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THE CENSOR'S MUSEUM.

INTERCEPTED ENEMY LETTERS.

There is a room in the heart of a groat

THE "LUSITANIA.”

PLANS FOR SALVING

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY MARCH 2ND 1917

FOREIGN TRADE POLICY.

SWEEPING CHANGES PROJECTED.

Particulars of a radical scheme for re-

building in London (saya a writer in the tana, variously estimated at from one forming the Consular Service and bring

Times where the walls are lined with

mize,

being an

The association sont particulars of their plan to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,

DEPOSE THE KAISER.”

BAVARIAN AUTHOR ON PLIGHT OF GERMANY

Reviewing the setual military sitnatiou. the author likens the series of German victories to those of King Pyrrhus. They

Plans to zalve the treasure of the Lust--

The Only Way Out is the title of million to several millions of dollars in

a Bavarina pamphlet which reached Rome money, jewellery lying 275 feet beneath ing it into closer touch with British trade on January 10th 6id Zurich It is pub- the waves,

off the miles

Irish Const

of the auspices shelves filled with books of every

are be

in New York The at were published on December 14th. This lished at Munich under the a printed on every kind of paper in every compt may be made early this spring by plan was formulated by a special com-association of Male Citizens of Southern Germany The thesis, developed by its Kind of ink, with the letterpress including an English company,

salving him, and there may be others, mittor of the Association of Chambers of pseudonymous author. Henrich Sieger. hundreds of different languages. In it Luritania

is, to use a sporting phrase, Commerce, and has been endorsed by the is no other than that Germany's only are kept the thousands of specimen anybody's pigeon. It is known that individual Chambers. The January issue practical course to avert final ruin. lies

with the Eng-

of the Trade Supplement of The Times the dethronement of the House of volumes of Germen propaganda which we negotiations are proceeding

lish underwriters by

mcontained opinions on the questions from Hohenzollern One New York firm, have been fortunate enough to acquire and that all available data concerning representative business men,

the position and condition of the sunken: Here is the massed effort of the brainstonanship, including the depth of water

Herr Professors and Doktors, temperature, currents and generally and received a confidential reply indicate he says, purely ephemeral, and no- the combined effort of the Wolff Bureau vailing conditions, are being colle rding that the matter had been engaging the and its subsidiary branches. All those The information nequired during the past attention of the Foreign Office for some books destined to be pulped again into few months has now led to a confidence time past, and, for the confidential is paper that will this time bear the more that what treasure there is in the strong formation of the council, a copy was en- honest ink of the English presses, or to room, passengers cabins and haggage closed of a report recently drawn up by make wrapping paper the small holds can with a reasonable amount of a Foreign Office Committee, respecting, suburban butcher. At any rate their luck be retrieved. The possibility of not only the Consular Service, bat the usefulness is gone and their sting is actually salving the vessel itself and whole question of the proper organization beaching her on the Irish cast has been at the Government service of commercial considered tentatively. The main deter intelligence in foreign countries. There is the usual Teutonic thorough rent is not the size but the condition of An examination of this report made it Germany cries. We will fight till the mens about these propaganda books and papers. When they are printed in Arabic the vessel, and also the question of how clear that the changes proposed by the last man and when no more men are left

much of her was left by the ex- plosion of the torpedo which sent her-to

of many

drawn.

for

body can be more keenly alive to this fact than Hindenburg, whose colossal forward movement on the Eastern front has merely succeeded in shifting the scene of trench warfare a few hundred miles, usd whose war-worn forces, for a long time inert and impotent in front of Riga and Dunn- burg havo still before them vast un trodden stretches of the Russian Empire BOOK WILLIAM 11. AND, NAPOLEONA

but the people itself is convinced that no maneuvre of this port can avert ultimate defent, which, despite all efforts and all andrifices that we have made and will make, and despite mountainous ruine still

sian and Turkish decorations, copied from the bottom with a thousand victims in association has in view, though not on a pacient rug or a tile from a mosquey, 1915, Nevertheless, when diving exactly similar lines. Lord Robert Cecil He uses the warm browns, the turquote operations are begun the vessel will be expressed his willingness to receive a de blues, the gold and red beloved of Orientals

Eu chooses his pictures well thoroughly examined to determine if there council has had no associa, when the an opportunity of study and carefully explaing each, but not with a possible chance of bringing her once in detail the Foreign Office proposals, increasing day by day, 15 at this moment. the same careful truthfulness. He finds more to the surface. The Lusitania was the Foreign Office further announced mathematically certain as

that one avenge of ridicule which has to great ends in European propaganda is denied him. He cannot show endless pictures of black soldiers and label them Champions for Liberty and Progress" Nor can he print the repulsive cartoons which purport to portray our best Indian troops, Gurkhas, Rajpats, Pathans, men with lineage compared with which the Tenton nobility is but of mushroom oldest growth.

