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secure their cargo, and with the intention to benefit from
these arrangements we informed our Italian buyers, who
however would not give definite instructions but who con-
tended themselves to say that when the goods had reached
Genoa they would be willing to accept the drafts.
At our request both the Banque de l'Indo-Chine and
Messrs H.E. Arnhold of Canton, who in their turn worked with
Messrs Dodwell & Company of Hongkong as liquidators of our
firm of Arnhold, Karberg & Company in Hongkong, all inter-
ested themselves in the recovery of the goods. But on
the 31st May Messrs H.E.Arnhold of Canton wrote us as
follows:
"Shipments per Kleist & Derfflinger. After all the
efforts you had made to get the goods off to Genoa, and the
Banque de l'Indo-Chine in Hongkong and the Hongkong liquida- tors being quite willing to do the necessary for the forward- ing of the 268 bales of Cocoons and 100 bales of Waste Silk.
we were informed that before shipping off the goods the
Attorney General had to give his consent, which is pending
until it had been ascertained that the final destination of
the goods was for Italy only. We hope that in the meantime
the British authorities at home got into contact with your
goodselves, and that you could prove from your books that the
orderers and manufacturers of the Waste Silk were the Italian ¦
concern of Filatura dei Cascami de Seta".
and again on the 15th June they wrote.
*Much to our regret it does not seen that the Attorney General in Hongkong got a satisfactory reply from London.
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