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The Under Secretary of State
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May 24th, 1916.
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our express consent thereto.
On the other hand, His Excellency can, of course, have no ob- jection to a firm like Messrs. Dodwell, in conjunction with my Company, if submitted for his approval, as you cabled, nor will he ask in regard to this firm that the Texas Company grant a longer term of contract than the one Messrs. Reiss are now satisfied with, namely that stipulated in the Texas Company's usual form of contract.
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As to my own Company, you have my letter of the 21st ulto., in which I wrote that, in order to terminate this unseemly wrangle as be- tween two British firms, my Company (and I, as I since cabled you) would be willing to declare not to return this business to a German or Austrian house, this declaration to be formulated by you (as I cabled you) and
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I am sure Mr. Carroll (my partner) will, on his part, raise no objection to it unnecessary as it is in our case.
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To my regret, I have furthermore to report that Messrs. Reise & Co. have repeated their breach of our agreement, by once more attempt- ing to acquire this agency from the Texas Company, without my Company's consent and knowing that we are very far from giving it if our hands are to be forced in this arbitrary and illegitimate manner, I do wish these people would at last realize that this is our attitude, because, 88 Englishmen, we will not allow ourselves to be thus co-erced least of all by then, after what they have done.
Mr. Douglass, the gentleman referred to in my previous reports, has now arrived in Hongkong and cabled to his principals, the Texas Com- pany, as follows:
"Reiss refuse continue agency with Sanders, after June 30th. Reiss subject London consent, which most probable, will accept
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