CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 427

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CITY OF LONDON POLICE.

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34842 REC?

REG 29 JUL 15

SUBJECT.

Eastwood & Holt,

Dunster House,

Mincing Lane, E.C.

Detective Department,

14th July, 1915.

With reference to the subject named in rargin and attached letter with enclosures from the Home Office, I beg to report having called at the Offices of Messrs. Eastwood & Holt, Produce Brokers, Dunster House, Mincing Lane, E.C., where I was informed by Mr. Arthur Frederick Owen Holt, Bipers Hill, Byfleet, Surrey, that he and Mr. Frank Bruce Erstwood, High Clandon, Guildford, Surrey, both British subjects are the only members of the firm, and all their staff are also British.

L.A. HANNIBAL & CO:

Mr. Holt informs me that Nr. ...A. Hennibal,

a British subject, was some gears 0-0, assistant

to Charles Lyall Grant, who was then Hanaging Director to a concern called London Oriental

Arency, whose address was the Offices of Eastwood

& Holt.

Charles Lyall Grant left and W.A. Hannibal

succeeded him and subse uently took over the

business of the London Oriental Agency and

traded as L.A. Hannibal & Co.

Mr. Hann bal in cuccession to the Agency vas

the London agent o: Messrs. ndt & Co. of Hong Kong,

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but about 7 years ago he went over to Hon

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