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obtain delivery of the goods against a guarantee letter.
Enclosed I forward you copies of my letters to Mr. Steger of 27/5, 8/11, 21, 22, 26, and 28/6.
I am very much annoyed that in spite of our careful preparations we have lost the agency of the Texas for Canton. This hes Leen got by Heiss and Company. Just as John Kanners of Siemssen and Company and F. Backhouse of Sander, Wieler and Company have been able to establish their own firms in Canton and Hongkong, I am thoroughly of the opinion that we should have been able to establish S.R. and Company in Canton if Schuleter had understood while he was in Hongkong that he should hide the fact that he was looking after German interests. Above all, he should not have left his letter book and correspondence file contain- ing our plans in Hongkong, Cheetham holds the same view. Above all, it is now necessary that we receive a new con- signment which must be through to Canton as I already have always advised with regard to the present consignment.
I wrote on this matter on the 22nd instant to lir. Steger who should have taken up the matter with Sanders. In any case this would be the only way at present to keep in touch with the Texas and eventually to win back the Agency.
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1st JULY, 1915,
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Dear Mr. Steger,
Texas
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Hongkong. The "Panama" arrived on 30/6 in Whangpoa, with some 68,000 cases, and already on the first day discharged 6,000 cases. She began to discharge at 2 o'clock in the afternoon as L.0.H. says R. and Company are not very clever with regard to unloading and the way they undertake the work will cost you over 4 cents per case.
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