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No. 134.
Enclosure 2.
H.B.M.Consulate-General,
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
Your Excellency's letter No. 114 of October 23rd. forwarding reports regarding the connection between Mr. A. Richter and Messrs. Reuter, Brackelmann & Co. and asking for any additional evidence
regarding this matter,
The "fim" of Alfred Richter first made its appear.
-ance at Canton about December of last year and in this connection I have the honour to enclose copy (and two enclosures) of instructions issued by the State Department at Washington to the United States Consul-General at Canton. It will be observed that there is nothing in this letter indicating that Mr. Richter had taken over the business of Reuter, Brockelmann & Co. and it would Richter's also appear that the instructions for protection of ur. interests were limited to cover only bona-fide American interests.
I have had no opportunity off testing the accuracy
of Mr. Richter's statement in his letter of November 19 to the United States Secretary of State regarding the large American interests which he claimed to represent but I can state positively that the agency of the Texas Oil Co. about which he spoke with such confident assurance was never transferred to him but is actually held at Canton by the British firm of Reiss & Co.
In August last the Foreign Office telegraphed that Alfred Richter stated that he had taken over the interests of Reuter Brockelmann & Co. and had estabolished offices at Canton and declared that he had no connection direct or indirect with the German firm. The Foreign Office added that enquiry had been made by a British firm whether goods previously ordered by Reuter Brockelmann & Co. might be sold to Richter and information was desired by the Foreign office as to the status of Mr. Richter as a firm. On August 11th. I reported to His Majesty's Minister at Peking by telegraph that the British Chamber of Commerce at
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