Invoice 20 July 1914.
ARNHOLD
KARBERG & COMPANY,
14, FENCHURCH STREET,
LONDON, E.C.
182
£ 1821/920 100 B. Waste silk fr.11757.30 )
#
4 m/s on 11757.30 ) buyers.
1553/820 228 B. Pierced Cocoons fr. 11600.55)
11600.55)
11600,55)
4 m/s
on buy-
11600.55)
ers.
15776.75)
all shipped from Hongkong by Arnhold, Kerberg & Company for
a/c of La Filatura dei Cascami di Seta, Lilan. Insurance
with China Traders Insurance Company, all drafts negotiated
with Banque de l'Indo-Chine.
When war broke out the steamer Kleist took refuge
at Padang and though according to our view the risk of the
journey falls on the buyers, infortunately for us the Fila-
tura di Cascani refused to accept our Hongkong friends
drafts.
The Bank in Paris who hold the Bills, after try-
ing in their turn to get buyers to accept, returned the Bills:
to their branch in Hongkong.
Meanwhile under the auspices!
of the London Chamber of Commerce a scheme had been in-
itiated enabling British cargo owners in this vessel to
secure