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Hesars. L.Reias Broa.&Co.,London,
Hesors.Reiss & Co.,Hongkong.
4
750
June 1st, 1916.
more than twentyfive years) and, in such interview, to make to the Texas Company the damaging statement that: "the Hongkong Government refuses port and cable facilities any agency in which Sanders, Rehders are con-
cerned" :
To me it is indeed unbelievable how anyone can come forward
with an excuse such as this and cast so serious an imputation upon othes, upon this honorable bank. O tempora, O mores! How any Bank could possibly send a cable like this one without the party concerned (you) being aware of it ? And how could this Bank know or be certain enough of the necessary particulers (including the fact that you were willing to pay us a return commission), in order to at all enable it to act in
How could this deliberate manner, solely on its own responsibility?
a Bank possibly act like this without enquiring of the party concerned (you) first of all whether you or they, on your behalf, had at all & right to apply to the Texas Company for this agency?
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In fact, if the Bank did mysteriously possess all these par-
ticulars about a business belonging to others about a cargo in regard to which the bank's sole function is that of collecting monies for ac- count of another, an American bank how is it that they did not know the most important fact of all, namely that you were absolutely debarred from approaching the Texas Company, nay from even only accepting the
agency when offered to you?
I, for one, am certain (even though I fear that war-madness
is still prevalent in Hongkong) that the Bank has acted as it did upon
the instigation and misrepresentation of some one acting on your behalf;