MEDALS AND CARTOONS,

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OBYLON AWAKENING:

His Excellency Sir John Anderson (says the Times of Ceylon), has given the lead which has been persistently naked for two and a half years and the needs of the Empire so urgently demand. The supreme moment of the war is at hand. and Sir John Anderson, in a speech of aspiring solemnity, has emphasised in the Legislative Council Chamber the need for overy dependency to put forth every ounce of strength, to send to the front every man who can possibly go away, and to give or to lend every penny that can bo possibly epared.

are the dificulties we have to fight against I hope 17 will not be long before peace is signed.

that their recommendations would be im- mediately submitted to a small committee of business men. On this small commit tee the association naturally sought to be represented, and we understand that, the Foreign Office having agreed, Mr. Fen nefather, M.P who contributed a search ing examination of the present Consular system to the August issue of the Trade Supplement, was appointed by tho asso ciation as its representative,

CHARACTER OF REPORT.

The Pamphleteer regards

·Gor- many's present situation as identical with When the crucial moment comes, will that of the French Empire a century ago. William II. he asks, stand prepared to sacrifice himself for the German peoples as Napoleon 1 sacrificed himself for the French nation

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When Germany becomes convinced that a sufficient outlay of men and money has been already made, and that national hos- our has been saved, then will come the time for abrogating the Treaty of Ver sales, and for changing the Constitution which granted to the Prussian Crown the (STOOMVAART MAATSCHAPPY “ROTTERDAMSCHE LLOYD") privilege of horality and the German sceptre and

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The Crown Prince is a favourite with

Although the report of the E Foreign the propagandist. Photographs show him

Office is strictly confidential, and, it is as he is, as the Germans think he is, and

to be noted, not yet approved, it is evident as the Germans want outsiders to think

that it is of revolutionary character, he is. They are not content with per

for the association's Consular Service petunting his features on paper, but they

Committee have reported that the very must needs perpetuare then on metal,

considerable changes in the Diplomatic

Even ay France avoided the terrible and there are medals with idyllic inscrip

Service now recommended would so alter peace conditions by deposing Napoleon tions and the younger William's feature

the position in regard to the Consulare so Germany, faced by the vision of final in bas-relief. Those medals are struck for

Service that all recommendations relating catastrophe, will one day be driven to every conceivable victory, and for many

to both services would require to be recon decide the deposing of the King of Prus- victories that never happened. There is v large picture of a shell, a 400 Krupp,

sidered as a whole no dia in favour of a Bavarian cul with lives put into the mouth of the

The committee go on to say that, if the House of Wittelsbach has fulfilled all its mais suggestions of the Foreign Office duties to the Empire, its escutcheon is German gunner. At the bottom are the

ames of the towns that have fallen to In consequence of the condition of Committee were accepted, the adoption of unstained, and in this war it has won its

e postal service with your side, business à definite foreign trade policy would laurels again and again, these products of hy begin

naturally follow, and it would be not only Not only would the German Empire correctly enough with and Namur is on a dead standstill. hat the two last are Toul and Verdun The monetary value of the cheques, logical, but highly desirable that our under the Wittelsbach dynasty offer the

for a

European peace There are here innumerable works drafts, and other documents of transfer foreign trade policy should be as closely necessary security general but also the possi threshing out the whys and wherefores in course of transmission for enemy as possible linked up with our

y of realizing a still of the war, fixing the responsibility on one benefit which have already been inter foreign policy Finally, they declare

The writer then draws distinction be nation, then on the other There are cepted, in the mails amounts to consider that the Foreign Office scheme seepis to

Continental Times ably over

a portion of which carry the association's main suggestions to tween the Fan Germanist and Grand Ger- many

£50,000,000, withite long articles in English telling was destined for investment enemy wit as a manifcetation of a new and wider represented by the Socialism preached by in enemy war their logical conclusion, and they welcome manist party, stating that the latter is and Engels, and counts numerous These daine' papira: k to the value of this work, think of the trade and foreign policy

also samps in Germany and were eagerly dislocation which the stoppage of German This enthusiastic expression weerog fair among the Conservative politicians;

Mecklenburg, Hanover, Silesia, and suapped up they no cgerly read and trade correspondence means to cremely to represent the opinion of business Saxans and aims at reuniting with Ger- even threatened to riyal lunch, Captain trade und fance A good illustration is Koening's book is on these shelves. It is afforded by a passage in an itercental men who have had an opportunity of many those Germans whom Austria annex-

examining the project in detail, and there oil in 1886. the log of the undersen liner Deutschland, letter from a German firm in South will naturally be considerable eagerness in well written and set out in all modesty. America to its head house in Hamburg commercial circles to learn further de

