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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 28, 1917.

Seat of the Government of the Republic, July 13th, 1917.

BERNARDINO MACHADO.

Affonso Costa.

Artur R. de Almeida Ribeiro.

Alexandre Braga.

José Mendez Ribeiro Norton de Matos.

José Antonio Arantes Pedroso.

Augusto Luis Vieira Soares.

Herculano Jorge Galhardo.

Ernesto Jardim de Vilhena.

José Maria Vilhena Barbosa de Magalhaes.

Eduardo Alberto Lima Basto.

NOTE:The following is a list of the various notifications which have appeared on this subject:----

London Gazette.

30th May, 1916. 24th July, 1917.

3rd August. 1917.

Hongkong Gazette.

5th May, 1916.

9th June, 1916.

28th July, 1916.

21st September, 1917. 28th September, 1917.

No. 438.-The following notification which appeared in the London Gazette of the 7th August, 1917, is published for general information.

28th September, 1917.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

FOREIGN OFFICE,

August 4th, 1917.

GERMAN CONTRABAND LIST.

The following is a translation of an Ordinance of the German Government revising this list :-

In further retaliation for the regulations adopted by England and her Allies, deviating from the Declaration of London concerning the Laws of Maritime Warfare, I approve, for the present war, of the following alterations in the Prize Ordinance of September 30th, 1909, and in its supplements dated October 18th, November 23rd, and December 14th, 1914, April 18th, 1915, June 3rd and July 22nd, 1916, and January 9th, 1917,

Articles 21, 23 and 27 shall read as follows:-

21. The following articles and materials shall be considered contraband of war, the designation absolute contraband:-

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(1) Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes, their component parts, as well as semi-manufactured articles which can be used in their manu- facture.

(2) Projectiles, cartouches and cartridges of all kinds, their component parts, as well as semi-manufactured articles which can be used for their manufacture. (3) Gunpowder and explosives of all kinds, smoke-producing and illuminating. substances, incendiary matter, implements and substances for fighting with gas, and materials which can be used for their manufacture, including :- Nitric acid and nitrates of all kinds; ammonia, ammonia liquor, ammonium chloride, ammonium salts; sulphur, sulphur dioxide, sulphite and thiosulphite, sulphuric acid, fuming sulphuric acid (oleum), carbon bisulphide; acetic acid, acetates, for example, acetate of calcium; acetic ether, formic acid and formie acid salts, formic ether, sulphuric ether; acetone; ethyl and methyl alcohol, spirit, sulphite spirit, crude wood spirit, alcohol of all sorts and its deriva- tives, as well as the products thereof; urea; resin, resinous products, camphor

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