CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 790

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Kesers Paul Schiller & Co, paid us for the goods through Lloyd's Bank in London, and proceeded to await the arri- val of the basins, which they were to deliver to their

customers in Morocco.

Schiller and his Moorish friends however are still waiting for their washbasins (already paid for), and after repeated applications to the Messageries Mari- times, we heard that the goods were landed in Marseilles, and detained there for our account, by order of "superior authority". On enquiring further into this matter, which the Messageries Maritimes (having pocketed the whole freight to Casablanca) treats with enviable calm, we are told in a letter received this morning:-

Je ... vous informe que notre. Agent à

" Hongkong s'étant engagé vis à vis du Gouvernement an-

glais pour la livraison de ces colis à Marseille, il m'est impossible de les réexpédier sur Casablanca."

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We shall be obliged if you will let us know whe- ther there is any foundation for this extraordinary state- ment, and bag that you will give instructions to authorise the immediate dispatch of these washbasins to their legi- timate destination, unless of course they are wanted for H. M. Forces, or those of our Allies, in which case we

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