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COPY.
Enclosure 1.
British Officials.
No.
Your Excellency,
British Copsulate General,
Shanghai, 24th. Noyember, 1915.
16
Vob. 1915.
IRECT REG 19 FEB 16
Begging reference to previous correspondence
regarding the Hongkong registered companies which are in fact
enemy, I have the honour to report that Mr. Teesdale of the
British legal firm of Teesdale & Godfrey called today with letters
from the head of the enemy firm of Carlowitz & Co. here asking the
firm to act in the matter of the voluntary liquidation of the
Central & North China Godowns & Press Packing Co. Ltd.
Mr. Teesdale doubted whether he could act with-
-out infringing the King's Regulation and he told Mr. Rosenbau that he expected that the British Authorities would insist on a British liquidator in order to safeguard the interests of British creditors, even though he was assured that the Company had no Briti -sh shareholders and the only British mortgagee would be paid off
on the 5th. December.
It is, in my opinion, desirable that such companies should not continue t. pretend to British nationality, and I should be glad of Your Excellency's assistance in having this Company cleared off our List. It owns property on our Land Register here and also on the British Concession at Hankow, if not also at Tientsin. A British liquidator would be able to take these properties off our Registers and would be satisfactory as amen- -able to our jurisdiction, if the Ordinance provide any means for insisting on a liquidator approved by the Colonial Authority.
I do not myself see any objection to a British lawyer's acting in the liquidation, even though the Company is to be transferred to the enemy firm of Carlowitz & Co.
It would be well, I think, for a notice to be
issued in our local newspapers inviting British subjects interested to communicate with this office, as once the property
passes to enamies their rights will be barred.
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