The ammunition seized by the police on Saturday does not correspond to that which the naval authorities were expecting to re ceive according to their instructions from Peking. According te the police description of the ammunition seized, it comprised cart ridges for pistols of.32 and.765cali bre. The ammunition expected b; the naval people was for 37 min. machine guns and for $3 min. field guns. The ammunition which the naval headquarters had reason te expect they would receive has not turned up, and the four guns are also missing. Where are they?
One explanation that has beer offered is that the Tientsin firm, having secured a genuine ammuni tion pass, were endeavouring to use it as a cover for the clandestine transport of other ammunition not intended for the Chinese authori ties at all, and that the ammunition inow in the hands of the police was intended cither for revolutionary purposes, or that it was about te be smuggled on board some ship in the hope of exporting it to some port where ammunition is badly needed. It is interesting to know that German firms are in a position to fill orders here in Shanghai for machine guns, field gues, and ammunition to fit, and it would be en: lightening to know how such firma come to be in possession of such munitions. The only assumption
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