CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 678

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The Under Seoretary of State

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Lay 11th, 1916. 677

Company concerned, or you cuble reasons this changed attitude, consid- ering that it prevents my Company (fren) further performing (the) contract (with the Texas Co.) and justifies (4) compels exae (Com- pany to withdraw from (this) contract, incidentally making Relas re- sponsible heavy damages, although losing business themselea

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Respectfully ask careful consideration all circumstances, conclusion inevitable that your noainterference, in spite knowledge full facts whilst unknown Governor, will duuse 1088 valuable business to British Oompany, worked successfully six years; conversely, your telegraphic recc.mendations to Governor and Kelas will

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which cable-letter, self-contained as it ie, hardly require any explana-! tory comment; and I do trust indeed that you have been good enough to enlighten Sir F.H. May as to the true position of affairs, us causing him to abandon an attitude which is not only contradictory, as I ventured to explain in my last, but is, I ior one am sure, not in accordance with Mr. Secretary Bonar Law's high sense of justice nor with yo: or that of any gentleman in his Office.

I have too great a regard for the Lembers of H..overnment (as shown moreover by my humble contributions to the war-li rature) as to even only imagine that anyone of them would consciously regard the rights of others, my Company's rights and mine, cr, as in touse, that they would not put right what is so obviously wrong, once ti full possession of the actual facts. It is for this reas that I have taken such pains to put this case before you as comprehensivly as pos- sible, though regretting all the while the necessity of hav to inflict

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