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2. It will be seen that the matter is rather one for the War Office than for this Department, and I am to suggest that you should communicate with the War Office on the subject.

I am, &c.,

H. J. READ,

for the Under-Secretary of State.

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No. 123.

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 26th January, 1916.)

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SIR,

(No. 130. Confidential.)

Government House, Nairobi,

British East Africa, 20th December, 1915. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch dated the 11th of November,* and to inform you that the procedure laid down therein for the liquidation of enemy firms is similar to that which is being followed in this Protectorate.

2. I would refer you to the Liquidation of Enemy Firms Rules, 1915, Rule 4 (5), published in the Official Gazette of the 17th of November.

I have, &c.,

C. C. BOWRING,

SIR,

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 10th January, 1916.)

[Copy to Governor, 13th January, 1916, No. 22. L.F.]

[Answered by No. 122.]

War Office, London, S.W., 9th January, 1916. WITH reference to your letter No. 59682/1915, of the 3rd instant, forward- ing correspondence in connexion with the case of Messrs. Schauer, Welter & Com- pany, I am commanded by the Army Council to inquire what reply is being made by your Department to the letter addressed to you by the Board of Trade on 21st ultimot on the subject.

I am to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law, that, as the question of the firm being declared an alien firm is apparently being dealt with by your Department in conjunction with the Board of Trade, the Council do not pro- pose to concern themselves directly with this aspect of the case.

I am to add that, in accordance with your suggestion, an inquiry will be addressed to the General Officer Commanding in East Africa as to the circum- stances in which the sanatorium was commandeered should your reply to the Board of Trade not dispose of this question.

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I am, &c.,

B. B. CUBITT.

Governor's Deputy.

No. 124.

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 26th January, 1916.)

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No. 122.

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE. COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.

[Copy to Governor, 13th January, 1916, No. 22. L.F.]

Downing Street, 13th January, 1916.

SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th of January, and to transmit to you, for the information of the Army Council, the accompanying copy of a letters addressed to the Board of Trade on the 3rd instant, relating to the case of Messrs. Schauer, Welter & Com- pany. Copies of the enclosures to that letter have already been transmitted to you. 2. I am to invite attention to the second paragraph of the despatch from the Governor of the East Africa Protectorate of the 25th of August last, No. 641,|| in which it is stated that the firm was closed by the military authorities soon after the outbreak of hostilities. It would appear from this that the local military authorities treated the firm as an alien one, and that any further question regarding its status is rather one for the Army Council than for this Department.

I am, &c.,

H. J. READ, for the Under-Secretary of State.

(No. 876.)

SIR,

[Answered by No. 137.]

Government House, Nairobi, British East Africa,

22nd December, 1915. I HAVE the honour to report that the Westdeutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschaft, of Mombasa, now in process of liquidation by the Official Liquidator of Enemy Aliens, purchased on the 18th of July, 1914, from the National Bank of India, Mombasa, a draft for £1,000 on the London office of that bank.

2. This draft has never been presented at the hauk for payment and is prob- ably in the head office of the Company at Dusseldorf.

3, The local branch of the bank was requested to transfer the amount in question back to the credit of the Company in Mombasa, but decline to do so on the grounds that they will probably be called upon to pay the draft after the War. 4. I consider this attitude on the part of the bank to be reasonable, but I have to suggest that the money should be paid over in London to the Custodian of Enemy Property earmarked as in payment of the draft, so that the question of eventual payment or set-off may be settled at home.

5. The local branch of the bank have been requested to treat the matter in this way.

I have, &c.,

C. C. BOWRING.

Governor's Deputy.

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+ No. 117.

‡ No. 121.

§ No. 120,

|| No. 109.

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