To the Editor of the "Norta-Caixa Datty News."
Sin,—I have just received and hold at your disposal a letter from Singapore, which may be of interest to your readers as it shows how little it pays to adopt lenient measures towards German people who happened to live in others' Colonies and were allowed to remain there free "'under special conditions."
The eventa the letter refers to took place in the above port. There, during the absence of the Governor on leave, the Germans were given freedom on oath and permitted to conduct their business as usual, it was not long before they availed themselves of the opportunity to do 3 much harm as possible to the subject of the Empire whose officials had treated them with so much magnanimity.
'A wireless station was installed in an island close to the harbour and the property of a German firm: the station was operated by an Austrian and all information concerning the whereabout of the ships from Singapore was at once directed to the German cruisers prowling in the vicinity.
Moreover Chinese cargo-boats were chartered by the Germans and sent to the Java harbours to take in all the supplies required by the German men-of-war.
The result was that some British merchantmen were ina few days
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