IV.

EMBARGOES BY BELLIGERENT STATES.

General. Not only have the neutral States placed restrictions upon export but the belligerent States have established embargoes upon certain goods to certain ports, or even the transit of certain goods. Such embargoes necessarily interfere seriously with the free movement of commerce. The extent to which ambargoes have been applied is illustrated in the British and German regulations.

In addition to the embargoes, belligerents have issued proclamations in which were made known the names of persons or firms in certain countries to which exports might be made.

BRITISH EMBARGOES.

[Corrected according to the latest available information.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
August 28, 1915.

Whereas by section 8 of "The customs and inland revenue act, 1879," it is enacted that the exportation of arms, ammunition, and gunpowder, military and naval stores, and any articles which we shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions, or any sort of victual which may be used as food for man may be prohibited by proclamation;

And whereas by section 1 of "The exportation of arms act, 1900." it is enacted that we may by proclamation prohibit the exportation of all or any of the following articles, namely, arms, ammunition, military and naval stores, and any article which we shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of arms, ammunition, or military or naval stores, to any country or place therein named whenever we shall judge such prohibition to be expedient in order to prevent such arms, ammunition, military or naval stores being used against our subjects or forces or against any forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or naval operations in cooperation with our forces;

An whereas by section 1 of "The customs (exportation prohibition) act, 1914," it is enacted that section 8 of the aforesaid “Customs and inland revenue act, 1879," shall have effect whilst a state of war in

which we are engaged exists as if in addition to the articles therein mentioned there were included all other articles of every description;

And whereas it is further enacted by section 2 of "The customs (exportation prohibition) act, 1914," that any proclamation or order in council made under section 8, as so amended, of "The customs and inland revenue act, 1879," 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 by section 1 of "The customs (exportation restriction) act, 1914," it is enacted that section 1 of "The exportation of arms act, 1900," shall have effect whilst a state of war in which we are engaged exists as if, in addition to the articles therein mentioned, there were included all other articles of every description;

And whereas it is further enacted 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 a proclamation dated the 3d February, 1915, and various orders dated, respectively, the 2d and the 18th March, the 15th, the 21st, and the 26th April, the 6th and the 20th May, the 2d and the 24th June, and the 8th and the 19th July, 1915, prohibiting the exportation of certain articles therein referred to from the United Kingdom to certain or all destinations, have been issued in pursuance of the aforesaid powers;

And whereas it is expedient that the said proclamation and orders should be consolidated, with amendments and additions, and that such proclamation and orders should be revoked;

And whereas we have deemed it expedient to prohibit the exportation of the articles hereinafter enumerated:

Now, therefore, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation, declaring, and it is hereby declared, that the above-mentioned proclamation and orders be and the same are hereby revoked;

And we have further thought fit, by and with the advice aforesaid, and in virtue and in exercise of the powers aforesaid, further to declare, and it is hereby declared, as follows:

(A) That the exportation of the fol- Air craft of all kinds, etc.—Continued. lowing goods be prohibited to all des tinations:

Air craft of all kinds, including aeroplanes, airships, and balloons and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with air craft, including:

Noninflammable "celluloid" sheet (or

similar transparent material nonsoluble in lubricating oil, petrol, or water). Aeroplane dope.

High-tensile steel tubes.

Aeroplane instruments (aneroids, barographs, revolution indicators).

Aeroplane turnbuckles.

Steel stampings.

Aeroplane engines and parts.

Animals, pack, saddle, and draft, suitable for use in war.

Cannon and other ordnance and machine guns and parts thereof.

Capsicum and oleo-resin of capsicum.

Carbons, suitable for searchlights.

Carriages and mountings for cannon and Chemicals, etc.-Continued. other ordnance, and for machine guns and parts thereof.

Cartridges, charges of all kinds, and their

Maize.

Malt dust, malt flour, culms, sprouts, or combings.

Offals of corn and grain, including:

Bran and pollard.

Magnetos.

Meat, namely, beef and mutton, fresh or refrigerated.

Mercury.
Oats.

Periscopes.

Projectiles of all kinds and their component
parts.

Range finders and parts thereof.
Sheepgut.

Silk cloth, silk braid, silk thread, suitable
for cartridges.

Silk noils.

Silk shantung in the piece.

Spirits, methylated.

Spirits of a strength of not less than 43 degrees above proof.

Swords, bayonets, and other arms (not
being firearms) and parts thereof.
Tarpaulins and wagon covers.

Mill dust and screenings of all Wheat, wheat flour, and wheat meal.
kinds.

Rice meal (or bran) and dust.

Sharps and middlings.

Patent and proprietary cattle foods of

all kinds.

Straw.

Glass for optical instruments.

Gold beaters' skin.

Wood, namely:

Ash.

Ash three-ply wood.
Spruce.

Walnut wood.

Zinc (including zinc ashes, zinc rods, zinc sheets, spelter and spelter dross).

(B) That the exportation of the fol

Grindery, the following articles of, used in lowing goods be prohibited to all desti

the making of boots and shoes:

Brass rivets, for use by hand or machine.

Cutlan studs, for use by hand or machine.

Heel attaching pins, for use by hand or machine.

Lasting tacks or rivets, including iron shoe rivets, for use by hand or machine.

nations abroad other than British possessions and protectorates: Accoutrements, namely:

Web equipment.
Leather belts.
Leather bandoliers.
Leather pouches.

Other leather aritcles of personal equip-
ment suitable for military purposes.

Alunite.

Steel bills, for use by hand or machine. Blankets, colored, exceeding 3 pounds in