SANDERS.REHDERS & CO LTD
LONDON,MANCHESTER,NEW YORK.
Telegraphic Address
LONDON
"THEODOSIUS" MANCHESTER.
LONDON
Telephones.
AVENUE N° 43.
ANCHESTER
AVENUE NY 1426.
CITY N 7184.
CITY No F105.
468
3017
REC
REG. JANIE
08. Fenchurch Street.
London
18th Jan. 1915.
E.C.
190 REPLY PLEASE REFER TO
Directorate. DEPARTMENT:
H.M. Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street, S.W.
sir,
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We obtained in 1910 the agency for China of an important
American Oil producing company the Texas Company of Port Arthur
and New York - and entrusted the distributing part of the agency to
Messrs.Reuter Brockelmann & Co., Hongkong, with whom we had for
many years done a large trade in Lancashire and Yorkshire goods
and other British merchandise.
This Oil business, representing already an amount of
not less than £100,000 a year, is capable of great further
development and it has all these years been financed by us in
London through British banks only. The business is thus a
source of considerable profit to us and the London banks who are
anxious to participate in the financial side of it, especially
as the business is a very safe one.
As the Hongkong firm referred to is German, we are
desirous of eliminating it from the business and making the neces-
sary arrangements in Hongkong to this end. The business has all the time been actually worked by Mr. Hakon Schluter, a British sub-
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