740.00112 European War 1939/27

The British Ambassador (Lothian) to the Secretary of State

No. 374

Sir: I have the honour, under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to inform you that a proclamation has been issued in London specifying the articles to be treated as contraband of war by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom. These articles are as follows:—

Schedule I

Absolute Contraband.

(a)
All kinds of arms, ammunition, explosives, chemicals, or appliances suitable for use in chemical warfare and machines for their manufacture or repair; component parts thereof; articles necessary or convenient for their use; materials or ingredients used in their manufacture; articles necessary or convenient for the production or use of such materials or ingredients.
(b)
Fuel of all kinds; all contrivances for, or means of, transportation on land, in the water or air, and machines used in their manufacture or repair; component parts thereof; instruments, articles, or animals necessary or convenient for their use; materials or ingredients used in their manufacture; articles necessary or convenient for the production or use of such materials or ingredients.
(c)
All means of communication, tools, implements, instruments, equipment, maps, pictures, papers and other articles, machines, or documents necessary or convenient for carrying on hostile operations; articles necessary or convenient for their manufacture or use.
(d)
Coin, bullion, currency, evidences of debt; also metal, materials, dies, plates, machinery, or other articles necessary or convenient for their manufacture.
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Schedule II

Conditional Contraband.

(e) All kinds of food, foodstuffs, feed, forage, and clothing and articles and materials used in their production.

I have [etc.]

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