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Before coming to
20JAN LZ.se people however,
we must know whether our entering into business relations
with them would be satisfactory alike to the Colonial Office
and to the Government of Hongkong. You are, we believe,
aware of the scrupulous care with which we have, since the
beginning of the War, built up an almost entirely new business
all over the world with purely British, or unexceptionable
neutral houses. We venture therefore to request an expres-
Bion of your opinion on the subject, and we shall be grate-
ful if you will cable, at our charges, to H.E. the Governor
of Hongkong, to ascertain the views of his government.
At the same time, we shall be very much obliged
if you will in writing to the Governor of Hongkong ask H.E.
to inquire of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce what ita at-
titude would be, in the event of our dealing with Manners
and Backhouse. Will that Chamber treat us, a British Com-
pany, members of the China Association and of the London
Chamber of Commerce, with the common fairness which we sub-
mit is our due or are we to apprehend a continuance of that malignant hostility of which only recently we have again ex- perienced what we believe to be an exampl● ?
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From every department of H.M.Government this Com- pany has had not only good will, but effective assistance