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Translation of Extracts taken from series, 22405454 dated from 5.12.14 to 24.4.15 posted under one cover from Lud. Voight, Hamburg, to Lud. Toight & Co., 38 Kiange Road, Shanghai, through Eugen Ritter, isontreux, Switzerland, and consequently stopped for "Evasion".
7.12.14.
Silk Goods. I have received the Samples "A" to"G". For the moment there is naturally nothing to be done with France.
I will however try Switzerland.
Ind. 547. 10 Cases Poplin. This order was originally intended for Townsley but I could not succeed in placing it there now. As it is always my endeavour to attract the Bradford trade to Germany I had
sent this order to W. & Co., etc.
7. 12. 14.
The transfer of the deposit with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank here (Hamburg) desired by you cannot be made, because it is contrary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Proclamation of 30th. September, 1914, referring to the prohibition of payments to enemy countries.
The actual circumstances are not altered thereby at all, as the mumy money is in the hands of an enemy Bank in Germany. This Bank has been placed under State control and may not
send any money abroad.
From your private letter dated 10.10.14 one can plainly understand that the H. & S. Bank refuses to give up the deposit to Mr. Martiny and falls back on the legal right to support its action. That acts also on this side as the H. & S. Bank has very rightly foreseen. Apart from the fact that the ex- -change would have gone considerably in your favour, the H. & S, Bank will not pay out cash any more than it will pay out deposits. On the other hand, however, if you owed the H. & S. Bank money against the deposits, this will naturally have to be paid, only after the conclusion of the war. I would suggest that if it is im-
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