CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6] — Page 127

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REGE 23 JUN 17

HONGKONG.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

27th. April, 1917.

sir,

I have the honour to state for your inform-

ation certain facts relating to a request made by the

American Express Co. of London to the Hongkong and Shanghai

Banking Corporation for the forwarding of certain funds standing here in the name of Mrs. Louise Hilda Emilia White.

Mrs. White is stated by the American Express Co. to be a

British subject residing at Kiel as her health does not permit of her leaving Germany. They also state that permission has been granted by the Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury for a monthly remittance of £20 to be made to her for her maintenance. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

have 83,458 in Mrs. White's current account and they also hold

23 Hongkong Hotel debentures.

2.

It is believed that Mrs. White is the wife of

Mr. Harry 1'Homene-dieu White, an American subject, who ws employed in the Pacific Mail Steamship Company here, and that she is of German birth or extraction. They had German

friends here. Mrs. White appears to have been most indiscreet

in her utterances in public while in the Colony and showed pronounced pro-German sympathies. She was warned by the

Consul-General

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WALTER LONG, M. P.,

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