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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 16, 1916.

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No. 260. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong :---

PAUL MARY Hodgson.

Li Po KWAL

EDWARD JOSEPH NORONHA,

GEOFFREY KENDALL NUTTALL.

FREDERICK PEEL ELDON LEONARD POTTER.

ROBERT SUTHERLAND,

TONG YAT CHUN.

SULEMAN VALJER.

16th June, 1916.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL Secretary's DEPARTMENT.

No. 261. It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to exclude the Police Magistrates' Department from the operation of the Holidays Ordi- nance, 1912, (Ordinance No. 5 of 1912), on Saturday, the 1st July, 1916.

No. 262. The following List of Articles declared to be Contraband of War is published for general information.

LIST OF ARTICLES DECLARED TO BE CONTRABAND Of War.

The articles declared to be contraband of war in the Proclamations now in force have been arranged alphabetically in the accompanying list. It is hoped that this will be convenient to all parties concerned. ·

The list comprises the articles which have been declared to be absolute contraband as well as those which have been declared to be conditional contraband. The circum- stances of the present war are so peculiar that His Majesty's Government consider that for practical purposes the distinction between the two classes of contraband has ceased to have any value. So large a proportion of the inhabitants of the enemy country are taking part, directly or indirectly, in the war that no real distinction can now be drawn between the armed forces and the civilian population. Similarly, the enemy Government has taken control, by a series of decrees and orders, of practically all the articles in the list of conditional contraband, so that they are now available for Government use. So long as these exceptional conditions continue our belligerent rights with respect to the two kinds of contraband are the same, and our treatment of them must be identical.

Foreign Office, April 13, 1916.

List of Articles.

Acetic acid and acetates.

Acetic ether.

Acetones, and raw and finished materials, usable for

their preparation.

Aircraft of all kinds, including aeroplanes, airships, balloons, and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with aircraft.

Aluminium, alumina, and salts of aluminium.