CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 595

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On the 26th June a decision was to be arrived at and then farewell home newspapers... English have no respect for anyone. How they have

cheated! We have, for example, had to charter a small steamer simply for fetching the post. It is

part of my duty to fetch the post and I steam out

at 1 or 2 o'clock at night, as the Rail Steamer

always arrives in the morning, with one officer

of the Shipping Company but otherwise only Chinese.

The post is taker over in the open sea in accordance

with arrangements with the American Shipping Company. These journeys are, of course, very expensive

but you see that we spare no cost and trouble to

keep up our connection with home. The Shipping

Company up to the present have shown themselves

very amiable but as a general rule the Americans

can only be described as cobblers, and cowardly

dogs who make a loud noise and nothing else and

the murderers of our brave soldiers. If it were

not for their deliveries of munitions the War

would have been over long ago. Although we are

not free from the reproach that in the Russian-

Japanese War we supplied the Russians as well as

the Japs with munitions the position is quite

different to-day. The Americans state that they would

be only too glad to supply us with munitions if they could but unfortunately the English take

everything

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