CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12] — Page 149

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And whereas in order to prevent such arms 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 naval operations in co-operation with His Majesty's forces I with the advice aforesaid have deemed it expedient to prohibit the exportation of the articles hereinafter enumerated :

Now therefore 1 Sir Francis Hexay May 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 do by this Proclamation declare and it is hereby declared that the above-mentioned proclamations be and the same are hereby revoked:

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And I do further by and with the advice aforesaid and in virtue and in exercise of powers aforesaid by this proclamation declare and it is hereby declared as follows:

(A.) That the exportation of the following goods be prohibited to all destinations for a period of one year from the date hereof:

Chinese copper coins.

(B) That the exportation of the following goods be prohibited to all destinations other than the United Kingdom and British Possessions and Protectorates, for a period of one year from the date hereof:

Accoutrements, namely, web equipment, leather beits, leather bandoliers, leather pouches, other leather articles of personal equipment suitable for military purposes; Aircraft of all kinds, including aeroplanes, airships, and balloons, and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with aircraft, including: non-inflammable "celluloid” sheet for similar transparent material non-soluble in fubricating off, petrol or water); aeroplane dope; high tensile sted tubes; aeroplane instruments (aneroids, barographs, revolution indicators); aeroplane turnbuckles; steel stampings; aeroplane engines and parts;

Alunite;

Animals, pack, saddle and draught, suitable for use in war: Blankets, coloured, exceeding 33 lbs. in weight, containing wool; Bone ash:

Boots, heavy, for men ;

Camp equipment, articles of, including tents and their component parts, wonden

huts, ovens, cap kettles, buckets, lanterns, and horse rugs; Cannon and other ordnance and machine guns, and parts thereof; Capsicum and oleo-resin of capsicum;

('arbons, suitable for searchlights;

Carriages and mountings for camon and other ordnance, and for machine guns

and parts thereof;

Cartridges, charges of all kinds, and their component parts;

Carts, two-wheeled, capable of carrying 15 ewt, or over, and their component

parts;

Celluloid:

Chemicals, drugs, dyes and dye stuffs, medicinal and pharmaceutical prepara-

tions, and tanning extracts, namely :-

Acetylsalicylic acid taspirin);

Aceto-celluloses;

Acetone;

Alcohol, ethylic;

Amyl acetate;

Ammonium nitrate, perchlorate and sulphocyanide;

Anthracene oil and green oil;

Antipyrine (phenazone);

Anti-tetanus serum;

Belladonna, its alkaloids and preparations, including belladonna

plaster:

Caffeine and its salts:

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Calcium acetate and all other metallic acetates; Cantharides and its preparations; Carbolic acid;

Carbon disulphide;

Chloral and its preparations, including chloramid; Chlorates, perchlorates, and nitrates, all metallic;

Coal tar distillation products, being the fractions of the distillation

products of coal tar between benzol and cresol;

Coal tar products for use in dye manufacture, including aniline oil

and aniline salt;

Collodion:

Cresol, and all preparations of cresol (including cresylic acid) and

nitrocresol (except saponified cresol);

Cyanamide;

Diethylbarbituric acid (veronal) and veronal sodium; Dimethylaniline:

Dyes and dyestuffs manufactured from coal tar prodnets; Emetin and its salts:

Ergot of rye, not including liquid extract or other medicinal

parations of ergot;

Encaine hydrochlor;

Fusel oil (amyl alcohol); Gentian and its preparations;

Glycerine, crude and refined;

Henbane and its preparations; Hydroquinone;

Indigo, natural; Ipecacuanha root;

Manganese, peroxide of; Methylaniline;

Neo-salvarsan;

Nitric acid; Nitrotoluol;

Novocain;

Opiona and its preparations and alkaloids; Paraffin, liquid medicinal;

Paraformaldehyde and trioxymethylene;

Paraldehyde ;

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Peptone Witte";

Phenacetin;

Pieric acid and its components;

Potash, caustic;

Potassium cyanide ;

Potassian permanganate ;

Protargol, not including silver proteinate;

Pyridine;

Saccharin (including "saxin ");

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Salicylic acid, methyl salicylate, sodium salicylate, and theobromine.

sodium salicylate;

Salol;

Salvarsan

Santonin and its preparations;

Sulphonal;

Sulphur, and spent oxide of sulphur;

Sulphur dioxide, liquefied;

Sulphuric acid;

Thorium, oxide and salts of;

Thymol and its preparations;

Toinol and mixtures containing tolol;

Trephenyl phosphate;

Trional;

Valonia;

Chemicals, drugs, medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations, namely :

Acetanilide;

Aconite and its preparations and alkaloids;

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