Guten Tag Herr Matterson.

I apologise for my some-what late response. Things in Nibelung Polizei Plaza for the last few days have been rather hectic, und paperwork floods in.

But anyway, your piracy problem. Unfortunately, we can not ban Junkers from Rheinland space for bringing us ore, no matter where it came from. Just so long as the transports they pirated were not in Rheinland at the time.

However, contrary to this line of thinking, if we banned the Junkers from the selling point in Rheinland, they may find something more profitable to involve themselves with. But they could just sell their ore to passing transports, or take it somewhere else. It is a rather difficult situation.

I can understand that you wish for us to ban these unlawful Junkers from Rheinland, und believe me, if they sneeze the wrong way I'd be first to the button which did this banning. They steal business from ALG which could take the scrap und they smuggle und pirate behind our backs. But to do this without evidence of them committing a crime in Rheinland borders, it would create a political fiasco.

If you can, escort your ships until they arrive at Rheinland. Then if the Junkers pirate your undefended transports in Rheinland space, I shall personally see to the erasing of one House from their places to go.