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El Oriente Cigar Factory Is American Concern
Governor-General of Philippines Issues Important
Announcement
Walter E. Olsen & Co., Buy Largest Cigar Factory In Manila ·
from Allen Property Custodian U.S.
The world famous El Oriante Cigar Factory of Manila, Philippine Islands has The Alien passed into American bande Property Custodian announcos ita sale to Walter E. Olsen sad Company.
igar Factory has been estab- Ed Oriente Cigar lished since 1883 and it is well and favorably known here. Every detail of manufacture, "from the caltivation and care of the tobacco, to the clean and careful handling in the most modern and sanitary factories, has been carefully studiertith the result that the products of the factory enjoy a world wide enviable reputation.
The policy of the owners will be to main tain them high standard of quality that has in de El Orienta cigars a by-word for good smokes throughout this country. The warehouses of the company contain more than three million pesos worth of tobacen, carefully selected and of the highest quality This in itself assures smokers of a mile 'blend, that from a point of quality uniform and aroma is
is unexcelled.
The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands hea sanctioned the issuance of the following statement, in order that the smok ing public of China may be put in possession of the facts concerning the Oriente Cigar Factory:
Dear Sir:
February 12, 1810,
At the request of Walter E Olen Com- pany, I beg to advise you that the El Oriente Ligar Factory sad business ** a going concern was sold by me, as representative of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, at public sale to the Walter E. Olson Company, the highest bidder there fur. The sale has been confemel by the Washington office of the Carte iian and the Disen. Company has paid
aid the purchase price, and operating and is now in Poriness.
The Olsen Com the factory, and pary is a corporation organised under the awa at the Philippine Islands and all of its stockholders are American citizens enemy interests should, therefore, he can
the business sidered eliminated and the entitled to the same consideration as other American business very suly.
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Yours'
The
(Sgd.) DOUGLAS MOFFAT,
Managing Director for the Philippine Ilands.
The Governor General,
Manila, P. I."
WITTENBERG CAMP.
PRES
GERMAN WHITEWASHING
VERDICT.
[FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
ESE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21#T, 1918
The commission of inquiry appointed by the German Government, and composed of Prof. Schicking, Herr Bernstein, Herr. Cohn, and others, which in January decided the two unimportant cases of Stralsund and Langensalza camps, to-day investigated the case of the shooting o
of French prisoners at Mannheim after the
istice, and the
of the epidemic at
camp in the winter
The commission decided inst. Germany in
in the Mann heim case and favourably to Germany in regard to Wittenberg cumplaints, exon- erating the
the German doctor Aschenbach. The main
fer this decision
that Dr. Aschenbach was only respas
for supervision," and that he this duty correctly until he caught the typhus himself and nearly died from it.
The evidence, it
that stated, showed
ad with equipped the camp was"properly supplies, and that the statisties of sickness ad mortality were no worse than these of similar epidemics elsewhere, while the statements of British doctors are consider ed to have been based largely on hearsay or misunderstanding.
MURDERED. PRISONERS,
A telegram to Copenhagen from Bethe
According злук:
to the Lokalanzeiger, the verdict of the standing Commission of Inquiry in the case of the revols at the Mannheim prisoners of war camp is that the shooting of
of the three Frenchmen was due to negligence on the part of the German guard, which negligenes involved an infraction of international law.
The other complaints of the French Govern- ment were found to ber
The unjustified. Commission states that the fact has been established that the Landsturmer you Schuppe acted unintentionally, and
and that there is
13 no question of crime. All such proceedings have been disposed of by an. I hereby certify to the authenticity of the amnesty, therefore the accusation of the signature of Mr. Douglas M. Most Manag-French Government that the guilty have ing Director for the Philippine Islands of the not been punished talls to the ground.
