[ { "id": 261268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "# Memorial of the Cotton Supply Association\n\n\"for the erection of houses of business in any part of the \"Burmese territory.\" \n\nThis extends the right of settlement to the very frontier of China, and considerably eastward of that portion of the Upper Cambojia river which runs through South-Eastern Burmah, and has on its right bank the Burmese Shan city of Kiang-Hung. \n\nStill further, the treaty contains a provision all-important for Pegu and our adjacent sparsely-peopled provinces on the east of the Bay of Bengal; for the 9th and concluding article provides thus for the passage of Chinese emigrants across Burmese territory to any adjacent British possession :- \"People, from whatever \"country, who may wish to proceed to the British territory, the \"Burmese ruler shall allow to pass without hindrance.” \n\nIn reference to these provisions of the treaty, we informed our readers, in our issue of the 19th ult., that the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester had addressed a memorial to the Prime Minister, again calling his attention to the great importance to the manufacturing, mercantile, and shipping interests of this country, of taking advantage of the treaty effectively to open the west of China to our trade, by a direct overland route from Rangoon to the Upper Cambojia river at Kiang-Hung. Since then the Cotton Supply Association has also taken the subject into consideration, and sent up a memorial to Lord Palmerston, praying that the country between Rangoon and Kiang-Hung may be thoroughly surveyed to ascertain the best route for a commercial way across it. This memorial we now publish; and may state further that the East India and China Association of Liverpool has also decided once more to press the important subject on the attention of Her Majesty's Ministers. Subjoined is the memorial of the Cotton Supply Association :-- \n\n## To the Right Honble. Viscount Palmerston, K.G., G.C.B., M.P., First Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\n### The MEMORIAL of the COTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATION respectfully sheweth :— \n\n\"That your Memorialists have heard with much satisfaction that treaty relations have again been entered into between Her Majesty and the King of Burmah. \n\n\"That your Memorialists observe, from a copy of the treaty as published in India, that one of its provisions is: That British merchants may settle and hold lands for the creation of houses of business, in any parts of the Burmese territory.' And that another article provides:-- That people, from whatever country or nation, who may wish to proceed to the British territory, shall be allowed by the Burmese ruler to pass without hindrance,' \n\n\"That your Memorialists are informed that between British Pegu and the South-West of China proper are the three Burmese Shan provinces of Monee, Kiang-Tung, and Kiang-Hung, which were severally more than once visited—in 1836-37 and other years, before the annexation of Pegu—by Dr. Richardson and Captain M'Leod (now Major-General M'Leod, commanding the troops in British Burmah), under the direction of the Supreme Government of India, to ascertain their commercial capabilities, and open, if possible, a trade with them and Western China from Moelmyen. \n\n\"That those officers found the country they traversed producing much cotton, all of which was being collected by Chinese caravans and carried into China to be manufactured; some of the Chinese merchants so seen by Dr. Richardson being within twenty miles of the north-east frontier of what has since 1852 been British Pegu. \n\n\"That your Memorialists consider that if a commercial way were opened from the port of Rangoon across Eastern Pegu by the most direct practicable line to the above-named Burmese Shan provinces, the cotton there grown, reported to be of a superior quality, would find its way to Rangoon for shipment to England. \n\n\"That your Memorialists are advised that there are upwards of forty millions of acres of waste land in the British provinces of Pegu, Martaban, &c., very much of which can be made highly productive with the necessary labour; and that the suggested road from Rangoon to Kiang-Hung would induce Chinese to come down from the South-West of China to settle on such waste land; which, under their cultivation, would furnish large supplies of cotton. \n\n\"Your Memorialists, therefore, respectfully request your Lordship to take the subject into your serious consideration, and to direct the Viceroy and Governor-General of India to open up a commercial way between the port of Rangoon and the north-east frontier of British Pegu, on or near to the Salween river: and further, to move the King of Burmah for a continuation of such commercial way from that point of British Pegu, through Kiang-Tung, to Kiang-Hung on the right bank of the Upper Cambojia river. \n\n\"And your Memorialists will ever pray, \n\n&c. \n\nFor and on behalf of the Cotton Supply Association, \n\n**(Signed)** \nJOHN CHEETHAM, \n**President.** \n\nCOTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATION, \n\"Manchester, 13th July, 1853.\" \n\n432", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354579, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "He\n\n309\n\nCo. Bevaun H. 3.6000.\n\nRobert Berwick.\n\nJolu Kyfes.\n\nJohn McLaughlin.\n\nR. Logan,\n\nG.J. Rivers.\n\nRoot Dickson.\n\nSes: white,\n\nS. W. Goggen.\n\nGeo: Hirkpatrick.\n\nR. Harvie.\n\nChas: Blake,\n\nFrael Röhrs. Hedrick Eckhoff.\n\nN. Suutti\n\nE. I. cllanin.\n\nb. Folcloudham.\n\nJ. Z. Jojau.\n\nW. Fulctuson,\n\nE. L. Stainfield. R. G. Hopkins. Frank Lammert. Ferdinand Hore.\n\nH4. Sohonfelder, Ch: Bobbe.\n\nG. Kusblock. E.F. Summers, Geo: A. Buckland.\n\nW. Hardwick...\n\nFritz Ed, Shuster. John Harvie. James Waddell. John Jefndrew.\n\not. cuachonald, Robl Park. Carl Schulloubach. Thomas Grimshaw. James Gillespie. David Currie. Frank wo white. Joli Paterson.\n\nRobert Stuart. Dan Wilson. Xhos\n\nWilliam y suilligan.\n\nRobert Walker.\n\nM. & Quackenzie.\n\nAlexander Cunningham. Two Humphrey.\n\nJohn Coils.\n\nRobert Jackson. Jes: A. Caldwell. Robert sulikhell. R. Cooke.\n\nwo.wilson.\n\nD. citacdonald, J. Wickie.\n\nJ. Hand.\n\n&. Patton.\n\nGeo: J. Kuocker. R.V. Rutte. LBurrau\n\nW.œuxdeas. J.C. Mutekings. A. Ewring. w.cllcotslan I Wallace,\n\nD. Stenhouse.\n\nf. 9. Aitken.\n\nWilliam Stewart,\n\nMexer Rowe\n\nJ. W. The art.\n\nÚj, ollabor,\n\nH.8. Wile\n\n6. Joulus,\n\nW. B. Clarke. I. W. Italiasson é\n\nJhuitts Ja Sculthors. R. C. Blight. F.at. Lewingdon, J. Ca Cheetham, com George. womy S. Bailey.\n\nD. M. Logan. G. 4. Hew. I.A. Garduo. I. Suttichaud. I. Galbracchi.\n\nKos: Kerr.\n\nJ. J. Vousles. William. I Facost. P. Plage.\n\nR.H. Haard. E. E, da Silium .", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359802, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "# List of Names\n\nROBERT JACKSON. \nGEO. A. CALDWELL. \nROBERT MITCHELL. \nR. COOKE, \nW. WILSON. \nD. MACDONALD. \nJ. WILKIE. \nJ. HAND. \nG. PATTON. \nGEO. S. KNOCKER. \nR. V. RUTTER. \nT. CURRAN. \nW. M. DEAS. \nT. C. HUTCHINGS. \nA. EWING. \nW. McASLAN. \nJ. WALLACE. \nJ. STENHOUSE. \nA. G. AITKEN. \nWILLIAM STEWART, \nALEX. ROWE. \nJOHN KYLES. \nR. LOGAN. \nGEO. WHITE. \nA. HARVIE. \nH. SMITH. \nE. J. MAIN, \nC. F. MENDHAM, \nW. HUTCHISO\n\n--12-- \n\nJNO. HUMPHREY. \nW. MASON. \nH. E. HOLLE. \nC. TOMLIN, \nW. E. CLARKE. \nJ. W. HUTCHINSON, \nJ. SMITH, \nJ. A. SCULTHORP. \nR. L. BLIGHT, \nJ. S. LEWINGDON. \nJ. C. CHEETHAM. \nWM. GEORGE. \nWM. S. BAILEY. \nJ. H. LOGAN. \nG. W. KEW. \nGEO. B. LEFAVOUR. \nT. WEBSTER. \nTHOMAS CLARK \nJ. A. CORDUS. \nJ. SUTHERLAND, \nJ. GALBRAETH. \nTHOS. KERR. \nG. J. VOWLES. \nG. C. COX. \nD. WARRES SMITH. \nCHAS. GRANT. \nH. U. JEFFRIES. \nR. B. JOYCE. \nGEO. B. DODWELL. \nJ. P. DOWLING. \nGEO. H. MEDHURST, \nF. JAS. EAST. \nA. N. BOTELHO. \nJ. M. B. BOTELHO. \nPAUL JORDAN. \nH. G. DOWLER. \nE. C. RAY. \nH. BURTON. \nROSS THOMSON. \nH. W. ROBERTSON. \nEDW. F. MACKAY, \nALEX. CUMMING. \nALEX. DONALD. \nF. W. LAMMERT. \nG. C. FULLERTON. \nWILLIAM J. STEWART. \nR. P. DIPPLE. \nG. GRIMBLE. \nF. GRIMBLE. \nWM. RAMSAY. \nT. E. SANSOM. \nP. PLAGE. \nR. H. HEARD. \nE. E. DA SILVA. \nJ. H. STEWART. \nH. E. MACKENZIE. \n\n--13-- \n\nARCHD. STEWART, \nG. H. POTTS. \nH. A. S. THOMPSON, \nJAS. S. BRUCE. \nHARRY WICKING. \nED. ROBINSON. \nW. PARFITT. \nC. A. HARRIS. \nF. W. HALL. \nH. HUNTER, \nF. W. FIRTH. \nJ. C. PETER. \nT. BROWN. \nF. F. RAPER. \nA. SHARP. \nG. S. BRADY. \nW. K. LOW. \nJ. NAPIER. \nWALTER W. BREWER, \nCHAS. H. W. KEW. \nW. G. DARBY. \nW. ST. JOHN HANCOCK. \nB. K. MEHTA. \nR. C. VANIA, \nJOHN HASTINGS. \nF. C. GREIG. \nR. W. KITT. \nJ. W. KEW. \nA. C. S. MANNERS. \nANTHONY BABINGTON. \nJ. J. BLAKE. \n\n567", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4]", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4]", "content_text": "that I follow Johnson's argument as to \nthe amendment of §20. If \nmade at any age. \nno amendment is \nas to rent payable in \nproduce since the order came into force will be rigid. If \nwe alter that as Chestham \nproved such diverted the interval between \nthe coming into operation of the order - the first proclamation will presumably be \nof no revenue for thing \nvalid \n\nto the \ndifficult questions might arise validity of such a piece of legislation. We prefer at present to advise leaving this clause alone \n\nSubject to above a \nprocedure pertained. \n\nMay 17 \n\nThere is a certain amount of \nrisk \nin a law \nof this kind but there is \nmore risk of evil from delay Telegraph as proposed - \nin a \ndespatch \n\nI \nagree \nCRI \nSanction but direct amendments as also & suggest that to meet Mr. Whitehead's technical objections - the whole law with the amendments should be reintroduced \n\nAdd words emphasising the necessity of \ngiving full notice and ample explanation to the villagers \n\nCPD Jan 18 May \n\nalacie \nMus \nMi Cox to th \n\nMay 19 \n\n4 Reansbrick Street \nSouthport 139 Lameshin. \n\n15 May \nto her Fiddian. \n74900. \n1200 \n\nHave read here \nIt seems to me \nwill be calculated to facilitate \na settlement of \nEducation in the law \ntutors. Es regards \n\n9 \nction 20. \ndoubt landholders best", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387908, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Job \n\nHur Cox \n\nSec 4 of Straits order of 1901, on which sec & of Hong Kong Ordinance 21 of 1901 (now criticized by Sir H. Berkeley) is founded, was not especially settled, as far as I can make out, by the Govt.\n\nClass II of the Home Govt. L.P. of 19 Jan 1899 provides that \"grants & dispositions of land\" may be made \"in conformity with some law in force in the colony, and 21 Vic 36c 3 appears to me to be such a law, and in the absence of any Govt instructions or \"regulations in force in the colony\" (see L.P. of 18 May, Advocate General's report) I was not the informant.\n\nThe question then is - how should sec 1 (1) of 11 of 1902 be amended or modified? \n\nI suggest cutting out the separation post of section first to help reformation + remodelling as follows :- \n\nSec 1 as \n1(1) Sections 3 & 4 of the Foreshores and Seabed Ordinance 1901 shall not apply to any grant or demise by the Crown... [proceeding as in subsec (2) down to] \"navigation or fishing\" by any Council, Seabed by any...\n\n(2) In cases where, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, an agreement to grant a Crown Lease of Crown land covered with water, or of Crown foreshore, for the purpose other than the erecting and maintenance of any pier or wharf thereon, will not cause or constitute substantial interference with public rights or alleged public rights of navigation or fishing, the Foreshores and Seabed Ordinance shall apply to the Grant of such lease, provided that from and after the publication of such opinion as aforesaid in the Gazette, a period of three months mentioned in the third section, the said order shall be considered to have been subsisted and shall be sufficient for the...\n\nJ&L (x)—50654-3000-12-01 \n540-40-3000-3-02 \n\nProvided always that nothing in this order... [exciting proviso to sec 1]\n\n(I think it will meet the case if, \n[Add the proviso \nIn cases where, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, public rights are not endangered, this preliminary procedure under the Foreshores & Seabed Ordinance, which I have suggested above, is shortened].\n\nIt is, I think, better than taking such clause \"out of the order altogether. \nI \nW/7 \n(AF CASP 7 Mthues \n8.58.6/3 \nI agree with Cheetham but probably the better plan would be to shorten the period in all destined cases. Suggest this operating to one month. Sufficient to point out that it is essential that the public should have notice of the proposed leases which may interfere with their rights.\n\nHin \n7/3 CPL.9 \nat once", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424190, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# DOMESTIC.\n## Office or Individual.\n\n321\n\nHONG KONG \n3 7 7 48 \nC.O \n37748 \nRECE REGP 19 NOV 09, 1909 \n18 Nov \nPrevious Paper. √36371 \n\nCopy corres \nCoft & Rec \nRecord of bounce \n\nEnquires if he is to understand that no previous letters have been received regarding his case. He asks that Brown agents may help him to find employment.\n\nJy Shatts (Mrs) thinks M.St. is possibly very stupid.\n\nThe answer to his queries is that with the exception of Chetham's letter asking for a copy of M.St's letter to the SS, there have been no enquiries that M.C. can trace. \nsigned G.M.C. \nA&E W.-90982/27- \n25000--11-08 \nNext subsequent Paper 41340 \naccuracy of the request for consular employment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "Hon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nForwarded, I can only refer you to my minute of the 31st. May, 1910, in which I submitted Mr. Julyan's former application.\n\n19th. December, 1910.\n\n(sd.) W. Chetham,\n\nD. P. W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "# OPIUM.\n\n## REG 27 14\n\n### [July 27.]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n#### SECTION 1.\n\n[34008]\n\n**(No. 129.)**\n\nBir, No. 1.\n\n**Mr. Cheetham to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 27.)**\n\nRamleh, July 19, 1914.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 91 of the 2nd April last and previous correspondence on the subject of the adherence of Egypt to the International Opium Convention of 1912, I have the honour to inform you that the Egyptian Government are prepared to adhere to the above-mentioned Convention if formally invited to do so.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**MILNE CHEETHAM.**\n\n[2205 dd—1]\n\nPage 261\nPage 192", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 198, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[34008]\n2801\nMEC\nD\n[July 30]\nREG 27 G 14\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n### No. 1\n\n**(No. 94.)**\nSir,\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Chilton.\n\nForeign Office, July 30, 1914.\n\nI transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from Mr. Cheetham, stating that the Egyptian Government are ready, if formally invited, to adhere to the International Opium Convention.\n\nI should be glad if you would approach the Netherlands Government on the subject with a view to a formal invitation being sent to the Egyptian Government.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**E. GREY**\n\n* Mr. Cheetham, No. 129, July 19, 1914.\n\n[2205 gg-1]\n193", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453054, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 410, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "#VI snoted giver ed of don si qida eft.\"string\" art amo\" \nbecomes \n## Translation of CODE Telegram\n\n**SECRETARY OF STATE**\nTo \n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.**\nDate \n25th January, 1915.\n\n407\n\nSanders Rehders & Co., Ltd., Agent for Texas Company \nof Fort Arthur and New York, desire to appoint Schlüter to act as their Hongkong agents in place of Reuter Brockelmann former agents. Have you any objection? Failing Schlüter the Company will appoint Humphrey Cheetham. Have told them to go and apply direct to you.\n\n**HARCOURT**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453088, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n### Last previous Paper.\n\nI may Tel 1915 17 Feb \n\nJac. Mor... \n\n7856 \nREC 440 \nRed 17 EB 15 \n\nSanders Rehder & Co to I Cheetham, re whether any policy of suppressing German trade in order to enable Antwerp to capture it unduly.\n\n### The German horribility not trade marial of down foremanily but to thent вить movements ab also Germany sufflying German British ferroest.\n\nSanders Rehders tel. 18 3. 7701 19806.\n\nTo prevent the sending of information to object to closing...\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n| | | \n---|---|---\n12 84 | tensio Enemy (88,105). WL.81,086--18, 45,000. 12/13. A.RË.W. (107,000) 31,997-51. 45,000. 11/1L \n\nTo capture all the better...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453090, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "## PARAPHRASE \n\n7856 (REG2 17 FEB 15) 442 \n\n**TELEGRAM. The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.**\n\n(Received Colonial Office 8.55 a.m. 17th February, 1915)\n\nFebruary 17th. 5.30 p.m. 70/5\n\nWith reference to your telegram of January 25th, I object to Schluter, who is a German except for the accident of his birth in London and of German parentage. There is no objection to Cheetham, who is English except that he is in the German firm Reuter Brockelmann. It is possible that it is desired to employ him merely in order to keep the latter firm alive in Hong Kong till after the war. There are many local British firms by whom Sandersrehder's agency could be undertaken successfully and before I reply to the latter regarding Cheetham I should be glad if I might be informed by you whether any policy of suppressing German trade in order to enable British firms to capture it underlies your cypher telegram dated October 16th.\n\n**MAY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 472, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n### Last previous Paper. E7806 8412\n\nAgevey of Texas one to Mos REC 468 8412 REG 20FELIS Randers Readers & Co off by ill. I accept. Cheetham. com sending disp In Cowell Me Collins\n\nAs the far has felepapled Landers Redders to I don't see that fur-ly\n\n### Next subsequent Paper.\n\n148 hol + Im (88,185), W31,086-18. 45,000. 12:13. A.&EW. (107,020) 31,987-51 40,000. 11/11.\n\nI heed do anything. I put by OB 22/2/15 to see A Hal mk Arc 2-2-2- 24. 2,44- \n\n... 25/2/441", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "## TELEGRAM. The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 6.55 a.m. 20th February, 1915)\n\n20th February.\n\n47856\n\nYour cypher telegram 18th February. (7) Sanders and Rehders has been informed by telegraph that I accept Cheetham. Am sending despatch.\n\nMAY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## Last previous Paper.\nAro 13045\n495\n\n## Rec 15950\nRea? 5 AR15\n15950\n\n## \"Camps Agency of Sanders Rehders in Colony\"\nstates objections to Schlüter. Sanders Rehders have been told that there is no objection to Chestham. has assured after of to Schlüter to act as Arbitrator of New York.\n\nMr. Rotin Collins, agent for Sanders Rehders, has not heard from them.\n\n## May 1915\nLu Leb\n\nTo No. 34 Aprl Jana 4 4-0 about Sanders sti. Brows litter light.\n\nA point in Q- A if it had 13045 timbund 241) work in it lost.\n\nZat Schlüter bron desued t by any possible means that Richter (another good old English name) was in collusion with Lander, opposition to but in the A.R. alternative (13045 such!).\n\n## Next subsequent Paper.\npresumably the Fred Richter alternative!\n\n(86,195). Wt.31,086-23. 45,900, 12:13. LÆN, (107,039) ..31,007-51. 44,000, 11/14.\n\nhe will ask the Zur Chautain (ominous name), but he has plenty...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n### Enclosure 1\n\n**HONGKONG, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 24th February, 1915.