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And whereas by sub-clause (9) of clause III of the order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria-in-Council made on the 26th day of October 1896 as amended by the order of His Majesty-in-Council made on the 28th day of August 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may prohibit the export from the Colony of any article:

And whereas by a proclamation dated the 17th day of September 1915 the exporta- tion of certain articles therein referred to from the Colony was prohibited to certain or all destinations:

And whereas by proclamations dated respectively the 1st and 29th days of October the 10th day of November and the 10th 24th and 31st days of December 1915 the 7th and 21st days of January the 11th and 18th days of February the 17th 24th and 31st days of March the 20th day of April and the 12th day of May 1916 the said procla- mation of the 17th day of September 15 was amended as therein stated:

And whereas by a proclamation dated the 17th day of December 1915 the said prɩ- clamation of the 10th day of December 1015 was amended as therein stated:

And whereas it is expedient that the said proclamation of the 17th day of September 1915 so amended as aforesaid should be further amended:

And whereas the articles other than arms ammunition or military or naval stores hercinatter enumerated are articles, which I with the advice aforesaid judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of arus ammunition or military or naval stores: "

And whereas in order to prevent such armas ammunition or military or naval stores being used against His Majesty's subjects or forces or against any forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or uavol operations in co-operation with His Majesty's forces with the advice aforesaid have doomed it expedient to prohibit the osportation of the articles bereinafter enumerated :

Now therefore I Sir Faxers Hosur Max Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George 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 and in virtue and exercise of the aforesaid powers do by this Proclamation declare and it is hereby declared that the above- mentioned proclamation of the 17th day of September 1915 só unumded as aforesaid be and the same is hereby further amended as follows :---

(1) That the exportation of the following goods be prohibited to all destina- tions other than the United Kingdom and British Possessions and. Protectorates :----

Aluminium Sulphate and alumino-ferric ;

Files;

Laes, not including luc dye;

Pig irou of all descriptions;

Railway material, the following :-

Steel rails:

Steel sleepers;

Steel springs:

Steel wheels and axles;

Shipbuilding material, the following :-

Boiler tubes;

Condenser tubes;

Steel plates and sectional materials for shipbuilding;

Soap containing more than one per cent. of glycerine ;

Soap, soft, containing one per cent, and less of glycerine ;

Steel in bars, angles, coils and shapes or sections;

Steel blooms, billeta and slabs;

Steel bridge, boiler and other plates not under à inch thick;

Steel girders, beams, joists and pillars;

Steel ingots;

Steel tubes of all descriptions;

(2) That the exportation of the following goods be prohibited to all foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than France, Russia (except through Baltic ports), Italy, Spain and Portugal:

Asphalt and solid or liquid bitumen ;

Fishing gear, except tackle for fishing by rod and line; Petroleum and its products not already specifically prohibited ; Soap, hard, containing one per cent, and less of glycerine.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 9th day of June 1916.

By Command,

God Save The Kiso.

Claus kevern

Colonial SegretITH.