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attacks in the virulent and indiscriminate, extending from imputing corruption to high German officials, to criticizing trivial details of office management, and of private character, that these instructions if strictly carried out, would make it necessary (as has been observed here by the Acting General) "that one half of the Government Officials should be sitting in Commissions of Inquiry into the conduct of the other half; who, on their part, would be engaged in investigating the conduct of the first, (as I am informed,) no unofficial independent gentlemen would condescend to undertake inquiry into charges made by the Houghton Telegraph.

The motives and nature of such attacks are generally understood here, and are, I believe...

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attacks in the virulent and indiscriminate, extending from imputing corruption to high German officials, to criticizing trivial details of office management, and of private character, that these instructions if strictly carried out, would make it necessary (as has been observed here by the Acting General) "that one half of the Government Officials should be sitting in Commissions of Inquiry into the conduct of the other half; who, on their part, would be engaged in investigating the conduct of the first, (as I am informed,) no unofficial independent gentlemen would condescend to undertake inquiry into charges made by the Houghton Telegraph. The motives and nature of such attacks are generally understood here, and are, I believe...
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attacks

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