No.89
42502
RECE
REGE 16 SEP 15
H..
Consulate
Changhai,
Fenerul
345
127308
SEP 7 1915 10th August, 19157′′
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sir.
Begging reference to your Despatch, No.19
(79333/15) of 3rd July on the subject of the
registration as British of companies composed of
aliens, I have the honour to report that this
matter has been mude urgent by the existence of
two warehouse companies registered in Hongkong
which are now entirely directed, managed, and
staffed by enemy subjects, only one of them having
a few small shareholders of non-enemy nationality,
The Governor of longkong states that
he has no legislation to meet such cases. There
is no person who can be summoned before our Courts
and
The light honourable
sir E. Grey, Bart., K.G., M.P.,
His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs,
LONDON, S.W.