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Chapter II : Contraband of war - Art. 22.
    Art. 22. The following articles may, without notice (1), be treated as contraband of war, under the name of absolute contraband:
    (1) Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes, and their distinctive component parts.
    (2) Projectiles, charges, and cartridges of all kinds, and their distinctive component parts.
    (3) Powder and explosives specially prepared for use in war.
    (4) Gun-mountings, limber boxes, limbers, military waggons, field forges, and their distinctive component parts.
    (5) Clothing and equipment of a distinctively military character.
    (6) All kinds of harness of a distinctively military character.
    (7) Saddle, draught, and pack animals suitable for use in war.
    (8) Articles of camp equipment, and their distinctive component parts.
    (9) Armour plates.
    (10)Warships, including boats, and their distinctive component parts of such a nature that they can only be used on a vessel of war.
    (11)Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war, for the manufacture or repair of arms, or war material for use on land or sea.

    (1) In view of the difficulty of finding an exact equivalent in English for the expression "de plein droit", it has been decided to translate it by the words "without notice," which represent the meaning attached to it by the draftsman as appears from the General Report see p. 44 ' (note in the original) '.


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