' I rose from my chair; I held out my hand and said,
'Sir Edward, that is all I want. I leave to-night; good-bye.'"
Next day Crawford was in Hamburg. He immediately concluded his
agreement with B.S., and began making arrangements for carrying out the
plan he had outlined to the Committee in Belfast. As will be seen in the
next chapter, he was actually in the middle of this adventure at the
very time when Seely and Churchill were worrying lest "evil-disposed
persons" should raid and rob the scantily stocked Government Stores at
Omagh and Enniskillen.
FOOTNOTES:
[84] _Ante_, p. 123.
[85] _Ante_, p. 161.
[86] From a manuscript narrative by Colonel F.H. Crawford.
CHAPTER XVIII
A VOYAGE OF ADVENTURE
Although Mr. Lloyd George's message to mankind on New Year's Day, 1914,
was that "Anglo-German relations were far more friendly than for years
past,"[87] and that there was therefore no need to strengthen the
British Navy, it may be doubted, with the knowledge we now possess,
whether the German Government would have been greatly incensed at the
idea of a cargo of firearms finding its way from Hamburg to Ireland in
the spring of that year without the knowledge of the British Government.
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