containing safety cartridges for the revolvers, had been shipped to Hay Kay on the 30th April, and that they should be similarly detained.
3. I received on the 3rd ultimo your telegram stating the cases of cartridges had been debamed, and that instructions were being telegraphed.
4. After communicating with the Board of Customs and the Law Officers of the Crown I telegraphed to you on the 2nd instant, stating that the arms and ammunition might be delivered to the exporters or their representative on the understanding that they would be reshipped to England or some other place to which the Proclamation forbidding the export of arms to China did not apply; but that they must not be shipped to Wei Hai Wei.