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MANSION HOUSE 9067.

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Liber

F 1499

28 CORNHILL

E.C.3.

4th February 1942

:

1942

Dear Bennett,

1.

2.

Can you answer any of the following questions:-

Does the fact that war has made it impossible to implement a contract automatically terminate it?

If a contract is not thus automatically terminated, what is reasonable notice to a man in continuous service on yearly pay and, if war prevents this notice, is the employer absolved from giving it?

What is the legal position of a firm towards a man, who:-

3.

(a)

(b)

4.

(c)

(a)

(i) has been interned in China

(ii)

left uninterned in China

Is a civilian in Hong Kong and has been

(i) left uninterned

(ii) interned

Is an embodied volunteer in Hong Kong and has been

(i) left uninterned

(ii) interned

Is a conscript in Hong Kong and has been

(i) left uninterned

(ii) interned.

N.B.

Relations between a man and his employee automatically cease the day he is conscripted. Does this apply in the case of a volunteer on embodiment?

If a man falls into enemy hands, what is the legal position about the administration of his affairs?

Yours sincerely,

J.C.Sterndale Bennett,Esq., M.C.,

Foreign Office,

S.W. 1

Austurre

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