You would have been as powerless to prevent it as either of us three would be if called upon unarmed to face the champion heavyweight boxer." "It is hard for me to credit the fact that officially Germany has any knowledge of this scheme," the Prime Minister confessed.
"Official Germany would probably deny it," Prince Shan answered dryly.
"Official Russia might do the same.

Official China would follow suit, but the real China, in my person, assures you of the truth of what I have told you.

You have never heard, I suppose, of the three secret cities ?" "I have heard stories about them which sounded like fairy tales," Mr.
Mervin Brown admitted grudgingly.
"Nevertheless, they exist," Prince Shan continued, "and they exist for the purpose of supplying means of offence for the expedition of which I have spoken.

There is one in Germany, one in Russia, and one in China.
The three between them have produced enough armoured airships of a new design to conquer any country in the world." "Armoured airships ?" Mr.Mervin Brown repeated.
"Airships from which one fights on land as well as in the air," Prince Shan explained.

"On land they become moving fortresses.