closure No. 3 in Mr. Fox's No. 82, General Series, of July 16th. 1.09.
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My dear Pox,
Your telegram received. Dr. Voretzsch telo- phoned that he had urgent and important news, and I have had an hour and a half's talk with him. He is in a very tight place; if he cannot get this shipment of coolies, he statos that the plantations in Samoa will be ruined, and hints that the outcry against us for denying the coolies will be very great. Finally he implored me as an act of personal friendship to assist him.
I could only reply that if I wont in the faco
of the Viceroy, and of the Guilds who have forbidden this
smigration, I ran a serious risk of boycott, and I could
not run that risk. We point d out that what Dr. Schultz
had asked was permission for emigration of contract
coolies, what ho now asks for is for free coolies, "hut
precisely the same thing had been done in the case of the Pelew Islands without any trouble.
The only concession I could make was that I
would write to you privately and ask you to ascertain
from the Viceroy whether, as a matter of friendship, he
would agree to this particular shipment in order to get
Voretzsch out of the very grave dilemma,
Ho admitted there was a risk, though he thought
I overestimated it. He ulao xix said that the German
Minister
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