**\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your code telegram of the 25th ultimo, translation of which is enclosed, I have the honour to inform you that the result of enquiries made by His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, where Mr. Hakon Schluter is at present employed in the firm of Messrs. Reuter Bröckelmann and Company, is that Mr. Schluter was born in London of German parents; that his father belonged to Charlottenburg; that he spoke imperfect English; spent his last leave to Europe in Germany and was very pro-German in his sympathies. The last three facts had been previously reported to me by the Military Authorities here who have Mr. Schluter on their list of suspected spies. In the face of these facts it was impossible for me to allow Mr. Schluter to establish himself at the present juncture in Hongkong.\n\n2. Enquiries concerning Mr. Humphrey Cheetham had to be made in Shanghai, where he is employed in the same firm as Mr. Schluter belongs to, and I regret the delay in obtaining the necessary information to enable me to come to a decision. His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai was not acquainted with Mr. Cheetham, who seems to be little known in Shanghai, and his enquiries therefore took some time. Finally I ascertained that Mr. Cheetham is an Englishman who was formerly in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company and of Messrs. Probst Hanbury &C.\n\n**The Right Honourable LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &c., &c., &c.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453145, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "15950 \n\n1497 \n\nHanbury and Company, a British firm in Shanghai, and for the last 6 years has been in the employment of Messrs. Reuter, Brakelmann, and Company. There is no objection to him on the score of pro-German sympathies, although of course there is the suspicion mentioned in my cypher telegram, paraphrase of which is enclosed. Your reply, paraphrase enclosed, confirmed my own reading of your telegram of the 16th of October, but as local British Firms are most anxious to secure the many Agencies for British Firms formerly held by German Firms, and as there exists a strong impression that the suppression of German trade was in part directed to that object, I deemed it desirable to obtain an expression of your opinion on the point.\n\n3.\n\nI have now informed Messrs. Sanders Rehders that while I cannot accept Mr. Schlüter I am prepared to accept Mr. H. Cheetham and I enclose copy of their telegraphic reply. I take this opportunity of informing you \n\n4.\n\nthat I have refused an application made by Mr. Hakon Schlüter to act as Agent for Mr. Alfred Richter of New York who had been approached by the Texas Oil Company of New York to look after their petroleum business in Hongkong.\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir. \n\nYour most obedient, \n\nhumble servant, \n\nB. J. L. \n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Code Telegram\n## Enclosure 1\n\nFrom: **The Secretary of State** \nTo: **Governor, Hongkong** \nDate: **25th January, 1915** \n\n49899 \n15950 \nReal 5 APNTS \n\nSanders Rehders and Co., Ltd., agent for Texas Company of Port Arthur and New York, desire to appoint Hakon Schluter to act as their Hongkong agents in place of Reuter Brockelmann, former agents. Have you any objection? Failing Schluter, the Company will appoint Humphrey Cheetham. Have told them to apply direct to you.\n\nHarcourt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n## Paraphrase of CYPHER Telegram\n\n| From | To | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Governor, Hongkong | Secretary of State | 17th February, 1915 |\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 25th January, I object to Schluter whose parents are German and who is a German except for the accident of birth in London. As for Cheetham, I have no objection. He is an Englishman. The only objection is that he is in the German firm of Reuter Brockelmann. It is possible that it is desired to employ him merely in order to keep the latter firm alive in Hongkong till after the war.\n\nThere are many local British firms who could undertake the agency of Sanders Rehders successfully and before I reply to the latter regarding Cheetham, I would be obliged if you would inform me whether any policy of suppressing German trade in order to enable British firms to capture it underlies your cypher telegram of the 16th October.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Copy of Telegram\n## Sanders Rehders Co., Ltd.\n\n| From | To | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Sanders Rehders Co., Ltd. | Governor, Hongkong | 19th February, 1915 |\n\n503\nObliged today's cable accepting Cheetham are now appointing him have telegraphed Texas ship new cargo hundred sixty thousand cases.\nSanders Rehders Company Limited.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 551, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# \n## Paraphrase of CYPHER Telegram\n\n### From \n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.**\n\n### To \n**SECRETARY OF STATE.**\n\n### Date \n**17th February, 1915.**\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 25th January, I object to Schluter, whose parents are German and who is a German except for the accident of birth in London. As for Cheetham, I have no objection. He is an Englishman. The only objection is that he is in the German firm of Reuter Brockelmann. It is possible that it is desired to employ him merely in order to keep the latter firm alive in Hong Kong till after the war.\n\nThere are many local British firms who could undertake the agency of Sanders Rehders successfully, and before I reply to the latter regarding Cheetham, I would be obliged if you would inform me whether any policy of suppressing German trade in order to enable British firms to capture it underlies your cypher telegram of the 16th October.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453996, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "**NO CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n203 29152 \n\nREGT 23 15 \n\nSir, \n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG. 19th May, 1915. \n\n18950 \n\nIn continuation of my Confidential Despatch of \nthe 24th February, 1915, I have the honour to report that evidence \nhas been produced which shows that Mr. Hakon Schluter is untrustworthy in consequence of which I have refused him the hospitality \nof the Colony. \n\n2. Mr. Schluter is a resident of Canton but has \nbeen in the habit of visiting Hongkong periodically and you will no \ndoubt recollect that he was proposed by Messrs. Sanders Rehders and \nCompany to act as their Agent in Hongkong, but that I recommended that Mr. Humphrey Cheetham should be appointed. From evidence obtained it now appears that Mr. Cheetham is merely a figurehead for Mr. Schluter and it is possible that I shall have to make \nfurther recommendations with a view to his agency being placed in \nother hands. \n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P. \n&C., &c., &c. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble servant, \nAMES \nGovernor, &c., &c. \n\nPage 210\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454180, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n24963 \n387 \n\nPee2 31 MAY 15 \nfor \nmay 29 1915 \nTexas bill business \n\n29 May Access to books has not been denied to Cheetham by liquidators, they did demand proof of board approval of agreement. Proposes to request permission to Cheetham to act, as he is only figurehead acting on instructions at Barton.\n\nLast previous Paper: 86/2441 \n\nTo Sanders Rehder of 3 June subsequent Paper: 9b44 \n\nShare ... y Teagan Sun 9. First M'Collec \n\nree Thi til 1 25th May be cited how Schluter had been caught bribing to betting hatching private hitters at a strange... didn't think it is wanted for this purpose. I'm afraid Sanders Rehder are not playing a straight game. In En/15950.\n\n| 88. W1.82,088-18. | 46,000. | 12:13. | A.&£.W. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 31,007-51. | 45,000 | 11/14. | |\n\n\"girt this many that in the circo...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454181, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "The S.IS. regrets that he cannot help them when afford the East proposal oh ausdinghy & hor.\n\n`K31/5/15-`\n\nPerhaps it will suffice if we tell the lower Canton Verveys that they make any share representations disent to the fort approse for's proposal.\n\nYellin hein to report fully.\n\nThe len we set drawn into it the better.\n\nReturn to Go. the Apamento in `24486`.\n\nAva 1.b. 11- сб. 1/8/15. 1.6.1\n\n## TELEGRAM\nThe Governor of HongKong to the Secretary for the Colonies.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 7.20 p.m. 29th May, 1915.)\n\n`F 24486`. 29th May.\n\nYour telegram of May 28th.\n\nI am informed by liquidators that Cheetham has not been denied access to books by them. They refused to hand them over to him and he has not asked to see them since then. They did demand proof of Colonial Office approval of the agreement. They had no authority to carry on the Texas Oil Company's agency. With your permission, I propose now to cancel my permission given to Cheetham.\n\nIt appears from the evidence of Schluter's letters which were seized as described in my cypher telegram of May 25th that Cheetham is only a figure-head and that the real agent is Schluter who is still at Canton in the employment of Reuter Brocklemann.\n\n`Su 24098`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454182, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# 24963/16-Ahong\n\nJ 389 Bet Saut 11:55am 20 June 15\n\nhl undersized J. ħl of 29th May cipher DRAFT. Tel (code) Cheetham proposal\n\nSur A hong\n\n## MINUTE\n\nMr. Robiilan 16, procreated Silvergray, affion Report fully atnee 102 macquer by mail\n\n* Mr. Sir G. Fiddes\n* Mr. Sir H. Just\n* Mr. Sir J. Anderson\n* Lord Islington\n* Mr. Harcourt\n\nrafti", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nGov. Hongkong `24863/15-`\n\nR. 2JUN.\n\nYou 1715\n\nMessrs Sanders Rehders to the Gentlemen with wife. In the latter part of May I am instructed by telegram dated the 28th ult. that after consulting Mr. Robinson it is best for you to act for yourself.\n\n## MINUTE\n\nMr. Beckett June / \n\nMr. ... \nMr. ... \nMr. ... \nSir G. Fiddes\nSir H. Just\nSir J. Anderson\nLord Islington\nBoreland\nMr. Harcourt\n\nAust `26114`\nN `27/575` `24456/15-`\n\nYou wish to make representations on behalf of the East & Africa Syndicate in connection with the 5th instant alleged refusal of the Legations to allow Messrs Reuter Brockelmann to give Mr. Cheetham access to the books of the Texas Oil Co.\n\nThe Governor regrets to express disappointment that you cannot intervene. Any further representations that shall be made should be addressed direct to the Gov. of Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Code Telegram from the Secretary of State to the Governor, Hongkong.\n\n(31585 444 REN: 9 JUL 15)\n\n## Telegram Records\n\n| Date | Code | Message |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 20th May | 272 | Cannot give general authority for export of peanuts to the Netherlands Oversea Trust. |\n| 20th May | 273 | Exportation of a schooner to Japan allowed. |\n| 22nd May | 274 | Shipments of tin to San Francisco and New York allowed. |\n| 24th May | 275 | |\n| 25th May | 276 | Permission granted for export of tin to Saigon. Italy declared war upon Austria and Germany upon Italy. Hungary... |\n| 26th May | 277 | His Majesty's Government appreciate generous gift of aeroplanes. |\n| 26th May | 278 | |\n| 26th May | 279 | Export of spelter to Japan allowed. Requesting information as to production of spelter in Yunnan and its disposal. |\n| 27th May | 280 | Shipment of tin to Marseilles allowed. Consignors Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. Consignees Ehret & Gobin. |\n| 27th May | J11291 | Shipments of paraffin wax and candles by Asiatic Petroleum Company to China and Formosa allowed. |\n| 27th May | 281 | Shipment of Yunnan tin to Kobe allowed. Cannot give general authority to allow shipments of tin. |\n| 27th May | 282 | |\n| 27th May | 283 | |\n| 28th May | 284 | Export of tin to San Francisco allowed. |\n| 28th May | 285 | Export of copper and brass ware for Chinese ports allowed. Exportation of cartridges to Siam should in no case be allowed. |\n| 28th May | 286 | Transhipment of carbonate of ammonia allowed. |\n| 29th May | 287 | Regarding German state-aided companies in Hongkong. |\n| 29th May | 288 | Regarding refusal of liquidators of Reuter, Brockelmann & Co. to allow Cheetham to have access to books, etc. Instructions regarding the consignments of tin destined for United States. |\n| 29th May | 289 | Shipments of Tin for Chicago, San Francisco and Yokohama allowed. Shipments of tin to New York and Marseilles allowed. |\n| 29th May | 290 | Requesting information as to where spelter and antimony come from. |\n| 31st May | 291 | Articles to be added to list of contraband declared by proclamation. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n292. \n1st June \n\nCode \n\n293. \n1st \n\nCode \n\n6b00 \nAJOS \n\n294. \n2nd \n\n# \nCode \n\n295. \n3rd June \n\nCode \n\nShipment of tin to New York. Consign **Mitsui Bussan Kaisha**. Consignee **American Metal Co**. \n\nImportation into **Hongkong** from Holland by **Baker & Sons, London**, of 5 tons of norit for use in **Taikoo Sugar Company**. \n\nApproving proposals regarding **Mr. Cheetham**. \n\nShipments of tin to New York and Marseilles allowed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 467, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Translation of Code Telegram\n\nFrom: Secretary of State \nTo: Governor, Hongkong \nDate: 28th May, 1915 \n\n256 \n460\n\nHatter most urgent. Your telegram of 20th February. Sanders Rehders reports that liquidators of Reuter Brockelmann refuse Cheetham access to books etc. without proof of Colonial Office approval of Sanders new agreement with Texas Oil Company. Report by telegraph reason for liquidators refusal. Agreement has been produced to me and I will answer by telegraph any inquiry as to its contents.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\nFrom **SECRETARY OF STATE** \nTo **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG** \nDate **2nd June, 1915** \n\n294 \n468\n\nYour telegram of May 29th cypher. Cheetham, \nProposals approved. Report fully by mail. \n**BONAR LAW**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n31588 \n490 \nat 9 JUL 15 \n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 5th June, 1915.\n\n31590 \n\nIn continuation of my confidential despatch `10/313A's` date, I have the honour to forward a copy of a letter addressed to the Attorney General by Messrs. Showan, Tomes & Company regarding Mr. Cheatham's request to have access to the books connected with the Texas Dil business.\n\n## THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P., &C.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble servant, \nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454284, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# TEXAS OIL\n\nHongkong, 5th June, 1915.\n\nIn reply to your enquiry, we have not denied Mr. Cheetham access to the books relating to the above business.\n\nWhen he handed us his agreement with Messrs. Sanders Rehders & Co., Ltd. authorising him to take over the agency, and the books used in connection therewith, we informed him that the matter would have to be referred to our solicitors. He then asked if we declined to part with the books, to which we replied that this was also a matter for our solicitors to settle.\n\nAfter consultation with Messrs. Deacon, Lookor, Deacon and Harston we advised Mr. Cheetham three days later, viz. on 29th ultimo, that the books were the property of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co., and would be required for some time to come, but there would be no objection to his referring to them and obtaining copies of the various forms in use.\n\nYours faithfully\n**REUTER BROCKELMANN & CO.**\nSd.\n**Shewan Tomes & Co., Liquidators.**\n\nHon. Attorney General, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454289, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## 1915\n### HONG KONG\n\nof Jonas Fine at previous Paper.\n\nP Red 9 JUL 15: \nW. Cheetham to act as Agent proposes to cancel permission to \ncas. Sanders, Randers: Cop- bur Tennyson Zhakes \nals \n\nIt has been settled (`27685`)\n\nThe following:\n- R. Bolo an...\n- My...\n\nR. B. Com... (cucl. I) appears to have been Houghing manager \n- see `26875` $.R.VC 4.2 to have retired to Shanghai\n\nWhen he had ĥ leave \n\nThe various suspicions circumstances seem to be \nbest explained by a conflict of interests on the following:\n\nKewan Tomes & Co went to get herf as with bracness possible in their own hands (as S.R.O. Co often suggest) \n| Ref | Amount | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| WEX | 1,568-18 | 12/13 |\n| ALEW | 1,097-51 | 11/14 |\n| | 45,000 | |\n\nif of posible, to \"jump\" the agency. They also curfert the integrity of Cheetham.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454290, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 5th. June, 1915.\n\n1 Steger & 19 Schluter probably with a view to keeping Mad working together R.B&Co going. Whene Schluter fails, Cheetham is Cheetham's interest in Bounded. interest is to push out R.B.EG, Schluter, and everyone else : but owing to lack of Knowledge he needs Schlüter's help. He therefore gives Schluter the impression that he is working himself slightly in to play his local Jaunt and compromises in the process. SR. & Co may to some extent possibly be supposed to be in the dark about this part of the business; and they may be regarded as a figure head.\n\nThis is somewhat fanciful interpretation, but seems to be the best we have. The set of the facts is very confusing. (both ff.) - I don't think I need be bothered with this.\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n31580 497 B 9 JUL 15\n\n## \n\n24965 \nSecretary of State's Telegrams of 26th. May and 2nd. June to Governor. Governor's telegram (cypher) of 29th. May to Secretary of State, 2496\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the correspondence noted in the margin, I have the honour to inform you that I propose to inform Mr. Cheetham and Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company, Limited, that I am cancelling the permission which I gave the former to act as agent for the latter in connection with their Texas Oil business.\n\n2. It will be seen from my Despatch of the 24th. February that I refused to grant permission to Mr. Hakon Schlüter to accept this agency, all the circumstances known about him tending to confirm the suspicion that he would be merely acting on behalf of Messrs. Reuter Bröckelmann and Company. The letters seized under the circumstances described in my cypher telegram of the 25th. May show that Mr. Cheetham has now been put forward as a mere figure head, that it was intended that the agency should really be conducted under Mr. Schlüter's direction, and that Mr. Cheetham also would be acting for Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann and Company. This suspicion seems to obtain some confirmation from the copy of the letter from Sanders Rehders and Company, Limited, to the Texas Company which was enclosed in your Confidential Despatch of the 24th. April.\n\n3. I enclose a translation of a letter dated the 16th.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P., \n&c. \n&c. \n&c. \n\n1003 \n13/7/15 \nVo form able Vo... We shall be able when we get the resulted in the reversal of an opinion for's account of The inquiry which Mis decision. \n\nPage 363 \n\n14.7.11 \nmh \nAb \nArc \n14.7. \n\n...