CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920 — Page 403

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The Danish Minister presents his compliments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour

to lay the following case before Earl Curzon,

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Captain Jacob Bendixen, a resident of Aabenraa in

the first plebiscite zone of Slesvig, has applied to the Kings Government for its assistance in recovering possession of his property which being invested in a German undertaking at Hong Kong was sequestrated as enemy property. As will

be seen from the enclosed translation of Mr. Bendixen's

application he is part owner of certain vesele belonging

to the firm of Jebsen and Company of the said place and moreover claims a considerable sun deposited with the company

and therefore sequestrated with the rest of its assets.

The standpoint adopted in the letter of November 23rd last

from the President of the Peace Conference to the Danish

Minister at Paris ( of which a copy is appended) indicates

that, although no claim of the nature here involved can be

made good against the German Government, the Peace Treaty

having already been signed, the Principal Allied and Asso-

ciated Powers are disposed favourably to consider and to do

their utmost to give effect to an equitable settlement of the

claims of those German subjects who in virtue of the

Treaty are about to become definitely Danish subjects.

Mr. Bendixen, besides being a lifelong resident in the first

zone, was born there of Danish parents in 1860 and therefore

previously to the acquisition by Prussia of this Danish

territory his case would seem to be especially entitled to

the benevolent consideration of the Allied Powers and more

particularly of His Britannic Lajesty's Government, seeing

that/

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