Any further communication on the
subject of this letter should be addressed
Lo
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
HOME OFFICE,
LONDON, S. W.
and the following number quoted
241222/2
REC
C. O
46181
HOME OFFICE,
450
RESE 23 WHITEHALI.
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This
2
20th November, 1914.
sir.
I am directed by Mr. Secretary McKenna to
say for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt that
last year an application for the grant of a Certificate
of Naturalisation was made by Harry Rudolf Willien
Wehrenberg, who was born in Germany of German parert s
on 17th August 1893, and was brought over to this
Country at the age of two months. The reports on him
were favourable, and Mr. McKenna decided in October
1913
best to grant a Certificate. Wehrenberg, who is a
Beaman, sailing in British ships, had however left
the Country on a three years voyage before the miter
could be completed by the taking of the oath of
allegiance: he is therefore not a British Subject at
the present time, but a German Subject unless he has
lost his German nationality.
It is
The enclosed letters from Fehrenberg have
now been forwarded to the Home Office by the Heroantila
Marine Office Superintendent at West Hartlepool, one
of them being addressed to his stepfather.
impossible to comply with his request that the
Certificate of Katuralisation may be forwarded to him at Hong Kong, as the oath of allegiance should be taken
in this Country.
As regards Wehrenberg's statement that he has
taken the oath of allegiance, it is possible that he
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.