Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72112/2677

The Consul General at London (Skinner) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
London, June 29, 1916 .
[Received 9 a. m.]

Proclamation dated June 27 supplements previous contraband proclamations as follows:

Following articles will be treated as absolute contraband in addition to those set out in our Royal proclamation aforementioned: electric appliances adapted for use in war and their component parts, asphalt, bitumen, pitch and tar, sensitized photographic films, plates and paper, feldspar, gold-beaters’ skin, talc, bamboo.2

Skinner
  1. Notice of the same additions by the French Government was given by the Consul General at Paris in his telegram of June 28, 1916 (File No. 763.72112/2674).↩