CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 533

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Copies of Correspondence:

H. Sanders,

New York

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Reiss & Co. Hongkong & London

relative to the Texas Co.'s business

To Hongkong:

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New York, January 27, 1916.

"I confirm our letter of the 17th inst., as in copy en-

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Since then, I have received Mr. Cheetham's cable:

"Douglass cables Reiss power of attorney is on the way

(glatthafer) through our bank

confirm at once

(cazzassimo) otherwise closing agency thirtyfirst, handing

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which shows me that Hongkong the colony of strange happenings

since the outbreak of the European war is still in the grip

of war-fever - even peaceable Cheetham being now affected. Why the request for a "confirmation" of a P/A - purely a mat-

ter of form should be coupled with a threat sent moreover

at an expenditure of twenty dollare, I, at least, do not

understand.

Moreover, you or Mr. Cheetham must previously have ad- dressed Mr. Douglass the Texaco's man in Shanghai) relative to the same matter! Why this was done I again do not under- stand at all, you and Mr. Cheetham knowing of course that my London Company for I, its representative actually on the spot) should have been asked for this P/A from the first

Texaco or Mr. Douglas8.

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Mr. Douglass' cable to the Texaco reads:- "have been advised Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpora-

tion will close warehouse and suspend agency unless Power

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