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3 - may go with letter dated Feb 3, 1893 

journals and are printed on the commonest of paper. But they seem to be very well written. Not many advertisements and very little local news. Very different from our papers.

They have been full mostly of Panama scandal. But I believe the government has passed a law to gag them - which seems to be courting revolution. It looks very much as if the government was afraid of investigation, and as if it was very rotten.

The young De Lesseps offered to give the names of 104 deputies who were in it for boodle, but the investigating committee would not allow him to. And the opposition papers say the reason the Government made such a to do about extraditing Cornelius Hertz from England was that they knew he would not be given up. That was before England refused. And it has so turned