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SARCO
SARCO ENGINEERING CO.
INCORPORATER UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
SOUTH FERRY BUILDING
NEW YORK
C. O.
6402
CABLE ADDRESS:
"BARRECORD "
Export Department
IREC
REG: 10 FEB 16,
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
şir,
London, S.W.
516
AND AT
COLONY BUILDING CHICAGO, ILL,
NEW YORK. January 22nd, 1916.
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I beg to refer to your letter, dated Downing Street the
4th instant (a copy of which was sent to me by my colleague Mr. E. J. :)
Carroll, London), by which you acquaint my Company Sanders, Rehder
and Co. Limited, London E.C. that the Governor of Hongkong has
reported to Mr. Secretary Bonar Law the resignation of its agent in
Hongkong, Er. Humphrey Cheetham; and that His Excellency, the Gover
nor, is prepared to recognize Messrs. Reise and Co. if my Company
appoint them to be our agents both at Hongkong and Canton to sell
the petroleum products of the Texas Company.
My colleague transmitted this information to me in a cable
which I passed on to the Texas Company while recommending to it
Meesre. Reiss' appointment, and the Texas Company is willing to fall
in with my recommendation, provided:
a) that Messrs. Reise & Co. execute, jointly with my London
Company, the Texas Company's regular form of contract.
I have not been able to arrange the term of three years desired by