CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9] — Page 160

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British Government. Practically all your Petitioners are members of

the Police Reserve. Further than this some of the Portuguese Community

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7. It is an incontestable fact that the liquidators of the various

German Firms derived most of their information as to the working of

these firms from the Portuguese employees that is to say, your Petition-

-ers. Upon reference to the various liquidators this can be ascertained

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Some of the liquidators have generously granted a bonus to the Portuguese staff who have assisted them and in some cases have paid a lump sum by way of gratuity. There are however a number whose service

have not been so recognised.

10. In every case your Petitioners have families to keep and owing

to the extremely complicated legal questions arising and also owing to their straightened means they have not been able to test their

right to compensation in the Courts of Hongkong.

11. Now that Peace has been declared and the liquidation of various

German Firma is practically concluded your Petitioners feel that they

are entitled to some form of recognition out of the funds available

to the Government arising from the liquidation of the German Firms

in this Colony.

Your Petitioners therefore pray that your

Excellency will be pleased to appoint a

commission to consider the payment to your

Petitionera whether by way of bonus or other-

wise of a sum to compensate those formerly

employed by German Firms and whom the respecti-

ve liquidators have not recognised in any way.

And your Petitioners will ever pray do.

(P.T.0.)