File No. 763.72112/1737
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
London,
October 15, 1915.
[Received 11.49 p.m.]
[Received 11.49 p.m.]
3015. Following proclamation revising list of articles to be treated as contraband of war, dated October 14, has just been received from Foreign Office:1
Now, therefore, we do hereby declare, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, that the lists of contraband contained in the schedules to our Royal Proclamation of the 23d day of December, as subsequently amended by our Proclamations of the 11th day of March, and of the 27th day of May, and of the 20th day of August aforementioned, are hereby withdrawn, and that in lieu thereof, during the continuance of the war or until we do give further public notice, the articles enumerated in Schedule 1 hereto will be treated as absolute contraband, and the articles enumerated in Schedule 2 hereto will be treated as conditional contraband.
SCHEDULE 1
- 1.
- Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes, and their component parts.
- 2.
- Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war, or for the manufacture or repair of arms or of war material for use on land or sea.
- 3.
- Lathes and other machines or machine tools capable of being employed in the manufacture of munitions of war.
- 4.
- Emery, corundum, natural and artificial (alundum), and carborundum, in all forms.
- 5.
- Projectiles, charges, and cartridges of all kinds, and their component parts.
- 6.
- Paraffin wax.
- 7.
- Powder and explosives specially prepared for use in war.
- 8.
- Materials used in the manufacture of explosives, including: Nitric acid and nitrates of all kinds; sulphuric acid; fuming sulphuric acid (oleum); acetic acid and acetates; barium chlorate and perchlorate; calcium acetate, nitrate, and carbide; potassium salts and caustic potash; ammonium salts and ammonia liquor; caustic soda, sodium chlorate and perchlorate; mercury; benzol, toluol, xylol, solvent naphtha, phenol (carbolic acid), cresol, naphthalene, and their mixtures and derivatives; aniline and its derivatives; glycerine; acetone; acetic ether; ethyl alcohol; methyl alcohol; ether; sulphur; urea; cyanamide; celluloid.
- 9.
- Manganese dioxide; hydrochloric acid; bromine; phosphorus; carbon disulphide; arsenic and its compounds; chlorine; phosgene (carbonyl chloride); sulphur dioxide; prussiate of soda; sodium cyanide; iodine and its compounds.
- 10.
- Capsicum and peppers.
- 11.
- Gun mountings, limber boxes, limbers, military wagons, field forges and their component parts; articles of camp equipment and their component parts.
- 12.
- Barbed wire and the implements for fixing and cutting the same.
- 13.
- Range-finders and their component parts; searchlights and their component parts.
- 14.
- Clothing and equipment of a distinctively military character.
- 15.
- Saddle, draught, and pack animals suitable, or which may become suitable, for use in war.
- 16.
- All kinds of harness of a distinctively military character.
- 17.
- Hides of cattle, buffaloes, and horses; skins of calves, pigs, sheep, goats, and deer; and leather, undressed or dressed, suitable for saddlery, harness, military boots or military clothing; leather belting, hydraulic leather, and pump leather.
- 18.
- Tanning substances of all kinds, including quebracho wood and extracts for use in tanning.
- 19.
- Wool, raw, combed, or carded; wool waste; wool tops and noils; woollen or worsted yarns; animal hair of all kinds; and tops, nails, and yarns of animal hair.
- 20.
- Raw cotton, linters, cotton waste, cotton yarns, and cotton piece-goods, and other cotton products capable of being used in the manufacture of explosives.
- 21.
- Flax; hemp; ramie; kapok.
- 22.
- Warships, including boats and their component parts of such a nature that they can only be used on a vessel of war.
- 23.
- Submarine sound-signalling apparatus.
- 24.
- Armour plates.
- 25.
- Aircraft of all kinds, including aeroplanes, airships, balloons, and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with aircraft.
- 26.
- Motor vehicles of all kinds and their component parts.
- 27.
- Tyres for motor vehicles and for cycles, together with articles or materials especially adapted for use in the manufacture or repair of tyres.
- 28.
- Mineral oils, including benzine and motor spirit.
- 29.
- Resinous products, camphor, and turpentine (oil and spirit); wood tar and wood-tar oil.
- 30.
- Rubber (including raw, waste, and reclaimed rubber, solutions and jellies containing rubber, or any other preparations containing rubber, balata, and gutta-percha and the following varieties of rubber, viz.: Borneo, Guayule, Jelutong, Palembang, Pontianac, and all other substances containing caoutchouc), and goods made wholly or partly of rubber.
- 31.
- Rattans.
- 32.
- Lubricants.
- 33.
- The following metals: Tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, sodium, nickel, selenium, cobalt, hæmatite pig-iron, manganese, electrolytic iron, and steel containing tungsten or molybdenum.
- 34.
- Asbestos.
- 35.
- Aluminium, alumina, and salts of aluminium.
- 36.
- Antimony, together with the sulphides and oxides of antimony.
- 37.
- Copper, unwrought and part wrought; copper wire; alloys and compounds of copper.
- 38.
- Lead, pig, sheet, or pipe.
- 39.
- Tin, chloride of tin, and tin ore.
- 40.
- Ferro alloys, including ferro-tungsten, ferro-molybdenum, ferro-manganese, ferro-vanadium, and ferro-chrome.
- 41.
- The following ores: Wolframite, scheelite, molybdenite, manganese ore, nickel ore, chrome ore, hæmatite iron ore, iron pyrites, copper pyrites and other copper ores, zinc ore, lead ore, arsenical ore, and bauxite.
- 42.
- 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 any larger scale, and reproductions on any scale, by photography or otherwise, of such maps or plans.
SCHEDULE 2
- 1.
- Foodstuffs.
- 2.
- Forage and feeding-stuffs for animals.
- 3.
- Oleaginous seeds, nuts, and kernels.
- 4.
- Animal, fish, and vegetable oils and fats, other than those capable of use as lubricants, and not including essential oils.
- 5.
- Fuel, other than mineral oils.
- 6.
- Powder and explosives not specially prepared for use in war.
- 7.
- Horseshoes and shoeing materials.
- 8.
- Harness and saddlery.
- 9.
- The following articles, if suitable for use in war: Clothing, fabrics for clothing, skins and furs utilizable for clothing, boots and shoes.
- 10.
- Vehicles of all kinds, other than motor vehicles, available for use in war, and their component parts.
- 11.
- Railway materials, both fixed and rolling stock, and materials for telegraphs, wireless telegraphs, and telephones.
- 12.
- Vessels, craft, and boats of all kinds; floating docks and their component parts; parts of docks.
- 13.
- Field glasses, telescopes, chronometers, and all kinds of nautical instruments.
- 14.
- Gold and silver in coin or bullion; paper money.
American Ambassador
- A copy of the Journal officiel of October 14, containing a corresponding list, was transmitted by the French Embassy November 12 (File No. 763.72112/1893).↩