and every effort was being made to hamper the ruhning
of our Fleet messenger.
It was not till a month
later that China made any show of enforcing rules of
neutrality, that 18, after the closing of Tsingtao.
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I told the agents that I could not agree to
their suggestion as I had no means whatever of
securing that the munitions did not pass into enemy
hands; and I telegraphed to Hongkong my apprehension
and asked that they might be kept back.
Had Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company
been represented by British agents, no difficulty
would have arisen as those agents could have been
answerable for seeing that the cargo was properly
dealt with. The Company's German agents, however,
were of course under the exclusive jurie
they were not in any legal
enemy;
"in a neutral country" since no
even diplomatic action on the part 0.
other person or country would have been 、
should the German local authorities choor
these munitions and over-ride the r
German firm;
and the
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