Mr. MONTAGUE BARLOWasked the Attorney-General whether, in view of a recent decision in the Courts, he will introduce legislation at an early date rendering it impossible for the future for German subjects to register themselves as an English company and enjoy the privileges secured to subjects of the Crown under the English Companies Acts?
§ Sir EDWARD CARSONI refer my lion. Friend to an answer given by me on the 22nd June last to a question put to me by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for York, and also to an answer given by my predecessor on the 6th May in answer to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford. German subjects cannot during the War register themselves as an English company, and as to existing corporations, the difficulty is to find some means of preserving the rights of shareholders who are British, Allies, or neutrals.