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Res 11 MAY 16
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The Swiss Minister presents his compliments to His Excellency the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Trade Department) and has the honour to remit to NIV enclosed an Affidavit of the Swiss firm of R. Pfister and Company, of Zurich, stating that they have Branch Establishments at Shanghai and Yokohama ani that they are of Swiss nationaltity, as well as that
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they done no trading with the enemies of Great Britain in any form since the outbreak of war; an extract of the Comercial Register of Zurich, with respect to Mesurs. Prister is also attached to this note.
Messrs. Pfister ask for the intervention of the Lega. -tion in order to recove the difficulties to communicate
by cable with their Branches in East-Asia,cau
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sou by the British Censor for a good number of months past. They think that the suspicion of HIS MAJESTY': Authorities must have arisen from an incident at Shanghai in September 1915 when the French Autnorities had seized soce consigmenta of silk belonging to the Branch in that city ani in con- -sequence of which the firm has not been put on the "hile List". A careful enquiry has, however, shown that these
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