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Getz Brothers
Company,
530-542, Davis Street,
San Francisco, U.S.A.
Dec. 8, 1916.
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Honorable Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State,
Washington, D.C.
sir,
We solicit your assistance in a matter of much in- portance to us, and briefly review the facts in the case as follows:-
On March 13th, 1916, we received an order from Messrs. Handelsvereenging Voorheen J. Mohrmann & Co., Macas- sar, Celebes Islands.
This house had always been considered by us as of Dutch origin, which all records seem to confirm, and having done business with them for some years past, we naturally had no hesitation in executing their order.
The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, (a British Concern) accepted our Drafts covering this merchand-
ise, and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Steamship Co., (a Japanese
Corporation) carried the goods to Hongkong, where in the
ordinary course of events it would be trans-shipped to
Macassar.
No objections were raised by either of these in-
stitutions at the time shipment went forward, and you may possibly imagine our surprise when we received advice from
our Hongkong office that the cargo had been held at that Port, due to our customers having been blacklisted,
Had we for a moment thought there was a possibility
of/