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sures 12/2.

HONGKONG.

C. O

56945

RECO

REG 10 DEC 15

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

2nd. November, 1915.

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sir.

I have the honour to submit copies of cor-

-respondence with the Consul-General for the United States of America regarding the general question of the attitude taken up by this Government in the matter of neutral trade passing through

Hongkong.

The Consul-General makes specific reference to

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the case of Mr. Richter and also to the similar cases of a Mr.

J. A. Kahl of New York and Messrs. Frazar and Company of Shanghai

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I have addressed you separately on the cases of Mr. Richter and

of Mesors. Fraser and Company.

3.

Mr. Kahl is an American citizen resident in

New York, who, immediately after the issue of the King's Proclama- -tion which changed the status of German firms in China from

neutral to enemy, opened the firm of Messrs. J. A. Kahl and Company, he having been up to that date a broker or agent in the United States of America for Messrs. Siemssen and Company, and appointed as his Agent at Canton Mr. Ernest Lund, Manager at Canton of the German Firm of Messrs. Siemssen & Co.

4.

The telegraphic correspondence noted in the margin, copies of which are enclosed, refers to the seizure of

a shipment made by Messrs. J. A. Kahl and Company under a Chinese

name

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ANDREW BON AR LAW, M.P.,

&C..

&c.,

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