TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Serial No.
From or to whom,
Despatch No., &c.
Data.
Page
Bubject.
GENERAL.
1
To the Governors, &c.
Fiji, East Africa Protectūraže,
1915
July 6
Nyasaland, Somaliland, Uganda, Osylon, Hoar Kong, Btraits Bettlements, Bermuda,
States that His Majesty's Govern-
ment have decided that surplus assets of liquidated enemy firms should be invested in British Govern- ment securities, and that the Crown Agents should immediately be instructed to apply for allotment in War Loan equivalent to amount held.
1
Jamaica,
Trinidad,
Windward
Islands, Gold Coast, Bierra Leone, Nigeria,
Zanzibar,
Malay Staber
Telegram
3
Inter Departmental
Committee
December 17
1916
February 25
NOTE. This correspondence is not complete in itself; but it was decided to discontinue printing papers in this series, partly for reasons of economy, and partly because the question of liquidation had become merged in the much wider questions arising out of the economic clauses of the Peace Treaty.
B Crown Agents
(
99274. Wt. 88199/648. 20. 9/21. J. J. K. & Co., Ltd.
Report on the liquidation of enemy
firms.
Asks whether Colonial Office considers Income Tax exemption should be claimed in respect of Exchequer Bonds purchased out of surplus assets of liquidated enemy firms.
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1
6
4 To Crown Agents
March 20
5
To Treasury
March 20
States, in reply to No. 8, that for reasons given, exemption should not be claimed.
Aske whether Treasury considers that steps should be taken to prevent the recovery of income tax by enemy
7
7
6 Treasury
April 27
7
Crown Agents
1917
January 15
owners.
Assumes that no certificate of owner- ship of Exchequer Bonds will be issued by the Crown Agents to enemy traders, and therefore no claim for repayment of income tax in respect of dividends upon these Bonds can be made.
Gives particulars of various securities held on behalf of the Enemy Sur- plus Assets Accounts and saks whether they should be converted into the new Five per cent. War Loan.
7
8
* To
9
Treasury Public Trustee
Public Trustee
and
January 23
Encloses copy of No. 7, and asks for
views thereon.
10
January 97
States, in reply to No. 8, that he has not invested enemy moneys in War LOAD.
10
10 Treasury
January 81
States, in reply to No. 8, that it is hardly open to Their Lordships to express an opinion with regard to the conversion of the investmenta specified into Five per cent. War Loan; states terms of reply which has been made to the Custodian for Scotland to a similar inquiry.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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CO.885/25
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Berial
From or to whom.
Despatch
Date.
No.
No, &c.
11
To Treasury
1917
February 8
12
Treasury
February 12
Subject.
States, with regard to the conversion of surplus assets of enemy firms in Five per cent. War Loan, that the Secretary of State does not feel that he is under obligation to secure the highest possible rate of interest for these investments; as regards Ex- chequer Bonds, will adopt whatever action is
convenient from Treasury point of view.
more
Points out that under certain condi- tions conversion of Five per cent. and Six per cent. Exchequer Bonde into Five per cent. War Loan is advantageous, and that non-conver- sion may involve loss of interest and of capital in the event of the Four and a-half per cent. stock having to be realized before it becomes repay- able.
States that the Crown Agents have been instructed to apply for the con- version of the Four and a-half_per cent. War Stock, but not the Five per cent. and Six per cent. Ex- chequer Bonds.
States that the Secretary of State approves the conversion of the Four and a-half per cent. War Stock held on behalf of the Enemy Surplus Assets Accounts into the new Five per cent. War Loan.
EASTERN.
18 To Treasury
February 18
14
To Crown Agents
February 18
1915
15 The Governor
Hong Kong September 28 Confidential (Rec. Oct. 27)
16
The London Chamber
October 26
of Commerce
17 To Foreign Office,
Board of Trade,
November 9
Home Office, and India Office