COPY.
H.E.Arnhold,
Enclosure 1.
c/o B. Monteith Webb & Os.
J. H. Komp, E#q,
Attorney-Generki,
Present.
Sir.
Es. Goodwill
ad Chape of
REC
190
Hongkong, 26th July, 1917.
C.O
63748
Rege 31 DECIZthere & Co.,
In Hongkong-
I hereby bag to apply to H. E. the Governor, on
behalf of my brother and myself, to have the Goodwill and Chops of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., in Hongkong, assigned to us, and to be allowed to make full use of such Chops.
The firm of Arnbeld, Karberg & Co., was a London partnership (empiring 31st. December, 1915) subject to the laws of Great Britain, and the goodwill thereof me vested in my brother and myself. Consequently, His Majesty's Government treated the firm in London as a British firm with assets in an enemy country, and has allowed the firm to contime trading under the same name in both London and New York.
My brother and I contend that the position in Hongkong was the same. Further, that the partnership was cancelled as regards the many partners by the outbreak of War and, if this is disputed, in my case by the effluxion of time on the 31st. December, 1915, and that the goodwill and chops, which represent
a very valuable part of the godwill, consequently reverted to us; and we should have taken steps at the time to have the liquidation stepped in the same my as did Mesare, Bume & Reif, had I been able to come down to Hongkong. Unfortunately, this was impossible at the time, owing to the many other difficulties which I had to
overcome elsewhere,
I understand that the mây sbjection raised by the Board ✔ Trade is the absence of continuity of trading, but I beg to point out that had I been able toproceed to Hongkong at the time and been successful in stopping the liquidation, this continuity