BRITISH NOTIFICATION of German Revised List of Contraband.-London, August 17, 1916.* Foreign Office, August 17th, 1916. THE Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from the United States Chargé d'Affaires the following translation of an ordinance issued by the German Government : Reichsgesetzblatt, 1916: No. 166. : Ordinance relative to alteration of the Prize Ordinance of the 30th September, 1909.† In further retaliation of the regulations adopted by England and her Allies, deviating from the London Declaration of Maritime Law of the 26th February, 1909, I approve for the present war of the following alterations of the Prize Ordinance of the 30th September, 1909, and of its supplements, dated the 18th October, 23rd November, and 14th December, 1914,8 of the 18th April, 1915,|| and the 3rd June, 1916.¶ Articles 21, 23, 27, 30 and 33, and the additions to Articles 23 shall be replaced by the following provisions : 21. The following Articles and materials, designated absolute contraband, shall be considered contraband of war: (1.) Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes, their component parts as well as bye-products, which can be used for their manufacture. (2.) Projectiles, cartouches and cartridges of all kinds, their component parts as well as bye-products, which can be used for their manufacture. (3.) Powder and explosives of all kinds, smoke-producing and illuminating rockets, incendiary matter, implements for fighting with gas and material, which can be used for their manufacture, including nitric acid and nitrates of all kinds, ammoniac, ammonia liquor, ammonium chloride, ammonium salts; sulphur, di-oxygenated sulphur; sulphuric acid, fuming sulphuric acid (oleum), carbide of sulphur; acetic acid, acetates, for example, acetate of calcium, acetic ether, formic ether, sulphuric ether; acetone, ethyl and methyl alcohol, for instance, sulphurous spirits; carbamine, resinous products, camphor and turpentine (oil and spirits), carbide of calcium cyanamide, sodium cyanide, phosphor and its compounds, sodium chlorate and sodium perchlorate, barium perchlorate, "London Gazette," August 18, 1916. An amended translation was issued in the "London Gazette" of September 1, 1916. page 262. † Vol. CVII, page 832. Vol. CIV, page 239. ¶ Page 224. See calcium perchlorate; chlorine hydrinchlorine; bromide, phosgen (carbonyl chloride), stannic chloride, mercury, pitch, tar, including wood-tar, wood-tar oil, benzole, toluol xylol, solventnaphtha, phenol (carbolic acid), cresol naphthalin and their combinations and derivates; glycerine, dioxyde of manganese, arsenic and its compounds. (4) Cannon barrels, gun mountings, limber boxes, limbers, field kitchens and bakeries, supply wagons, field forges, searchlights, search accessories and their component parts. (5.) Range-finders and their component parts. (6.) Binoculars, telescopes, chronometers, nautical and artillery instruments of all kinds. (7.) Clothing and equipments of a distinctly military character. (8.) Saddle, draught and pack animals, for the present or future, suitable for use in war. (9.) All kinds of harness of a distinctly military character. (10.) Articles of camp equipment and their component parts. (11.) Armour plates. (12.) Steel and iron wire; barbed wire, as well as implements for fixing and cutting the same. (13.) Sheets, tinned or galvanised. (14.) Warships and other vessels of war, as well as such component parts of such a nature that they can only be used on a vessel of war; ship-plates and construction steel. (15.) Submarine sound signalling apparatus. (16.) Aeroplanes, airships and aircraft of all kind and their component parts, together with accessories, articles and material, for use in connection with aerial navigation; goldbeaters' skin. (17.) Photographic articles. (18.) Tools, implements and devices designed exclusively for the manufacture and repair of arms and war material. (19.) Lathes, machinery and implements (tools) used in the manufacture of munitions of war. (20.) Electrical supplies for use in war. (21.) Mining lumber, including undressed and slightly dressed lumber for mining purposes, rattan, bamboo, cork, including cork flour. (22.) Coal and coke. (23.) Flax, hemp, jute, vegetable fibres and yarns made therefrom. (24.) Wool, raw, combings or cardings, wool waste, flocks of wool and wool combings, carded and combed woollen yarn; animal hair of all kinds, as well as flocks, combings and yarns made of animals' hair. (25.) Raw cotton, linters, cotton waste, cotton yarns, cotton goods and other cotton products capable of being used in the manufacture of explosives. (26.) Barrels of all kinds and their component parts. (27.) Gold, silver, coined and in bars, paper money and all negotiable bonds and transferable securities. (28.) Rubber tyres for automobiles, as well as all articles and material used especially in manufacturing or repair of rubber tyres. (29.) Caoutchouc (including raw caoutchouc, caoutchouc refuse, re-extracted caoutchouc, caoutchouc solution, caoutchouc dough (paste), or any other preparation containing caoutchouc, balata and guttapercha, as well as the following kinds of caoutchouc-viz., Borneo, Guayule, Jelutong, Palembang, and all other goods containing caoutchouc; besides articles which are made in whole or in parts of caoutchouc. (30.) Mineral oils (including rock-oil, petroleum, benzine. naphtha, gasoline). (31.) Lubricants. (32.) Tanning material of all kinds, including quebracho wood and the extracts used in tanning. (33.) Hides of cattle, buffaloes and horses, hides of calves, pigs, goats and wild animals, deer, furthermore leather, dressed or