ای نظم \n\n? Hail. c6 1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454291, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Page 493\n\n16th March, 1915, from Mr. Schluter to Mr. Steger, who was the former manager in Hongkong of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann and Company. This enclosure is a translation of a copy in a press copy letter book which was found in a safe of which Mr. Schluter kept the key, and the press copy contains Mr. Schluter's signature. I also enclose a number of extracts or translations of extracts from letters found in the same safe.\n\n4.\n\nI would like to point out that the policy underlying section 6 of the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance, 1914, as amended by section 9 of the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1914, was a twofold one, (a) to prevent interference with the liquidations, and (b) to prevent continued unrestricted trading on behalf of the German and Austrian firms. The latter policy had been already approved by you before the expulsion and internment of enemy subjects, and was recognised in section 6 of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914. The objects of the restrictions which were originally imposed in pursuance of this policy, and which were continued after the passing of that Ordinance, were of course intended to prevent money or its equivalent reaching enemy territory during the war, and this is the underlying reason for refusing to allow either Mr. Schlüter or Mr. Cheetham to accept the agency in question.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n**Annay- \nGovernor,&c.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454292, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\n**COPY**\n\nTo Steger.\n\n499\n\nCanton, 16th March, 1915.\n\n**Petroleum**\n\nCheetham will therefore come to Hongkong to take over the agency for Sanders. That means, he will only give his name to it and I shall do all the work. Perhaps he could take a room from us which will be the more practical thing to do so that I could be at his elbow, especially in the beginning, for the Chinese will only try to make capital out of Cheetham's lack of knowledge of local conditions.\n\nCertified true copy and translation.\n\n(Sd.) J. Tisdall\n\nWitness to above signature.\n\n(Sd.) R. H. Morgan\n\n(Sd.) H. Schluter", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454293, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n\nLetter from unsigned to Herr Schluter, Canton 2nd January, 1915.\n\n\"A. Richter. Should the Hongkong Government raise objections to you as R's attorney, Cheetham must go to Hongkong and you must work him as far as possible, still I hope that the step may be avoidable. If it is necessary, a despatch (telegram) must be sent to Richter from Canton or Shanghai \"Cheetham goes to Hongkong\" or something similar. l.t.m. Bf.2/1 to Richter\".\n\n## Letter F.p.10 unsigned to Richter, 2nd January, 1915, in English.\n\n\"Power of Attorney for Mr. Schluter\". I hope that everything will be alright but should the Hongkong Government object to Mr. Schluter acting as your attorney in consequence of his acting as assistant to the liquidator it will be necessary that you forward a second power of attorney to R.B.& Co. Shanghai in favour of Mr. Humphrey Cheetham who is at present our piece goods salesman at Shanghai and who would have to proceed to Hongkong. As Mr. Cheetham does not know much about the Petroleum business Mr. Schluter would help him as much as possible.\n\n## Letter F.p. 16 in English unsigned from Amsterdam, 23rd December, 1915.\n\n\"My dear Sanders,\n\nEven if Cheetham had gone to Hongkong there would have been technical objections in the way if he had tried to do the oil business with Schluter's assistance or rather under the latter's practical management.\n\n## F. 30 unsigned copy to Schluter, Canton.\n\n\"H. O. Cheetham's contract ends on 31.12.14. Renewal naturally only with one month's notice, lies in Baur's hands\".\n\nCertified true copy.\n(sd.) F. H. Stewart, Captain. I.M.S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454309, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## for Ray\nZel \n1915 \nHONG KONG \n267·84 \n516 \n02 \n26784 \nREG: 10 JUN 15 \nSexar oil business \n10 Jane Nas cancelled permission to previous Papor. Whetham to carry on agency. Has 26499 mp's Sarders ob \nshone ample, \n\n| Next subsequent Paper. \n+ \nfor reasons jwen \nSchluter cannot hold agency here. \nRow Cotten's \nfir f. Fiddles. \nM. Carrot \nCarrot called on me this morning & shewed me a Tel from the for to their the Coy informing that Cheetham's agency is Cancelled. \nAfter speaking for. G. 1 I to hein confi. Fiddes -dently heim that the recom was that the for had wideni which be regarded a Con 74 clusive that Cheetham \nW151,056-18, 45,000 12/13. A.ŒE.W, $1,997-51. 45,000, 11/14.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454310, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \na figurehead was acting for Schluter. He agreed to tel: to his Schickens at Hery Kony to inquire about the reasons for their action. Monary for and thin agent if Cheetham could not be retained.\n\nThe whole business is very unsatisfactory. I send thanks to you for that intention. Zur Camck has aroused suspicion of nursing the Reuter Brockelmann but he admits of it.\n\nA Conse... Shankar that R.B.'s branch at Movell your port Canton where Schluter may probably do their best to...\n\nHe knows nothing very definite of Cheetham. At the same time it was exchanged with someone who knows Cheetham very well and mal Schlute... 517 has been forbidden by rehim. No the Crone, should have suggested (as he did on `26499`) that Schluter should be appointed the Company's agent in Kompi.\n\nIt seems quite possible that Cheetham may move to Jool. But it is a rather **undesirable** move to have him in charge of a ticklish business. He has been acting for German firms in the same time, I believe, for neach (before the... I mean).\n\nNo action seems necessary now. `C6`, `1078705`, above M. 11.6.6.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454311, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n**(Received, Colonial Office 11.34 a.m., 10th June, 1915)**\n\nWith reference to your telegram 9th June, in accordance with my telegram 29th May, have cancelled permission granted to Cheetham to carry on agency of the Texas Oil Company. Sanders Rehders & Co., Schluter is Resident at Canton, he has been informed by telegraph, has been forbidden to come to Hong Kong and therefore cannot hold any agency here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454329, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG \n536 \n935 \n\nmunitions of war \nto the \nSml Bart. \n\nfox may fel \n1915 \n27685. st \n\nTexas oil business \n16 June. I prepared to allow Cheetham \nLoft grievous Paper. to act on conditions specified. He \nwill be allowed to deal with large \nunderstanding cargoes arrives \n\narrive 17 June \n27307 \n\nA \n\nTo Rehders & Co and to cons 19 June \nAnd tel: 30th June orig To Gov. Dept & July Sig \n\nNext subsequent Paper \n22805 \n\non \nthat he employ at 2 Overlauton the Agent \nठ \n\nhe Calls Sir G. Fishes \n\nThe gov: \" Cheetham to carry and \nis willing to allow \n\n1 \n\nare satisfied that Reeder Brockelman has \neliminated \nare \nreally \non condition \n\nThat a British firm is appointed subagent at Canton. Pending \n\nour \nDecision Cheetham \nis to be allowed to deal with the cargo which is just arriving the ones Mis throws an \n\n(26,195). W131,085-19. $5,000. 12/18. A.&E.W. (107,089 11,397-61 5,000. 11/24.\n\ndeciding to whether.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454333, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 547, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## TELEGRAM. The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n(Received Colonial Office, 10:55 a.m. 16th June, 1915)\n\n26875 With reference to your telegram 12th June, I have examined person named and I am prepared to accept him provided you are satisfied that all interests of Reuter Brockelmann and Company in the Agency of the Texas Oil Co. for Hong Kong and South China have been absolutely determined and on condition that neither Schluter nor Reuter Brockelmann may be appointed subagent at Canton and that if and when such a subagency is appointed it shall be a British firm. Pending decision, I shall allow Cheetham to deal with large cargo arriving to-morrow on condition that he employs as subagent in Canton to deal with portion of the cargo for which there is no storage accommodation in Hong Kong the branch in Canton of the firm of Shewan Tomes and Company. Cheetham is prepared to accept this arrangement.\n\nthere is no existing agreement or understanding by which \"Schluter retain any interest or expect to leave any benefit from it.\n\nbe should also explain that this Arrangement is regarded by the Canton branch of Shewan Tomes & Co. as satisfactory for storage accommodation in H.K. & that Cheetham has accepted the arrangement. Also say that we wish to forestall ourselves as to the position of the proclamation.\n\n`REG 16 JUN 15`\n`RBH 6.7.1970`\n\n66.7.1970 appears to be a later addition or unrelated to the telegram content.\n\n### Initial Fragment (appears unrelated or out of context)\nese aerare no \nexisti \nthere \nagreement \nor understanding \nGy which \nKezd \n\"chlueter retain any intwerty or expect to leve any benefit from, \nit. \n6 \n17.6.05 \n\nbe should also \n? explain that thi \nArrangement \nсі герад \nTo the Canton brauch \nSheran Tamen vifo \nis \nQue Black of Strage accomodation in H.K. & that Cheetham has accepted The arrangement Also say that lifere, The Jous confirming permission to Cheetham \"we wish to fatest Ourselves as to th \nposition of them procier \nRBH \nabove \n\nThis part seems to be a draft or related content but is not directly connected to the telegram.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454337, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 551, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# STATIONS IN LONDON\n\nTelephone No.: 8682 London Wall (4 Lines). \nTelegraphic Address: SIGNALLY, AVE. LONDON \nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.\n\n| Location | Telephone No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| 11, Old Broad Street, E.C. | 2528 Gerrard |\n| 449, Strand, W.C. (Charing Cross) | 851 Avenue, 852 Avenue, 4408 Avenue, 2942 Hop |\n| \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, E.C. | - |\n| 6, Dotman Street, Borough, S.E. | 2516 Gerrard |\n| 4142, Parliament Street, S.W. | - |\n| 5, Leadenhall Street, E.C. | - |\n| | 1014 Holborn |\n| 37, Holborn Viaduct, E.C. | - |\n| Market Buildings, 29, Mincing Lane, E.C. | - |\n| Forsigs Auction Mart, Covent Garden, W.C. | - |\n\nHead Office: Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. \nTelephone: 1127 LONDON WALL. \nTelegraphic Address: \"EASTERN AVE,\" LONDON.\n\nTelegraphic Address: \"SIGNALLY, AVE,\" LONDON. \nTelephone: 8697 LONDON WALL (4 Lines).\n\nISSUED FROM CHIEF CABLE STATION, ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT. \nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern. \nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. \nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to. See back of form for list of Company's Stations in London.\n\nClerk's Name and Date. \nTime Received, \nRef. Rule Book.\n\n544 \nLETTERS OF THE OUTER CIRCLE A.M. INNER CIRCLE P.M.\n\nCLOCK put production of this Copy. \nTelephone Numbers. \nRemarks. \nExamples, PW=3.45 p.m. HL=8.65 a.m.\n\nI SHALL ALLOW CHEETHAM to deal with DAPERABAN on condition that he ARRIVING TOMORROW \"COMMUNIST 'SUBBASIS' EMPLOYS to deal with. If the SUBAGENT IN CANTON TAKES AN 'OFFER' then CARGO FROM SUBTERRANE SILVERIZO...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 552, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## STATIONS IN LONDON\nTELEPHONE NO.: Telaga Aparcas **SIGNALLY, AVE, LONDON** \n3632 London Wall Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. (4 Lines.) \n3632 London Wall \nTe No. \nTeleshaphic Asanzos: \nI, Old Broad Street, E.C. \n2528 Gerrard - \n449. Strand, W.C. (Charing Cross). \n4408 Avande \n2942 Hop- \n2616 Gerrard \n**SIGNALLY, AVE, LONDON** \n\"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, E.C. \n- 6 Denman Street, Borough, S.E. \n- 41 & 42, Parlament Street, S.W. \n851 Avenue \n- 8. Leadenhall Street, E.C. \n1014 Holborn \n- 37, Holborn Vladuct, E.C. \n852 Avenue \nMarket Buildings, 39, Mincing Lane-26. Mark Lane, E.C \nForeign Auction Mart, Covent Garden, \n**Head Office**!-- Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. \nTelephone:-1177 LONDON WALL. Telegraphic Address:-**EASTERN AVE**, \"LONDON. \n\n## ORIGINAL \n| No. | TIME | LETTERS | TELEGRAM | Telephon |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 545 | 40 | | | |\n\nTelegraphic Address - **\"SIGNALLY, AVE,\" LONDON** \n9692 LONDON WALL. (4 Lines) \nISSUED FROM CHIEF CABLE STATION, ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT. \nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern \nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book. \nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram could lead to production of this Copy. See back of form for list of Company Stations in London and Telephone Numbers.\n\n| Time Received | Clerk's Name and Date | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | | |\n\n## THE BRANCHES IN TONES \nof the \nA.M. Inner Circle \nP.M. OF THE CLOCK \nExamples: PW-3.45 p.m. \nHL 8.45 LM- \n\n| No. | CANTON | OFFERT | FI200 | and Company |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | CLUBROAT | SILVERGRAY | CHEETHAM | Dupared to ‘ABBAJASTE |\n\nTHIS ENTRY MAY Rec 11.60m 11.Jam deo 11.50. \nTHE NUMBER OF WORDS IN THE MESSAGE DIFFERS FROM THE NUMBER SIGNALLED, A CORRECTION WILL FOLLOW.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454339, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 553, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## STATIONS IN LONDON\n\nTermini No.: \nTELEGRAPHIC Address: \"SIGNALLY, AVE, LONDON.\" \n3632 London Wall Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. (4 Lines.)\n\n| Location | Telephone No. |\n|-----------------|---------------|\n| London Wall | 3632 |\n| | 4408 Avenue |\n| | 2942 Hop |\n| \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, E.C. | 2528 Gerrard |\n| 1. Old Broad Street, E.C. | - |\n| d. Denman Street. Borough. S.E. | 449, Strand, W.C. (Charing Cross) | 2616 Gerrard |\n| 41 ★ 43. Parliament Street, S.W. | 851 Avenue |\n| 8, Leadenhall Street, E.C | 1014 Holborn |\n| 37. Holborn Viaduct, E.C. | 862 Avenue |\n| Market Buildings, 29. Minging Lane -26, Mark Lane, E.C. | - |\n| Foreign Auction Mart, Covent Garden, W.C. | - |\n\nHead Office: \nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. \nTelephone: 137 LONDON WALL \nTelegraphic Address: \"EASTERN AVE,\" LONDON.\n\nAnsd 29132 \nFor Hongkong 27685/5-2 \n& 546 \n19 June 1515 \n\nDRAFT.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nRe: Messrs Lauders Rehders & Co, Ltd \n\nI am directed by the Secretary of your Department to inform you that, according to information received from Mr. Cheetham, the arrangement made for Shewan Tomson & Co. Ltd to act as subagents at Canton to handle a portion of the cargo due to the lack of accommodation at Hongkong has been accepted by Mr. Cheetham.\n\nThe Gov... Las exported that the arrangement has been accepted by Mr. Cheetham.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n| Name | Date |\n|---------------|-----------|\n| Mr. Beckett | Jun 8 | 827805 |\n| Mr. Frannyson | 18.6 | No |\n| Mr. Robinson | 18/67 | |\n| Sir G. Fiddes | | |\n| Sir H. Just | | |\n| Sir J. Anderson | | |\n| Lord Islington | | |\n| Mr. Harcourt | | |\n\nCopy Confidential `XCR(85)72` \nalso mention it in his acceptance letter to the State (S.J.C. Department) that if markets are opposite to Cambon, appointment shall be given to Yama British firms.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454340, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 554, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n\nI am to add that, before confirming the permission given by the Governor to But Cheetham, Mr. Bonan Law wishes to satisfy himself as to the position in regard to Reuter Brockelman & Co., and would therefore be glad if the agreements with But Cheetham and The Texas Oil Co., and with Brockelman could be sent to this dept for examination again by Mr. Fraser.\n\n### \n\nFor the same reason Mr. Bonan Law also wishes to request a statutory declaration to be made by the directors of the Company to the effect that the agency of Reuter Brockelmann & Co. is absolutely determined, and that, so far as the directors are aware, there exists no agreement or understanding by which they retain, or expect to derive any benefit from...\n\n**H. J. REAL** \nfor the Under Secretary of State.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 630, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 18th June, 1915**\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the telegraphic correspondence noted in the margin, decodes of which messages are attached, and to Mr. Harcourt's Confidential Despatch of the 24th of April, I have the honour to inform you that after careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that I should not be justified in refusing to permit Mr. Backhouse, a former employee of the Firm of Sander, Wieler and Company, to act as Agent for or to buy from the firm of Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company. The latter firm is permitted to trade in England. Its composition shows a strong foreign element and its action in nominating first Mr. Schlüter and then Mr. Cheetham for the Agency in Hongkong of the Texas Oil Company was open to suspicion. But if on these grounds I were to refuse to permit Mr. Backhouse to act for the firm or to buy from them I must be prepared to refuse to allow any one to do the same or in other words to prevent the firm from trading in Hongkong altogether. This would involve embarking on a new policy which has not received your sanction, and it is doubtful whether there exists the legal power to enforce it.\n\nThere appear to be some grounds for suspecting that in the Texas Oil business Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company Limited will really be acting in the joint interests of themselves and Messrs. Reuter Bröckelmann and Company but the evidence does not ...\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P., &c., &c., &c.**\n\nPage 630 \nPage 631", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 639, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Code and Cypher Telegrams from the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n296. 6th June Cypher\n297. 7th Code\n298. 7th Cypher\n299. 8th Code\n300. 8th Code\n301. 9th Code\n302. 9th Cypher\n303. 9th Code\n\n631 Masters of Italian merchant vessels should be given the latest information regarding enemy submarines and vessels which may be met with.\n\nBooks of Messrs. Jebsen & Co. to be examined in order to obtain evidence of continued practice of carrying on trade at or below cost price.\n\nNo action should be taken against Mr. Schlueter. Giving instruction for the amendment of the Post Office Ordinance.\n\nExport of tin to Manila allowed.\nExport of spelter to Japan allowed.\n\nRequesting report as to Mr. Cheetham's agency in Hongkong for Texas Oil Co.\n\nAs to allowing Crisogno, an Austrian subject, to proceed to Italy to join the Garibaldi legion.\n\nExportation of tyres and general rubber goods to Tientsin, Shanghai & Batavia by the Dunlop Rubber Co.\n\n304. 10th Code\n305. 10th Code\n306. 10th Code\n307. 10th Code\n308. 10th Code\n\nRelaxation of special censorship approved. Shipment of Chinese antimony regulus to Vladivostock.\n\nExport of old metal to Japan allowed.\nShipment of tin to Havre allowed.\n\nInstructions regarding the granting of licences to banks respecting cargo in enemy ships.\n\n309. 11th Code Export of Yunnan tin to New York and San Francisco allowed.\n\n310. 11th Code Shipment of tin to New York allowed.\n311. 12th Cypher\n\n312. 12th Code\n313. 15th Code\n\nInformation regarding enemy submarines and vessels should be given to Japanese merchant ships.\n\nMr. Cheetham's agency in Hongkong for the Texas Oil Co.