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Insurance Brokers, and as Kanchuen has promised in no case

to leave us, herein lies our strong position. Tester

has offered him as much as $70 per month if he would contin-

ue to work with the Commercial Union. On the above basis

we have arranged that in no case must the agency go to anothe

another, and I hope that Davis will also agree to the temporary establishment of the Comercial Union in Canton. Of course, in this way, the expenses for the Society will

be higher and we can, therefore, reckon confidently on obtaining the agency again after the War as long as Kamchuen

sticks to us. In this case,

also, the name Richter and

his American nationality has not protected us. As the Comprador of the Commercial Union in Hongkong said to Kamchuen, the Government know that Richter and R. B. and

We Company are as a matter of fact one and the same firm.

need not go far to see where they learn this from. The Comprador also says that our letters, that is to say,

Richter's to the Commercial Union had been sent by the Censor there recently invariably to the Chamber of Commerce in Hongkong, who have then forwarded the letters to the

Commercial Union. Our letter of 30/6, in which we, at

the request of the Commercial Union gave particulars with regard to the nationality of the firm Richter, and of which letters you received copies was handed to the Commercial Union by the Chamber of Commerce with the remark "this will be the last letter that will Le handed to you from this

firm". Thereupon T. saw himself forced to withdraw the

-Agency

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