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Messrs. L.Reise Bros.& Co.,Ltd.London,
Messrs. Reiss & Co.,Ltd.,Hongkong
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ly to admit you as a party to the Texas Agreement itself;
June 1st, 1916.
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(0) that this last named offer
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to aot jointly with my Con-
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pany was accepted by you in Hongkong, in a cable to the Texas Com-
pany itself, and described in your confirmatory letter to the same
Company as "quite satisfactory,"
(D) that this acceptance by you in Hongkong was in accordance
with H.E. the Governor's wishes, as shown in A;
and
(E) that it is only quite recently, after you in London vetoed:
Hongkong's acceptance of this joint agency, that His Excellency's
views are supposed to have undergone this extraordinary change
without anything whatsoever having happened as far as my Company is
concerned !
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It thus follows, as I need hardly add, that, as far as I per-
sonally am concerned, my dealings with you are absolutely at an end; and
if I did not recommend to my colleague in London, Mr. E.J. Carroll,
to stop further negotiations with you, it is solely and only for the
following reasons:
(1) because it seems that the Governor has set his heart upon
your appointment, even in preference to Mesure. Dodwall & Company, Ltd.,
and that, though I have the greatest confidence in Sir F.H. May's per-
sonal impartiality, his Government might somehow create difficulties for
my principals, the Texas Company, to whom I am in loyalty bound and who,
also at this juncture, stand so steadfastly by me;
(2) because I feel that your Mr.Holyoak is merely an unwilling
agent, as was Mr. Wade Gardner
aware of the true position;
- be it said in his honor once he became,
having particular regard to the fact that