\n\nExportation of tin to United States. Shipments must be consigned to British Consul-General, New York or San Francisco.\n\n314. 18th Code Shipment of tin to New York allowed.\n\n315. 16th Code Export of spelter to Osaka allowed.\n316. 16th Code Export of old metal to Kobe allowed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454432, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 646, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# STATE TO YHATHЯOUR \n## „DYOSSWORяOIVON \n\nFrom \n**Translation of CODE Telegram** \n**SECRETARY OF STATE** \n\nTo \n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG** \n\nDate \n9th June, 1915. \n\n#38 \n301 \n637 \n\nMy telegram of June 2nd. Sanders Rehders & Co. have received following telegram from Cheetham. \"Books difficulty settled. Can I give Hakon power of attorney for Canton. Conditions same as mine\". Please report by telegram decision as to Cheetham's agency. Presume Company should be told that no agency must be given to Schluter. \n\n**BONAR LAW**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454443, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 657, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram\n\n**SECRETARY OF STATE** \n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG**\n\nDate: 12th June, 1915\n\nYour telegram of June 10th. Sanders Rehders & Co. instructing Johnsen Stokes and Master to investigate position and defend their interests in Hongkong. Cheetham should be given opportunity to defend himself and his agency should not be terminated unless suspicion against him is really strong.\n\n**BONAR LAW**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454451, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 665, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Code Telegrams to the Secretary of State from His Excellency the Governor\n\n### 656\n#### 4th June\n**Code** \nShipments of tin June,\n\n#### 11.\n**Code** \nExport of dynamite and detonators required for railway and mining in China, Indo-China and Sandakan.\n\n#### 13.\n#### 5th \n**Code** \nReplying to Secy. of State's telegram of 29th May regarding spelter and antimony.\n\n#### 14.\n#### 5th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export Yunnan spelter to Japan.\n\n#### 15.\n#### 7th \n**Code** \nRequesting an early reply to Gorr's telegram of 28th May regarding export of spelter to Japan.\n\n#### 16.\n#### 7th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export Yunnan tin to San Francisco and New York.\n\n#### 17.\n#### 8th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old metals to Japan.\n\n#### 18.\n#### 8th \n**Code** \nImportation of norit into Hongkong.\n\n#### 19.\n#### 8th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old copper to Kobe.\n\n#### 20.\n#### 9th \n**Code** \nShipment of tin to Marseilles permitted.\n\n#### 21.\n#### 9th \n**Code** \nReplying to Secy'af State's telegram of 26th May regarding spelter.\n\n#### 22.\n#### 10th \n**Code** \nCancellation of permission granted to Mr. Cheetham to carry on agency of Texas Oil Co.\n\n#### 23.\n#### 10th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to New York.\n\n#### 24.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nMr. Grisogono released and will leave for Italy shortly.\n\n#### 25.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nShipments of tin for week ended 10th June.\n\n#### 26.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export spelter to Osaka.\n\n#### 27.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to Seattle and Osaka.\n\n#### 28.\n#### 15th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to San Francisco.\n\n#### 29.\n#### 15th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to San Francisco, Chicago and Tokio.\n\n#### 30.\n#### 15th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old metals to Kobe.\n\n#### 31.\n#### 16th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old metals to Kobe.\n\nP.T.O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454452, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 666, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "#603 \n## 16th June \n### Code 133 \nAcceptance of Mr. Cheetham as agent for the Texas Oil Co. on certain conditions.\n\n## 16th June \n### Code 134 \nRequesting permission to export tin and old metals to Kobe.\n\n## 17th June \n### Code 135 \nPersons obtaining export permits will have to produce landing certificates.\n\n## 17th June \n### Code 137 \nReplying to Secy. of State's telegram of 15th June re tin to United States. Requesting permission to export tin to San Francisco.\n\n## 17th June \n### Code 138 \nOutput of spelter from mines in Yunnan, Value of zinc exported to France and to other countries.\n\n## 17th June \n### Code 657 \nProposed settlement in the case of the prize ship \"Rio Pasig\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454464, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 678, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\n## GOVERNOR, HONGKONG to SECRETARY OF STATE\n### Date: 10th June, 1915\n\nYour telegram of June 9th. In accordance with my telegram of 29th May, have cancelled permission granted to Cheetham to carry on agency of the Texas Oil Co. Sanders Rehders have been informed by telegraph. Schluter is resident in Canton, he has been forbidden to come to Hong Kong and therefore cannot hold any agency here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454474, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 688, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\n\n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.**\n\n**SECRETARY OF STATE,**\n\nFrom | TO | Date\n---------|---------|---------\n | | 16th June, 1915.\n\nYour telegram of 12th June. I have examined person named and I am prepared to accept him provided you are satisfied that all interest of Reuter Brockelmann & Co. in the agency of the Texas Oil Co. for Hongkong and South China has been absolutely determined and on condition that neither Schluter nor Reuter Brockelmann may be appointed sub-agent at Canton and that if and when such a sub-agency is appointed it shall be a British firm. Pending decision I shall allow Cheetham to deal with large cargo arriving tomorrow on condition that he employs as sub-agent in Canton to deal with portion of the cargo for which there is no storage accommodation in Hongkong the branch in Canton of the firm of Shewan Tomes & Co. Cheetham is prepared to accept this arrangement.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454491, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 705, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 18th June, 1915.\n\nIn continuation of my Confidential Despatch of the 5th instant, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your code telegram of the 4th Instant, copy enclosed, and to confirm my reply, copy enclosed, of the 10th June in sending which I regret that I did not appreciate the fact that Mr. Cheetham contemplated appointing Mr. Schlüter as his sub-agent in Canton. I have also to acknowledge your code telegram of the 12th instant, copy enclosed, and to confirm my reply of the 16th instant, copy of which is also enclosed.\n\n2. In accordance with your instructions contained in your telegram of the 12th instant I caused the letter, copy of which is enclosed, to be addressed to Messrs. Johnson, Stakes and Master and on the 16th instant I heard Mr. Cheetham in his defence. Mr. Cheetham was accompanied by his Solicitor. The Colonial Secretary and Attorney-General were present.\n\nThe gist of Mr. Cheetham's defence, which he conducted himself in a straightforward manner which created a good impression, was that while Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann might no doubt entertain hopes to regain after the war the agency for Hong-kong and South China of the Texas Oil Company, they had at present no interest in the agency whatever. To prove this he referred to a letter, copy enclosed, from Mr. Stegar the former Head of the Branch of Messrs. Reuter Bröckelmann in Hongkong and \n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BOMAR LAW, M.P., \n\n80.. &c., &c...\n\n| \n| --- \n| had actually worked their business, which must be a very difficult moment. To pick ... They therefore might \n| anew man ... To keep either Schlüter or Cheetham (both of whom were connected with QBHO) as agents from RBHO no doubt wanted to ... schemed to do so. The Richter Scheme was devised for the same purpose. Jonce shows that he too was in the employ of QBHO. No doubt the Texas Co. also pressed S.Roto to keep someone from QBHO in the business. It is to be observed also from Schlüter that there was talk of Shewan Tomes & Co. (Asiatic Fruits) being forced early on to ... SRHC des. 237, сб. 307745, Ack. Ar... |\n\n REG 22 JUL 15 \nGod 31590 \n0.896 \n33841 \n526875 \nGr. 27685- (975) \n\n`SRHC des. 237` \n`сб. 307745` \n`Ack. Ar` \n`GR27685- (975)` \n`XCR(85)72` is not present in this text, hence not corrected. However `Gr. 27685- (975)` is present and has been reformatted to meet the guidelines.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454492, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 706, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \nI \n\nH \n\n\n\n) 697 \n\nto who is now in Shanghai, Mr. R. Shevon, the Head of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Company, Liquidators of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann and Company in Hongkong, and to his own Power of Attorney from Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company in which that Firm are described as \"the sole agents of the Texas Company of New York and Port Arthur (Texas) for Hongkong, Macao and all China Ports south of Hongkong (except Indo-China) and North up to and including Foochow and the territories inland of such Ports and places\". He said that on his arrival here he found that Mr. Schluter had been prohibited from visiting the Colony and that as difficulties had been put in his way by the Liquidators in gaining an insight into the business with which he admitted that he was unfamiliar, he had, with the permission of the Authorities, visited Mr. Schluter in Canton. He added that it was his own idea to employ Mr. Schluter as his Sub-Agent in Canton and that he had telegraphed to ask the permission of Messrs. Sanders Rehders for such appointment, but had had no reply.\n\n3. The principal evidence in support of the charge in the Colonial Secretary's letter of the 14th instant is contained in the enclosed extract from a letter addressed under date of the 16th of March from Mr. Schlüter in Hongkong to Mr. Steger in Shanghai. On this extract being read to Mr. Cheetham, he said at once that he was familiar with the letter which he had seen in Shanghai. He said that when Mr. Schlüter wrote the letter, he did not know that the agency had been taken away from Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann and Company. He added that Mr. Steger's reply had been to the effect that Mr. Cheetham was coming to Hongkong to represent Messrs. Sanders Rehders only and that when he had received assistance from Mr. Schluter, he would be able to carry on the work of the agency himself.\n\nMr. Cheetham was next questioned on the enclosed extract from an unsigned letter found in Mr. Schlüter's safe, and also on the enclosures to Mr. Harcourt's **Confidential** Despatch of the 24th of April, 1915. His explanations were to the effect that Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann not unnaturally wished to retain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 707, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "693 \n\nretain their interest in the Agency if they could, hence their desire from the first to put in Mr. Richter who is in their employ, and that Messrs. Sanders Rehders while anxious to get rid of them as the Agency in South China could be run much more cheaply than by paying heavy commissions to Messrs. Heuter Brockelmann and Company, wished to have the assistance of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann as they did not themselves understand the business.\n\nHe emphasized the fact that the tripartite agreement between the Texas Company, Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Messrs. Reuter Bröckelmann had been terminated and that the latter's interests had now been eliminated.\n\n4.\n\nOn a review of the case I come to the conclusion that as Mr. Schluter cannot visit the Colony during the duration of the war and on the conditions mentioned in my telegram For276-85 of the 16th instant, Mr. Cheetham who has severed his connection with Messrs. Reuter Bröckelmann and Company might be accepted as the Agent of Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company.\n\n5.\n\nSince the enquiry described in this Despatch I have discovered the enclosed letter from Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company to Messrs. Reuter Bröckelmann and Company among Mr. Schlüter's papers. This letter strengthens the suspicion that Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann may still retain a clandestine interest in the agency. On the other hand the letter may refer to some arrangement whereby this firm may resume the agency at the end of the war.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454494, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 708, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1\n## Translation of Code Telegram\n\nFrom: **Secretary of State** \nTo: **Governor, Hongkong** \nDate: **9th June, 1915**\n\n33841 RECE \nREG 22 JUL 15 \n699 \n\nMy telegram of June 2nd. Sanders Rehders and Company have received following telegram from Cheetham. \"Books difficulty settled. Can I give Hakon power of attorney for Canton. Conditions same as mine\". Please report by telegram decision as to Cheetham's agency. Presume Company should be told that no agency must be given to Schluter.\n\n**Bonar Law**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454495, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 709, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n**Translation of Code Telegram**\n\n**RECEIVED 22 JULY**\n\n| From | To | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Governor, Hongkong | Secretary of State | 10th June, 1915 |\n\nYour telegram June 9th. In accordance with my telegram 29th May, have cancelled permission granted to E.K. Cheetham to carry on agency of the Texas Oil Company. Sanders Rehders have been informed by telegraph. Schluter is resident in Canton, he has been forbidden to come to Hongkong and therefore cannot hold any Agency here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454496, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 710, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE 3\n### Translation of Code Telegram\n\n| From | To | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Secretary of State, Governor, Hongkong | 12th June, 1915 |\n\nYour telegram of June 10. Sanders Renders and Company instructing Johnson Stokes and Master to investigate position and defend their interests in Hongkong. Cheetham should be given opportunity to defend himself and his agency should not be terminated unless suspicion against him is really strong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 711, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 4\n## Translation of Code Telegram\n### 702\n\nFrom: Governor, Hongkong \nTo: Secretary of State \nDate: 16th June, 1915 \n\nYour telegram of 12th June. I have examined person named and I am prepared to accept him provided you are satisfied that all interest of Reuter Brockelmann & Co. in the Agency of the Texas Oil Co. for Hongkong and South China has been absolutely determined and on condition that neither Schluter nor Reuter Brockelmann may be appointed sub-agent at Canton and that if and when such a sub-agency is appointed it shall be a British firm.\n\nPending decision I shall allow Cheetham to deal with large cargo arriving tomorrow on condition that he employs as sub-agent in Canton to deal with portion of the cargo for which there is no storage accommodation in Hongkong the branch in Canton of the firm of Shewan Tomes and Company. Cheetham is prepared to accept this arrangement.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 712, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n## Enclosure 5\n\n703\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, \nHongkong, 14th June, 1915.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th June on the subject of the appointment of Mr. Cheetham as Agent of Messrs. Sanders, Rehders and Company in connection with the business of the Texas Oil Co.\n\n2. His Excellency the Governor had already refused to grant permission to Mr. Schluter to accept the Texas Oil Agency as all the circumstances known about him tended to confirm the suspicion that he would be merely acting on behalf of Messrs. Heuber, Brockelmann and Co., and His Excellency has reason to believe that Mr. Cheetham has now been put forward as a mere figure-head; that it was intended that the agency should really be conducted under Mr. Schluter's direction, and that Mr. Cheetham also would be acting for Messrs. Kauter Brockelmann & Co.\n\n3. His Excellency the Governor is prepared to hear Mr. Cheetham in his defence on Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. at this office.\n\nI am, etc., \n**(Sd.) Claud Severn** \nColonial Secretary.\n\nMessrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master.\n\nN. 3409/1915.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454499, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 713, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# COPY.\n\nEnclosure 5.\n\nRob. Shewan, Esq.,\nHongkong.\n\nDear Mr. Shewan,\n\nShanghai, 20th April, 1915.\n\nI still have to thank you for your kind lines of January 27th, from which I was very sorry to learn that you had been laid up; however, I hope that it was nothing very serious and that you have fully recovered in the meantime.\n\nNow and again I hear from Mr. Schluter about the progress made with liquidating our firm, and I will not fail to express my gratitude to you for the careful manner in which you guard our interests. I understand that the market conditions at your end are extremely bad, more especially for piecegoods, and although the outlook is rather gloomy, let us hope that things will right themselves before long.\n\nAs regards the Texas Company, it will no doubt interest you to hear that I have just been informed that the Company had obtained Mr. Fuhrmann's consent on behalf of R. B. & Co. to a transfer of their agency, hitherto conjointly held by Messrs. Sanders, Rahders & Co. Ltd. and our firm, to Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Co. Ltd., London, who in their turn have appointed Mr. H. Cheetham to represent them at Hongkong. Mr. Fuhrmann writes me that under the existing unfortunate circumstances, he could not but agree to the T. Coy's wishes, seeing that we were debarred from carrying on their business at Hongkong and that it was of no avail to raise further obstacles, as our contract with the T. Coy. anyhow would expire on the 1st October, 1915. Having regard to the situation, it also appears to me that it would be best for us to submit to the Texas Coy's wishes.\n\nAs to the personality of Mr. H. Cheetham, I may mention that this gentleman was under contract with our firm as manager of our Piecegoods Department until the end of 1914, which...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454500, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 714, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \n705\n\nLaki may not a policy always of ovali Ilija I\n\nLOA BOƐ VIA T80G\n\nDan voy ja 3 minei od yrros yuav now I do krim sort, daYS pienet, To PJOITUS (187 „abiiton saw Ji đaid agor I „zevovod, qu blaf need „aurituos, add at Estevoost ylict evad woy Jadł TOJUILD§ .I moti zasu. \n\n## \n\nList on Ill I bew mit we zabitablupil di bw ebau nuorzozg wit toy donar uk rojua kisteo and tot voy of abatider y u zaesque of anobribuon dedrænt end dand bondstebra I Jaduzetni wo breu, ,zbonysosią rot ɣlistongas aton „bad yimlerdre ene baw 100, myr lifð dauð @qać mu me dal vynoolz rmitar el dooltue wrið dyvodidlo egiol ɛzeled serienmarið dáj ̧ÂN LIàw\n\nCarab on. Iliw di giugnoƆ BareT mắt sárta, OT RA\n\nent Jailt Deurolił osed Jauj ovad I told saeń od voy dustedni\n\nTo Meried no tresnoo etimmermiet vil benistdo bad gregmod yu kien ylinkojnoo odredaký „poraja viend to seterané a od 100 #raceli od pamět tro bag .bt] .00 ¿ erotrial, ensbrad ‚entna.