(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.) Powder 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, sulphuric acid, fuming sulphuric acid (oleum), carbon bisulphide; acetic acid, acetates, for example, acetate of calcium; acetic ether, formic ether, sulphuric ether; acetone; ethyl and methyl alcohol (spirit), for example, sulphite spirit; urea; resinous products, camphor and turpentine (oil and spirit); carbide of calcium; cyanamide; sodium cyanide; phosphorus and its compounds; chlorates and perchlorates of sodium, barium and calcium; chlorine, chlorhydrin; bromine; phosgene (carbonyl-chloride); stannic chloride; mercury; pitch; tar, including wood-tar, wood-tar oil; benzol, toluol, xylol, solvent naphtha, phenol (carbolic acid), cresol, naphthalene and their mixtures and derivatives; aniline and its derivatives; glycerine; dioxide of manganese; arsenic and its compounds.

(4.) Cannon barrels, gun mountings, limbers, munition wagons, field kitchens and bakeries, supply wagons, field forges, searchlights, searchlight 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 recognisably military character.

(8.) Saddle, draught and pack animals, suitable, at present or in the future for use in war.

(9.) All kinds of harness of a distinctively 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 component parts of such a nature that they can be used only on a vessel of war; ship plates and construction steel.

(15.) Submarine sound-signalling apparatus.

(16.) Airships and aeroplanes of all kinds and their component parts, together with accessories, articles and materials for use in connection with aerial navigation; goldbeaters' skin. (17.) Photographic articles.

(18.) Tools and appliances designed exclusively for the manufacture and repair of arms and war material.

(19.) Lathes, machinery and tools used in the manufacture of munitions of war.

(20.) Electrical articles designed for use in war,

(21.) Mining timber, including undressed and partly dressed timber 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 animal 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 components parts.

(27.) Gold, silver, coined and in bars, paper money and all negotiable commercial documents and marketable securities.

(28.) Rubber tyres for motor vehicles, as well as all articles and materials used specially in manufacturing or repairing rubber tyres.

(29.) Rubber (including crude rubber, waste rubber, reclaimed rubber, rubber solution, rubber cement, or any other preparation containing rubber), balata and guttapercha, as well as the following kinds of rubber-viz., Borneo, Guayule, Jelutong, Palembang, and all other materials containing rubber; besides articles which are made in whole or in part of rubber. (30.) Mineral oils (including shale oils, 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; and 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- -Tungsten ores (wolframite and scheelite), molybdenite, manganese ore, nickel ore, chrome ore, zinc ore, lead ore, hæmatite iron ore, pyrites (crude and calcined), copper ores.

(35) Aluminium,

bauxite.

aluminium salts, calcined alumina,

(36.) Antimony, together with the sulphides and oxides of antimony.

(37) Felspar.

(38.) The following metals-Tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel, selenium, cobalt, hæmatite pig iron, manganese and its alloys, copper and its alloys, tin, lead.

(39.) Alloys of iron (ferro compounds), including tungsten, 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 those suitable as lubricants, and not including volatile oils.

(3.) The following articles, if suitable for use in war: articles of 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 (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 timber, rough or worked (especially hewn, sawn, planed, grooved), excepting mining timber, etc. [See paragraph 21, under (21).]

27. The following articles cannot be declared contraband of

war:

(1.) Raw silk.

(2.) Resin, varnish, hops.

(3.) Horns, bones and ivory.

(4.) Natural and artificial fertilisers.

(5.) Earths, 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, colours, 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 the textile industry, and for printing.

(11.) Precious stones, semi-precious stones, pearls, mother of pearl and corals.

(12.) Steeple and wall clocks, timepieces 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 appliances.

30. The hostile destination referred to in Article 29 is to be taken for granted

(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 to meet 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 directly or indirectly supplied contraband goods to territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy, or to an enemy authority or the agent thereof.

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 directly or indirectly to a person residing in territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy or who during the present war has directly or indirectly supplied contraband goods to territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy or to an enemy authority or the agent thereof;

(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.
Chief Headquarters, July 22nd, 1916.

WILHELM.

VON CAPELLE.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION respecting the Issue of Licences for the Importation into France and Algeria of Goods the Import of which into those Countries is prohibited.-London, September 2, 1916.*

IN agreement with the British Government, the French Government has set up at King's House, Kingsway, London, W.C., a special office for the issue of licences for the importation into France and Algeria of goods of British production or manufacture which are included in the list of articles prohibited to be imported into those countries.

The following procedure has been laid down for the working of this service :

The application for a licence must be drawn up strictly in accordance with the annexed form, and must include a certificate to the effect that the place of production or manufacture of the goods is situated within the British Empire, that is to say, either in the United Kingdom or in a British Dominion, Colony or Protectorate. This certificate (which is to be inserted on the form of application itself) must be signed on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of the district or town in which the merchant concerned carries on his business.

The form should then be forwarded by the applicant to the Board of Trade, "Gwydyr House," Whitehall, London, S.W., which Department, after examining the application, will "viser" the same and forward it to the French Office in London.

On

receipt of this document the French Office will, unless there are reasons to the contrary, issue an import licence, which will be dispatched in original to the actual consignee of the goods in France, and of which a copy will be addressed to the exporter in this country.

In order to prevent delays and difficulties, applicants for licences are specially recommended

(1.) to draw up their applications in as precise a form as possible as regards the number and description of the packages, the marks and numbers thereon, the description of the goods, and the quantities to be exported;

(2.) to specify on the application, in a legible manner, the name and address of the consignee, and the port of discharge in France or Algeria; and to furnish the description of the goods in both French and English.

The French Office in London will not grant licences for the import into France or Algeria of diamonds, woods and metals,

* "London Gazette," September 5, 1916.