File No. 763.72112/1195
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1.40 p. m.]
2188. A proclamation issued May 27 makes additions and amendments to list of articles to be treated as contraband of war:1
Now, therefore, we do hereby declare, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, that during the continuance of the war, or until we do give further public notice, the following articles will be treated as absolute contraband in addition to those set out in our Royal Proclamations aforementioned [December 23, 1914, and March 11, 1915]:
Toluol, and mixtures of toluol, derived from coal-tar, petroleum, or any other source;
Lathes and other machines or machine-tools capable of being employed in the manufacture of munitions of war;
Maps and plans of any place within the territory of any belligerent, or within the area of military operations, on a scale of 4 miles to 1 inch or on any larger scale, and reproductions on any scale by photography or otherwise of such maps or plans.
And we do hereby further declare that item 4 of Schedule 1 of our Royal Proclamation of the 23d day of December aforementioned shall be amended as from this date by the omission of the words “and all other metallic acetates” after the words “calcium acetate.”
And we do hereby further declare that in our Royal Proclamation of the 11th day of March aforementioned the words “other than linseed oil” shall be deleted and that the following article will as from this date be treated as conditional contraband:
Linseed oil.
- The same changes were reported by the Consul General in Paris in his telegram of June 2 (File No. 763.72112/1213).↩