File No. 763.72112/38
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury (Newton) to the Secretary of State
Treasury Department,
Washington, August 6, 1914.
Washington, August 6, 1914.
[Telegram]
Please advise whether any duties devolve upon collectors of customs and other officers of this department to prevent the exportation of so-called contraband of war in the ordinary course of commerce; if so, please give list of articles recognized as contraband.2
B. R. Newton
- See the letter of the Acting Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of State, August 6, 1914, post, p. 595, for instructions of August 5 to the collector of customs at New York regarding the clearance of foreign merchant vessels, containing the following directions: It must be unquestionable that she has no arms or munitions of war aboard.↩