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to be altered to fit the status of a more direct representation, as desired by you (and arranged by me with the Texaco), and the

other points covered by the "heeds" referred to.

With reference to the Texaco 'e request for Government assur-

ances as to your firm, the enclosures show (the N.B. on page 1)

that I have tried my best to satisfy them with what I wrote them

in this regard. Of course, to you in Hongkong, this demand will

appear strange; it would not if you were over here, or say in

England even, where even Lord Milner's nationality has been ques-

tioned. At any rate all this, as also the reckless, if not mal-

icious, rumour in Hongkong in regard to my London Company (which

Mr. Douglass cabled to the Texaco) is known and considered over

here- hence we must indeed not wonder.

It is for this reason, that I had to write to Downing Street that the Texaco, from their American point of perspective, were

I thought justified in asking for these assurances; though I

might have added - could not of course do so that the "hyster-

ical neurotics" (Lord Robert Cecil's bon mot) who questioned even

Lord Milner, and who might question the nationality of your firm,

had better reserve their ultra-patriotism for the trenches "

signed: H. Sandere

TO London:

New York, January 28th, 1916.

"I beg to hand you enclosed for your London files the fol-

lowing oopies:

of my letter No. 1 of the 17th inst.,

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" the enclosure (4 pages) to letter No. 2

addressed to your Hongkong branch, Messrs. Reiss & Co., and to ask

you to kindly consider these letters as addressed to your goodeelf.

This, at any rate, will make it unnecessary for me to go over the

most unpleasant, moreover, as it was for me to write

Bene ground

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