CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 500

In any further communication

on the subject, please quote

No. 91668/C

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Ofce,

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FOREIGN OFFICE

498

August 26, 1916.

London,

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sir.

Bith

reference to your letter of May 13th last

(No 20985/1916), relative to the question whether pay-

ments may be made out of the assets of enemy firms which

are being liquidated in Hong Kong to enemy employés and

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partners interned in Japan, I am directed by Viscount

Grey to inform you that in his opinion, in the parallel

case of a British subject interned in Austria, it is un-

likely that the German Government would allow such payments

to be made.

Consequently he considers that no such payments

should be made to Germans interned in Japan.

If the German Government later raise the point His

Majesty's Government will have to demand reciprocity.

I am,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Maurice de Nursen

The Under Secretary of State.

Colonial Office.

EF

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