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Dear Cockburn,

I promised in my letter of the 4th of May acknowledging yours of the 1st of May abʊut your duress" notes that I would write further

hen we had looked at your figures and those of the Mercantile Bank more fully.

We have now done this and I suggest that we should defer any further consideration of the whole problem until the debtor- creditor" question has been settled, since this will determine the position of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and hence your own position. I propose, if you agree, to leave it to you

to raise the matter further with

us at any time you think desirable.

I am writing in similar terms to Crichton.

Yours sincerely,

W.R. COCKBURN, ESQ.

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