CO129-566-10 Dr. Jakob Franklin Reiss- application for visa 4-5-1938 - 3-2-1939 — Page 14

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2nd November, 1938.

M. Herbert Kanheimer,

7 Rue Lesueur 16e, Paris.

Dear Mr. Kanheimer,

Hong Kong Visa

Dr. F. Reiss

I received to-day the German Passport of your brother- in-law, Dr. Franklin Reiss, along with the copy certificate from the Berlin Professor. This afternoon I again saw the passport authorities and I now find that it is absolutely essential that you and Dr. Reiss carry out the following instructions:

1. Go to the British Passport Control Officer, (Aliens Visa Department), 16 Avenue Hoche, Paris 8,

2.

3.

Show him this letter,

As your London solicitor I state:

(a) That I have made arrangements with the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office here to give sympathetic and rapid consideration to Dr. Reiss's application to be allowed to land in, and stay in, Hong Kong, to practise his profession of medicine after procuring the Hong Kong degree,

(b) That the Colonial Office cannot act with-- out an advice from 16 Avenue Hoche that the