The Archive · 1914

More Ornaments for the Counter

A correspondent writes I don't know whether you want to nail any more specimens of German mendacity to the counter. There are so many that, with war prices for nails, it a costly enterprise. But the enclosed contradiction of the lusiutischer Lloyd's reports of trouble among the Chinese of the Straits Settlements may be worth your reproducing." The contradiction in question appeared in the "Singapore Free Press" and the "Malay Weekly Mail" which had reproduced the Ostasiatischer Lloyd's" fable, and is from the Chinese Consul General at Singapore.

"Dear Sir—My attention has been called to a note published by you on the Sth instant, being a quotation from the

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