CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 655

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The Under Secretary of State

sɛency without my Company's consent in writing

is still in fores or not.

May 4th, 1916.654

whether the agreement

Thus, se Mesara, Reiss's last word to us was that our contract

with then would cease absolutely on the 30th June last – a statement re-

peated by them by wy of this oable of the Hongkong Bank - the only and obvious course for them to follow was to abide by their ow decision;

and, as is the custom between all honorable business meh, to facilitate

even the passing over to others of the business, thus abandoned by then.

Only on the 29th ulto., that is three days before the receipt

in New York of this cable, I wrote my partner, kr. I.J. Carroll:

Te shall soon see whether RetBo should London persist and prevail surrender the business quietly, giving the usual assis- tance to those other parties in Hongkong and Canton who will be their Juocessors, so that no loss and inconvenience is osumed to the Texas Company and us.

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The foregoing shows how Messrs. Reiss à Oo. have stood this

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I have conscientiously tried to hide their extmordinary atti- tude from outsiders, even at the risk of breaking my Jompany'u obligations to the Texas Jompany and others, and I have not even told Hr, Wade Gard- ner, often as I saw him, but in view of such and similar attempte aná blunders, I am helpless. Imagine, sa I respectfully ask you, thin

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and most fatal blunder of asking the gentleman just named to interview the Texas people and to try to prevail upon them to break their engagements with my Company, under threats such as this cable of the Hong kong Bank contains; and this apert from the fact that Messra, Reias & Dompany, by thus approaching the Texas Company, have not only broken the