CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915 — Page 613

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The Under Secretary of State,Colonial Office -3-. 9/12/15

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Messrs. J................ X.

& Co. and by the way in which its

interests have been harmed by the Hongkong Government's nominees.

On the 4th August the Chamber of Commerce of Hongkong

issued a confidential memorandum on German trading in that

Colony, and under the heading Sander Vieler & Co. occurs the

following indefensible paragraph:

"The London firm, Sander, Rehder & Co. who are

registered as British, do not seem to realise the situa-

tion and it would appear from their letters that they

are under the impression the war makes no difference

and their China associates will be able to carry on

"business as usual"."

On consulting Banking friends of ours, the Board of

Trade, the China Association and the London Chamber of Commerce,

we were advised to desist from our first intention of cabling

to our solicitors in Hongkong to take immediate action against

the Chamber, and instead we wrote a letter of protest as in the

enclosed copy, which is backed up by the China Association and,

we believe, the London Chamber of Commerce.

The poison thus sown however would appear to be germina-

ting because we were informed yesterday by cable from New York

that the Texas Company had received a telegram from Hongkong to

the effect that a rumour was current there that our firm might

be declared German.

We sincerely deprecate the necessity of having to take