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To accompany Enclosure 8
S.G. 217.
No. 017/3. D.A.A.& Q.M.G.
The following telegram has been received from the Admiralty
and I am directed by the Commodore to enquire whether these
people can be identified from your records observing that
the transfer of enemy subjects from S.S."CHINA" to H.M.S.
*LAURENTIC" took place on the 5th February, 1916:-
"Two Gastone father and son claiming to be Alsatians
"state they were removed from "CHINA" by "LAURENTIC".
"Name is not in lists received. Have you any knowledge
" of alleged Alsatians".
(sd.) R. S. HOLBORN,
Secretary to the Commodore.
24th March, 1919.
Secretary to Commodore.
With reference to your Minute No. 017/3 dated 24th inst., the name of Gastono is not traceable in my list of enemy subjects transferred from S.S."CHINA" to S.S.LAURENTIC
The only father and son so transferred were AUGUST BACH, aged 46, and HANS BACH, aged 14t, 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 Head Quarters of this Mission are in U.S.A.
and an intercepted letter showed that Bach was dismissed from the Mission firstly because he was a German, and second
-ly 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.
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