FOREIGN EMBASSIES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 249, 9 February 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

FOREIGN EMBASSIES.

• It N licmg suggested that as the Bulgarian Premier took posossion of the' Serbian Legation in Sofia last spring we should take over the enemy embassies in London and use them for public pur(Miscs during tlio war. This would involve the occupation of enemy territory, for an embassy is technically the territory of the country to which it belong'. Perhaps an arrangement could be made through America, for the enemy to use the British Embassies in Berlin and \ i- ( nna, which, like tho enemy premises in London, are now in the main unoccupied. A portion of the (Jerman Embassy in London is utilised by the American Embassy in its conduct of German affairs. There aro some curious regulationabout our embassies and their contents. For instance, the reception rooms the staircase and corridor leading to tliem, and the principal entrance and the hail are furnished ;it the public expense. So : re aNo the chancery, and the ollices. The Minister must furnish the rest liHiisflii. and the Foreign Office especially > tipulat-.'s that. "nni"l n curtains, rugs < i!u "• than hearthrugs, fire-screen*, , i loi !<s, chimney ornaments. t-il>l<> lamps, and candlestick* will not be supplied. It. further orders that "pictures are not be hung nor brackets fixed on wa'N covered with silk or similar material." There are many oKier regulations in addition which only a well-trained diplomatic. could hope to master.

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