Inat wrote to you on May 1st and tails, even if some portions of the report ARRANGEMENTS DISLOCATED.

have tct had the pleasure of hearing from you Since then, from which we concludere withheld that the Postal Service between hero and Germany is becoming more hopeless every day. We see from the papers that the English blockade of Germany is getting stricter, and we almost fear that soot to more mail will be able to get through at all. It would produce the greatest con

coples

of the

becn

have yet round the English bichse there still" of all the disasters that the Allied armies to choold doubt outlook on the connection between foreign throughout Bavaria creen

were hawked

One impression with regard to the Censor's work needs to be correctal, Derection of contraband in the mails is not the principal function of the censor ship. We do not keep 2,200 people in this great building merely bearching for German propaganda and intercepting smuggled merchandise. In many respects the censorship may be not unfairly said quence for web our detail to be the eyes of the blockade. Its prin-ralance-sheets and bookkeeping details cipal work lies in detecting and frustrat were lost. That would not only mean ing the innumerable and ever-changing an nheard of Talour for us but also subterfuges contrived by the enemy with endless postponement of all mean "of the connivance of neutral intermediaries seitling up with our head house.” for evading the blockade and carrying The sinews of war into Ceatrul Europe

in the form either of goods or of credit.

SUPPLIES HELD UP,

It is dificult to overestimate the

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NOTHING IS MORE EMBARRASSING THAN EXTREME THINNESS.

It is the plump, well-developed man who cuts the stons sad has the fun

Scrawny

ment of the Foreign Office has inaugurating ceased to serve as a bulwark

da now scheme for laying before busi: the encroachments of Turkey.

He foresees that England, France, cl eas houses sufficient information concern- ing each Consular district and the firms Russia will never consent to negotiate ther it is worth while to open up trade Lernian Crown Fringe, whereas with trading in it to enable them to judgo whe peace with the present Kaiber or the socially innenlo are coldona and at the same time to make known to the disappearance of the Hohenzollerns it the Consular officers abroad the character will become possible for Germany to pro- of the information desired by business mote and cement cordial relation with farm men at home. Copies of explanators England, as has happened in memorandum and of the key form and fair's questionnaire, and specimen answort were placed before the members of the

popular. We all admire fins figures. No dressmaker can hide a bony, skinny Ashleed You ought to test the one reliable treatment which has 1 made that the good" for years in England, which haa document here summarized voices a state taken America by storm and which has

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PETER

DAWSON'S

The contrivance of suca schemes by cable uncertainty and depression caused by this council of the association, to whom a fall of opinion very widely diffused in been awarded a gold medal and Whisky is the whisky with a or by wireless is obviously impossible, state of things, and some German auditorg explanation was given, Bavaria, and, indeed, almost everywhere of honor stery has ever growing popularity, because its

and the examination of the mails has in and accountants must be having hard countless cases proved an insuperable times in trying to make books balance,

obstacle to their success.

The enemy frequently expresses himself with frank the following extracts exasperation, and so tune ingnis fans

in Southern Germany, as well as in Auential middle-cla's circles and among the lower orders,

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The association has offered to

to co-operate with and assist the Foreign Trade Depart

the marvellous success of this new tat elegant flavour is solely due to ment by setting up special arrangements

ment, which, according to report has The vital necessity to the Germans of for the distribution of the information, as

made more thin folks plump than all the original fineness developed by Age, securing the transmission of honey it is received, to the Chambers of Com

tonios" and ineffective medicines for

for Obtainable from all Wine credit, and securities will be realized when merce. Further particulars of the

Afty years. we remember, that large consignments of will be sent to thPombers of the Son LETTING THE CAT OUT OF There's a reason, Plamp, well formed Merchants.

cour indicate their views of the censorship at the Germann high-power wireless to the innations of Chambers of Co

securities were carried by the Deatschland This will lend considerable importance

men and women assimilate what they eat. Thin, scrawny enes do net As you see, the English are making

ly spending half its tims sending

This new discovery aims to supply the through the other. Not even from merce, and, coupled with the fact that the To the overwhelming evidence that however, has invented a pisut that will association is raising a large sum of already been given of Germany's one thing the thin folks lack, that is the transmit solid cash, apa wild money, is probably an explanation ofsibility for the War fie Tagliete power to assimilate food.

