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No
31692
REGE 23 JUN 17
HONGKONG.
125
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
27th. April, 1917.
sir,
I have the honour to state for your inform-
ation certain facts relating to a request made by the
American Express Co. of London to the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation for the forwarding of certain funds standing here in the name of Mrs. Louise Hilda Emilia White.
Mrs. White is stated by the American Express Co. to be a
British subject residing at Kiel as her health does not permit of her leaving Germany. They also state that permission has been granted by the Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury for a monthly remittance of £20 to be made to her for her maintenance. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
have 83,458 in Mrs. White's current account and they also hold
23 Hongkong Hotel debentures.
2.
It is believed that Mrs. White is the wife of
Mr. Harry 1'Homene-dieu White, an American subject, who ws employed in the Pacific Mail Steamship Company here, and that she is of German birth or extraction. They had German
friends here. Mrs. White appears to have been most indiscreet
in her utterances in public while in the Colony and showed pronounced pro-German sympathies. She was warned by the
Consul-General
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M. P.,
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