CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12] — Page 722

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His Excellency

Enclosure 2.

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Sir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G., Governor in Council and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Sheweth as follows:-

The humble Petition of Frederick Reich -mann of the Grand Hotel, Victoria, in the Colony of Honkong.

1. Your Petitioner has held a licence in respect of the above-named Grand Hotel since 1909.

2. On the 4th. day of November, 1914, your petitioner applied to the Licensing Board for 1 renewal of the snaid licence, but such application was refused.

3. Your petitioner believes that the reason for the refusal of his said application is that he was born in Germany, and that, were it not for the facts hereinafter set forth, (which facts were evidently unknow to all the members of the Board) he might be deemed to be in alien enemy.

4. Although your petitioner was born in Germany, he left that country in the year 1897 with a fried fixed intention of never retuming thereto, either for the purpose of serving for an allotted time in the German Army as is required by German Low of German subjects, or for my other purpose whatsoever.

5. In consequence of your petitioner having carried out his intention not to return to Germany, it is impossible for him to set foot in German territory without incurring heavy risks; and it has further been rendered so impossible for him either to re- -turn to Germmy or to associate with German subjects in con- -sequence of the fact that he has frequently expressed very strony views in the hearing or to the knowledge of German subjects in favour of Great Britain and against Germany in the present cry crisis.

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