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any material manner to the success of Germany.

Having drawn your attention to the false state- ments of your correspondent concerning the profits of my business and having fully and frankly explained my nationality, I hope you will understand that my cigar business is a Belgian one and that no Englishman need fear, in buying my cigars, to do the slightest wrong to his country nor to contribute to the German war chest, but that by patronising my factory he will favor a firm in Belgium, an allied country, which has suffered and is still suffering enormously by the

present horrible war.

May I ask you, Mr. Editor, to have the kindness to publish this letter in your paper in the interest of justice and truth? Yours, etc.,

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C. Ingenohl.

Owner of the firm in Manila: El Orient, fabrica

de tabacoa.

Maker of the brands: "La Perla del Oriente"

and "El Cometa del Oriente".

And of the firm in Hongkong: The Orient

tobacco manufactory.

Maker of the brand:

"Grandasia."

Rotterdam, September 23, 1916.