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be expressly permitted by our licence or by a licence given on our behalf by a Secretary of State or the Board of Trade or the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury, whether such licences be specially granted to individuals or be announced as applying to classes of persons, or to prohibit any special arrangements which may be made by any such licence or otherwise with our authority for special treatment of any occupied territory or persons in any such occupied territory entitled to such special treatment;

And whereas by Proclamation dated the 14th day of September, 1915,* it was declared as follows:

For the purposes of the Proclamations for the time being in force relating to Trading with the Enemy, the expression enemy" notwithstanding anything in the said Proclamations, is hereby declared to include, and to have included, any incorporated company or body of persons (wherever incorporated) carrying on business in an enemy country or in any territory for the time being in hostile occupation;

And whereas certain portions of the territories of our Allies are in hostile occupation, and under the foregoing provisions the Trading with the Enemy Proclamations apply, and it is desirable that the licence hereinafter referred to should be granted:

Now, therefore, the Board of Trade, acting in pursuance of the powers hereinbefore referred to and of every other power them hereunto enabling, do on behalf of His Majesty grant licence to all persons or bodies of persons resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom to pay any moneys owing by them to persons or bodies of persons being persons or bodies of persons of British or Allied nationality resident or carrying on business in territory belonging to our Allies in hostile occupation not being persons or bodies of persons resident or carrying on business in enemy territory, provided that payment is made into a special account in the name of the creditor at a bank in the United Kingdom, which bank has given an undertaking that so long as the hostile occupation of the territory in which the creditor resides or carries on business continues no money will be allowed to be withdrawn from such special account except under licence given on behalf of His Majesty's Government, and no charge on the account will be allowed or recognised without such licence.

Dated this 2nd day of June, 1917.

H. LLEWELLYN SMITH,
Secretary to the Board of Trade.

* Vol. CIX, page 317.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Italian Revised List of Contraband.---London, June 9, 1917.*

Foreign Office, June 9, 1917.

THE Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from His Majesty's Ambassador at Rome the following translation of the new list of absolute and conditional contraband issued by the Italian Government in April 1917. The additions to and modifications of the list subsequent to the decree of the 27th February, 1916, and up to the 31st March, 1917, are indicated by italics :

Absolute Contraband.

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 mechanical utensils which may be used in the manufacture of munitions of war.

4. Emery, corundum, natural and artificial (alundum) in all forms, and all other abrasive materials, natural and artificial, and products manufactured with these materials (3).

5. Projectiles, charges and cartridges of all kinds, and their component parts.

war.

6. Wax of any kind (2).

7. Powders and explosives specially prepared for use in

8. Materials employed in the manufacture of explosives, including: nitric acid and nitrates of all kinds, sulphuric acid, smoking sulphuric acid (oleum), acetic acid and acetates, barium chlorate and perchlorate, calcium carbide, calcium nitrate and calcium acetate, potassium salts and caustic potash, salts of ammonium and ammoniac (solution), caustic soda, sodium chlorate and perchlorate, mercury benzol, toluol, xylol, solvent naphtha, phenol (carbolic acid), cresol, naphthalene and its mixtures and derivatives; aniline and its derivatives, glycerine acetones, and raw and finished materials usable for their preparation, acetic ether, alcohols, including ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol, their preparations and derivatives (3); formic ether, sulphuric ether (1), + Vol. CX, page 213. Decrees of July 16, No. 991 (Vol. CX,.page 261), and December 14, 1916, No. 1803, and February 22, 1917, No. 387 (page 18).

* "London Gazette," June 9, 1917.

sulphur, barium sulphur (barytine) (3), urea, cyanamide, celluloid.

9. Manganese bioxide, hydrochloric acid, bromine, phosphorus and its compounds, carbon bisulphide, arsenic and its compounds, chlorine, phosgene (oxychloride of carbon), sulphur anhydride, prussiate of soda, cyanide of sodium, iodine and its compounds, oxalic acid and oxalates, formic acids and formates, phenates, metallic sulphates and hyposulphates, chaux sodée, chloride of calcium, salts of strontium, lithium and their compounds (3).

10. Pepper and cayenne pepper.

11. Gun-carriages, munition boxes, limbers, ammunition waggons, field forges and their component parts, and articles of camp equipment and their component parts.

12. Barbed wire and implements for fixing and cutting it. 13. Telemeters and their component parts, and searchlights and their component parts.

14. Clothing and equipment of a military character. 15. Animals, saddle, draught or pack, suitable, or which may become suitable, for use in war.