“ -durooge svad pas sində nł odw zobuod .hti 100 bra streście♬ araber: & classidest vil vanokonči da muda donnerges of meriteert E.\n\n### \n\nagreement, much to our regret, we were unable to renew in consequence of the political crisis and the ensuing great uncertainty as to the future. Through a friendship of long years' standing with Messrs. Sanders, Rehders and Co. Ltd. he is enjoying their full confidence and it is to this fact only that he has been entrusted with the representation of his London friends.\n\nMr. Cheetham will shortly proceed to Hongkong to take up his new duties when I will take the liberty to hand him a letter of introduction to you. You would greatly oblige me, if you would not withhold from Mr. Cheetham such facilities as he may be in need of.\n\nHoping that you are in the best of health and spirits.\n\nBelieve me etc.,\n**(Sd.) A. Steger**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454501, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 715, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 7\n\nCanton, 16th March, 1915.\n\n**Retroleum**\n\nCheetham will therefore come to Hongkong to take over the agency for Sanders. That means, he will only give his name to it and I shall do all the work. Perhaps he could take a room from us, which will be the more practical thing to do, so that I could be at his elbow, especially in the beginning, for the Chinese will only try to make capital out of Cheetham's lack of knowledge of local conditions.\n\n(sd.) H. Schluter\n\nCertified true copy and translation.\n(Sd.) J. Tisdall\n\nWitness to above signature.\n(sd.) R. H. Morgan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454502, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 716, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "My dear Banders-\n\nEnclosure 8.\n\n707 Amsterdam, 23 December 1914\n\nAs I wrote you already, I am certain, that he did not receive your cables about the Texas Co. or he would have replied to them. Even if Cheetham could have gone to Hongkong, there would have been technical objections in the way, if he had tried to do the Oil business with Schluter's assistance or rather under the latter's practical management. You will understand this if you will read over the report from Hongkong, dated end of October. So, whatever hidden dangers you may see in the proposal made by the Texas Company, the fact remains, that we had to accept their proposal, whether we liked it or not. The only alternative would have been, that they would either have given the Agency to S.T. & Co. or sent their own representative to Hongkong, which would not have pleased us at all; the latter alternative would even have been worse than the former one.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 717, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 9\n\n703\n\n## Sanders Rehders & Co., Ltd.\n\nPrivate.\n\nMessrs. Reuter, Brockelmann & Co.\n\nShanghai.\n\nDirectorate.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nLondon, 12th January, 1915.\n\nMr. Schluter has written us privately on the 17th November last about the Texas business and you have no doubt a copy of his letter, as he writes that your Mr. Steger would explain the position to us. We have, in fact, assented (already on the 23rd ulto.) without hesitation and almost blindfold to an arrangement about which we had no particulars only the bare outline and we even guaranteed Richter, in short being prepared, and continuing to be prepared, to run the whole and sole risk of the business, in order not to lose this valuable connection.\n\nIt now turns out that the Richter arrangement will most probably not work at all, that is, it is not likely to be approved by the authorities and the liquidators; and we must, so to speak at the eleventh hour, try to provide a safe alternative. Had we but been consulted at once, viz. in November, the matter would have been settled long to the satisfaction of all parties.\n\nWe cannot do better than hand you the enclosed copies of letters, bearing on the matter, in order to simplify correspondence.\n\n| Date | Letter |\n| --- | --- |\n| 18th December 1914 | Our letter to the Texas Co. |\n| 15th and 23rd Dec., 1914, and 4th Jan., 1915 | Our letter to R.F. |\n\nWe are preparing a Power of Attorney for Mr. Hakon Schluter and ... for Mr. Cheetham as well. This business is far too...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454639, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n35 7 74 \n35774 \n\n**Rec** PEG 4 MUG 15 \n63 \n\n**Texas Oil Business Reports**\n\nagreement under which Messrs Reiss will become advisers to M. Cheetham \n\nfor \n\nNext subsequent Paper, 30768 \n(0.196%/WE.31,066—18. 45,000. 12/19. A.RE.W. \n$1,007-61. 45,000. 11/24.\n\nGov. Dray Conf \nThere but 2nd 1915 d July \nLast previous Paper. 2384 \n\nMr Tothing \nSee inmates an \nCLEVE \nGal 51570. \n: Pably that if others. \nR12/8/15. \n6.12.1.15 \n\nAt Mh Ave \n13 8.11-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "# No **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nPEC \n35774 \nREGA 4 MC15: \n30 \n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.** 2nd July 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nGour 3384/\n\nIn continuation of my Confidential Despatch of the 18th instant, I have the honour to say that I have now received information to the effect that Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company, Limited, have entered into an agreement with Messrs. Reiss and Company under which the latter will become advisers to Mr. Cheetham both in Hongkong and at Canton, and will furnish all clerical assistance for Mr. Cheetham, and will provide him with a seat in their Hongkong Office. The further terms of this agreement, which has been entered into in London, are not known to me, and it does not appear whether the agreement relates only to the recent shipment or it is intended to be a more permanent arrangement. Whether the arrangement is intended to be temporary or permanent I have no objection to offer to Messrs. Reiss and Company.\n\n2. On the 18th of June Mr. Cheetham wrote to Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Company appointing them \"temporarily\" sub-agents for Canton for the sale of the Texas Company's oil \"at terms to be agreed upon later\". Subsequently it was reported to me that Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Company were not willing to take the agency on a less commission than 2% of the value of the cargo entrusted to them. This Messrs. Sanders Rehders considered excessive and as Messrs. Reiss and Company were prepared to do the same work for 1% commission, I decided that the agency for the recent shipment of oil must go to them. In reliance on Messrs. Shewan Tomes Mr. Cheetham's letter\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.,** \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "# Code and Cypher Telegrams from the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n134 \n\n## Telegrams\n\n| Date | Code/Cypher | Telegram No. | Message |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 30th June | Code | 346 | Export of zinc to Kobe allowed |\n| 30th June | Code | 347 | Export of old brass and copper to Kobe allowed. Permission granted to Mr. Cheetham to accept the agency in Hongkong of the Texas Oil Co. |\n| 30th June | Code | 848/847 | Export of tin to Dairen allowed. |\n| 30th June | Code | 348 | Export of tin to New York allowed. |\n| 30th June | Code | 349 | Replying to Govr's telegram of 29th June requesting general permission to allow export of tin, spelter and allied products from Yunnan to Japan. |\n| 1st July | Code | 360/851 | Shipments of tin to New York and Marseilles allowed. Export of old brass and old zinc to Kobe allowed. |\n| 1st July | Code | 13:52/353 | Shipments of tin to New York and Marseilles allowed. |\n| 1st July | Code | 354 | ... |\n| 2nd July | Code | 356 | Export of old rubber to Kobe allowed. Export of explosives to Annam allowed. Shipment of tin to New York allowed. |\n| 2nd July | Code | 356 | ... |\n| 5th July | Code | 358 | ... |\n| 5th July | Code | 369 | General authority granted for shipment of Yunnan tin to Japan. |\n| 5th July | Cypher | 60/461 | All mails passing through Hongkong in which there may be found correspondence likely to be of assistance to the enemy to be censored. |\n| 6th July | Code | 362 | Shipment of hides from Hongkong to Amsterdam. |\n| 6th July | Code | $63/363 | Surplus assets of enemy business which have been wound up should be invested in British Government securities, (War Loan). |\n| 6th July | Code | 364 | Export of hides to Boston. As to types and average weight of each type. |\n| 8th July | Code | .../365 | Acceptance of Police services for the war. Certificate of origin to be required in case of transhipment for all ports other than British. |\n| 9th July | Code | 365 | Export of antimony to Japan. Inquiry as to what guarantees have been furnished as to disposal of metal in Japan. |\n\n## Metadata\nPage 134 \n\n08952 REC 20 AUG 15 544.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Translation of Copy Telegram\n| From | To |\n| --- | --- |\n| SECRETARY OF STATE | GOVERNOR, HONGKONG |\n\nDate: 30th June, 1915.\n\n138 \n346\n\nYour telegram of 16th June. \nCheetham. Permission confirmed. \nBONAR LAW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455932, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "93\n\nf state\n\nCode and Cypher Telegram from Secretary of\n\nto His Excellency the Governor.\n\n465. 20th October Code\n\n406. 20th Cypher\n\n467. 22nd Code\n\n468. 22nd Code\n\n469. 23rd Cypher\n\n¡\n\n470. 23rd Cypher\n\n471. 23rd Code\n\n472. 25th Code\n\n473. 25th Code\n\n56950 RECO REGO 10 DEC 15:\n\nApproving the remittance of further subscriptions to the War Loan.\n\nInstructions regarding the watching of Mr. Cheetham and Messrs. Sanders Rehders & Co. in view of suspicious correspondence,\n\nHis Majesty's appeal to the people to join the Army\n\nExport of Tin Dross to New York allowed.\n\nCopies of certain despatches regarding Indian sedition to be sent to Governor, Singapore.\n\nWithdrawal of objections to the Conference carrying cargo for Messrs. Hannibal & Co.\n\nInstructions regarding the adjudication of S.S.\"C.Fard Laiösz\" and S.S. Senegambia\".\n\nRelease of Mr. Dulberg from Prisoners of War Camp.\n\nShipments of peanuts to Holland will not be authorised. See Secy. of State's Circular Despatch for instructions as to exports to Holland.\n\nRenewal of Active Service Proclamation approved.\n\n474. 27th Code\n\n475. 27th Code\n\nExport of tin to Seattle and San Francisco allowed.\n\n476. 28th Code\n\nExport of Potassium Cyanide to Amoy not allowed.\n\n477. Code\n\nCode\n\n478. 29th Code\n\n479. 29th October Code\n\n480. 30th Cypher\n\n481. 30th Code\n\n482. 30th Code\n\n483. 31st Cypher\n\n484. 2nd November Code\n\nConsular certificates as to consumption at destination should be required in case of shipment of scrap metal to Japan.\n\nTrade marks owned by enemy subjects.\n\nAccident to H.M. the King while inspecting his troops in the field.\n\nInstructions regarding the watching of Mr. Kleinjung.\n\nShipment of copper sheet, hides, lead, tin, copper, etc. to French Indo-China to be on the same conditions as shipments to China.\n\nImprovement in condition of H.M. the King.\n\nNames of both the Black and White Lists for China and Siam will be communicated by British Consular Officers.\n\nWhiskey consigned to Andrews von Fischerz & George, Shanghai, should not be interfered with.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Paraphrase of CYPHER Telegram\n\nSECRETARY OF STATE\n\nGOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\nFrom TG\n\nDate 20th October, 1915.\n\n466 93\n\nYou should watch closely Cheetham and Sanders Rehders in view of the suspicious correspondence which has been intercepted until you receive a despatch from me. I refer to your confidential despatch of 2nd July,\n\nBONAR LAW,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456566, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 732, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "723\n\nr\n\nC\n\nGov Fol Fol Gray\n\n1915\n\n24 Dec.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nTo Sanders Rehder: 29 Decits,\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nT\n\nHONG KONG\n\n59293\n\n59293\n\nREG 24 DEC 15\n\nChests Reiss Bros & Co.\n\nportion of Cheetham\n\nFromotes fully, the position of\n\nIs prepared to eliminate Cheetham as H[is]tch the post on\n\nstA\n\nE\n\nSanders Rehdery\n\nof the Texas Bo\n\nMs Cottur\n\n\"gando\n\n& the Traveller & agent\n\nR27/11\n\nSir,\n\nI don't see how we can\n\ntake an\n\npart\n\nin disputes\n\nbetween S.R. & E.L.\n\nas to the terms\n\nof the latter's remuneration.\n\nIndeed the less\n\nwe have to do with matters\n\non this\n\nside the better\n\nThis Tel: raises some interes[ting] points (). The statement.\n\n(J 3401-L.) Wt. 14242—12. 26,000. 7/15. D & S.\n\nIt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456567, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 733, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "that Dougle (referred to \n\nThe Laye \n\nin the Corr: in envelope attached to 56765) has recommende the Texas C. Vo Substitut Rein for her J. Ro If this came about, we \n\nshould no doubt welcome the Change, but I don't See how we can take a \n\nhand in the matter \n\n(2). The for: evidents Jolant think Cheatham Joesul \n\nVery dangerous \n\n131. The \n\nthinks the \n\ntha \n\nfor \n\nshie \n\nR \n\nultimated to revert to Renter Prockelman of: \n\nI think on the whole I should \n\nbe think it \n\nwould be better \n\nto issue a public notice confirming \n\nanagement \n\nalten auf \n\nd \n\nLear \n\nTel 1. Fout that we leave the Matter to his discretion, but that \n\nRipe No SRHCo that we have \n\n? don't chaye VRH: \n\nRof: with in Cast Ний Vel an #58241 \n\n2 \n\n46. \n\nbeen in communication \n\n724 \n\nwith the for from whom we understand that certain difficulties \n\nhave arisen between themselves \n\nand \n\nRen \n\nTo the Vam \n\nof the latter's subagene \n\nThat we have Mo \n\nthe for that this weather \n\nmust remain un \n\nL \n\nhis discretion, they have suggested To him the desirability of issuing some bulletin notification confirming Whatever arrangement he may ultimately No Sanction. cb.7/p 27 12:15 Hr. 20.12. \n\ndecide \n\nabone \n\n28.12.15 \n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 734, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "The Governor of Hongkong to the Secretary for the Colonies.\n\n(Received Colonial Office, 1:35 a.m., 24th December, 1924)\n\nIn reply to your telegram of December 21st, Reiss and Company are dissatisfied with their position because whilst lending Cheetham the benefit of their name, they are merely advising agents to him with no control over his actions. They have notified their principals in London that they insist upon a power of attorney for Hongkong general control of signature for Sanders Reissdere and Company. They wish to resign agency if this general control is not conceded. Their reason is that in the eyes of the Chinese public in Canton and here they, and not Cheetham, are the responsible agents and may be held responsible for mistakes made.\n\nThey inform me that Mr. Douglas, Travelling Inspector of Texas Oil Company, lately here, has recommended his principals to terminate their connection with Sanders and to appoint as their agents Reiss. This recommendation has been made on his own initiative and not in any way at Reiss' instance. Reiss are satisfied to retain Cheetham, and his elimination by me would not help matters, unless it would help you to bring pressure on Sanders to grant Reiss terms which are reasonable from the business point of view. In this case, I am prepared...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456569, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 735, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "REG REG2 24 DECIS\n\nReigs are cou\n\nTheir representative prepared to eliminate Cheethan. British firm beyond suspicion. here has just been appointed to legislative Council as nominee of the Chamber of Commerce. I think now there is little doubt that if Senders retain the agency they will again employ as agents Reuter Brocklemenn.\n\nWAY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 794, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n15\n\n785\n\n5669\n\nREC'D REG 4 FEB 16\n\n5669\n\n76\n\nYou May Con\n\n1915\n\nJexcas Oil Co.\n\n29 Dec Discusses the question of Agency\n\ntu\n\nLast previous Paper. Connection with Cheatham, Sanders Kelders &\n\nR\n\n12 6536\n\nby\n\nbeshall\n\nRevised\n\nthe\n\nElimination\n\nin order to exert pressure on\n\n16\n\nPV\n\nhear alert this Joon No doubt!\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n5402\n\nAb\n\nConte de\n\nCheetham\n\nSander Bahden to Ross The who according\n\nto\n\n\"Dongles Travelling droffe are summoned for the Agency\n\nM-Texfany\n\nJan\n\nAuf Colbor\n\nfir by Fiddes 8.2.16\n\nMy Had mattone).\n\nThere are some new\n\nhere.\n\npositi\n\nPresumably Heynsam & Rachen-\n\nare\n\nthe firm whom\n\nhas now\n\nLear\n\njoined.\n\nCheetham\n\nThe suggestion that they were trying\n\nto eliminate\n\n5.R+1.0 is interesting.\n\nwe shall never\n\n1 Suppor know the truth gurt. But it is plain\n\n01-) W 14242-12. 26,000 715 D9.\n\nE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 795, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 29th December, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential Despatch of the 22nd October enclosing correspondence intercepted in the post concerning the Agency of the Texas Oil Company and other matters.\n\n2. The correspondence is unsigned and before taxing Mr. Cheetham with the references to him therein I desired to obtain the name of the writer of the letter of the 29th June. I therefore sent to you my cypher telegram of the 29th November, paraphrase enclosed, to which I have not received a reply probably because the intercepted letters were unsigned copies.\n\n3. I had taken no action against Mr. Cheetham when I received your code telegram of the 21st instant, decode enclosed, and on the 22nd instant I received a telegram from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai, copy enclosed, which I communicated personally to Mr. Cheetham on the 23rd instant. ... is a person named Kalisch of Manchester who has lately changed his name and who is managing the firm of Heynssen Martienssen, with which Messrs. Rudenberg and Wignall are connected. The Censor has had a good deal of correspondence with ... concerning these individuals. Mr. Cheetham told me that the offer had not been made with his knowledge and consent and that he had no desire whatever to join a Firm which had such a German odour. I telegraphed ...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P., &c. &c. &c.\n\nNO CONFIDENTIAL.\nFLEC 5069\n786\nREGE 4 FEB 16\n\nBT +4+7015\nAS.M.10.2\n8.2.16\n\nPage ...\n\n \n(The first part of the text appears to be garbled and unrelated to the rest of the document, so it has been omitted)\n\nThat even if they had done so, Reins the ce ... met have taken the agence which world Probably have gone to Mitours Bestbak? Put 06.7/yle. (This text appears to be a jumbled and nonsensical passage resulting from OCR errors and has been omitted as it does not form coherent content related to the rest of the document.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 796, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "787\n\ntelegraphed to Sir E. Fraser that Mr. Cheetham declined the offer.