"Acording to the paper, the Commis Alien Property Custodian, on the triginal of the above-quoted letter which is on file in sion of Inquiry has proved that the shoot-
that the records ing Islands has received the following self. this office. I further co Patents Copy-rifle went off when he was, taking it from was accidental, as Von Schuppeka of the Division of explanatory letter from Mr Douglas
rights and
of the Philippine his shoulder on being insulted and stoned Moffat
Trade.chives managing director for the Philippine Islands of the Alien Property Custodian of Government show that Walter E. Olsen sad by a group of prisoners." the United States of America;
Company Philippine corporation duly, "United States of America the organised under the laws of the Philippine Islands and that all of its stockholders ste citizens of the United States of America." By authority of the Governor-Genera), (Sed.) J. L. IBWIN Secretary to the Gov. Gen..
Office of the Governor-General of The Philippine Islanda
Manila: Feb. 14, 1810. To whom it may concora :
"The Governor-General of the Philippine
Alien Property Custodian Office of the Mansing Director in the Philip-
placs, Manila.
is a
THE BRITISH EVIDENCLA
The verdict of this German Court will in no way shake the belief of the British public in the authenticity of the grave charges made against those in charge of Wittenberg camp
ring
the
typhus 1935. epidemic in
are fully estab lished by a mass of evidence embodied in
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official report of the British Govern
ment Committee on the treatment by the enemy of British prisoners
pub
fisted in April, 1916. The heroes of that
terrible time were Major Priestley, Capt. Vidal, and Capt. Lander, all of the RAM.C, who were the survivors of the six British officers sent to the camp to cope with the epidemic after the German staff had bolted from their ports and left the prisoners to their fate. At that time there were over 15,000 men there, includ
link as broke out the conditions were dia
over 700 British. Even before the
praceful.
The prisoners' quarters were so badly heated during a severe winter that all windows had to be kept closed, their over. coats had been taken from them, and their other clothes were often in rags. There was no means of washing their underclothing, while for personal, ablu- tions there was only one tap or trough to every 2,000 men, and that was often frozen. Mor
Moreover, the food was bad and insufficient,
WAS
The result was inevitable, and, when the typhus broke out, it spread
tapidi thanks to the rule that prisoners of nationalities should mingle. Later, Capt." Vidal asked a German officer if the reat the bealthy English could be segregated of in one compound, but his request was insultingly refused. The officef was out off stat side the camp, for the whole German military medical, fled the.
Piace inf Decem soon as the epidemic]
and until August, 1015, did not set foot in it, but shot sup En by means of chutes and trolleys.. only hospital provided was a couple of butas holding 100 patients. It was not till February, 1915, that six English modi- eal officers were sent to Wittenberg, where the conditions were appalling. In the absence of stretchers the sufferers were carried to the hospital on the table on which the men ate their food, and these tables could not be washed, as there was practically no soap. The Germans insiste
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ed at first on typhus patients being mixed TJIBODAS, with other sufferers, which, of course, did
Major Fry TJIMANOBK a mouth after
ch to spread the old later on TJILATJAP
and g
Capt Sutcliffe Eventanand Capt.
the Britin
to the bersic officers, Dr.
conditions The report
refers to follows: On one occasion
the whole
epidemic did Dr.
Aschen 8.
unter the hospital or even the camp. His visit took place about four weeks after Major Priestly's arrival and after _some kind
of fordes
had been evolved. He came in a
set o
of
f protective clat
His in
ing a mask and rubber thing, includ
spection was brief and rapid. For his services in combating
the epide
Dr.
the report ironically the committee awarded the Iron Croes," The
Were
has been conditions
briny realised by the German
but these made no effort to
about an improvement, and repre sentations to them were usually without result. The committee found that thera was no justification or cxcuse for the inhaman treatment meted out to
these unfortunate prisoners
to
callousness of Aschenbach is illus trated by an incident related by Capt. Lauder. Shortly after their arrival at The camp
Major Fry, with Capt. Lauder, begged him, as he was standing outside the entanglements for some med
medical
of his staff was apparently favourably inclined towards the request, but it was curtly refused by Aschenbach, who turned with the words "Schweine England
ten wie epidemic this
after the
регвод
to remain as medical officer. The report adds." It in a serious matter, as the committee think that the German authorities should still retain him in such a position of responsibility, and it is outs rageous that they bould have decorated, an officer capable of such neglect is that for which Dr. Aschenbach must one day, Lüswer
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