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1.B. I should add that my company has been working under this form of contract for many years to mutual satisfmotion, and so have many other firms in all parts of the world; fot of an important agency of this particular kind (the dis- tribution of oil in foreign countries) having at all been granted, being by itself considered (by most people) a guaran- bee for the contimazoe of the agency for year4 provided of course that the agents are espable of handling the business. This must be assumed in the case of Messra. Reipa & Co. b) that I obtain for the Texan Company a letter from the Seore- tary of State addressed to it - assuring the company that poli- tical expediency will not, hereafter, oause the Colonial Office and/or the Governor of Hongkong to debar the firm of Reise & 00. from trading in Hongkong and Janton.
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There are various reasons, the cumulative effect of which caused the Texas Company to stipulate the last named condition, but their recapitulation would, I think, be out of plage in this official latter of mine. However, you may oare perhaps to hear my own opinio: as to this request of the Texas Company.
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It is that I do think that the Jompany's attitude view of all the troubles caused to its business in Hongkong end Can- ton is justified; troubles which, the Texas Company think, should not have arisen, willing as it is to make all reasonable allowance for the circumstances created by the war.
Meanwhile. I have provided Kebars. Reiss & Co. Hongkong with a Power of Attorney, so that they, instead of kr. Cheetham, can attend to the sale of the remaining portion of the oil ex m/v "Panama
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