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tion, prohibit the exportation of all or any of ihe fol- 
lowing articles, namely: Arms, ammunition, military 
and naval stores and any article which We shall judge 
capable of being converied into or made useful in in- 
creasing the quantity of arms, ammunition or military 
or naval stored to any country or place therein named, 
whenever We shall judge such prohibition to be Expe 
dient in Order to prevent such arms, ammunition or 
military or naval stores being used against Our forces 
or against any forces engaged or -which may be enga- 
ged in military or naval Operation» in co-operation with 
Onr forces : 
And whereas by section 1 of the Customs (Ex 
portation Bestriction) Act, 1914, it is enacted that the 
aboverecited section 1 of the Exportation of Arms Act 
1900, shall have effect whilst a state of war in which 
His Majesty is engaged exists as if, in addition to the 
articles therein mentioned, there were included al 
other articles of every description: 
And whereas by section 1 of the Customs (Ex 
portation Bestriction) Act, 1915, it is enacted that the 
power of His Majesty under section 1 of the Expor 
tation of Arms Act, 1900, as amended by the Customs 
(Exportation Bestriction) Act, 1914, by Proclamation to 
prohibit the exportation of articles to any country or 
place named in the Proclamation, shall during the 
continuance of the present war, include the power to 
prohibit the exportation of any article to any such 
country or place unless consigned to such person or 
persons as may be authorised by or under. the Procla 
mation to receive such article: 
Now therefore, Wo have thought fit, by and with 
the ad vice of Our Privy Council, in virtue and in 
exercise of the powers aforesaid, to declare, and it is 
hereby declared, that the exportation of the articles 
mentioned in the second column of the Schedule hereto 
is prohibited to the country named in the first column 
of the said Schedule unless tlmse articles are consigned 
to the persons referred to in the third column of the 
said Schedule. 
SCHEDULE. 
Country. Articles. Authorised 
Persons. 
The Netherlands. All articles. The Nether 
lands Oversea 
Trust (or, in the 
case of any pro 
hibited or restric- 
ted goods which 
are authorised by 
licence to be ex- 
ported, the person 
named in the li 
cence as consig- 
nee.) 
(„The London Gazette“, June 29th, 1915.) 
7. Geerechlliche Bestimmungen. 
a) Anwendung der Londoner Deklaration. 
Order in Council adopting, During the Present 
Hostilities, the provisions of the Convention 
known as the „Declaration of London“ with 
additions and modifications. 
1914. No. 1260. August 20th 1914. 
Whereas during the present hostilities the Naval 
Forces of His Majesty will co-operate with the Eren eh 
and Bussian Naval Forces, and 
Whereas it is desirahle that de naval operations 
of the allied forces so far as they affect neutral ships 
and commerce should he eonducted on similar prin- 
ciples, and 
Whereas the Governments of France and Bnssia 
have informed His Majesty’« Government that during 
the present hostilities it is their Intention to act in 
accordance with the provisions of the Convention 
known as the Declaration of London, signed on the 
26th day of February, 1909, so far as may he prac- 
ticahle. 
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the 
advice of His Privy Conucil, is pleased to Order, and 
it is hereby ordered, that during the present hostilites 
the Convention known ns the Declaration of London 
shall, Subject to the following additions and modifi 
cations, be adopted and put in force by His Majesty’s 
Government as if the same bad been ratified by His 
Majesty: — 
The additions and modifications are as sollews: — 
(1) The list.s of absolute and conditional contra- 
baml contained in the Proclamation dated August 4th, 
1914, shall he substituted for the lists contained in 
Articles 22 and 24 of the said Declaration. 
(2) A neutral vessel which succeeded in carrying 
contrahand to the enemy with false papers may he 
detained for having carried such contraband if she is 
enconntered before she has completed her return 
voyage. 
(3) The destination referred to in Article 33 may 
be inferred from any sufsicient evidence, and (in 
addition to the presumption laid down in Article 34) 
shall be presumed to exist if the goods are consigned 
to or for an agent of the Enemy State or to or for 
a merchant or other person under the control of the 
authorities of the Enemy State. 
(4) The existence of a blockade shall be presumed 
to he known: — 
a) to all ships which sailed from or touched at 
an enemy port a sufficient time after the noti- 
cation of the blockade to the local autorities to 
have enabled the enemy Government to make 
known the existence of the blockade. 
b) to all ships which sailed from or touched at a 
British or allied port after the publication of 
the declaration of blocade.