CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915 — Page 43

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even if we got the goods acize & condemned

therefore that ence there would be any

balance left to the Crown(it will be observed that

Capp the goods are not of a kind likely to have preciated during t pro, ress of the war, peing hard-ware and cotton

Moreover the Klamm shipment are perhaps yet talle sewing read respectivel; In these circumst nões,

unless you think it desirable to pursue the question

further, and ascertain definitely whether the goods

were enemy owned at the outbreak of war, I should be

inclined to let the shipment go through.

In the case of the Fromm shipments this Ces proceden

will, of course, be for the benefit of the British

Allied and neutral creditors of the Hong Kong Bank.

In the case of the Lamm shipment it would be only for the benefit of Lamm Brothers of Antwerp, but I do

not think we would be justified

Glam

Der Gorory up

Brothers' goods, although this firm are, I think, to some extent suspect. We probably should fail to seb them condemned or forfeited by letting the shipment proceed

The proper course will, I think, be to allow the importation of both shipments

and to

secure from the Bank an undertaking not to part with

received in respect of the Llamm Shipment the money during. Une continuance of the war without

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the consent of the Secretary of State.

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