\n\nI then asked Mr. Cheetham what was the present position of the Texas Oil Company's Agency. He replied that Mr. Douglas, the travelling Inspector of the Company, had recently visited the Colony and that Mr. Douglas was desirous of eliminating Sanders Rehders, who knew nothing of the business and merely sub-let their Agency. The result was unnecessary expense to the Texas Oil Company. I asked what firm would then get the Agency, and he replied that Reiss and Company would get it, and that he hoped to be employed under them.\n\n4.\n\nI next interviewed Mr. P. H. Holyoak, one of the partners in China of the Firm of Reiss and Company of Manchester and London, and the Head of that Firm in Hongkong. Mr. Holyoak holds very pronounced anti-German views. He has lately been nominated by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce as its representative on the Legislative Council. Mr. Holyoak told me that he had nothing against Mr. Cheetham, who he was convinced would much rather work for a British Firm than for Germans.\n\nHe told me that in the agreement made between Reiss & Company and Messrs. Sanders Rehders in London, his Firm had undertaken not to make any endeavour to obtain the Agency for the Texas Oil Company. He regretted this step very much, as he thought that only for this bar he might have obtained the agency through Mr. Douglas. He hoped he might still get it, as of course the Texas Oil Company could of their own initiative transfer it. He added that Mr. H. Sanders was a plausible but untrustworthy man, and that the representative of Messrs. Reiss & Company in London, Mr. Tompkins, formerly head of the Firm here and well known to me, found Mr. Sanders an impossible man to deal with.\n\n5.\n\nI gathered from the above interview that the retention or otherwise of Mr. Cheetham as nominal agent of the Texas Oil Company is of no real importance in this matter, and that the object should be to eliminate Messrs. Sanders Rehders. I therefore telegraphed to you on the 23rd instant in terms of the enclosed paraphrase,\n\nEnclosure 4.\n\nGov\n\n59293\n\n6.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 797, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "788\n\n6.\n\nMr. Cheetham's permission to act as Agent for Messrs. Sanders Rehders and Company and to appoint Messrs. Reiss and Company as Agents for the Texas Oil Company. The difficulty is that if Messrs. Sanders Rehders contested such action by appointing some other Firm to act as their agent here, a successful prosecution of such Agents under section 6 of Ordinance No. 28 of 1914 as amended\n\nGR1755/14-\n\nby section 9 of Ordinance No. 30 of 1914 would be problematical.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor,&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456633, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 799, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n790\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nTranslation of Code Telegram.\n\nFrom: Governor, Hongkong.\n\nDate: 21st December, 1915.\n\nDecember 21st. Texas Oil Company are dissatisfied with position as to Hongkong Agency. If they remove agency from Sanders Rehders they will probably give it to Mitsui & Co. who as I understand have been given agency for North China formerly held by Jardine Matheson. It is very desirable to avoid this if possible and in dealing with Cheetham you should remember that Texas Company have confidence in him. Of course if you consider evidence that Cheetham is working for Reuter Brockelman overwhelming he must not be allowed to retain agency but in dealing with situation you should take into consideration position of Texas Company and desirability of retaining this business for British Company. Then the arrangements are finally settled it would be well to issue some public notice of the fact and whatever is decided as to Cheetham notice should expressly state that His Majesty's Government approve of the agency being carried on by Sanders Rehders and Reiss on the conditions laid down. This is desirable because rumours have reached Texas Company, New York, that these two companies are to be treated as enemy companies in Hongkong. I have no particulars as to composition of Reiss & Co. here. 22% of Messrs. Sanders Rehders' capital held by enemies but business has been investigated and no evidence of illicit trade discovered.\n\nBonar Law.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456634, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 800, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\ni\n\n...MTjejer chow to noiteisMIT\n\nJeand To yanJ STOKË....\n\ninox,nal,ToLIOVOU.\n\n.ĊIVI„redase DOG UBİS\n\n* \\LOW****\n\n. OT beitsicreali ota yanquðo lið unter „Juða zeummeed\n\n· .YO COPY.\n\nyuneak nowynoll of ea noiz teoq I us adw .00 að lundial of 31 ovky vidindong [Lim yach #mohu ga alum yĺzarışî anis dérolí not yommar mvia coed oven bæjarabou\n\n4 Vi cids blown of oidariseb grav si di „sonedideli eribaal yd\n\n• TOUT bluɑrie woy whoseer) niðże „nilreb ni kan sídlusog bismo soy li sewa 10 .mid ni sorbitno arau yimg.ðû bater\n\n-18v : Jumafedvord Tatva♬ 10% „nior si madideerið darit sonekivO\n\n„niizeń ni zod yooege minder a bowalis ed Jon Jam ad grimlocin- →re? to noisinog naitarekiɛngo otni cant bluɑde woy nożśrut la ndiw Helsi78 10? usenieud wins „niniedes to pdiliartineb bim yneymoo tu Alow Ji beizven ylionit eta Bimbang PTZA\n\nBi zevedraw line Jost add to solton olldug emea sumat of Llew ell Jasic uðnda yiuuenque hipocie solcon mendesa) of ka behloeb tố no belvino „inted poneze ako to arosyga Jemarievod) n'feepri ai mint .cwqob 1-kal snout in mod egt no sažeß bna uwchoak erebral\n\n210Y well,ynnquod sexet bacineet ovali eqUCKEST GRUBɔed efortiaeb ni usinnquɔoo viie so bednext ed a sin saknaśmoo ont ament dand\n\n.00 Brief lo zaivimoqusoo of an #talvoising on even I normall Jud Beijono yu bloci Indigno 'erebred srebirƐ, erased to 2 vezen obers siðill be combine on bra bednjžduovni need sad venskand\n\n.DOTETOSKİL\n\n791\n\nTranslation of Code Telegram.\n\nFrom: ...H.M.Consul-General, Shangjai,\n\nTo: Governor, Hongkong.\n\nDate: 22nd December, 1915.\n\nWill you kindly inform Cheetham of Texas Oil Company that Kay offers him appointment and requests him proceed Shanghai immediately for consultation. I am satisfied as to Bona Fades of transaction and pray you to afford facilities for immediate departure.\n\nFraser.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 801, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 4.\n\nParaphrase of Cypher Telegram. From......Governor, Hongkong. To...Secretary of State. Date....23rd December, 1915.\n\nReferring to your code telegram of December 21st. Reiss & Co. are not satisfied with their present position as they are only advisory agents to Mr. Cheetham with no control over his actions though lending him the benefit of their name. They have notified their principals in London that they insist on a power of attorney for Canton and Hongkong and general control of signature for Sanders Rehders. They wish to resign the agency if this general control is not conceded. Their reason is that it is they and not Mr. Cheetham who in the eyes of the Chinese are the responsible agents, and they fear they may be held responsible for mistakes which are made. They tell me that Mr. Douglas, travelling inspector of the Texas Oil Co., who was recently here, has recommended his principals to appoint Reiss & Co. agents and stop their connection with Sanders Rehders. This recommendation was made entirely on his own and was not inspired by Reiss & Co.\n\nReiss & Co. are not satisfied to retain Cheetham and the elimination of him would not help matters unless it would assist you to put pressure on Sanders Rehders to concede the terms of Reiss & Co., which from a business point of view, are reasonable, in which case I am prepared to eliminate him. Reiss & Co. are a good British firm beyond suspicion. Their representative here has lately, as nominee of the Chamber of Commerce, been appointed to Legislative Council. I think now that there is little doubt the Reuter Brockelmann will be re-employed as sub-agents if Sanders Rehders retain the agency.\n\nMay.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 815, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Page 208\n\n51\n\nmergeist 3000 to moitsíacerT\n\nTranslation of Code Telegram\n\n.STATE HO YHATUHOEE\n\n.DиOXDиOH,яOMAKVOD „Šiel,TodrsosŰ JRIS\n\nt\n\nMOTI\n\nFrom\n\nSECRETARY OF STATE.\n\n806\n\nOT\n\nateli\n\nTo\n\nGOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\n21st December, 1915.\n\n.dtb zadmevol to dotaqeeb Isidnebitnoo tuoY\n\nLne abnuoqmoo to moitetroqre S alvā rebnu Jeru svivado of tqsoxe bewolle ed of sunitnoo yruorem to soltersgerg to noidatroqrä .56 ‚eqorul ni asirtnuoc xİXXXİTK¤É nisrot Ils of betidinorq ai moboniX baðinu mort aboog sveit Tot 8008897 Isizeqe yns sredi 918 ancijenijasb ngiszot -tasroqze of noitosido ok nono!! ni Jasmtsent Jaststtib\n\nMoтl abam ti S alí mi tot babivorq ae moilimev to moi mobynið beðinU mort benistɗo yivorem jud vrojitiat asemin” -Janideeb mistof of noilimtev se betroque-er ad Joa blvere abısası es moitosido on Agerjaisq teel abтægjør eÀ .enoi Leqisainq edt era de muigo one avsl mort eniw to wiriqs „berwoorq yedt 978 somedw bas of berreter agurb .WAI HAMOƐ\n\nDecember 21st. Texas Oil Company are dissatisfied with position as to Hongkong agency. If they remove agency from Sanders Rehders they will probably give it to Mitsui & Co. who as I understand have been given agency for North China formerly held by Jardine Matheson. It is very desirable to avoid this if possible and in dealing with Cheetham you should remember that Texas Company have confidence in him. Of course if you consider evidence that Cheetham is working for Reuter Brockelmann overwhelming he must not be allowed to retain agency but in dealing with situation you should take into consideration position of Texas Company and desirability of retaining this business for British Company. When the arrangements are finally settled it would be well to issue some public notice of the fact and whatever is decided as to Cheetham notice should expressly state that His Majesty's Government approve of the agency being carried on by Sanders Rehders and Reiss on the conditions laid down. This is desirable because rumours have reached Texas Company, New York, that these two companies are to be treated as enemy companies in Hongkong. I have no particulars as to composition of Reiss & Co. here. 22% of Sanders Rehders' capital held by enemies but business has been investigated and no evidence of illicit trade discovered.\n\nBONAR LAW.\n\nPage 208\n\n51\n\n208", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456678, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 844, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "835\n\nHONG KONG\n\nREC\n\n16\n\n1087150\n\nTel Keras Bros & Co\n\nGoir may\n\n1915\n\n31 Dec\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n3\n\n0.\n\n108\n\nREGE I JAN 18.\n\nand\n\nSanders, Rehders\n\nStates Cheetham has resigned to take up appointment at Shanghai and is prepared to recognize Reis & Co as Agents\n\nSanders Rehders\n\nM. Telefonn\n\non\n\nCaditions stated\n\n2. of copies in SR\n\nSin\n\n9. Füzes\n\nI\n\nTo Sanders\n\n4 Jan 16\n\nRehders 4 Jan\n\nAnot tel\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nJn 0.\n\n17:55\n\nButt\n\n\"Gue cândro Rehders the suit of this til mark whether thing an prepared to gry Kpb\n\nI should be inclined not to act on the last Leuten y the Vel: at S. RHY\n\nPresent! J. & Ho have disin at present shewn no clination to accept om. condition. The disappearance of Cheatham is\n\n(JB401-L.) Wt. 14243-12. 25,000. 7/15 D&18,\n\nan excellent", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456679, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 845, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Thing & Should make an agreement between S. Rofo & Reiss Ho easier.\n\nLie that the Veleprom proposed on 59293 has not been sent off yet. I can now be cancelled.\n\nWe might? Tell S.RM. That Cheetham has resigned & that the Jews are prepared to recognize Rofo provided certain conditions are given.\n\nThe Hha Canton agency supposes that they are prepared to appoint Qof. Sheul come to terms with them as quickly as possible.\n\nCommunicate these facts to The Jew: in order that he may consider the desirability of issuing the public notification referred to in para 2 of our letter of 29. (59293)\n\n? Tel Sev: Sme 325/ Lent. Haykay. Against \"I have informed wi Sanders Rehden to claim on the date of Cheetham's recountfulation date.\n\nYes. Venturing we Clubhout that gen the prepond to approve Reins It if likewise appointed agents for Canton pay Leds. of have suggested to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456680, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 846, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "837 Downing Street.\n\n4 January, 1916.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 29th December relative to the Texas Company, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to inform you that the Governor of Hong Kong reports that Mr. Cheetham has resigned his post. Sir F.H. May states that he is prepared to recognise Messrs. Reiss and Company provided that they are appointed your agents at both Hong Kong and Canton.\n\n2. I am to suggest that if you are prepared to appoint Messrs Reiss and Company accordingly, you should come to terms with them as quickly as possible and communicate the fact of your agreement to the Governor in order that he may consider the desirability of issuing the public notification referred to in the letter from this Department of the 29th December.\n\nI am,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nfor the Under Secretary.\n\nMessrs. SANDERS, ROWERS & COMPANY LIMITED.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456681, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 847, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "TE8\n\nC. O.\n\n838\n\n108\n\nThe Governor of Hongkong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 7.55 p.m. 31st December, 1915)\n\n31st December.\n\nGov.-582441\n\nYour telegram of 29th.\n\nCheetham has now resigned his post to take up appointment at Shanghai. I am prepared to recognize Reiss and Company as agents in Hongkong of Sanders Rehders provided that representatives likewise appointed agents for Canton under an agreement satisfactory to them. (Perhaps it would be) advisable to remind Sanders that the new agent must have my approval and that I am prepared to deny to any one not so approved the facilities of the port including cables.\n\nMAY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 849, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "R.\n\nD....\n\nDRAFT.\n\n1.\n\nIn 108715.6:\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\n840\n\n4 mil\n\nSealtenen\n\nWitte ref to the letter from the best of (59793) the 25 bear relative to Messrs Landes Rehders Hold (D. Department)\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. J. Allen 4/1/15-\n\nMr. ...\n\nMr. ...\n\nMr. Rohncava/lfs the Tenas bie to am to to inform hat the You Ju For of strang rbert's that Cheetham has resigned Sir Pattay ho post that! states that he fet Edmor!\n\n2 convis PS Hvi prepared to recognize Messrs Reissot Arvideo that they are apptä 6-be Zevs apports at bothe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n13076\n\nRav\n\nRF 19 MAR 15\n\nDecember 22.\n\n337\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[79799]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Cheetham.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nI\n\n(No. 336. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nForeign Office, December 22, 1914.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 129 of the 19th July, I transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at The Hague regarding the adherence of the Egyptian Government to the International Opium Convention.\n\nThe present international situation precludes the possibility of the convention being ratified in the near future, and the adherence of the Egyptian Government is consequently no longer a matter of urgency. Moreover, a proposal by His Majesty's Government to sign the convention on behalf of Egypt as the protecting Power might cause considerable embarrassment to the Netherlands Government, as the protectorate will not have been recognised by Turkey and her allies.\n\nI consider, therefore, that the matter should be left in abeyance for the present, and I have requested His Majesty's representative at The Hague to inform the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs, in reply to his enquiry on the subject, that His Majesty's Government would prefer that the question should stand over until the termination of hostilities.\n\n[2820 y-2]\n\nSir A. Johnstone (No. 333), December 4, 1914.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457864, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 606, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Zur Robinson\n\nTramyson has spoken as to the position of Cheetham\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. 146733/1915\n\nand address-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon.\n\nto me he thinks it desirable that we should know what the Governor is doing and...\n\nJak hes uphy...\n\ndid not and for dest. of the 22nd Oct (1979/47015)\n\nI submit aft klegram. 19/14/15\n\nTel. passed by te Robinson, paraphrase attacked.\n\nC.O 49582 603 RECE (RrGE 28 OCT 15)\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Colonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nOctober 24, 1915.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n \n Lotter Foreign Office:\n from\n Name and Date.\n Description of Inclosure.\n Communicated by\n \n \n \n \n Director of Intelligence Division, Admiralty Sep. 28. 1915\n [ 12 ]\n \n \n\n(Similar letter sent to ...)\n\nSubject,\n\nCensored correspondence received from Russian military Attache...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 614, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "603\n\nobtain delivery of the goods against a guarantee letter.\n\nEnclosed I forward you copies of my letters to Mr. Steger of 27/5, 8/11, 21, 22, 26, and 28/6.\n\nI am very much annoyed that in spite of our careful preparations we have lost the agency of the Texas for Canton. This has been got by Heiss and Company. Just as John Kammers of Siemssen and Company and F. Backhouse of Sander, Wieler and Company have been able to establish their own firms in Canton and Hongkong, I am thoroughly of the opinion that we should have been able to establish S.R. and Company in Canton if Schultze had understood while he was in Hongkong that he should hide the fact that he was looking after German interests. Above all, he should not have left his letter book and correspondence file containing our plans in Hongkong, Cheetham holds the same view. Above all, it is now necessary that we receive a new consignment which must be through to Canton as I already have always advised with regard to the present consignment.\n\nI wrote on this matter on the 22nd instant to Mr. Steger who should have taken up the matter with Sanders. In any case this would be the only way at present to keep in touch with the Texas and eventually to win back the Agency.\n\n1st JULY, 1915,\n\nDear Mr. Steger,\n\nTexas\n\nHongkong. The \"Panama\" arrived on 30/6 in Whangpoa, with some 68,000 cases, and already on the first day discharged 6,000 cases. She began to discharge at 2 o'clock in the afternoon as L.O.H. says R. and Company are not very clever with regard to unloading and the way they undertake the work will cost you over 4 cents per case.\n\nThat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457884, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 626, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "7.0. Aking\n\n495827157\n\nGLO\n\nParaphrase of telegram to Governor of Hong Kong\n\nSent\n\n5.25 p.m.\n\nNov. 19\n\n1515\n\nWith references to telegram of October 20/15 and to my confidential despatch of October 22nd, Cheetham and Lieutenant Brockleman, please inform what steps you are taking?\n\nby Telegraph.