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LONDON 24.8.15 6.55 p.m.
Harry Arnhold, Shanghai.
PASIN.
Eighfive Vandongen Rotterdam threehundred Morsebeans hundredninetyfive London August September confirmed sight Westminster Bank Burgess agrees contents Coopers letter June second Hankow bristles Your nine value nominal twentysix thirtyfour fourteenpence.
KARBERG.
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"All cablegrams are liable to be stopped which "show olear evidence, either by the text of the tele-
gram or by the known facta as to the Sender or "Addressee,
that they refer to a transaction, whether "in contraband or non-contraband, to which a resident "in an enemy country is one of the parties.
"This principle is equally applicable to British, "Allied or Neutral subjects who endeavour to trade with "the enemy through the medium of British Cables."
(Enemy Traders Introductory Note.)
This cablegram shows ( in my opinion) by the known facts as to the Addresses that it refers to a transaction, to which German residents of China, namely Arnhold Karberg
and Company, are partners. (For the substitution of "China" for "Enemy Country" see the telegram of the Secretary of State dated 30th July 1915.)
The "known facts" on which I form this opinion are the following:-
They tend to shew that there has been no real separation between H.E. Arnhold and Arnhold Karberg, and that therefore a transaction to which the one is a
party
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