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the Hong Kong Alien Enemies Winding up

Ordinances of which copies are enclosed

for convenience of reference. Mr Long

understands that the business carried on

before the war by Messrs Arnhold Karberg

and Company in this country has not been

liquidated under the Trading with the

Enery Amendment Act 1916, but that

the two vessrs Arnhold have been permitted

by the Board of Trade to set up in business

on their om account, and to use the firm name

of Arnhold, Karberg and Company on the

assumption that the partnership under the

Deed of Noverter 12th, 1912, expired on the

31st of December, 1915, and that the goodwill

thereupon became vested in the Messrs Arnhold.

3. Mr Long has not yet received any expres-

sion of the Governor's views regarding the

desirability of allowing the Messrs Arnhold to

resure business operations in Hong Kong, but even

if the decision on this point should be favourable

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to the Messrs Arnhold he foresees great

difficulty in allowing them to make

use of the trade marks of the old firm,

since, as the Board are already aware

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from

ang interest in the

tus Valuable marks which were owned in the colony by enemies before to wor

previous corr.

it has been

decided not to allow the sale of any

trade marks in Hong Kong to British

Out

subjects and to take the necessary

steps to prevent those trade marks

from being put on the market. Even,

Certain therefore, if it were asserted that after

would

the war the Messrs Arnhold i te sclety

entitled to the goodwill and trade

marks of the old firm in Hong Kong, the

grant of permission to them to use these

trade marks during the war would in all

probability cause great dissatisfaction

Manufacturers & amongst the British/merchants in that

Colony who are unable to aquire

4. In these circumstances Mr

Long may find it desirable to take

advantage of the provisions of the

Hong Kong

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