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REG 26 OCT 15
Sanders, Rehders & Co. Ltd.,
108, Fenchurch Street,
Ref. T.E. 1110/10.
sir,
London, E.0.
2nd Oct. 1915.
The Under Secretary of State,
Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.
We have received your letter of the 28th inst. in-
forming us that E.M.Secretary of State thinks that we should
have no further dealings with the following firms in China:
Reuter Brockelmann & Co., Hongkong, Canton, Shanghai, Tientsin,
Bander Wieler & Co.,
" and Tsingtau.
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Faust & Co. Tientsin.
Wm. Meyerink & Co., Shanghai.
von During Wibel & Co., Pekin & Mentsin.
In case, as it would appear, you are not fully seized
of all the facts and circumstances, we have pleasure in
supplementing the very full information we gave to Inspector
Billing when he called on us at your request.
With regard to the first two firms' establishments
at Hongkong, these are being slowly and laboriously liquidated
by English firms appointed by the Government of that Colony.
We have patiently endeavoured to get some satisfaction out of
the liquidators in regard to good which they are properly
handling and as to goods of which they have improperly ob-
tained possession. As however these establishments are
operating in the British Empire and under the supervision of
British Authorities, we take it that H.M.Secretary of State
does not really think, as you write, that we should have no
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