CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 579

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REG 26 OCT 15

Sanders, Rehders & Co. Ltd.,

108, Fenchurch Street,

Ref. T.E. 1110/10.

sir,

London, E.0.

2nd Oct. 1915.

The Under Secretary of State,

Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.

We have received your letter of the 28th inst. in-

forming us that E.M.Secretary of State thinks that we should

have no further dealings with the following firms in China:

Reuter Brockelmann & Co., Hongkong, Canton, Shanghai, Tientsin,

Bander Wieler & Co.,

" and Tsingtau.

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Faust & Co. Tientsin.

Wm. Meyerink & Co., Shanghai.

von During Wibel & Co., Pekin & Mentsin.

In case, as it would appear, you are not fully seized

of all the facts and circumstances, we have pleasure in

supplementing the very full information we gave to Inspector

Billing when he called on us at your request.

With regard to the first two firms' establishments

at Hongkong, these are being slowly and laboriously liquidated

by English firms appointed by the Government of that Colony.

We have patiently endeavoured to get some satisfaction out of

the liquidators in regard to good which they are properly

handling and as to goods of which they have improperly ob-

tained possession. As however these establishments are

operating in the British Empire and under the supervision of

British Authorities, we take it that H.M.Secretary of State

does not really think, as you write, that we should have no

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