\n\nBonerland:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458289, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "378\n\nhandling of the business in the South China field”.\n\nIf in these circumstances we had not been able to fall in with their wishes that we should accept a new cargo, they would no doubt have thrown up the thing in disgust and accepted the proposals of our competitors, which they certainly must have received, because a valuable agency like this does not go a-begging.\n\nI should like to write you more about this matter and one or two other matters which you have raised in your letters, but it is already late on Saturday, and all I can do is to get this better off.\n\nI might still confirm here the telegram which I sent you yesterday:\n\n“Cheetham cabled acceptance, leaving as telegraphed Shanghai for Hongkong in about four weeks). agreements made, vessel chartered alteration impossible, (ae) would lose agency”\n\nAll\n\nThe principal object of this cable was to telegraph you in regard to Cheetham, and, as I have not confirmed in writing our telegram to you of the 20th, I added a few words to make sure that you should understand the position, even if my first telegram were not then before you.\n\nApropos of what you wrote the other day about the Chartered Bank, it is not only that we ourselves have experienced their rudeness even allowing for the fact that the Bank was hard hit by the troubles at the time, as we heard from various quarters but people such as Roskills, Hinrickson and two or three other rich concerns all told us the same story; one man of a very wealthy firm asked for a, for him, small credit of £10,000 and was offered £4,000 which he indignantly refused, proceeding to the Hongkong Bank who were only too pleased to accommodate him. Of course the C.B. will now try to make out in order to save their face that the position of the respective firms was not sound enough for them to grant ordinary facilities.\n\nHowever...\n\nr.o.\n\n0.\n\nd.\n\nIt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "385\n\n: had previously put our case before him by cable):- \"for us to appoint an Agent to manage the Oil business on our behalf and that of the Texas Company of New York, eliminating Reuter Brockelmann & Co.\"\n\nNow, as to this Agent of ours we had proposed Mr. Hakon Schluter to the Governor, seeing that this gentleman was actually in Hongkong and in order to cause Messrs Reuter Brockelmann & Co. as little inconvenience as possible in regard to their staff. To the Colonial Office we had however proposed both Mr. Schluter and—to make doubly sure—Mr. Humphrey Cheetham (in the employ of the said firm in Shanghai) and, as it now appears, it was well that we did so, because the Governor, or the Hongkong liquidators, refused to cancel\n\nMr. Schluter's appointment as assistant to the latter and would therefore have rejected our proposal, had not the Colonial Office previously cabled to the Governor that, failing Mr. Schluter, we would appoint Mr. Cheetham.\n\nWe have cabled to the last named gentleman, appointing him our agent and asking him to prepare for proceeding to Hongkong in about four weeks time. As the two gentlemen have known each other for many years (Mr. Cheetham has been with Messrs R. B. & Co. for quite a long time), it goes without saying that they will consult on questions which are not mere matters of routine. We shall thus actually have the advantage of the knowledge and experience of two reliable men, both personally known to us for many years. (Mr. Cheetham is a Lancashire man, between 35 and 40).\n\nWe are now enclosing original and one copy of the Agreement about which we wrote in our last. Barring the elimination of Messrs R. B. & Co. (on the first page) and that of the words \"commencing October 1st 1910\" on page 7 clause 19) the Agreement is worded precisely word for word as the one now in force between us. Will you kindly return to us the copy duly signed by you and witnessed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458570, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "for Cheetham. I also seems possible That Sanders may be implicated es.h.32.\n\nFor addition I think that in addition Mr. Robinson's propose he action I should inclined\n\nB 7 Tel for telling him To watch Cheetham MSR + Vending recept 9 ? Read Copies des patali.\n\nRe the intercepter Com 1570. refen to 30562 oto the Corr: Cencespracy the Camping out of the Proclawd of Jane\n\nThere is 25. a good deal of material in the to Which is of interest Connexion with the in General question Krading with the enemy in China.\n\nAs to the future of this agency I doubt whether be desirable, it will be desi the absence of was shon, reasons for Such a comme In agens To remove In altore then from S. Ro the only onte remet wed A an probably be that in Texas Con would hanging Jerman it to a firm in China American. Probable the best thing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458571, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "It would be to force S.R. Mausfor How to transfer tut Subagene to Rein Moy.\n\nIt is evident that R xB acos are very frightened if it is happening * 30. See pp. 29.\n\nIn writing to the for I should be inclined to observe as at A- A.\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to-\n\nTHE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,\n\nat the address given opposite.\n\nThe following letter and number should be quoted:-\n\nC. 32180.\n\nTelegraphic Address: COLASTA, LONDON. Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria.\n\nBOARD OF TRADE,\n\n(COMMERCE DEPARTMENT),\n\nGWROOM 26035\n\nWHITEHALL,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\n131\n\nSir,\n\n11th October, 1915.\n\nI am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you, herewith, for any action that the Secretary of State may see fit to take, a translation of correspondence intercepted by the Russian Military Censor which contains information relating to certain firms in Hong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nRein clos have probably beamed a load deal about the business. Cheetham be from this alouge 19.10.15. Vinie agree сб. 19. 10.25 this is a lucky find by the Russian Censor A&C 19.10.15* 19.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458579, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "970\n\n@ 132\n\nエウ\n\naf\n\n၊\n\n201\n\nesa jon ob oaïe Isd\n\nzze.sv\n\nVasofon\n\nkolimme ka\n\nK\n\n159\n\nCo. and F. Backhouse of Sander, Wieler & Co have been able to establish their own firms in Canton and Hongkong, I am thoroughly of the opinion that we should have been able to establish S.R. and Co., in Canton if Schlueter had understood while he was in Hong-kong that he should hide the fact that he was looking after German interests. Above all, he should not have left his letter book and correspondence file containing our plans in Hongkong. Cheatham holds the same view. Above all, it is necessary that we receive a new consignment which must be sent through to Canton as I already have always advised with regard to the present consignment. I wrote on this matter on the 22nd instant to Mr. Steger who should have taken up the matter with Sanders. In any case, this would be the only way at present to keep in touch with the Texas and eventually to win back the Agency.\n\nDear Mr. Steger,\n\n(3)\n\n1. July 1915.\n\nTexas Hongkong. The \"Panama\" arrived on 30/6 in Hongkong, with some 68,000 cases, and already on the first day discharged 6,000 cases. She began to discharge at 2 o'clock in the afternoon as L.O.H. says R. and Co., are not very clever with regard to unloading and the way they undertake the work will cost you over 4 cents per case. That affects us, of course; formerly this cost us 3 cents per case; we charged the Texas 4 cents, and if R. and Co. charge still more, this depreciates very much the reports by Sh. T. & Co. with regard to \"squeezes\", and not on our side; and will make the Texas suspicious.\n\nOn 30/6 Ch. called here and had much to relate, of which the quintessence was that he has had many difficulties to meet in consequence of evidence falling into the hands of the Government in the form of correspondence. He had an audience which lasted for some time.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "Accious fas\n\n1\n\nват нату\n\n47015/15-\n\nParaphrase of Telegram sent to\n\nOctober 20th\n\n1915\n\nGovernor\n\nat 3.30 he\n\ndetober 20\n\nWith reference\n\nyour\n\nthe 2\n\n2nd July\n\nconfidential despatch of\n\nJou\n\nshould\n\nReaders\n\nin new\n\nLas\n\nwatch Cheetham and Landers\n\n...\n\nbeen\n\nintercepted.\n\nBoxarlaw.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and correct the text to a more readable and corrected version while adhering to the rules:\n\nImportant fas\n\n1\n\n...\n\n47015/15-\n\nParaphrase of Telegram sent to\n\nOctober 20th\n\n1915\n\nGovernor\n\nat 3:30 p.m.\n\nOctober 20\n\nWith reference to\n\nyour\n\nthe 2nd\n\n2nd July\n\nconfidential despatch of\n\nYou\n\nshould\n\nReaders\n\nin new\n\nLas\n\nwatch Cheetham and Landers\n\n...\n\nbeen\n\nintercepted.\n\nBoxerlaw.\n\nLet's correct and reformat it according to the given instructions, focusing on correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, and rejoining broken sentences, while outputting in HTML as requested:\n\n47015/15-\n\nParaphrase of Telegram sent to Governor on October 20th, 1915, at 3:30 p.m.\n\nOctober 20\n\nWith reference to your confidential despatch of 2nd July.\n\nYou should watch Cheetham and Landers in the new Las...\n\nIt has been intercepted.\n\nBoxerlaw.\n\nGiven the original task's constraints and focusing on providing a corrected version in HTML:\n\n47015/15-\n\nParaphrase of Telegram sent to Governor on October 20th, 1915, at 3:30 he\n\nWith reference to your confidential despatch of 2nd July.\n\nYou should watch Cheetham and Landers in new Las...\n\nIt has been intercepted.\n\nBoxerlaw.\n\nLet's directly apply the corrections and output in the required HTML format:\n\n47015/15-\n\nParaphrase of Telegram sent to Governor on October 20th, 1915, at 3:30 p.m.\n\nWith reference to your confidential despatch of 2nd July. You should watch Cheetham and Landers in the new Las... It has been intercepted.\n\nBoxerlaw.\n\nThe final version, adhering strictly to the output format and focusing on the corrections:\n\n47015/15-\n\nParaphrase of Telegram sent to Governor on October 20th, 1915, at 3:30 p.m.\n\nWith reference to your confidential despatch of 2nd July. You should watch Cheetham and Landers in new Las... It has been intercepted.\n\nBoxerlaw.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "BIT. W kong\n\nC. D.\n\nA.\n\n47015715\n\nJ\n\n108\n\n22 Oct 1815\n\nX\n\nHhong\n\nConf. бы\n\nBeckert oct 20\n\nZer Albion 21/10\n\n* 2. Tennyson 21. 2015.\n\nM. Collins 21 fs.\n\n? This should you Couff!\n\nCity\n\ngo\n\n6.\n\ncust. 10 BQT. 1/10/25 47015-\n\nbbass\n\nfin\n\nWith ref\n\nuf s\n\nне\n\nmy\n\nal of\n\nthe 20th Ret. I have to\n\nto hansmit to\n\nace. copy of\n\nचीन\n\n16 certain\n\nfouis\n\nyou\n\nColl &\n\nThe\n\nrelating..\n\nCr China\n\nwhich has been intercepted\n\nby the Russian Military Cuan..\n\nり\n\n2. Eu view\n\nThe wife.\n\nto our Cheetham given of This?\n\ncru a\n\nI have son to reffest\n\nfor your\n\nwly\n\ncrason\n\ntot s\n\nhe\n\nbe dominate that the Cheethin\n\nshould as longer be allowed\n\nAW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459634, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "#JATY\n\n18/1/1915\n\n-3-\n\nH. M. Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nwith the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation on this side to pay this amount in cash to the Hongkong liquidators, including all charges incurred by the firm they are liquidating, Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co., as against the transfer to our attorney of the said stock.\n\nTheir\n\nShould the liquidators desire to retain Mr. Schluter as assistant, we would appoint Mr. Humphrey Cheetham.\n\nThe writer would be glad if you would kindly make an appointment for him to call upon you to further explain the matter.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.,\n\nManaging Director.\n\nActing Director.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Misc. 3012\n\nHoney Kory 471\n\nJ\n\n25 Jan 15\n\nSanders Rehders dubious Ad agents adminton Texas Company\n\nPort Arthur\n\nclaiming desire\n\nnon declaration.\n\nDRAFT. Del\n\nFor. Harbany If\n\nMINUTE.\n\nTeungpen 23.66r.\n\nMr. Collins!\n\nWent forth\n\nFor approval\n\nSchluter\n\nTel?\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nRisley 23/1/15\n\n25 atoms\n\nof\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nHaken\n\nstifling\n\ntheir Hong Kong\n\npeculate\n\nagents all\n\nReuter Brockel. former\n\nGray Harve\n\nagent flitting connecting you are\n\nFailing Schluter Company\n\nalleging\n\nsupport Humphrey Cheetham Gorg Have Vorel Colo apply\n\ndiseursyiminal", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n5945\n\n486\n\nREC\n\nO\n\n8948\n\nREG 25 FFI\n\nCutle\n\nSendera\n\nEnders Rebaron Co\n\nAgency of Texas Ore Co.\n\n7101 9 L\n\nCake i\n\n1915\n\n22 Feb\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nHave received from E.W. agreeing\n\n6\n\n201\n\napp-of an Cheetham.\n\n:\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nHo\n\n1304600\n\n188,395). W1.21,066-13, 45,000. 12/18. AŒE.W. (107,030),\n\n.. 31,997-51. 45,000. 11/14.\n\nO'TL\n\nGov. 18591\n\nQuery\n\ndoe\n\n1715. atome\n\n24p", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "SANDERS,REHDERS & CO LTD LONDON,MANCHESTER,NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address\n\nTHEODOSIUS\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER\n\n0 487 8948 LONDON\n\nTelephones: AVENUE N: 4372 AVENUE NÍ 1620. CITY N 7184.\n\nREG 23 FB 15\n\n108, Fenchurch Street.\n\nLondon\n\n22nd Feb. 1915.\n\nE.C.\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nCITY N 7145\n\na\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER.NO\n\nDirectorate DEPARTMENT\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.\n\nReferring to your esteemed favour of the 19th inst.\n\n(Ref.7856/15) and to our previous correspondence on the matter\n\nof our representation in Hongkong for the Texas Petroleum Oil\n\nbusiness, we beg to inform you that we received on Friday a\n\ncablegram from His Excellency the Governor to the following\n\neffect:\n\n\"Your telegram February eighth cannot accept\n\nSchluter will accept Cheetham.\n\nW\n\nWe have accordingly communicated with Mr.Cheetham in\n\nShanghai and are pushing forward the necessary arrangements,\n\nand we are much obliged to you for the kindness of your support\n\nand intervention on our behalf.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.,\n\nE.Xarroll,\n\nDirector,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459656, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Page 1\n\n:1\n\n1\n\nAurthuy\n\nཚོ།\n\n3. I am the one to suggest, for\n\nThe crony J\n\n4\n\nYat\n\nfind. grey, might\n\nthat\n\nreply be sent to this con\n\nLen\n\nat Tothis, informing him that his\n\nrepresentation has been forwarded\n\nto the Gov.\n\nand\n\nany\n\nfurther representation should be\n\nmade\n\ndirect\n\nto the Govt of Hong\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ,\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nSauder's Rehdrs\n\n1915\n\nHONG KONG\n\n24486.\n\nRECO\n\n24486\n\nRecd 27 MAY 15,\n\nL2B\n\nTexas Co Business\n\n492\n\n27 May Liquidators appear not convinced\n\nTw\n\nLast previous Paper. that meson. Reuter Brockelmann be\n\nare completely exonerated from the business. Avon that let with be said to put things right, as our steamer is expected to arrive\n\nwsze. Go.com (28 May\n\nFraud 3 June Tru963\n\nрото\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n24963\n\nM Telma\n\nMy Tanoll called on me this afternoon brought this letter also the \"agreement\" with the Texa. Co v M Cheetham in the attached envelope.\n\nHe seemed to think, it agree that it.\n\nis quite probable, that Shewan Tomes knowing Cheetham there been in\n\nThe employ & under Brockelmann\n\n(88,195). WL.31,088-15. 45,000. 12/18. A.&E.W. (107,000) $3,997-61. 45,000, 11/14.\n\n\"were really released from doing anything\n\nPage 2\n\n(no text)\n\n(no text)\n\nPage 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459658, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 513, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Contents\n\nAut ? Vell mi le are in with cation ممكن чие Communi retain the agreeme for the present.\n\n@6.28/57/45 Aran mh Arc 28. J-11- SANDERS.REHDERS & CO LTD LONDON,MANCHESTER,NEW YORK, \n\nTelegraphic Address \"THEODOSIUS\" LONDON MANCHESTER LONDON 4372 1626 Telephones. AVENUE N AVENUE NO CITY NO 184 CITY N° 7185 MANCHESTER ( REPLY PLEASE REFER TO D РЕРАЯТЫЕНТ \n\nBir. 108. Fenchurch Street, London \n\nThe Under Secretary of State. 494 -May-1915. Colonial Office, Downing Street, 24406 REO Rap 27 MAY 15] \n\nReferring to our previous correspondence on the subject of the Texas Oil business in Hongkong and South China, we beg to inform you that we received yesterday evening the following telegram from our agent, Mr. Humphrey Cheetham: \n\n\"Shewan refuses access books etcetera, requires proofs here Colonial Office approval your new agreement Texas Company, eliminating Reuters, steamer due June sixth.\"\n\nOn the 26th March we wrote to Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co., liquidators of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co., Hongkong, as in the enclosed copy No.1, asking them to be good enough to allow Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, our duly authorized agent for the Texas Oil business, to take over from them all books, papers, etc., or copies of them which he may require for the proper handling of this business.\n\nOn the 1st April we wrote to H.E. the Governor, by registered letter - see copy enclosed No.2 mentioning our request to the Liquidators and asking for His Excellency's acquiescence, in order that the Liquidators might be duly authorised to allow our agent access to such books and particulars as might be necessary, as", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State\n\n495\n\n-2-\n\n27/5/15\n\nwell as to be allowed some measure of co-operation, or at least advice, from their assistant Mr. Hakon Schluter.\n\nThe telegram quoted above would appear to indicate that the Liquidators are not convinced of the complete elimination of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co. from this business.\n\nWe therefore venture to submit to you the following points:\n\na) Our Contract of 19th February 1915 with the Texas Company of New York and Houston (Texas), from which it is quite clear that no one is concerned but that Company and ourselves.\n\nb) A copy of our Agreement with Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, from which it is clear that he is to act for us alone as the Agents of the Texas Company.\n\nc) Copies of our telegrams of the 1st & 17th April to Mr. Cheetham, who was on those dates still in Shanghai, making it clear to him that there was no third party interested in the matter.\n\nIn addition we would mention that the leases of the godowns in which this oil is stored in Hongkong, were about to expire a few weeks ago, and we had them renewed for the Texas Company by the solicitors of our friends, the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, and quite independently of anyone hitherto connected with this business.\n\nWe have in fact definitely and thoroughly eliminated Messrs. Reuter, Brockelmann & Co. from this business, and in support of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "CATO\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\n-3-\n\n27/5/1496\n\nthis statement the writer will do himself the honour of waiting upon you with whatever further explanations you may require, while we need hardly say that the entire correspondence in connection with this matter is at your disposal in case of need.\n\nWe have appointed Mr. Humphrey Cheetham as our sole and exclusive agent, fortified by the acquiescence and support of H.M. Colonial Office and H.E. the Governor.