A British trader may, therefore, at his own proper risk, despatch as many thousand tons of coal as he chooses, just as he may despatch any quantity of rifles or bayonets, to Vladivostok or to Nagasaki.
Holland asserts that British traders can send large quantities of coal to belligerent ports at their own risk.
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