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By 36. "New York"
713
South Ferry Building,
1 State Street,
Reference No. 6402/1916
(Ref.108/15/16)
The Under Secretary of 3tate,
Colonial Offies,
New York, May 12th, 1916.
sir,-
London, S.W.
re the 011 business in Hongkong and China of the Texas Company, Houston and New York.
I had the honor to write you yesterday, as in the enclosure,
and as there is still time to address you by this mail, I now beɛ leave to confirm the following cable which I ventured to send you last night, reading t
"Referring mine yesterday regarding oil business; kindly as- certain Hongkong, and cable me, whether Dodwell Company, old firm, Dodwell (being a) director (of the) Hongkong Bank, are acceptable for agency Texas Company Jointly (with) my Company step.
30licit, rely your recommendations (b) assistance, considering how my Company is being wronged."
to which cable I beg leave to add briefly that, upon the recommendation of Mr. Wade Gardner (the New York agent of the Hongkong and Shanghał Banking Corporation referred to in my previous letter), I asked Hossre. Dodwell and Company, Limited, of London, New York, China & elsewhere, whether they would undertake the South China agency of the Texas Com- pany, jointly with my Company, on terms accepted by the Hongkong partner