CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 740

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Bank telegram New York not our seeking,” a rejoinder which, in view of what is before the Texas Company and me, is indeed extraordinary.

It would mean no less than that a British bank, moreover a bank of a reputation such as this one, want deliberately out of its way and asked its manager in New York to tell the Texas Company that it was "absolutely necessary that Texas Co. make direct arrangements with Reise Company" for handling oargo ex "Tanored" (as if there was no other Brit- ish firm in Hongkong to handle this cargo and the business), and that "the Reine Sanders agreement (not concerning that Bank) positively

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Last but not least it would mean that a British Bank went deliberately out of its way to ask its manager to "interview the Texas Company" underhandedly, that is without the know- ledge of an old olient of theirs (1.e. my firm with whom the bank haa done business for more than twentyfive years) and to tell the Texa Company in such interview that "the Hongkong Government refuses port and cable facilities any agency in which Janders, Kehders are concerned" !

It is indeed unbelievable how anyone can come forward with such an excuse and thus cast so serious an imputation upon others, upon an honorable Bank o tempora, & mores : To send a cable like this without the party concerned being aware of it. And how could this Bank know or be certain enough of the necessary particulars (not con- cerning it, its function in regard to the cargo mentioned being merely that of a Bank collecting money for a/c of another, an American, Bank), in order to at all enable the Bank to sat in this deliberate manner, solely on its own responsibility ? Without enquiring of the party jooncerned whether they had at all a right to apply direct to the TexR8 Company for this agency ?