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DEHN & CO. MANCHESTER

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS- EQUATOR. MANCHESTER"

CODES-

A.B.C.. A... STAUDT & Hundius. ALROSE-MOSS

LIEBER.

Manchester

th July 1916.

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The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

sir,

LONDO N. 8.W.

R 10 F

We beg to approach you in the following matter :-

In June and July 1914 we forwarded for aceount of

Hocers. F. Rosenstern & Co. in Hamburg, 34 bales of Cotton

goods of British manufacture, to Mesars, Hughes Alexander & Co. in Liverpool, who shipped the same for account of and

according to instructions received from Messrs. F.Rosenstern

& Co. to Messrs, Melchers & Co. in HongKong, to be forwarded from there to various places in the South Sea Aistricts which

Messrs. Melchers were formerly in the possession of Germany,

& 00. have been only acting as forwarding agents in this

instance and we do not know them in the matter in any other way

except that they were the forwarding agents for Messrs. I.

Resenstern & Co. We invoiced the goods as follows :-

June 26th, 1914

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3 bales per 1.8. *Jason"

June 26th,

• 30th

July 2nd

July 24th 29 th 29 th

(16

bales per 1,1,"Perseus*

bales per *.*."Telemachus"