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(To accompany Enclosure 1.)

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Shanghai, 16th. December, 1914.

Before me the undersigned official appears this

day Mrs. Johannes Buhrmann from Hongkong and makes the following

declaration;

My husband, the Captain and Pilot Johannes Buhrmana,

born 15th. Kay, 1865 at Lubeck has been interned as a prisoner of

war at the British camp in Kowloon since the outbreak of the

present war, presumably because in his profession as a pilot

between Hongkong and Canton he is acquainted with the navigable

woters and the entrance to the port of Hongkong.

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As all other German Captains and Pilots who ply in

Southern waters, have been released in the montime and a

German shipping is at a standstill in Southern China at present

not to mention the fact that my husband is above 49 years of age,

I beg to submit through the kind office of the Consul for the

U. St. America at Hongkong the release of my husband. I may

further mention that the latter is already four years above the

German military age limit and that in consequence he is in no way connected with the German Kilitary or Naval authorities.

I am staying at present with my three children at

Shanghai. As I am in a destitute condition the Yangtse-Pilot Captain Kalkofen has offered me free board and lodging.

Registered.

(Sign.)

Gatjen,

Chancellor to the German Consulate-Camerot.