Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Goods That Are Contraband.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 30, 1912:
Turkey Issues a List of Articles That Are Liable to Seizure.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.— The American Embassy at Constantinople has advised the State Department that the Ottoman Ministry of Foreign Affairs has proclaimed a list of articles which Turkey will consider contraband during the present war. The list embraces numerous articles named at the London Naval Conference.
    Great interest has been shown in the last few days among American exporters in this matter. The articles affected by the declaration are:
    Implements and apparatus made exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war or for the manufacture or repair of arms or of military material for use on land or sea.
    Clothing and fabrics for clothing and boots and shoes suitable for military use.
    Gold and silver in coin or bullion; paper money.
    Vessels, craft and boats of all kinds; floating docks, parts of docks, as also their unassembled parts.
    Fixed railway material and rolling stock and material for telegraphs, radio-telegraphs and telephones.
    Balloons and flying machines and their unassembled distinctive parts, as also their accessories.
    Powder and explosives.
    Barbed wire, as also the implements for placing and cutting the same.
    Horseshoes and horseshoeing materials.
    Harness and saddlery material.

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