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To accompany Enclosure 7.
Secretary to Commodore.
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The name of Gaston is not traceable
in my list of enemy subjects transferred from s.s."CHINA"
to 8.8. "LAUFENTIC".
The only father and son so transferred were August
Bach, aged 46, and Hans Bach, aged 14, both recorded as of
German nationality.
August Bach belonged to the Christian Catholic Ap.'
Mission (Dr. Dowie), being President at Shanghai for 12 months. The Headquarters of this Mission are in U.$.A. and an intercepted letter showed that Bach was dismissed from the Mission firstly because hes a German and secondly because of his extreme pro-German and anti-Ally views which the Mission did not consider would tend to further
their work in China.
Bach was suspected here of being a German agent, and was proved to be employed in German propaganda work.
Half his fare to U.S.A. in the a.s. "CHINA" was paid by the
Secretary of the German Club in Shanghai.
Among a collection of lewd photographs found in his trunk was one of a very old man in Alsatian dress whom he claimed to be his grandfather.
26th March, 1919.
(Sd.)
L. Cassel, Major,
General Staff.