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The Under Secretary of State
May 4th, 1916. 636
contract with my Company, just referred to, but even Hr. Holyoak's re- cently reiterated assurance that his firm would pledge itself not to sp- proach the Texas Company.
In all my long experience, both in China and in the City,
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in dealing with all sorts of people, I have never come across a flagrant breach of contract such as this, - in violation of that oquercial mor- ality which has made British trade what it is, and which is one of the country's most precious assets.
And these are the people who dare to use my own status 28 A naturalized British subject of long standing unassailable as it is
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as a lever and threat for these underhand attempta of theirs to exclude my Company from the valuable agency, and, in acting thus, to seriously injure its interests in this business and in others.
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For further particulars, I venture to refer you to my confiden- tial letter of yesterday's date to Mr. Wade Gardner, giring as it does the exact wording of the cable received by him from his Hongkong office, and showing more fully than I have tried to convey to you in the forego- ing the unfortunate position which Lessrs. deiss's attitude has now cre- ated.
At the time of writing I have not spoken to Mr. Wade Gardner, but one of the immediate results of this fatal blunder (if not righted by him immediately) must be to nullify all my previous efforts to keep the finance of this business, and of the cargo referred to above, British hands; in other words, the very Bank which lends itself soiously of course as I wrote to Mr. Gardner to this attempt of MesH19.
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Reiss is actually working for its own elimination from this business.
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