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In Elberfeld's ponderous history we are given the text of a despatch to the Kaiser in which General Baron von Füchter assured his Imperial master that any interference with The Citizens and their meetings would be gratuitous and impolitic: "Their aims being purely social and domestic, and those of a quasi-religious Friendly Society, resembling something between their 'Band of Hope' and their 'Antediluvian Buffaloes. The English have a passion for this kind of child's play, and are absurdly impatient of official surveillance.
As a Mohammedan, a Javan peasant is permitted to have as many as four wives, but he can rarely afford more than one, or two at the most. Tanjong Priok Sadoes Batavia Business quarter Telephoning Chinese Campong Weltevreden Waterloo Plain Peter Elberfeld's house Raffles and Singapore.
On the following night the night fixed for the elopement Elberfeld's house was surrounded, and the conspirators were captured as they were on the point of departing to their various stations. Most of the native princes were punished by mutilation, but Elberfeld was reserved for a signal vengeance.
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