CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 534

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of Attorney will be sent before end of January, shall I postpone leave of absence pending settlement"

again the same threat even to others ! Thus the Texas Company 18

continuously reminded that all is not well with their Hongkong bus-

iness.

Just think the impression a cable like this must create upon

the people's mind And, whoever wrote or telegraphed this to Mr.

Douglass from your office, has he not thought that he was thus dis-

crediting also the Hongkong Bank with the Texaco Even if the Bank -

es quite likely has said that it would do this or that if this mat-

ter of a P/A was not settled by the 31st, it is still wrong to use

this for threatening third parties, at the time you told Mr. Douglass.

I was informed of Mr. Douglass' cable on the 21st instant and

executed the required Power the same day, trying to excuse with my

friends as best as I could this extraordinary threat. I asked the

Bank here the following day to cable Eongkong that a P/A had been

executed and that they were posting it immediately. This cable was

sent on the 24th, the signature of the attesting attorney having to

be legalized by the British Consulate and a Sunday intervened. Thus

you see I lost no time.

I telegraphed you on the 26th inst., efter receipt of Mr.

Cheetham's cable:

"power of attorney now on the way (pecchione)

our agent

(achinado) - desired Governor Downing Street please address

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Texas your letters to (laniantem}

send me copy (citramide) –

New York

contract leave everything as it is (lamawol)

having every attention (affreux)."

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I did not refer to the matter of contract in my last letter

to you,

because this matter is yet in suspenses moreover, the whole

negotiations have, from the very first, been in the hands of your parent house and it would only complicate matters, and take a con-

siderable time, were I to write you from this side.

As to the "desired by Governor (&) Downing Street" in my cable,

I cannot do better than refer you to the enclosed copies of corres-