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Enclosure
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THE PATRIOTIC SERVICE OF THE CENSOR.
(To the Editor of the "Hongkong Daily Press").
Hongkong, 17th January, 1915.
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Arising out of the article by "Irish" and the corres- pendence which has followed, it would be interesting to know how much has been, and is being spent by the Government in connection with war matters.
For instance: How much is being paid in connection with telegraph censorship? Is it not a fact that a number of men are being paid at the rate of $150 a month for a period of four hours' daily duty, and that these include professional men, ministers of religion, missionaries, and highly-paid clerks in commercial houses? in fact, men whom one might reasonably assume are not in need of any remuneration for patriotic service of this extremely light kind.
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Hongkong may need conscription; what it does want is an Anti-Humbug Society.*
Yours
WORKER
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