CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 588

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*** 1.1 Deaeg. “

With all this bother and questioning about the political sta-

tus of even obviously British fire and persons, I think I might with advantage add a few words as to my om Company.

Rehdere let the

firm more than twenty-five years ago, and, as to myself, I am a natural- ized british subject for twenty-four years and my position as such is

unassailable; one in many thousand, as they told we at the Passport Of- ïice (an travelling under a full and unrestricted P/F), because I swore | allegiance to Queen Victoria after having first, definitely and 1

1ormally, renounced my citizenship of the State of remen. Loreover, my family

is of Jeetah descent, on both my father's and mother's side.

All this is well known in Downing Street and elsewhere and,

as the recommendations of the Hong kong Governor and the Colonial Office

olearly show (i.e. that we should appeiat you our agents), there is no

question whatever us to cur status in regard to this Hongkong and Can-

ton business, or as to any other. You have a copy of the letter con-

taining these recommendations, dated Downing Street the 4th January last.

In the Company has been trading with German iims, before the

← as did of oeurse everyone who could but Lake a profit out of it

and if the Company has German Shareholders (which it appears expedient

to have because of its establishment in Berlin but who at no time had

any guiding in luence, far less any power), that is surely of as little

importance as is the blood-relationship between the Jourte of 3t. Janes

and Berlin.

Tar

Balaj :

umattattoyer za Zašlyba Su Nylocər

po. nókýgst mo

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Now, we to the Agrellent itself, I have pleasure in handing

you hereb, two copies of it, the one duly signed by mo the other to be

returned to no provideu with your signature; that is to say,

1 do hope

indeed that you will have received meanwhile such advices from Hong-

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