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Exportation to the
foreign ports specified in your telegram will not be
allowed without reference to you. Your instructions with
regard to rubber for the United States will be observed
strictly. May I exercise my discretion with regard to the exportation of all other articles to destinations
other than the foreign ports referred to above ?
Despatch follows.
L. It may be convenient to recapitulate the
history of the local proclamations prohibiting exportation.
The Proclamations of the 5th. and 7th.
August, 1914, were issued in accordance with instructions,
certain articles being added in view of local military and
naval needs. An example of the articles so added is of cement.
Both these proclamations were general prohibitions of exporta-
-tion to any destination.
The proclamation of the 8th. August was
issued, in pursuance of the similar instructions, upon the pass-
-ing of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance, 1914, which
for the first time gave specific power to prohibit exportation to
particular destinations. This proclamation was one prohibiting exportation to what may be shortly, though not accurately, called, "neutral ports in Europe", and prohibiting exportation to certain ports on the East coast of Asia. By "neutral ports in Europe I refer to all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, with the exception of those of France, Russia, (except the Baltic ports), Spain and Portugal.
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The proclamation of the 30th. October, 1914,
was issued in pursuance of the further instructions contained
your cypher telegram of the 23rd. October, 1914. This proclama- -tion again made a distinction between destinations.
The proclamation of 27th. November differed
from that of the 30th. October only in the fact that it in- -corporated a new list of contraband articles. Both this proclama- -tion and that of 30th. October saved the proclamation of the
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