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<p>[Page 111]</p><p>can’t and won’t look after the place. Of the Germans, only Salomons and Kilian are still in Singapore, but they live in the bungalows near the barracks and are not allowed outside, so they wouldn’t have been able to do anything either. Fortunately, the big Kaiser portraits and the Bismarck bust were given to Behr & Co. at the time, where they should still be. Maybe the custodian has sold the land and the building, which would be the best outcome, but I haven’t read anything in the Strait Budgets that reached us.</p><p>They continue liquidating German companies in Singapore at a fast clip, and our former English competitors will make some “healthy’’ profits from German property, shares, etc etc. In the meantime, they will have begun to seize the private wealth of Germans and Austrians, since anybody who held German funds or other assets in trust had to notify the Custodian for enemy property. Thus, my furniture will probably have been sold, unless Katz</p>