3. That the heading "Coal, all kinds, and coke made in gasworks, but not including coal allowed by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise to be shipped as bunker coal," in the list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all destinations abroad other than British Possessions and Protectorates, should be deleted, and there be substituted therefor the heading "Coal, all kinds, and coke, but not including coal allowed by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise to be shipped as bunker coal." 4. That the following heading should be included in the list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than France. Russia (except through Baltic ports), Italy, Spain, and Portugal: "All articles which are wholly or mainly manufactured of copper or its alloys, and which are not at present prohibited to be exported to any destination." 5. That the exportation of the following articles should be prohibited to all foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than France, Russia (except through Baltic ports), Italy, Spain, and Portugal :— Silica bricks. Now, therefore, their Lordships, having taken the said recommendation into consideration, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the same be approved. Whereof the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs and Excise, the Director of the War Trade Department, and all other persons whom it may concern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly. ALMERIC FITZROY. BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Austro-Hungarian Revised List of Contraband. London, December 16. 1915.* -- Foreign Office, December 16, 1915. THE Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from the United States Ambassador a copy of lists of absolute and conditional contraband of war communicated by the AustroHungarian Government to the United States Embassy in Vienna on the 12th ultimo. The English translation of the lists is as follows: Absolute Contraband. 1. Arms of all kinds. including arms for sporting purposes, and their distinctive component parts. "London Gazette," December 21, 1915. 2. Projectiles, charges, and cartridges of all kinds, and their distinctive component parts. 3. Gunpowder and explosives of all kinds. 4. Gun-mountings, ammunition waggons, limbers, transport waggons, field forges, gun barrels, field kitchens, field bakeries, searchlights, searchlight material, and their distinctive component parts. 5. Clothing and equipment of a distinctively military cha racter. 6. All kinds of harness of a distinctively military character. 7. Saddle, draught, and pack animals suitable for use in war. 8. Articles of camp equipment and their distinctive component parts. 9. Armour plates. 10. Warships, including boats, and their distinctive component parts of such a nature that they can only be used on a vessel of war; sheathing and shipbuilding steel. 11. Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture or repair of arms and war material. 12. Airships and flying machines of all kinds, their distinctive component parts and accessories, articles and material recognizable as intended for use in connection with aircraft and airships. 13. Motor vehicles of all kinds and their component parts. 14. Range-finders and their distinctive component parts. 15. Binoculars, telescopes, chronometers, and nautical instruments of all kinds. 16. Submarine sound-signalling apparatus. 17. Barbed wire and implements for fixing and cutting the same. 18. Ingredients of explosives, viz., nitric acid, sulphuric acid, glycerine, acetone, calcium acetate, sulphur, nitrate of potassium, the fractions of the distillation products of coal-tar between benzol and cresol inclusive, methylaniline, ammonium perchlorate, sodium perchlorate, sodium chlorate, barium chlorate, ammonium nitrate, cyanamide, potassium chlorate, calcium nitrate, mercury; toluol and the compounds of toluol extracted from tar, petroleum, or in any other manner. 19. Ammonia and its simple and compound salts; liquid ammonia, carbamide, aniline and its compounds. 20. Ferro alloys, including ferro-tungsten, ferro-molybdenum, ferro-manganese, ferro-vanadium, ferro-chrome. 21. The following metals: Tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel, selenium, cobalt, hæmatite pig-iron, manganese. 22. The following ores: Wolframite, scheelite, molybdenite, nickel ore, chrome ore, hæmatite iron ore, manganese ore, zinc ore, lead ore, bauxite, cryolite. 23. Aluminium, alumina, and salts of aluminium. 24. Antimony, together with its sulphides and oxides. 25. Copper, unwrought and part wrought, copper wire. 26. Lead, pig, sheet, or pipe. 27. Iron pyrites. 28. Tin, chloride of tin, tin ore. 29. Copper iodide. 30. Animal wool, raw or manufactured, including yarn, whether carded or worsted. 31. Hides of all kinds, dry or wet. 32. Leather, undressed or dressed, suitable for saddlery, harness, military boots, or military articles of clothing. 33. Rubber tyres for motor vehicles and for cycles, together with articles or materials especially adapted for use in the manufacture or repair of tyres. 34. Rubber of all kinds and goods made of rubber. 35. Resinous products, camphor, and turpentine. 36. Mineral oils, raw and refined, and other fuel used for engines. 37. Castor oil. 38. Paraffin wax. 39. Lubricants. 40. Lathes of all kinds, and other machines and tools suitable for use in the production of munitions of war. 41. Tinplates. 42. Coal and coke. 43. Mine timber. 