yarns.
And We do hereby further declare that this Our Royal Proclamation shall take effect from the date of its publication in the London Gazette.
Given at Our Court at the Royal Pavilion, Aldershot Camp, this twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and in the Sixth Year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
Note: This proclamation tras afterwards withdrawn by the proclamation of the 14th
October, 1915, published below.
No. 469. The following Proclamation of His Majesty the King is published for general information :-
By the KING.
A PROCLAMATION
REVISING THE LIST OF ARTICLES TO BE TREATED AS CONTRABAND OF WAR.
GEORGE R.I.
WHEREAS on the 23rd day of December, 1914, We did issue Our Royal Proclama-
tion specifying the articles which it was our intention to treat as contraband during the continuance of hostilities or until We did give further public notice:
And Whereas on the 11th day of March and on the 27th day of May and on the 20th day of August, 1915, We did by Our Royal Proclamation of those dates make certain additions to the list of articles to be treated as contraband of war:
And Whereas it is expedient to make certain further additions and amendments in 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 23rd day of December as subsequently amended by Our Proclamations of the 11th day of March and of the 27th day of May and of the 20th day of August afore- mentioned are hereby withdrawn and that in lien thereof during the continuance of the. war or until We do give further public notice the articles enumerated in Schedule 1 hereto will be treated as Absolute Contraband and the articles enumerated in Schedule 2 hereto will be treated as Conditional Contraband :-