CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12] — Page 425

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 23rd. December, 1918.

With reference to your predecessor's

Despatch Miscellaneous of the 25th. November, 1915, regarding the registration of claims by British subjects in respect of

property requisitioned, sequestrated, or destroyed by Enemy

Governments, I have the honour to transmit here with for the

consideration of the Foreign Claims Office, a Declaration by

Mr. John Hennessey Seth of this Colony, relating to the loss

of certain jewellery, the property of himself and his wife,

valued at £2,035 on the occasion of the sinking of the S. 8.

"Yasaka Maru" in December, 1915, by enemy action.

2.

I take this opportunity to request that

I may be supplied with a copy of the requisite form of

Declaration in respect of such claims for future use, and I

would further ask that the form of Mr. Seth's present

Declaration may, in the circumstances, be accepted by the

Foreign Claims Office, although it may possibly differ in

some respects from the form that should properly have been

used.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

Caussever

Officer Administering the Government.

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WALTER LONG, M.P.,

&c.,

&c. ..