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gang of cut-throats to take your money away from you, this skins them all. Here is the way they put it up. If any corporation has any stockholders who are German, Austrian or Turkish citizens and the amount of stock held by these clients amounts to 30% of the total then the Governor can liquidate the corporation, appoint his own representative, sell or give away the funds, property or supplies of that corporation, and when the thing is wound up, burn up or destroy the books and papers of the corporation. No German can have any property
in the Straits Settlements and if any is found it is immediately seized. Perhaps this gang will wind up by taking a man’s wife away from him or robbing his baby of his nipple. And yet they talk about being defenders of civilisation. [Original passage in English ends]
Furthermore, the newspaper contained an article about ‘’German atrocities’’ that revealed such absurdities that one can only wonder why a thinking man would print such a thing. It claims that German soldiers skewered 3-4-year-old children onto their bayonets and paraded singing through the streets of Flanders,