SIR,--In my despatch of the 27th February last concerning the secret foundation of a German society to supply the foreign Press of certain countries with news favourable to Germany and German interests, it was foreshadowed that German cable rates for Press telegrams would probably be reduced in the interests of the new society. I have the honour now to report that, in fact, reduced rates for telegrams to the United States, Canada, Argentine, Chile, Peru, and the German colonies are to come into operation as from April 1st, 1914. These telegrams, which are to be officially known as week-end telegrams, will be admitted at a reduced rate between Saturday midnight and Sunday midnight, to be delivered on Monday or Tuesday respectively. These week-end telegrams must have reached the cable station at Emden before midnight on Saturday, but can be handed in at any telegraph office in the course of the week. The rates, which in some cases represent a reduction to one-fourth of the usual rates fixed, are: Pfennigs per word. To New York, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Peru (minimum charge for each telegram 20 M.) 80 To Togo and Cameroons (minimum charge 18 M.) 90 To German South-West Africa (minimum charge 15 M.) 75 Negotiations are pending for extending the week-end telegram service to other distant countries. Telegrams sent to the United States or Canada are sent at the reduced rate only to New York or Montreal respectively; thence they are forwarded either free of charge, by letter, or at the local telegram rates per word by telegram.--I have, etc., W.E. Goschen. * * * * * Within a month this system--for the intrinsic merits of which there is everything to be said--was extended; and Sir E. Goschen wrote to the Foreign Minister: Berlin, _May 2nd, 1914_. SIR,--With reference to my despatch of the 3rd ultimo, I have the honour to report that, according to an announcement in the _North German Gazette_, the system of reduced rates for what are called "week-end telegrams" is to be extended as from the 1st instant to Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, Transvaal, South and North Rhodesia, Nyassaland, British India, Burma, Ceylon, Malacca, Penang, Singapore, and Labuan, under the conditions described in my above-mentioned despatch. The rates are as follows: Pfennigs per word. To Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal 70 To South Rhodesia, Malacca, Penang, Singapore, and Labuan 80 To North Rhodesia and Nyassaland 95 To British India, Burma, and Ceylon 50 --I have, etc., W.E. Goschen.