Due to lack of transport, v ar and old-fashioned skullduggery, Manchuria's whole export trade was in bad shape.

战争，运输工具短缺，尔虞我诈的积弊，这一切使满洲整个出口贸易陷入绝境。

His defense, which seems credible on the evidence so far, is that the bank masked its skullduggery so completely that no regulator anywhere in the world could get a handle on it.

他的辩词(根据目前证据似乎可信)是：银行把它的偷天换日的做法遮掩得天衣无逢，全世界任何地方的监管人员都无法掌握。