Wireless telegraphy is not only still very recent rumours that the Government

ce now adds, in the course of It renews the vigor re-establishes the THE tended to do something to increase the et extraveraat gadation of Admiza "It is not a lash to jaded nerves, but east-y, but thus may limitationwi

But it is difficult to avoid the cra-

that it must ultimately involve the that the strengthening of the German a generous apbuilders.

VICTORIA DiserENBART, berately for the purposes of the pre- THE PHARMACY, or representing Arms not

Queen's DispenbARY. position

The Enwart. Dispensane

Don't worry take SARGOL

so toy disagreeables and seizing the past that our business is quite ruined. People d not dare to seu mengy any more bestise they do not receive receipts from

me

As seen from your telegrac sent a low

·

are cloutly indicated by the

which

all in nature's own way. pr

days ago our lists have not arrived for extracts from the recently intercented importance of the Cham Tirpitz, the noteworthy statement three weeks now I think that if correspondence of certain enemy firms: olimation of members not of British sect from 1910 onwards was contrived in A, B. WATSUN & CO. LTDA. you sent the receipts in fifteen Drivate le Your claim (saya one Writer) 1 TOBE PRESENT The importance, far superior to that

envelopes I should perhaps receive thep.

It is incredible how you have belred the English Censor to establish the names of our agenty and also the fact that and G. looked after our letters,

regard

to

the

transmission of your sub- scription may be attributed to the fact

Ty

The

from

recently created

that you are ignorant of the circom Commercial Intelligence Departinent at of our U-Boat weapon, of our High Seas stances that the cable connection with the the Board of Trade will slao require cont has been amply proved. Even in Monarchy has been completely inter sideration, since in some quarters i 1 its caforeed inactivity, it has played an you appear to have received no post from rupted, and that therefore, apart us, since the beginning of March Worse wireless telegraphy, the only way opet regarded as undesirable to have two er overwhelming Great part in the war still is the fact that because of the Censor to transfer orders was by letters. As ganizations for disseminating commercia.To it we owe the unassailability of ship you have not got our invoices or regards communications by means of wire intelligence, and it is understood that their coasts, and it made the British bills of lading From

association made it clear to the Foreign Dardanelles, catastrophe inevitable, be less telegraphy, we would respectfully Office that their approval of the new plan use England's Fleet, being compelled this miserable condition in which the English se robbery inform you that it is up to the present did not carry with it any weakening of to remain in hone wasters, could no

need us there is no way out very unsatisfactory Tong delays tion of a Ministry of Commerce of the world

result of their determination to press for the crea- bring its entire force ta bear in that pårt In conjunction with

this, we Likerto

to say that according to our experiare Quavoidable.

Katie atmospheric disturba

unfortunately

Whenever

Gur

THE LAST STAGE OF THE WAR

The peril threatening rise of Japan in the Far East is a further English disaster which is to be placed to the credit of the German High Sean fleat, which thus exerts its strangle bold on England,

But for that feet, England's gama were an easy one. We should have cause for bitterest Ismentation had our natal

enos it seems now to be utterly imposable messages are often distoriely P to ship any goods to foreign countries. possible we are transferring Since the middle of April we received one by letter

letter. single letter from one of our friends in We liavo mado" (another says) a the States in which he advises us that number of attempts to get in touch with

"The lost stage of the war gives one the he instructed a banker in Berlin to reuit our bankers in Germany by wireless, but

a certain amount. This remittance, up to the present without success sense of vast sinister forem let loose, un however we do

do not receive up to the As soon as I found (says another) that amenable to reason, conscience, or human

JA Spender in all my letters, Lover the English want they get, water, and did not reach their destina

so to speak, fell into the control," write. We see the greate

Westminster for the whole postal communication with tion, A gave up Germany is completely upset, and we Similarly did not reg any more. monster lashing out in defiance of all that policy been carried out according to the reboive single letter we had thought possible or credible, sing plans of Deputy Leonhart, and it in

enslaving makitades, stead of ships of the line, we had built never know whether one can draw money from your side. Communication by wire ing hospital ships, or send money to the other side. It is less: was also doubtful in the highest forcing his enemy to fight for him, strik submarines chiefly very unpleasant for me also that T send

and one often had no idea as to ang madly at the one inferior enemy who It will remain se an imperishable the interest will Censor whether it ever reached

For

its will stagger humanity, carry us back

He be lost and many many months will go destination or not. Taking it all round at rush to the Stone Age, sweep away by before I get over all the difficulties. the present conditions are nothing less all that we have called civilised, every

At this moment I have a cou than infernal for merchant who has signment lying at L, but I have received been accustomed to a gradual and steady no invoices and is hills of Jading development of his business relations, and Everything han again boer stolen. These we can only hope that everything will

(Continued at foot of next column.)・・ some day turn out for the best.

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