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No.335
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Bropies
576
The Danish Chargé d'Affaires presenta his complimente
to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the
honour, in conformity with his instructions, to invite the
Marquia Curzon's kind attention to the following case.
In May 1920 ur, F. 2. F. Prien, now a Danish subject
resident at Haderslev, requested the assistance of the King's
Government in recovering possession of the assets belonging
to himkand his family, which vere sequestrated by the Witish
authorities at HongKong after the outbreak of war in 1914 and
siace transferred to the Custodian of Enemy Property, Mr. Frien
had since 1901 been carrying on busines at Hong Kong as a
tobacconist, but when var val declared between Great Britain
and Germany he was ordered to leave the district, his business
Wah seized and subsequently sold, realizing ♬ 9019,37. He
and his family also possessed cert in arounts in the Shanghai
and Hong Kong Bank; the total of these assets are set forth in the subjointed copy or a statement by the orricial Liquida,
tor at Hong Kong datəd Moverber 1st 1918.
During the war Mrs. Prien succeeded through the
instrumentality