44. Flax. 45. Maps and plans of any place within the territory of any belligerent, or within the area of military operations, on a scale of 1/250,000 or any larger scale, and reproductions on any scale by photographs or otherwise, of such maps and plans. 1. Foodstuffs. Conditional Contraband. 2. Forage and feeding-stuffs for animals of all kinds. 3. The following articles, if suitable for use in war: Clothing, fabrics for clothing, boots, and shoes. 4. Gold and silver, in coin or bullion; paper money. 5. Vehicles of all kinds, other than motor vehicles, available for use in war, and their component parts. 6. Vessels, craft, and boats of all kinds, floating docks, apparatus for dry docks, and their component parts. 7. Railway materials, both fixed and rolling stock, and materials for telegraphs, wireless telegraphs, and telephones. 8. Fuel, other than coal, coke, and mineral oils. 9. Linseed oil. 10. Horseshoes and shoeing materials. 11. Harness and saddlery. 12. Tanning material of all kinds, including the extracts used in tanning. 13. Timber of all kinds, raw or manufactured (especially hewn, sawn, planed, and grooved timber), with the exception of mine timber; wood-tar. BRITISH ORDER OF COUNCIL further varying the Orders relative to the Prohibition of Exports.-London, December 20, 1915.* At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 20th day of December, 1915. By the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. WHEREAS it is provided by section 2 of "The Customs (Exportation Prohibition) Act, 1914,"† that any Proclamation or Order in Council made under section 8 of "The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879," as amended by the Act now in recital, may, whilst a state of war exists, be varied or added to by an Order made by the Lords of the Council on the recommendation of the Board of Trade; And whereas it is provided by section 2 of "The Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act, 1914," that any Proclamation made under section 1 of "The Exportation of Arms Act, 1900,"s may, whether the Proclamation was made before or after the passing of the Act now in recital, be varied or added to, whilst a state of war exists, by an Order made by the Lords of the Council on the recommendation of the Board of Trade; And whereas by a Proclamation, dated the 28th day of July, 1915.|| and made under section 8 of "The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879," and section 1 of "The Exportation of Arms Act, 1500," and section 1 of "The Customs (Exportation Prohibition) Act, 1914," the exportation from the United Kingdom of certain articles to certain or all destinations was prohibited; And whereas by subsequent Orders of Council the said Proclamation was amended and added to in certain particulars; And whereas there was this day read at the Board a recommendation from the Board of Trade to the following effect: That the Proclamation, dated the 28th day of July, 1915, as amended and added to by subsequent Orders of Council, should be further amended by making the following amendments in and additions to the same : 99 1. That the heading "Iron, hæmatite pig' in the list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than France, Russia (except through Baltic ports), Italy, Spain, and Portugal, should be deleted, and that the exportation of hæmatite pig-iron" should be prohibited to all destinations. 2. That the exportation of "Iron and steel smelting scrap should be prohibited to all destinations. "London Gazette," December 20, 1915. + Vol. CVIII, page 39. Vol. CVIII, page 48. § Vol. XCII, page 1284. 3. That the exportation of the following goods should be prohibited to all destinations abroad other other than British Possessions and Protectorates : Bichromate of soda; Bladders, casings, and sausage skins; Wireless telegraphs, material for. 4. That the headings "Bichromate of soda" and "Bladders, casings, and sausage skins" in the list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than France, Russia (except through Baltic ports), Italy, Spain, and Portugal should be deleted. 5. That the heading "Telegraphs, wireless telegraphs, and telephones, material for" in the list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than France, Russia (except through Baltic ports), Italy, Spain, and Portugal should be deleted, and there be substituted therefor the heading "Telegraphs (other than wireless), and telephones, material for." 6. That the exportation of the following goods should be prohibited to all foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than France, Russia (except through Baltic ports), Italy, Spain, and Portugal: All such vegetable fibres and yarns made therefrom (not including linen thread) as are not at present prohibited to be exported to any destination. Now, therefore, their Lordships, having taken the said recommendation into consideration, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the same be approved. Whereof the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs and Excise, the Director of the War Trade Department, and all other persons whom it may concern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly. ALMERIC FITZROY. BRITISH PROCLAMATION relating to the Exportation of certain Articles to Switzerland during the Present War. London, December 22, 1915.* / GEORGE, R.I. WHEREAS by section 1 of "The Exportation of Arms Act, 1900," it is enacted that we may, by Proclamation, prohibit "London Gazette," December 23, 1915. + Vol. XCII, page 1284. |