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REG 17 FEB 15
13th.February 1915.
(Vlissingen)
The Secretary,
Dear Sir,
Imperial Continental Cas Association,
LONDON
I beg to inform you that our friends communicate to
me that the following news has made a very bad impression
and that they ask me if I could contradict them; perhaps you
are able to do so.
In November came the news, first from Hongkong, after-
wards from the other German Colonies, that all the
Germans were interned in the Chinese Prisons. The business
were placed under forced control and should be liquidated
as soon as possible, by English liquidators, who were chief- ly rival Firms.
In the German Colonies in West Africa, which were occupied by the English and French Armies, the men and women, the missionaries included, were arrested and exposed to the mockery of the negroes. The men were brought in camps, the women and children carried over to England on cargo boats under the care of negroes and in most shameful sanitary circumstances.
The plantations and farms of the Germans were placed under forced liquidation and sold for a tenth or a
fifth of the value.
On the 7th. December a new Law waspublished in the Straits Settlements and in Further India, viz., the