CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 742

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The Under Secretary of State

Hay 24th, 1916.

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C) that the reseptance of this last named offer to act jointly with my Company was accepted by messro. neiss & 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."

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D) that this acceptance by the Hongkong house was in accordance with H.E. the Governor'a wishes, as shown in ▲, and that

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E) it is only, quite recently, after Londonis veto of Hongkong'e acceptance of this joint agenoy (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 a8 far as my Company is concerned !

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Moreover, you will notice that H.E. the Governor came to his decision under ▲ only after är, Cheetham resigned, in fact he couples it with this resignation; to which I venture to draw your attention, se you refer to this resignation in your cable, quoted overleaf, and aa we over here cannot understand, in view of the circumstances just re- ferred to, how this matter bears upon the present position. koreover, you may perhaps recollect that ir. Humphrey Cheatham did swear an affi- davit, carefully worded as it was by our solicitors in Hongkong, Mesars, Johnson, Stokes & Masters, that he would in no circumstances be a party

this business back to those who are now the country's enemies.

Of course, as to Messrs. Reiss & Co. and their om peculiar paychology and ethics, 1 can perhaps understand that even such an affi - davit made by an Englishran docs not weicht auch with them; and that they did, in spite of this, not protect their own countryman, for

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