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The Under Seoretary of State
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June 15th, 1916.
ally allowing Reisa dictate ambiguous terms of commission, unspecified.
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Considering allround misconceptions, coming London with Texas instructiona (to) settle either (with) Reiss, Dodwells or other first class Hongkong firm
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Banders",
and I am much obliged to you for your very kind endeavors in a matter which must indeed be very tiresome to you and the gentlemen of your Office.
Hy gables do not appear to require amplification by letter, excepting perhaps that I should accentuate that also Mr. Fred Dodwell has urged me to go to Land on to fully explain matters and to assist my colleague, Mr. E.J. Carroll, in their settlement; and that 1 should
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hand you enclosed copy of my°íettä,9t8 dödbra. L. Reiss Bros, & Co., în
which the matter of their ambiguous (and still unspecified) terms, 98 referred to in my yesterday's cable, ia dealt with.
My cable of the 3rd instant suggests the reason why we sought to obtain from Sir F.H. May, the Governor, the permit for an agreement jointly with Dodwells, in spite of my Company's willingness to consider eliminating itself from the Texas Agreement, We here, that ia Hr.Dod- well, Mr. Gardner and I, thought that to obtain this permit would be a convenient way (without anyone in Hongkong losing "face") to receive at least an indirect denial of the supposed refusal of port and cable fa- cilities which refusal the Hongkong Government is supposed to have in- flicted upon my Company, in flat contradiction of Sir F.H. May's, the Governor's, previously stated attitude and that of Mr. Secretary Bodar Law; and we thought my colleague, Mr. Carroll, would fully understand
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