Note 20 — Chapter XX · THE SHAM BLOCKADE
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The following illuminating advertisement also appeared in the Neue Freie Presse of January 16:
"For Sale.
40 tons prime beef, fresh packed in ice from Holland. Condensed milk from —— Amsterdam. Raspberry jam. China tea, 25 chests. Soap, 20 to 40 per cent. fatty matter, 8 wagons. Sausages from —— Holland. Cement, linseed oil, a wagon of each every week from —— Denmark. Apply, etc."
Not far away from the above advertisement in the same paper is another.
"Soup extract, 2½d. a cube. Soup vegetables, Julienne, 1s. 8d. per lb., China tea (Souchong), 5s. per lb., just come from a Danish export house."