16. All kinds of harness of a military character.

17. Hides of cattle, buffaloes and horses, hides of calves, pigs, sheep, goats and deer, leather dressed or undressed, suitable for saddlery, harness, military boots or military clothing, leather belting, hydraulic leather, 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, animal hair of all kinds, and tops, noils and yarns of animal hair.

20. Cotton, raw, linters, cotton waste, cotton yarns, cotton piece-goods and other cotton products capable of being used in the manufacture of explosives.

21. Flax, hemp, ramie, capok, and all other vegetable fibres and yarns made therefrom.

22. Warships, including boats and their component parts of such a nature that they could 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 and accessories.

27. Tyres for motor vehicles and for cycles, and articles and materials specially adapted for use in the manufacture and repair of tyres. Goldbeater skin (2).

28. Mineral oils, including benzine and motor spirit. 29. Resinous products, camphor, turpentine (or land spirit), tar and essence of wood tar, bitumen, asphalt, pitch and tar of all kinds (2).

30. Kubber (including raw, waste and reclaimed rubber, solutions and jellies containing rubber, balata, and guttapercha, and the following varieties of rubber, viz.: Borneo, Guayule, Jelutong, Palembang, Pontianic, and all other substances containing caoutchouc) and goods made wholly or partly of rubber.

31. Rattans. Bamboo canes (2).

32. Lubricants and especially castor oil.

33. The following metals:-Tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, titanium, uranium (3), sodium, nickel, zinc (3), selenium, cobalt, pig-iron, hematite, manganese, electrolytic iron, steel containing tungsten or molybdenum, or titanium or uranium (3).

34. Asbestos.

35. Aluminium,

aluminium alloys (3).

alumina and salts of aluminium,

36. Antimony, together with sulphides and oxides of antimony.

37. Copper, unwrought and part wrought, copper wire, alloys and compounds of copper.

38. Lead in all forms.

39. Tin, chloride of tin and tin ore.

40. Alloys of iron including ferro-tungsten, ferro-molybdenum, ferro-manganese, ferro-vanadium, ferro-chrome, ferro-titanium, and ferro-uranium (3).

41. The following minerals:-Ores of tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, titanium, uranium; ores of manganese, nickel, chrome and hematite, iron ore, iron pyrites, copper pyrites, and other copper ores, zinc ore, lead ore, arsenical ore, bauxite, criolite, ores of strontium and lithium (3).

42. Maps and plans of any plece within the territory of any belligerent, or within the area of military operations, on a scale of 1/250,000 or any larger scale, and reproductions on any scale by photography, or otherwise; of such maps or plans; sensitised films, plates and photographic papers (3).43. Cork, including cork dust.

44. Bones, in any form, whole or crushed, and bone ash, animal black (3).

45. Soap, bois de Panama (3).

46. Metallic chlorides, except chloride of sodium, metalloid chloride (1).

47. Alogenous compounds of carbon, starch (1).

48. Borax, boric acid, and other compounds of boron (1). 49. Sabadilla seeds and preparations from them (1).

50. Gold, silver, money, title-deeds, negotiable credit bills, cheques, drafts, coupons, letters of credit, of assignment, or of advice, notices of credit and debit, or other documents which in themselves completed or used by the receiver may authorise, confirm, or render effective the transfer of money, credit, or shares (3).

51. Talc (2).

52. Felspar (2).

53. Electrical appliances suitable for use in war and their separate parts (2).

(2).

54. Isolating appliances (2).

55. Acid greases (2).

56. Cadmium, cadmium alloys, and cadmium minerals

57. Albumen (2).

58. Zirconium, cerium, thorium, and their alloys and compounds; monazitic zirconia and sand (3).

59. Silk cocoons (3).

60. Rough diamonds for industrial uses (3).

61. Platinum (ore, metal and salts) and metals from the same mine as platinum (iridium, osmium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, &c.), salts and alloys of these metals (3).

1. Food-stuffs.

Conditional Contraband.

2. Forage and feeding-stuffs for animals.

3. Oleaginous seeds, nuts and kernels.

4. Oils and fats, animal, fish and vegetable, other than those capable of use as lubricants and not including essential oils.

5. Combustibles except mineral oils, including wood charcoal (3).

6. Powders and explosives not specially prepared for use in war.

7. Horseshoes and shoeing material.

8. Harness and saddlery.

9. The following articles if available for use in war: clothing and fabrics for clothing, furs, boots and shoes.

10. Vehicles of all kinds, other than motor vehicles, available for use in war, and their component parts.

11. Railway material, both fixed and rolling stock, telegraphs and materials for, wireless telegraphs and materials for, and telephones and materials for.

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.

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