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May 24th, 1916. 704
Bank telegram New York not our seeking, a rejoinder which, in view of what is before the Texas Company and me, is indeed extraordinary.
It would mean no less than that a British bank, moreover a bank of a reputation such as this one, went deliberately out of its way and asked its manager in New York to tell the Texas Company that it was "absolutely necessary that Texas Co. make direct arrangements with Reiss Company" for handling cargo ex "Tanored" (as if there was no other Brit- ish firm in Hongkong to handle this cargo and the businesa), and that
the Reisa Sanders agreement (not concerning that Bank) positively cesses on the 30th June", Last but not least it would mean that a British Bank went deliberately out of its way to ask its manager to "interview the Texas Company" underhandedly, that is without the know- ledge of an old client of theirs (1.e. my firm with whom the bank has done business for more than twentyfive years) and to tell the Texas Company in such interview that "the Hongkong Government refuses port and cable facilities any agency in which Sanders, Rehders are concerned" !
It is indeed unbelievable how anyone can come forward with such an excuse and thus cast so serious an imputation upon others, upen an honorable Bank! O Tempora, O mores! To send a oable like this without the party concerned being aware of it. And how could this Bank know or be certain enough of the necessary particulars (not con- oerning it, its function in regard to the cargo mentioned being merely that of a Bank oollecting money for a/c of another, an American, Bank), in order to at all enable the Bank to act in this deliberate manner, solely on its own responsibility ? Without enquiring of the party concerned whether they had at all a right to apply direct to the Texas Company for this agency ?