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jander & Co., the predecessore of Sander, Wieler & Co. (which latter im did not however exist at the time I was in Hongkong) and, this being my belief, I would have passed the matter over, disliking as I
le to write about myself, were it not that one of your esteemed members, ir. Holyoak, is on the point of entering, on behalf of his firm, into В rather important arrangement with my fim.
For this reason, therefore, I had better tell you that, 80 far from having been of "very pro-German" tendencies at that time, my associations and inclinations were more English than German,
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As well known both in the English and German community, f.1. I never meseed" at the German club during all the years, always at the Hongkong Hotel, a membership of the English club being beyond my neuns at the
Not that this fact of my early preference for the country of ancestors really mattered much at the period your statement refers to, seeing that at that time there was no German question and, speaking of Mr.Holyoak's firm, its China managers were Germans. We were all Jolly good fellows", but of course the German generation of that time was not as aggressive as is the present-day Germen. I do indeed think hat, whoever told you to make this statement about me, did so becau se he was trying to find an explanation for his previous equally errone cus statement about my firm.
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A further fact, in preef of my English predilections at that tinc even,
is that upon my return to Europe to London, I definitely nounced my Geruan nationality, (incidental as it was, my parents on both aides being of Soothh descent), and mea formally denationalized (by deed) as far back as in March 1890. All this is known at the China Association, of which I am an old member, and at the Colonial and
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