CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 455

Shim

Telephone syVICTORIA 8630 (8 Lines). Telegrarna: "CAMCOM, VIO., LONDON."

Any further communication should be

reesed to-

THE "CHAIRMAN,'"

moting reference

JB. T.L. 04874.

C

453

WAR TRADE INTELLIGENCE Department,

BROADWAY HOUSE,

35946

TOTHILL STREET,

WESTMINSTER, S.W.

REC

REG 31 JUL

27th July, 1916.

FOR THE FOREIGN OFFICE.

Transit Letter 04874.

Subject

far indemnity

blaims by enemy

firms in the

To:

Far East.

From: Ditmar, Brunner Bros. Ltd., Shanghai.

Ditmar, Brinner Bros. Ltd., 57 Eugengasse,

Vienna.

Enclosed in this correspondence is copy of a long

Protest, undated, addressed by German fims in Hong-kong to the German Government regarding the compulsory liquidation of German and Austrian firms by the British Authorities.

Among the enclosures are two Bank ass Books of the Shanghai firm's account with the Deutsche Asiatische

Bank.

Austrian and German traders in the Far East are demanding an indemnity estimated at the capital vaule of the average profit made during the past ten years with interest at 6 making a total of about seventeen times the average annual profit before the war.

The original letter which is dated 29/4/16 is with the Postal Censor numbered as above.

(Copy for information to the Postal Censor and T.T.I.D.)