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REG 22 JUL 15
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 18th. June, 1915.
In continuation of my Confidential Despatch of the 5th. instant, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your code telegram of the thInstant, copy enclosed, and to
confirm my reply, copy enclosed, of the 10th. June in sending which
I regret that I did not appreciate the fact that Mr. Cheetham
contemplated appointing Mr. Schlüter as his sub-agent in Canton. I
526875 have also to acknowledge your code telegram of the 12th. instant,
copy enclosed, and to confirm my reply of the 16th. instant, copy
Gr. 27685- of which is also enclosed.
2.
In accordance with your instructions con-
(975)
-tained in your telegram of the 12th. instant I caused the letter
copy of which is enclosed, to be addressed to Messrs. Johnson,
Stakes and Master and on the 16th. instant I heard Mr. Cheetham
in his defence. Mr. Cheetham was accompanied by his Solicitor. The
Colonial Secretary and Attorney-General were present.
The gist of ir. Cheetham's defence, which he
conducted himself in a straightforward manner which created a good impression, was that while Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann might no
doubt entertain hopes to regain after the war the agency for Hong-
-kong and South China of the Texas Oil Company, they had at
present no interest in the agency whatever. To prove this he referred to a letter, copy enclosed, from Mr. Stegar the former Head of the Branch of Lessrs. Reuter Bröckelmann in Hongkong and
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDREW BOMAR LAW, M.P.,
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