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The Under Secretary of State
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May 24th, 1916.
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to act jointly
C) that the seceptumes of this last named offer with my Company was accepted by messrs. reise & Co. in Hongkong in a cable to the Texas Company itself, and described in their confirma- tory letter to the same Company as "quite satisfactory."
D) that this acceptance by the Hongkong house was in accordance with H.E. the Governor's wishes, as shown in ▲, and that
E) it is only, quite recently, after London's veto of Hongkong's acceptance of this joint agency (although London at the same time does not wish to leave the business to others as, in honor bound, they should), that His Excellency's views are supposed to have undergone the extraordinary change without anything whatsoever having happened as far as my Company is concerned !
Moreover, you will notice that H.E, the Governor came to his decision under ▲ only after Mr. Cheetham resigned, in fact he couples it with this resignation; to which I venture to draw your attention, as you refer to this resignation in your cable, quoted overleaf, and ag we over here cannot understand, in view of the circumstances just re- ferred to, how this matter bears upon the present position. Moreover, you may perhaps recollect that ar. Humphrey Cheetham did swear an affi- davit, carefully worded as it was by our solicitors in Hongkong, we÷SI8. Johnson, Stokes & Masters, that he would in no circumstances be a party to give this business back to those who are now the country's enemies.
Of course,
as to Messrs. Keiss & Co. and their own peculiar
psychology and ethics, 1 can perhaps understand that even.. such an affi– davit
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made by an Englishman does not weight much with them; and that they did, in spite of this, not protect their own countryman, for
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