CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8] — Page 13

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Headquarters China Command, Hongkong, 29th. June, 1916.

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With reference to your letter No. 3529/1915 of the 27th. instant regarding the Rev. A. H. Bach, I beg to inform you that all papers belonging to this prisoner of war were sent to Australia and given in charge of the Camp Commandant at Liverpool.

I personally interviewed Bach on several occasions

and no American naturalization papers were found, neither did he ever claim to be a naturalized American citizen, on the contrary

he acknowledged being a German and regretted that he had never taken out his papers.

For other information concerning him I would refer you to letter No. 4677/59 'A' of the 4th. March, 1916, addressed to His Excellency the Governor by the General Officer Commanding.

Bach was continually trying to impress the Superintendent of the Detention Barracks and myself with his pro- -Ally sentiments, which, however, were entirely concocted for the occasion as I discovered a letter written to him by his employers, the Zionist Mission in America dismissing him solely because his well known pro-German sentiments would be prejudicial to his missionary work in a neutral country like China. This letter was also forwarded to Australia amongst his other papers,

Since his dismissal from the Mission he had been active as a German agent in North China according to infomation received from Shanghai,

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(8d.) J. Cassel,

Captain,

D.A.A. & Q.M.G., China Command.

The Hon. Colonial Secretary,

Hongkong.