CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8] — Page 292

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Enclosure 2.

PAUL BAUER

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Tientsin, June 14th 1921.

No.15 Yunnan Road.

The enager,

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Hongkong.

J.L jo

P 9:30 arid chim hotelret

1133 te vind orga

fout monnie (48)

Dear Sir,

1. I am the registered owner of three shares in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation viz:-

Shanghai Register No.N.S.2452 shares Los.25606,63909 and Shanghai Register 5/N.S.1111 shere No.92995.

2. Being an Austrian subject, these shares under the war regulations issued by your Government have been sequestered and no dividends and bonus have been paid on

them since 1916.

3. In reply to my enquiry concerning the right to take up a new share in the issue about to take place, Mr. Lloyd, the Custodian of Enemy Property in your Colony, by his letter dated June 4th 1921 refers me to you direct, stating that my shares have not been transferred to hie name.

4. I contend that the right to acquire a new shere on my three old shares has accrued to me after July 12th 1919, the date fixed in the agreement between Great Britain and Austrie, after which property and rights acquired by Austrian subjects in Great Britain her colonies or possessions, do not come any longer under the cognizance of the Custodian of Enemy Property.

me,

5. I therefore request you to be kind enough to inform

as to whether or not I may exercise the right to take

up a new share, and if this be the case under what conditione

I may do so.

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