October 10 was the date on which the Secretary of State promulgated regulations governing the issuance of export licenses pursuant to section 2 of the joint resolution of August 31, 1935. Restrictions on the exportation of arms, ammunition, and implements of war destined to Bolivia, China, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Paraguay were already in effect on that date. The regulations governing the issuance of export licenses for shipments destined to those countries were revised when the general regulations issued pursuant to section 2 of the joint resolution of August 31 were promulgated. The system of export licenses established by section 2 of the joint resolution did not become effective until November 29. Exporters who had registered with the Secretary of State between October 10 and November 29 applied, however, for export licenses before the latter date, in order that there might be no delay in the departure of the shipments scheduled to leave the United States on or immediately after that date. No export licenses for arms, ammunition, or implements of war destined to Bolivia or Paraguay were issued until November 29 on which date the President's proclamation of November 14, revoking his proclamation of May 28, 1934, prohibiting the sale of such articles to those countries, became effective. The categories of arms, ammunition, and implements of war in the third column of the above table are the categories into which those articles were divided in the President's proclamation of September 25 enumerating the articles which would be considered as arms, ammunition, and implements of war for the purposes of section 2 of the joint resolution of August 31, as follows: Category I. (1) Rifles and carbines using ammunition in excess of cal. .265, and their barrels. (2) Machine guns, automatic rifles, and machine pistols of all calibers, and their barrels. (3) Guns, howitzers, and mortars of all calibers, their mountings and barrels. (4) Ammunition for the arms enumerated under (1) and (2) above, i. e., high-power steel-jacketed ammunition in excess of cal. .265; filled and unfilled projectiles and propellants with a web thickness of .015 inch or greater for the projectiles of the arms enumerated under (3) above. (5) Grenades, bombs, torpedoes, and mines, filled or unfilled, and apparatus for their use or discharge. (6) Tanks, military armored vehicles, and armored trains. Category II. Vessels of war of all kinds, including aircraft carriers and submarines. Category III. (1) Aircraft, assembled or dismantled, both heavier and lighter than air, which are designed, adapted, and intended for aerial combat by the use of machine guns or of artillery or for the carrying and dropping of bombs, or which are equipped with, or which by reason of design or construction are prepared for, any of the appliances referred to in paragraph (2) below. (2) Aerial gun mounts and frames, bomb racks, torpedo carriers, and bomb or torpedo release mechanisms. Category IV. Revolvers and automatic pistols of a weight in excess of 1 pound and 6 ounces (630 grams), using ammunition in excess of cal. .265, and ammunition therefor. NOTE. (1) In the table printed above refers to revolvers and pistols and (2) refers to ammunition therefor. Category V. (1) Aircraft assembled or dismantled, both heavier and lighter than air, other than those included in category III. (2) Propellers or air screws, fuselages, hulls, tail units, and under carriage units. (3) Aircraft engines. Category VI. (1) Livens projectors and flame throwers. (2) Mustard gas, lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, and methyldichlorarsine. In compliance with article II of the convention between the United States and Cuba to suppress smuggling, signed at Habana, March 11, 1926, which reads in part, as follows: "The High Contracting Parties agree that clearance of shipments of merchandise by water, air, or land, from any of the ports of either country to a port of entry of the other country, shall be denied when such shipment comprises articles the importation of which is prohibited or restricted in the country to which such shipment is destined, unless in this last case there has been a compliance with the requisites demanded by the laws of both countries." And in compliance with the laws of Cuba which restrict the importation of arms, ammunition, and implements of war of all kinds by requiring an important permit for each shipment, export licenses for shipments of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to Cuba are required for the articles enumerated below in addition to the articles enumerated in the President's Proclamation of September 25, 1935: (1) Arms and small arms using ammunition less than cal. .265, other than those classed as toys. (2) Spare parts of arms and small arms of all kinds and calibers, other than those classed as toys, and of guns and machine guns. (3) Ammunition for the arms and small arms under (1) above. (4) Sabers, swords, and military machetes with cross-guard hilts. (5) Explosives as follows: Explosive powders of all kinds for all purposes; nitrocellulose; diphenylamine; trinitrotoluene; tetryl; dynamite of all kinds; nitroglycerine; ammonal; ammonium picrate; alkaline nitrates (including ammonium, potassium, and sodium nitrate); nitric acid; nitrobenzene (essence or oil of mirbane); sulphur; sulphuric acid; chlorate or potash; picric acid; and acetones. (6) Tear gas (CH¿COCH2CL) and other similar nontoxic gases and apparatus designed for the storage or the projection of such gases. The table printed below indicates the number of licenses issued between October 10 and November 30, 1935, inclusive, for exportation to Cuba of the articles and commodities listed in the preceding paragraph: Hereafter tables similar to those printed above will be prepared month by month and will be issued to the press before the middle of the month following that to which they refer. IX DEPARTMENT OF STATE, The table printed below indicates the number of export licensees for arms, ammunition, and implements of war issued by the Secretary of State from December 1 to December 31, 1935, inclusive, and the character of the arms, ammunition, and implements of war exported, their value, and the countries of destination: |