CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 472

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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but they are also considerably interested in piece

goods. The firms which are supposed to have had this

Trust at the back of them are:-

Carlowitz and Company.

Jebsen and Company.

H. Diederichsen & Company.

Arnhold, Karberg and Company.

but nothing of so interesting a nature as in the case

of Jebsen's liquidation has transpired among the papers

of

the other firms. In fact, as far as Carlowitz's

liquidation is concerned, it is said that there were

very few papers of any kind to be found, as Charles

Rayner, the so-called Englishman, had been busy in

Hongkong with his firm's affairs prior to the German

houses being ordered to be wound up there.

As far as Hongkong is concerned, there appears to

be no doubt whatever that the German importing houses

had the bulk of the textile trade, a fact in the past

In addition to this,

which never could be explained.

it appears to have been remarkable how successful the

Germans

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