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Government, nor our Authorities in London, can at any time
stop the trading of this firm a firm they themselves re-
commend after I have drawn their particular attention to
Relaa's name and origin, have in fact asked for Government
assurances on the point."
However, all of no avail, so I have to write once more
to London to procure a letter from the Colonial Office, or another
Authority, addressed direct to the Texaco, which contains the de-
sired aseurandes. I have not omitted to draw their attention
to the fact that it was rather a difficult, at any rate a most
delicate, matter for any Government to give any auch assurances
to traders, and I therefore thought that they would not receive
an absolutely satisfactory reply considerate and obliging as our
Government Departments were.
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However, there it is and you will now be better able to
understand the troubles and deleys which have arisen and so far
stood in the way of this long-desired settlement.
NOW,
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in spite of all this, another surprise the resig-
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nation of Cheetham is sprung upon us, and although I, personally,|
can quite understand that a gentleman of his disposition has
thought at last discretion the better part of valor (in spite of
a lucrative and desirable appointment, of importance and trust, as
the representative of the Texaco), and although I do consider this
denouement a kind of Godsend, the Texaco thinks differently, com-
ing as it did at a most inopportune moment. In fact, the Texaco
heard about it (again from their own man in China) before I had
time to break to them gently this new trouble.
And yet, as if my cup of bitterness was not full enough,
there is now this fresh trouble of Reiss's attempt at squeezing
better terms.
The Dispute: This new trouble, as just mentioned, is indeed the
most unpleasant of all because, going by Mr. Carroll's last cable
that:
"Reiss want direct agency (Texas) three years minimum,
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