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By 33. "Oltio"
Reference Eo.6402/1916
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South Ferry Building,
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1 State Street,
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New York, Hay 4th, 1916.
REG 22 MAY 16
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office, London, S.W.
in re the 011 business in Hongkong & China of
the Texas Company Houston à New York.
Hy laat report which I had the honor to address to you, ia regard to this troublesome matter, is dated the 21st ulte, and I maoh regret to have to report today that Messrs, L. Esiss Bros. & Co. Ltd. have after all not seen their way to endorse their Hongkong associate's willingness to sooept the proposed Texas Agency contrast, jointly with Jompany, which willingness i have no doubt Mr. Holyoak has repeated to his London partners after I cabled him once more how matters stood on this side, anxions as he is to obtain this valuable agency.
These cables, one addressed to his firm, Messrs. Retes & Com- pany, Hongkong, and one to himself are embodied in my two letters of the 18th ulto, and I now beg leave to refer you, for further particulars, to the enclosed copies of these letters.
Unfortunately - and to my great regret for more reasons than
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I saw no alternative but to trouble you with a very long oable expensive to my Company as it was, (owing to sable-letter facilities having been withdraw because of the interruptions in the servies via ireland), and bearing då mind, moreover, the great expense incurred al-
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