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1908,
particulars of the constitution of
the Company are contained in a letter from
the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies
dated 12th March, copy of which is enclosed.
Dox Gehme,referred to in that letter és a
Director of the Company, is believed to be
an enemy subject, but he is now stated to be
no longer Director of the Company (Lee cops,
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to
of the Stabulon, declaration enclosed & hereafter refer 10).
Hermann Sanders, referred to in the same letter,
was natyralized in 1893, and it appears to be
fir inference from the particul: rs
contrined in letter that the majority
of the shares i the Company are held
b, persons not enemy subjects.
The Company rere appointe? in 1910 to act s
rents for the Texas Oil Company, ar American
company operating in China. The agency involved
the distribution and sale by Sanders Rehders Compony Hong Kong South
oil
ishing of the products of the American company.
The firm of Reuter Brockelmann and Compeny was
~ssociated with Sanders Rehders & Company in the
gency, the actual distribution of the oil bein
entrusted
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gen.
entrusted to this firm, "ho were
firm of Germen constitution carrying
on business i- Hon- fon At the end
of 1914
a Liquidator was appointed
under the loc-1 legislation of Hong Kon
to rind up the ffire of Reuter
Brockelmann and Company in pursuance
J
of the policy described in the letter
from the Colonial Office dated than
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Sonders Rehders and Compny
thereupon applied to the Governor of
Hong Kong and to the Colonial Office
to obtain the approval of the Governor
to the appointment of Mr.Hakon Schluter
British subject who had formerly
been in the employ of Reuter Brockelmann
& Company, to not as their agent in
substitution for Reuter Brockelmann
Company. The Governor was not willing
topprove the pointment of Mr.
Schluter, Mr. Hump rey Cheetham
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