CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4] — Page 76

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19 APR 15

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 11th. March, 1915.

Sir,

I have the honour to address you with reference

to the question of trade marks registered in the names of enemy

$175 subjects and firus, a matter which I informed you in my Confidenti-

But al

-al Despatch of the 4th. December, 1914, was under consideration.

I may say that in general in this Despatch I use the term "enemy"

as meaning "of enemy nationality" and not as necessarily connoting

a trade domicile in enemy territory, and that I use the term "enery firm" as meaning a firm composed in whole or part of enemy subjects. There are three main problems with regard to the trade marks above referred to.

2.

One is the protection of the marks in the interests of the enemy owners, and in the interests of other persons interested in such marks who are not enemy subjects, for example, firms in the United Kingdom who used to manufacture or export the goods to the order of German firms in Hongkong. A view has been expressed locally that the expulsion and internment of all enemy subjects, the revocation of their licences to trade, and the passing of the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance, 1914, have had the effect of determining the goodwill of every business for- merly carried on in the Colony by enemy subjects, and that by

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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