During the War the personnel of the Company was found
to be wholly German, and it was considered unsafe to allow them liberty of action ; but the spiritual and trading operations were large and successful, organized with German thoroughness, and great losses of many kinds would have been incurred by annihilating the organization. The British Government therefore took it all over. We cannot here go into the details of what was done. The hopes for British trade were there, much as in the encouragement officially given to the British Trade Corporation to gain ex-enemy trade elsewhere. But it was conscientiously done. The Directors of a new Company were to include men in sympathy with missionary work, and so on. The shareholders' profits were to be limited again. The Trust took over the assets and has traded for ten years.
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