File No. 763.72112/521
The Consul General at London (Skinner) to the Secretary of State
American Consulate General,
London, undated.
[Received December 24, 1914, 11:45 a.m.]
London, undated.
[Received December 24, 1914, 11:45 a.m.]
[Telegram]
Department’s 18th.1 Report transmitted 22d per Arabic. For contraband therein submitted substitute radically amended list promulgated December 23 as follows:
ABSOLUTE CONTRABAND
- 1.
- Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes, and their distinctive component parts.
- 2.
- Projectiles, charges, and cartridges of all kinds and their distinctive component parts.
- 3.
- Powder and explosives specially prepared for use in war.
- 4.
- Ingredients of explosives, viz., nitric acid, sulphuric acid, glycerine, acetone, calcium acetate and all other metallic acetates, sulphur, potassium nitrate, the fractions of the distillation products of coal tar between benzol and cresol inclusive, aniline, methylaniline, dimethylaniline, ammonium perchlorate, sodium perchlorate, sodium chlorate, barium chlorate, ammonium nitrate, cyanamide, potassium chlorate, calcium nitrate, mercury.
- 5.
- Resinous products, camphor, and turpentine (oil and spirit).
- 6.
- Gun mountings, limber boxes, limbers, military waggons, field forges, and their distinctive component parts.
- 7.
- Range finders and their distinctive component parts.
- 8.
- Clothing and equipment of a distinctively military character.
- 9.
- Saddle, draught, and pack animals suitable for use in war.
- 10.
- All kinds of harness of a distinctively military character.
- 11.
- Articles of camp equipment and their distinctive component parts.
- 12.
- Armour plates.
- 13.
- Ferro alloys, including ferrotungsten, ferromolybdenum, ferromanganese, ferrovanadium, ferrochrome.
- 14.
- The following metals: Tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel, selenium, cobalt, haematite, pig iron, manganese.
- 15.
- The following ores: Wolframite, scheelite, molybdenite, manganese ore, nickel ore, chrome ore, hæmatite iron ore, zinc ore, lead ore, bauxite.
- 16.
- Aluminium, alumina, and salts aluminium.
- 17.
- Antimony, together with the sulphides and oxides of antimony.
- 18.
- Copper, unwrought and part wrought, and copper wire.
- 19.
- Lead, pig, sheet, or pipe.
- 20.
- Barbed wire, and implements for fixing and cutting the same.
- 21.
- Warships, including boats and their distinctive component parts of such a nature that they can only be used on a vessel of war.
- 22.
- Submarine sound signalling apparatus.
- 23.
- Aeroplanes, airships, balloons, and aircraft of all kinds, and their component parts, together with accessories and articles recognisable as intended for use in connection with balloons and aircraft.
- 24.
- Motor vehicles of all kinds and their component parts.
- 25.
- Tyres for motor vehicles and for cycles, together with articles or materials especially adapted for use in the manufacture or repair of tyres.
- 26.
- Rubber (including raw, waste, and reclaimed rubber) and goods made wholly of rubber.
- 27.
- Iron pyrites.
- 28.
- Mineral oils and motor spirit, except lubricating oils.
- 29.
- Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war, for the manufacture or repair of arms, or war material for use on land and sea.
CONDITIONAL CONTRABAND
- 1.
- Foodstuffs.
- 2.
- Forage and feeding stuffs for animals.
- 3.
- Clothing, fabrics for clothing, and boots and shoes suitable for use in war.
- 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, parts of 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 mineral oils. Lubricants.
- 9.
- Powder and explosives not specially prepared for use in war.
- 10.
- Horseshoes and shoeing materials.
- 11.
- Harness and saddlery.
- 12.
- Hides of all kinds, dry or wet; pigskins, raw or dressed; leather, undressed or dressed, suitable for saddlery, harness, or military boots.
- 13.
- Field glasses, telescopes, chronometers, and all kinds of nautical instruments.
Another proclamation prohibits export to all destinations explosives of all kinds, valonia grindery [hides and leather?] used in making boots and shoes. Export prohibited except to British possessions of vessels, craft, and boats, floating docks, parts of docks, and component parts.
Skinner
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