SAFEGUARD OF DUTCH PROPERTY
[ROYAL DECREE PUBLISHED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 28. According to advice received by the Netherlands Consul, a Royal decree was published by the Netherlands Government on May 24 whereby measures were taken to safeguard the property of Netherlands individuals and companies against their disposal contrary to their interest, or those of the country. Under the decree claims of whatever description or legal form, including gold deposits, shares, securities, rights under credit arrangements and so on which belong to individual companies in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, who on May 15 were not resident outside the now occupied European part of the Kingdom and can be pledged, sold or disposed of in whatever form outside the aforementioned part of the kingdom, become as from May 24 last the property of the State
represented by the Royal Netherlands Government, temporarily resident in London. Such property will be administered in the interest of the original owner and proprietary interests will be restored after the war.
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Southland Times, Issue 24138, 29 May 1940, Page 8
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