How the Blockade Works
... By Frank H. Shaw A JAPANESE shipping agent in Kobe presents himself obsequiously at the British consul's office, bringing bills of lading and manifests of a cargo designed to be carried in a Maru ship to-- say-- Greece. The manifest is a sworn document, listing the cargo designed for Greece; the bills of lading are the vouchers authorising the manifest. Unless the British consul in Kobe, after ...