of London will be presumed to be the real one (in addition to the presumptions provided for in Article 34) if the cargo is consigned to an agent of an enemy State or to order of an agent of an enemy State.

4. In spite of the dispositions of Article 35 of the Declaration of London, conditional contraband will be subject to capture on board a vessel proceeding to a neutral port if the ship's manifests do not indicate the name of the consignee, or if they show that the consignee resides in territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy.

5. In the cases indicated in the preceding Article 4, the burden of proving the innocent destination of the goods rests with their owner.

6. When the King's Government learns that an enemy Government is supplying its armed forces by means of or across a neutral country, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Marine may take concerted action to exclude from the operation of Article 35 of the Declaration of London all vessels proceeding to ports in such countries.

Decisions of this nature will be published in the "Official Gazette," and will be enforced until superseded by another decision of the same nature.

For the whole period during which such decisions are in force, vessels carrying conditional contraband to ports of such countries will be liable to capture.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of Italian List of Contraband. -London, July 5, 1915.*

Foreign Office, July 5, 1915. His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from His Majesty's Ambassador in Rome the following translation of a Royal Decree, dated June 3rd last, and published in the Italian "Official Gazette" of June 17th :

ART. 1. The following objects and materials are considered as 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,

London Gazette," July 6, 1915,

aniline, methylaniline, ammonium perchlorate, ammonium nitrate, cyanamide, potassium chlorate, calcium nitrate, and mercury. (5.) Resinous products, camphor, and turpentine (oil and spirit).

(6.) Gun-mountings, limber boxes, limbers, baggage waggons, field forges, and their distinctive component parts.

(7.) Range-finders and their distinctive component parts. (8.) All kinds of 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 cha

racter.

(11.) Articles of camp equipment and their distinctive component parts.

(12.) Armour plates.

(13.) Ferro alloys, including ferro-tungsten, ferro-molybdenum, ferro-manganese, ferro-vanadium, ferro-chrome.

(14.) The following metals: Tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel, selenium, cobalt, hæmatite pig-iron, manganese.

(15.) The following ores: Wolframite, scheelite, molybdenite, manganese ore, nickel ore, chrome ore, hæmatite iron ore, zinc lead ore, bauxite.

ore,

(16.) Aluminium, alumina, and salts of 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 recognizable as intended for use in connection with balloons and aircraft.

(24.) Motor vehicles of all kinds and their component parts. (25.) Pneumatic tyres and covers, for motor vehicles and for cycles, together with articles and materials specially 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 (mineral oils, raw and distilled, petrol, benzine, naphtha, and spirits in general which may be used for motors).

(29.) Apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war, or for the manufacture or repair of arms or war material for use on land or sea.

(30.) Wool, raw, combed, or carded, wool fibre, combed or carded, wool waste.

(31.) Tin, chloride of tin, and tin ore.

(32.) Castor oil.

(33.) Paraffin wax.

(34.) Copper iodide.

(35.) Lubricants.

(36.) Skins of every sort, raw or tanned, cow, ox, buffalo. calf, horse, pig, sheep, goat, or deer; leather adapted for sadlery, harness, boots, or military accoutrements.

(37.) Ammonia and its salts, whether simple or compound; ammonia liquor, urea, aniline, and their compounds.

2. The following articles and materials are considered articles of 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.

(9.) Powder and explosives not specially prepared for use

in war.

(10.) Horse-shoes and shoeing materials.

(11.) Harness and saddlery.

(12.) Field glasses, telescopes, chronometers, and all kinds of nautical instruments.

(13.) Materials of all sorts used in tanning, including tannin and other extracts suitable for the industry.

3. The present decree will take effect from to-day.

BRITISH ORDER OF COUNCIL further varying the Orders relative to the Prohibition of Exports.-London, July 8, 1915.*

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 8th day of July, 1915. By the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

WHEREAS it is provided by section 2 of "The Customs (Exportation Prohibition) Act, 1914," that any Proclamation or "London Gazette," July 8, 1915. + Vol. CVIII, page 39.

Order in Council made under section 8 of "The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879," as amended by the Act now in recital, may, whilst a state of war exists, be varied or added to by an Order made by the Lords of the Council on the recommendation of the Board of Trade;

And whereas it is provided by section 2 of "The Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act, 1914,"* that any Proclamation. made under section 1 of "The Exportation of Arms Act, 1900,"† may, whether the Proclamation was made before or after the passing of the Act now in recital, be varied or added to by an Order made by the Lords of the Council on the recommendation of the Board of Trade;

And whereas by a Proclamation, dated the 3rd day of February, 1915,‡ and made under section 8 of "The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879," and section 1 of "The Exportation of Arms Act, 1900," and section 1 of "The Customs (Exportation Prohibition) Act, 1914," the exportation from the United Kingdom of certain warlike stores was prohibited;

And whereas by subsequent Orders of Council the said Proclamation was amended and added to in certain particulars; And whereas there was this day read at the Board a recommendation from the Board of Trade to the following effect:

That the Proclamation, dated the 3rd day of February, 1915, as amended and added to by subsequent Orders of Council, should be further amended by making the following amendments in and additions to the same:

1. That the headings "Jute yarns" and "Jute piece-goods" in the list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than those of France, Russia (except Baltic ports), Belgium, Spain, and Portugal, should be deleted, and that the exportation of "jute yarns" and "jute piece-goods and bags, and sacks made of jute," should be prohibited to all destinations.

2. That the heading "Bags and sacks of all kinds (not including paper bags)" in the list of goods the exportation of which is prohibited to all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than those of France, Russia (except Baltic ports), Belgium, Spain, and Portugal, should be deleted, and there be substituted therefor the heading "Bags and sacks of all kinds (not including bags and sacks made of jute, the exportation of which is prohibited to all destinations, and not including paper bags)."

3. That the exportation of "tin-plates, including tin boxes and tin canisters for food packing," which is at present prohibited to ports in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden, should be prohibited to all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than those of France, Russia (except Baltic ports), Spain, and Portugal.

• Vol. CVIII, page 48.

Vol. XCII, page 1281.

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4. That the exportation of the following goods should be prohibited to all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than those of France, Russia (except Baltic ports), Spain, and Portugal:

Cassava powder and tapioca.

Mandioca or tapioca flour.
Rattans.

Sago and sago meal and flour.

Now, therefore, their Lordships, having taken the said recommendation into consideration, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the same be approved.

Whereof the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs and Excise, the Director of the War Trade Department, and all other persons whom it may concern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

KING'S REGULATIONS made under Article 155 of "The China Order in Council, 1904,"* and Article 13 of "The China (Amendment) Order in Council, 1907,"† relative to Trading with the Enemy.-Peking, July 12, 1915.

Notice.

The following Regulations, made by His Majesty's Minister and hereby declared to be urgent, are published for general information.

Peking, July 12, 1915.

[No. 10 of 1915.]

J. N. JORDAN,
His Britannic Majesty's Minister.

Regulations Prohibiting Trading with the Enemy.

WHEREAS Great Britain is at war with Germany, with AustriaHungary, and with Turkey;

And whereas His Majesty the King has, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, issued Proclamations prohibiting any person resident, carrying on business, or being in the British Dominions to trade with the enemy;

And whereas His Majesty the King has, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, issued a Proclamation applying, as therein provided, as from the 26th day of July, 1915, the Proclamations against trading with the enemy to trading by British subjects with any person o body of persons of enemy

* Vol. XCVII, page 150.

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