File No. 763.72112/499
The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State
Constantinople, undated
[Received December 22, 1914, 8 a.m.]
[Telegram]
Ottoman Government contraband declaration included, in addition to things mentioned in Articles 22 and 24, Declaration of London, following as absolute contraband:
Pontoons, bridge materials, all machine projectiles, lamps, all electric apparatus, military kitchens, tents and accessories, cranes, floating docks, motor boats, lead, sheet iron, platinum, iron bars, copper plates, screws, iron, zinc, tin plates and rods, wood, coal, and anything mentioned in third, fifth, eighth, and tenth sections, Article 24, of Declaration of London.
As conditional contraband:
Wines, cereals, military and naval books, pictures, charts, Décauville railway material, automobiles, bicycles, motor cycles, apparatus and material for cables.