undressed, if suitable for use in saddlery, harness, military boots and military clothing, beltings, hydraulic leather and pump leather. (34.) The following ores-Wolfram (wolframite and scheelite), molybdenite, manganese ore, nickel ore, chrome ore, zinc ore, lead ore, hæmatite iron ore, pyrites and their waste, copper ores. (35.) Aluminium, aluminium salts, calcined aluminium, bauxite. (36.) Antimony, together with the sulphides and oxides of antimony. (37) Felspar. (38.) The following metals-wolfram, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel, selenium, cobalt, hæmatite pig iron, manganese or its alloys, copper or the alloys thereof, pewter, lead. (39.) Ferro-alloys (ferro combinations), including wolfram manganese, vanadium and chrome iron. 23. The following Articles and materials suitable for warlike as well as for peaceful purposes, coming under the designation of conditional contraband, shall be considered as contraband of war: — (1.) Foodstuffs. (2.) Forage and all kinds of feeding stuffs for animals; oil seeds, nuts and kernels; animal, fish and vegetable oils and fats, excluding such suitable as lubricants, and not including volatile oils. (3.) The following articles, if suitable for use in war, clothing, fabrics for clothing, boots and shoes, skins and furs, which can be used for clothing, boots and shoes. (4.) Vehicles of all kinds and their component parts, as well as accessories and implements (especially all motor vehicles) suitable for use in war. (5.) Railway materials, both fixed and rolling stock, and materials for telegraphs, wireless telegraphs and telephones. (6.) Fuel, exclusive of coals, coke and mineral oils. (7.) Horseshoes and shoeing materials. (8.) Harness and saddlery. (9.) Ships, boats and floating craft of all kinds, floating docks and appliances for dry docks, as well as their component parts. (10.) Cement. (11.) All kinds of lumber, rough or treated (especially hewn, sawed, planed, grooved), excepting mining lumber, &c. (see article 21, under (21). 27. The following articles cannot be declared contraband of war: (1.) Raw silk. (2.) Resin, lacquer, hops. (3.) Horns, bones and ivory. (4.) Natural and artificial fertilizers. (5.) Earth, lime, chalk, stones including marble, bricks, slates and roofing tiles. (6.) Porcelain and glass. (7.) Paper and the materials prepared for its manufacture. (8.) Soap, paint, including the materials exclusively used for their manufacture, and varnish. (9.) Chloride of lime, soda, caustic soda, sulphate of soda in cakes, copper, sulphate. (10.) Machinery specially adapted for agriculture, for textile industry, and for printing. (11.) Precious stones, fine stones, pearls, mother of pearl and corals. (12.) Steeple and wall clocks, standing clocks and watches, excepting chronometers. (13.) Fashion and fancy goods. (14.) Feathers of all kinds. (15.) Articles of domestic furniture and decorative articles for domestic purposes, office furniture and utensils. 30. The hostile destination referred to in Article 29 is to be presumed immediately. (a.) if the goods are destined to be unloaded in a hostile port or to be delivered to the hostile army forces; (b.) if the ship is to call only at hostile ports or if it is to call at a hostile port or join the armed forces of the enemy before reaching the neutral port to which the goods are consigned. Without considering the port of destination of the ship the hostile destination referred to in Article 29 is to be presumed in the absence of conditions to the contrary if the shipment is consigned (a.) directly or indirectly to an enemy authority or the agent of such; or (b.) to order or to a consignee not specified in the ship's papers, or directly or indirectly to a person residing in territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy, or who during the present war has supplied contraband goods to territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy, or to an enemy authority or the agent thereof directly or indirectly. 33. In the absence of conditions to the contrary, the hostile destination referred to in No. 32 is to be presumed when (a.) the goods are consigned to an enemy authority or the agent of such or to a dealer known to have supplied articles of the kind in question or products thereof to the armed forces or the administrative authorities of the enemy State; (b.) the goods are consigned to order or to a consignee not specified in the ship's papers or indirectly to a person residing in territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy or who during the present war has supplied contraband goods to territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy or to an enemy authority or the agent thereof directly or indirectly; (c.) the goods are consigned directly or indirectly to a fortified place belonging to the enemy or to a place serving as a base of operations or supplies to the armed forces of the enemy. Merchant vessels as such are not to be considered as destined for the armed forces or the administrative authorities of the enemy merely for the reason that they are on a voyage to one of the places referred to under letter (c.). This ordinance takes effect the day of its promulgation. (L.S.) WILHELM. VON CAPELLE. BRITISH PROCLAMATION prohibiting the Importation of certain Articles into the United Kingdom.London, August 18, 1916.* GEORGE R.I. WHEREAS by section 43 of "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876," it is provided that the importation of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, or any other goods may be prohibited by Proclamation: [1916. cx.] "London Gazette," August 18, 1916. S |