CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920 — Page 577

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

No. 239/V,73.

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The Danish Minister presents his compliments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour, acting under instructions from the King's Government, to lay

the following case before Earl Curzon.

Alfred Emil Petersen who being born at Vegesack (G« on January 29th, 1874 as son of a Danish subject,was at the

has since been outbreak of war without national status recognized as a Danish citizen in virtue of the law of Nov. 27th, 1916, Mr. Petersen held in 1914 a position in the Mor. deutsche Lloyd at Bangkok and when in 1917 Sian entered the war he was interned and deported to Ahmednagar in India while his property of about 10 000 dollars, deposited with the Ne- derlandsche-Indische Handelsbank at Hongkong, was mequestrated by the Custodian of Enemy Property.

Under these circumstances and considering that Mr. Peter- sen is practically destitute Monsieur de Grevenkop Castenskiold ventures to request Earl Curzon to be good enough to take any steps that may be possible to ensure that the assets in

question

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