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PARAPHRASE
TELEGRAM.
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REG 25 16'
The Governor of Hong Kong to the
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
(Received Colonial Office 9.10 p.m.24th August 1916)
Following telegram has been received from London by JARDINE MATHESON AND COMPANY begins "Notification received from Admiralty Trade
Division that Captain Knight
{master of
group omitted)
-
S.S. "LOONGSANG" is of German origin and that he
cannot be given confidential documents.
You are
therefore requested to replace him by a master of British birth". message ends.
Captain Knight was born of a German father
He was educa-
ted in Germany from seven years old till seventeen.
After that he has been for 23 years in the British
mercantile marine and in the service of the Indo- China Steam Navigation Company for 15 years. His parents are now dead. His nephew, Y. SCHENK, joined the Royal Navy as a signalman in 1914.
His brother of same name, was interned for 12
months in Ruhleben and released broken down in
health. Another brother named Arthur SCHENK is
in the London Rifle Brigade and was wounded in France. Captain Knight has promised to support
the latter's wife and two children. If he is
now dismissed he cannot find any other employment.
and an English mother in England.
Jardine