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Re Charles Ahrens.
In reply to your letter of the 17th. instant No.1224
I beg to say that I have no doubt the legacy left to Ahrens would
be paid over to a Committee duly appointed according to Hongkong
Law.
The money available for Ahrens, if I remember rightly
from the paper which you transmitted to me with your letter of
the 6th of April last and which I returned with my last despatch,
amounts to not more than about $240 in all. Under the circums-
tances the cost of the necessary proceedings in lunacy would
amount to double the legacy left to Ahrens.
I avail myself of this opportunity to express my
regret that this matter is causing your Government so much
trouble and expense, and that I am not in the position to do
anything to lessen the same.
I may mention, that the Foreign Office in Berlin, in
its last rescript in the matter, again expounds the principle
adopted by the British Government in several cases occurred in
Germany, that every State, in the absence of a treaty providing
to the contrary, has to take care of foreigners who became
destitute in its territory.
I have etc..
(Sa.) DR. F. C. Rieloff,
Imperial German Consul.
The Honourable
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