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I had a visit a few days ago from
Mr. Bertie Taylor, British Vice-Consul at Lwow,
Poland. He told me that he is not a Consul de
carrière, and that probably the correct channel
for him to pass on to us the information mentioned
below would be via his superior at Warsaw, but it
has reached him direct since he came on leave to
England and he thought it best to come straight to us.
A Polish lady at Lwów, called Mrs. Schenk,
is the beneficiary named in a will left by
J. R. Brouwer, a Dutch citizen domiciled in Hong
Kong, Manager in the Colony of Nederlansche
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Handel Maatschappij, who recently died in Holland
while on holiday there from Hong Kong for the
purpose of getting certain medical treatment.
He left estate in Hong Kong to the value of some
H-K
50,000 to 60,000 dollars, Mr. Taylor said. The
trustees and executors are the firm of Hong Kong
solicitors, Messrs. Stokes Masters. The property
of the estate consists of a holding in the
Netherlands company of which he was Manager, and
which is domiciled in the Netherlands. Mr. Taylor
has been informed by Mrs. Schenk's lawyer at Lwów,
Dr. Marek Fern, that the Netherlands Government
intend, at the instance of the Nederlansche Handel
Maatschappij, to contest the will as invalid under
Dutch law, in view of a declaration which is
contained in the will to the effect that the
deceased had a Dutch (and not a Hong Kong) domicileF, and the will was not properly attested under Dutch
law which, as I understand it, they allege to be
the law applicable in view of his declaration of
Dutch domicile. Dr. Marek Fern has advised
Mr. Taylor that the Hong Kong executors may therefore
arrange