CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 746

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Messrs. L.Reiss Bros. & Co.,London

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upon this business) as "very generous"!'

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June 6th, 1916.

Your Mr. Holyoak in Hongkong used a very similar term in one

of his previous letters to the Texas Company when he confirmed his tele- graphic acceptance to sign this contract jointly with my Company, from

which contract you (in London) desire to oust us; and it does indeed

appear over here as if the generous terms, which your Hongkong partner

proposes to you, are turned by you in London into the contrary not

forgetting the outstanding fact that the reason given by you in London for desiring our exclusion from this, our own, contract (and which rea- son you have been careful enough not to put on paper), is merely a pre- text to cover your (London's) designs and attempts to out off my Com-

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from this business of theirs.

At any rate, I once more warn you, as I did in my previous let-

tere, that my Company holds you responsible if it should lose this busi-

ness (by the Texas Co. terminating its contract with us or giving notice

under it, or by our being unable to continue the business in Hongkong),

because of your procrastinating tactics and your various breaches, start-

ing with your refusal to stand by our first arrangement in October last,

on the strength of which arrangement I obtained the consent of the Texaa

Company to appoint you agents, instead of being Mr.Cheetham's advisors.

Also having particular regard to the fact that it is your veto of your

Hongkong partner's acceptance of a Texas contract, jointly with my on-

pany, from which arose all the later trouble, culminating in this sup-

posed refusal by the Hongkong Government of port and cable facilities

to my Company which, in turn, is not only undermining its position with

the Texas Company, but is obviously making it impossible for us to ap-

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