CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914 — Page 457

Any further communication on the

subject of this letter should be addressed

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THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

HOME OFFICE,

LONDON, S. W.

and the following number quoted

241222/2

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46181

HOME OFFICE,

450

RESE 23 WHITEHALI.

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This

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20th November, 1914.

sir.

I am directed by Mr. Secretary McKenna to

say for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt that

last year an application for the grant of a Certificate

of Naturalisation was made by Harry Rudolf Willien

Wehrenberg, who was born in Germany of German parert s

on 17th August 1893, and was brought over to this

Country at the age of two months. The reports on him

were favourable, and Mr. McKenna decided in October

1913

best to grant a Certificate. Wehrenberg, who is a

Beaman, sailing in British ships, had however left

the Country on a three years voyage before the miter

could be completed by the taking of the oath of

allegiance: he is therefore not a British Subject at

the present time, but a German Subject unless he has

lost his German nationality.

It is

The enclosed letters from Fehrenberg have

now been forwarded to the Home Office by the Heroantila

Marine Office Superintendent at West Hartlepool, one

of them being addressed to his stepfather.

impossible to comply with his request that the

Certificate of Katuralisation may be forwarded to him at Hong Kong, as the oath of allegiance should be taken

in this Country.

As regards Wehrenberg's statement that he has

taken the oath of allegiance, it is possible that he

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.