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AABENRAA,
January 8th, 1920.
id rodden ai
The undersigned Captain Jacob Bendixen, of 35 Jürgens-
gaard, Aabenraa, ventures hereby to make the following appli-
cation to the Ministry for Slesvig.
During a period of years, before the outbreak of the
war, I sailed the China sens in the service of Lessrs. E.
Jebsen of Aabenraa. Then war was declared I succeeded in
taking my ship into the neutral, Chinese port of Swatow, whence
I returned home in May 1915 via America and Copenhagen.
As a German subject I was preclude i from any connection
with Hong Kong and for the same reason I was unable to with-
draw a sum of $10,000 deposited at Hong Kong with Mesers.
Jebsen & Co., which sum with interest at 5% should now amount
to $13,000. When the British wound up the affairs of this Company and sequestrated its assets the amount to my credit
was simultaneously appropriated. The vessels belonging to the
firm, in several of which I have a pecuniary interest, were
likewise confiscated by the Allied powers. Although I still
hope that the bulk of my fortune has not been entirely lost,
it has at all events been placed beyond my reach.
I therefore beg the Ministry now that the reunion of
Slesvig with Denmark is at hand, to take steps with a view
to the return of my fortune as well as my shares in the firm and if possible to arrange for the transfer of these
aagets to the Danish Government.
I was born at Stollig near Aabenraa in 1860; my father
Hans Bendixen who was born i 1828 also belonged to Stollig
The Ministry for Slesvig,
Copenhagen,
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