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On the other hand, I do not quite understand their
connection in America with the American metal Company,
and in London with H.R.Merton & Company. Mr. Yasuda told
me that these two concerns were practically the same,
and we know that Otto Keimers & Company besides dealing
with E.P. Earle, also had several transactions in copper
with the American Metal Company,
The exact status of Henry R. Merton & Company of
London 18 doubtless known at the Foreign Office, as the
Solicitor General in the case of the Zinc concentrates
seized on the British Steamer "Bilbster" at Swansea,
made a very interesting statement as to the connec-
tions of this firm with the parent concern, the Metall
Gesellschaft of Frankfurt.
I have, etc.,
(Signed)
E P. Crowe.
H.B.M.Commercial Attaché.
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