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prosperity of the Colony, and in their capacity as peaceful trad-

ers they consider themselves and their businesses a valuable

asset to the Colony. It has taken decades of hard and strenuous work to create such an asset which they consider particularly

valuable to the Colony since they have as impartial traders been

instrumental to a great extent in attracting to this port busi-

ness from and with all quarters of the Globe thereby promoting

British trade more than that of any other nation.

Recent legislation by which all German firms are forcibly to be liquidated by a receiver at a heavy cost of liquidation and that on short notice without their om assistance being permitted and without any arrangements for the minimizing of losses being possible, means nothing but the destruction of t the labour and energy of many decades, and practically the ruin of many who, during a lifetime, have devoted all their strength and energy to building up business which largely contributes to the prosperity of the Colony. While we recognise the stern necessities of war and can understand the feelings of the British Government as to the struggle in Europe we feel at the same time that the course now being followed towards us is such as to strike at the individual rather than at the nation and to injure and destroy us personally rather than to aid by any material and practical means the cause of Great Britain in Europe.

The undersigned German firms therefore are of opinion that they do not trespass beyond the limits of respect and propriety in lodging a protest against the severe treatment to which they are being exposed, and they feel on this point all the more strongly, in that to the best of their knowledge no fault whatever has been found with the behaviour of any of the Germans resident in Hongkong particularly since the outbreak of

war.

We should feel much obliged if you will be good enough