CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 364

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FFEE LLOW POLS'

Needless to say neither the Hongkong Manager, nor

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any of our other Branch Managers, had the least thought 360

made the least attempt to enter into any kind of business

transactions with the Hamburg Branch since the outbreak of War. On the contrary - I have conveyed to each of them my appreciation of their great foresight and scrupulous observance of the regulations, and of the strictest discretion with which they have

acted,

the more so as I felt that the responsibility for the

least step in the wrong direction of any of our Managers in the

numerous Branches would be cast upon me,

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I also wish to point out that I was aware that all the

Furthermore I was aware correspondence passing was censored.

that owing to the fact that my partner was living in enemy country the danger existed that we should be judged as a Hostile firm, and in consequence the Branches in Hongkong and elsewhers would come under liquidation, and therefore if I had done

anything in contravention to the Law or Royal Proclamation it

would without fail have been detected.

The foregoing in itself will bear out that although as

I freely admit I have committed a thoughtless indiscretion I had

not the least intention of committing a wrong motion.

When on Saturday last I interviewed Kr. A. Crapper of

your office, I showed him the original reports which I referred

to in my letter to Hongkong. They have never been disturbed bu*

were filed away in envelopes marked with the dates, to be

forwarded to Hamburg at the conclusion of the War.

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