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SANDERS,REHDERS & CO LTD

LONDON.MANCHESTER,NEW YORK.

Telegraphic Address

THEODOSIUS

LONDON

LONDON MANCHESTER

Telephones:

AVENUS N: 4372.

AVENUE No 1826.

CITY N 7184. CITY N 7185.

MANCHESTER

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• REPLY PLEASE REFER TO

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E.J.C. DEPARTMENT

REC

26875520

108, Fenchurch 6 JA JUN 15,

Ref. No.24.963/1915.

London,

10th June, 1915.

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The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.

817.

Referring to our interview of this morning with

Mr.Tennyson, we beg to quote the following telegram received

from Hongkong:

"Permission given to Cheetham to carry on agency

of the Texas Oil Company has been cancelled

Governor"

which we duly submitted to you.

In answer to our enquiry as to the grounds of the ob- jection to Cheetham, Mr.Tennyson was good enough to inform us

in confidence, (which we strictly respect), that the Authorities

in Hongkong had evidence from an impeccable source that Mr.

Cheetham was acting merely as the agent of Schluter and Reuter

Brockelmann & Co. Mr.Tennyson was unable to say whether Cheetham had been taxed with these suspicions or been asked for

any explanation.

As we conveyed in conversation this morning, we cannot bring ourselves to envisage the possibility of appointing some

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