\n\nWe now venture therefore to submit that we shall be grateful if you will add to the kindness you have already shown us in this matter by telegraphing to H.E. the Governor that you are satisfied of our bonafides and of the elimination of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co. from this business and if, as we hope, you can see your way to doing this for us, as soon as we receive your intimation to this effect, we shall immediately telegraph to our Agent, Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, informing him of the fact and thus strengthening his hands, because if the vessel containing the new shipment of 160,000 cases of oil is due to arrive on the 6th June, it is evident that there is no time to be lost.\n\nWe have the honour to be Sir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.,\n\nEfland\n\nDirector.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459661, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Ders, Rehders & Co., LTD.,\n\nLONDON, MANCHESTER, NEW YORK.\n\nTEL. ADDRESS \"THEODOSIUS,\"\n\nTELEPHONE 1\n\n4372 AVENUE, London\n\n445 MANCHESTER.\n\nCOPY.\n\n497\n\nLONDON,\n\n1st April 1915.\n\nNo......\n\nTRANSLATION OF TELEGRAM.\n\n24486\n\nHumphrey Cheetham, Esq.\n\nShanghai\n\nRec 27 MAY 15\n\nTRANSLATION\n\nTERMS\n\nBecomes for us. Despatched to\n\nM... ...\n\nCODEWORDS & NUMBERS\n\nCHEETHAM\n\n1st April, 1915, 4.00 p.m. to Shanghai\n\n28 Route Soeurs Shanghai.\n\nYours\n\nyou our agent\n\nmailed eighth contract\n\nsalary present\n\nsixteenth,\n\nplus\n\nbonus\n\nresponsible\n\n1\n\nBoley, UB\n\nbusiness\n\nour name.\n\nSANDERS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459662, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nTRANSLATION OF TELEGRAM.\n\nROOT/200 Despatched to Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, 28 Route Suffren, Shanghai.\n\n17th April, 1915, 12.35 p.m. to Shanghai\n\nTO HUMPHREY CHEETHAM 28 Route Suffren Shanghai.\n\nDont cable through Newyork or Reuters disconnect them absolutely from business Texes Sanders", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459663, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "COPY NO.2\n\n499\n\n24486\n\n108, Fenchurch Street\n\nLondon, EC\n\n1st April 1915\n\nHis Excellency\n\nthe Governor of Hongkong\n\nHongkong.\n\nDEPARTMENT.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nre Texas Oil Business.\n\nWe had the honour of addressing Your Excellency on the 26th Febry. (as in copy enclosed), since when we have heard by mail from Mr. Humphrey Cheetham in Shanghai confirming his readiness to leave for Hongkong as soon as required by us to take up our representation for the above business;\n\nand we, on our part, have sent to him an Agreement under which he enters into our employ, as our Agent, and is debarred from doing any business but for ourselves.\n\nIn order to enable Mr. Cheetham properly to carry on this important business, we have written to the liquidators of Messrs. Reuter Brockelman & Co., asking them to be good enough to deliver to Mr. Cheetham the books, papers, accounts and agreements relating to the oil business as soon as the present stock of oil is disposed of, and to allow him access to them in the meantime, for the purpose of taking notes or making copies.\n\nWe have also asked the liquidators to allow Mr. Hakon Schluter to be consulted by Mr. Cheetham on all matters in regard to which he may require enlightenment or advice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459665, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "By first steamer. Via America.\n\nSANDERS.REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER, NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address\n\n\"THEODOSIUS\" LONDON\n\nLONDON\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nTelephones.\n\nAVENUE N° 4372.\n\nAVENUE NT 1626.\n\n(CITY No 7104\n\nMANCHESTER\n\n| CITY NI F185.\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO\n\n011\n\nDEPARTMENT\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nCOPY NO I\n\n108\n\nTo the Liquidators of\n\n24486\n\nFenchurch Street\n\nLondon,\n\n501\n\nRed 27 MAY 15\n\n26th March, 1915.\n\nEC\n\nMessrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co.,\n\nHongkong.\n\nWe wrote you last on the 8th January, since when we\n\ncabled you on the 5th instant:\n\n\"Texas desires restrict sales until arrival new\n\nTelegraph\n\ncargo June. Act best possible.\n\nunsold stock, including (at) out ports.\"\n\nand have to thank you for your prompt reply, on the following day:\n\n\"Your instructions are having every attention.\n\nPresent stock amounts to: 73,500 (cases)\"\n\nWe should add that, with the consent of H.E. the\n\nGovernor, we have since arranged with Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, at present in Shanghai, to enter our employ as Agent for us and the Texas Company, whose Sole Agency we hold, as you are aware.\n\nOur contract with Mr. Cheetham contains full authority (which authority he will of course produce to you), as to obtaining from you all books, papers, &c. &c., or copies of them\n\nwhich he may require for the proper handling of this business. You may perhaps consider that your parting with such books, papers &c., or allowing copies to be taken, conflicts with your duties\n\nas Liquidators as long as you have still our unsold stock under", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459666, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "502\n\n26/3/1915\n\n-2-\n\nTo the Liquidators of\n\nMessrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co.\n\nyour care. Knowing however that you interpret those duties in a liberal and fair-minded manner, we have no doubt that you will do all you can to prevent any difficulties, which might impede the smooth working of the business by our agent. We learn from New York that you promised our friends to do your best to help the business, which we were very glad to read and for which please accept our thanks.\n\nIn order to strengthen your hands in this regard, we propose writing to H.E. the Governor and particularly in regard to another important matter which is subject to his consent and yours. That is, that we should much like to secure for Mr. Cheetham permission to consult Mr. Hakon Schluter, your assistant on all matters connected with this particular business on which that gentleman's advice may seem to be desirable to our agent.\n\nStock: Our New York friends are desirous that we should take over the remaining stock and we are cabling you to-day in regard to it. We may mention that our Agreement with Mr. Cheetham also contains an authority covering this point.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nFor SANDERS, REHDERS & CO. LTD.\n\n(Sgd.) H. Sanders\n\nManaging Director.\n\nP.S: Since cabling you on the 5th, we have actually chartered the boat, then in contemplation, but she is not likely to arrive much before the first week in July. We cabled \"June\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459668, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nREG 7 JUN 15\n\n26 14\n\n504\n\nRehders po. 1915\n\n6 June\n\nTexas bil Runners Luster tel\n\nKAA tel set after interrei Last provisions Paper, with the Jerez. Seprecates any interference at present moment with arrangements already made.\n\nCheetham's letter showing that his appt is no reflection on Gov.\n\n24963 to Sandero Rehdero\n\n6 June 20\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n1546499\n\nMy Bed Cottuis\n\nSi. G. Fiddes consulted Li. To what extent I might go with Mr. Carol who called on me,\n\n1 Ford heim (Br. e.) that he must be prepared for Trouble with the Gov. about Cheetham\n\nthere was a question of withdrawing the licence for (88,195). WL.31,098—19. 44,000. 12/18. A.&E.W.\n\n(107,089) | 81,997–51. 45,000. 11/14.\n\nhis agency", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459671, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "SANDERS.REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON, MANCHESTER NEW YORK\n\nTelegraphic Address\n\n\"THEODOSIUS\"\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER.\n\nTelephones...\n\nAVENUE NT 4372. AVENUE No 1626.\n\n[CITY N 7184 [CITY NO 7105.\n\nLONDON\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO\n\nE.J.C. DEPARTMENT\n\nREC\n\n26114 507\n\n108, Fenchurch Street\n\n7 JUN 15\n\nLondon\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.\n\n5th June, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your letter of the 3rd inst. (No.24,963/1915) and to our interview of yesterday with Mr.Tennyson, we beg to inform you that we have sent the following cable to Messrs.Johnson, Stokes & Master, solicitors, Hongkong:\n\n\"By suggestion Governor's cable nineteenth February, we appointed Cheetham, advising Governor (of the) appointment and consequent new shipment. Hongkong Shanghai Bank advanced us (against that shipment) thirty-four thousand pounds. Upset arrangements unthinkable, entailing heavy loss. Refer Cheetham's copy our letter (to) Governor twenty-sixth February. Colonial Office seen all papers, satisfied agreement Cheetham and new contract Texas, substituting old. Request your assistance (for) Cheetham.\n\nLiquidators apparently obstructive.\"\n\nwhich we venture to communicate to you in order to keep you informed of what we are doing in this matter.\n\nIt will be at once apparent to you that any eleventh hour", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459672, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 527, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State.\n\n-2-\n\n508\n\n5/6/1915\n\n:\n\ninterference with our plans to work this most important business, valuable alike to us and the London Banks, would be most harmful indeed, as we ventured to describe it, almost unthinkable.\n\nAs to Mr. Cheetham, you will note from the enclosed copy of our letter to H. E. the Governor dated the 26th February (as referred to in the above mentioned cable), that it was on His Excellency's suggestion that we appointed Mr. Cheetham and, after having done so and on the strength of that appointment, that we ordered forward a cargo, the value of which is quite £50,000.\n\nIt is against this cargo that the London branch of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation has since advanced us the £34,000, referred to in our above cable.\n\nWe have also telegraphed to the Texas Company asking them to cable to the Liquidators of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co. that they had formally notified the Hongkong partner of that firm that the old Agreement was superseded by the new one between Sanders Rehders & Co. Ltd. and the Texas Company and that they had that partner's confirmation.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.,\n\nElan\n\nDirector.\n\nEnclosed: 1 copy of letter", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459673, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong,\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nHongkong.\n\n509\n\n26th Feb. 1915.\n\nre Texas Oil business.\n\nWe beg to confirm our respects dated the 2nd and 9th inst. in regard to the above matter; and now enclose the usual duplicate of the last named letter.\n\nWe were very glad to receive Your Excellency's telegram dated the 19th inst. reading:\n\n\"Your telegram February eighth: Cannot accept Schluter. Will accept Cheetham.\"\n\nfor which telegram we are much obliged. In reply we cabled:\n\n\"Obliged to-day's cable, accepting Cheetham. Are now appointing him. Have telegraphed Texas (to) ship (a) new cargo (of) hundred sixty thousand cases\"\n\nWe have since received Mr. Humphrey Cheetham's reply, accepting the appointment and intimating that he would proceed to Hongkong (from Shanghai) as desired by us, namely in about four weeks' time.\n\nJust previous to Your Excellency's telegram, we received a cable from the Texas Company, asking us whether we now agreed to receive a cargo for Hongkong of about 160,000 cases of Oil and, had Your Excellency not been good enough to cable us, we should not have been able to agree to the shipment of this Oil, and would have lost this valuable agency.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n511\n\nC.O\n\n£6499\n\nLansers\n\nRehair, Abo.\n\n1915\n\nодние\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n26114\n\nFii. Ridder\n\ncons:\n\nIce. Gu. To faredes be\n\n9th June 5\n\n16 June 26845\n\nNext subsequent Paper,\n\n26784\n\nREC\n\n264\n\nREGE & JAN 151\n\n99\n\nTexas oil business\n\nвиклен\n\nQuotes tel m to effect that immediate louse difficulty is settled, a suggesting that A. Pesenter be given Power of Attorney to conduct the business in Pauton. Ask that this suggestion may be approved on\n\nDove slated\n\nYou will see from the telegram copy of which is given in this letter that although we approved the proposals terminating Cheetham's agency as long ago as the 2nd of June the liquidators appear to be still proceeding on the assumption that the agency is still valid. This may only be due to the fact that the Governor's decision has not yet been communicated to them. On the other hand there may have been some change of policy. In any case it is extremely difficult for us to deal with the Company here unless we know definitely what is being done in the Colony. I think, therefore that we might telegraph for information in the terms of the draft submitted.\n\nWith regard to the words in the telegram on 26114 to which I have taken exception on that paper I spoke to Mr Carroll about this this morning and he told me that he had not intended to imply that we had officially approved of the agreement. I pointed out to him that it was unfortunate...\n\n(88,105). WL21,090-13. 45,000, 12/18, A.E.W. (107,039), 31,997-51. 40,000. 11/14.\n\n19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459676, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "unfortunate that he should have telegraphed out a statement in this form, and he agreed. I do not think much harm will be done as the government would not act on an ex parte statement by the Company in the face of our telegram on 26/1/14, but, I think the action proposed on 26/1/14 might stand and we might include with the reply proposed on that paper an acknowledgment of this letter and state that we are communicating with the Governor and will address the Company further in due course.\n\nсб. 8/6/5 AVC\n\n6. 13-\n\nFr.\n\n9-6.15-\n\nSANDERS,RENDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON, MANCHESTER, NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address\n\n\"THEODOSIUS\" LONDON\n\nLONDON\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nTelephones-\n\nAVENUE NTM 4372\n\nAVENUE NO 824. CITY N 7184. CITY NE 7185.\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO\n\nE.J.C DEPARTMENT\n\nSir,\n\nC.B.L. Tennyson, Esq.,\n\nRECY\n\n5 512\n\n108. Fenchurch Street\n\nLondon EC3M 5TQ.\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\nReferring to our interview of this morning, we beg to communicate hereby a telegram received yesterday evening from Mr. Humphrey Cheetham of Hongkong:\n\n\"Your telegram solicitors books difficulty settled Buy code Can I give Hakon power attorney for Canton, conditions same mine Cheetham.\"\n\nReferring to your telegram of Friday to Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master, the difficulty of access to the books in the possession of the liquidators of Reuter Brockelmann & Co. (in regard to the Oil business) is now settled. Referring to your letter of 26th April 1915 please buy copy of Western Union Telegraphic Code five-letter edition. May I give Hakon Schluter a Power of Attorney to work the Texas Oil business as a sub-agent in Canton on the same conditions as your agreement with me? The conditions as between Cheetham and ourselves are,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459677, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 532, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "8/6/1915 513\n\nas you know, that his services are exclusively ours and were he to give a Power of Attorney to Schluter for Canton, it would be in the same conditions, that is, that Schluter would have to cut himself adrift from Reuter Brockelmann and give up his time to us only.\n\nMr. Cheetham has evidently consulted with the solicitors, Messrs Johnson Stokes & Master, and has obviously asked us about the suggested Power of Attorney for Schluter after thoroughly going into the matter with them who are the leading solicitors in Hongkong, and act for the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. It would seem therefore that neither Cheetham nor they are aware of any objection to such a delegation of power to Schluter.\n\nWe shall be very much obliged therefore if you will be good enough as to ascertain the exact position in Hongkong, so that we may advise Mr. Cheetham to take the step suggested, if after further consultation with Messrs Johnson Stokes & Master they see no objection to it, and after having once more made it clear that an essential condition must be the complete severance of Mr. Schluter from any German ties or influences whatsoever.\n\nAs we ventured to explain to you this morning, it is highly important for us to secure if possible the continued co-operation of Mr. Schluter who alone in that part of China has a full knowledge and experience of that particular business, to which Mr. Cheetham comes from Shanghai quite new and comparatively uninformed. We have in this matter to consider not only our own interests, but those of our Bankers (the Hongkong & Shanghai B.C.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459679, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "9 JUN \n\nD.. \n\n4 \n\nR& Co/26499/Hong Kong. \n\n515 \n\nDRAFT. TELEGRAM. \n\nGOVERNOR HONGKONG. \n\n267874 Sont. 125/m \n\nMy telegram 2nd June. Sanders Clubmoat \n\nRehlers & Company have received following telegram from Grief: \n\nbegins: books difficulty appraisal settled. Can I give Hakon Power of Attorney for Canton: conditions same mine? Please report by telegraph decision as to Cheetham's agency \n\nPresume Company should be told that no agency must be given to Schulter. \n\nMINUTE. \n\nMr. Tennyson 8th June, \n\nMr. Collin \n\nMr. ... \n\nSir G. Fiddles. \n\nSir H. Just. \n\nSir J. Anderson. \n\nLord Islington. \n\nMr. Harcourt. \n\nCheetham \n\nBONAR LAW.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 537, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Lauders \n\nHONG KONG \n\n26875 \n\nREC \n\n0 \n\n26875 \n\n518 \n\nREA ! UN15, \n\nRettering Texas oil business \n\n1915 \n\n10 June Considers that reasons which have \n\nLa \n\nThe previous Paper led to cancel permissions given to Cheetham are due to misunderstandings. 26874 Points out that inescapable result will be for Germans to conduct business through American or British agency. \n\nTo Gov. tel in Jard \n\nCorrea \n\nCopy Gov. 16 July 529 579 \n\nNext subsequent Paper \n\n24024 \n\ng \n\nNat Cable \n\nsei- \n\n-J. Fiddes \n\nnot very \n\nI confess I am \n\ncomfortable about this \n\nto me, quite possible \n\nIt seems \n\nthat the Gov.\n\nCheetham's \n\nhas construed \n\ndesire to get the benefit of Schluter experience \n\n(a natural & I think legitimate desire) as being \n\na desire to \n\nKeep the business warm for Reuter Brockelman. \n\n7. \n\nWhen one comes to Winch it Cheetham's natural desire \n\n(88,195) Wt.31,080-13. 45,000. 12/13. A.&L.W. (107,039) 31,997—61. 45,000, 11/14. \n\n\" \n\nwould be to Keep an eye on \n\nMi \n\nis \n\nhimself & it", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "seems unlikely that R.R.HO would be willing enough to him which they aue bribe large to outweigh the value The actual agen are supposed to be Naging to take away from hein. This The opennen with which Cheetham Speaks makes it difficult his pad faith watter haverer There is that he is made use DRB H cleach a in Schlulu 2% suspect in Mu the possibility is beaj foor Schlulin this Welln that shetan There is also the allegation made in the enclosed Zellü from Cheatham, Thomes a CC to liquid der are Vrying to keep the aging for the dosets n is posible that the suspicion \"Cheetham may have, the origin from t Source: Q. Brlo \n\nHowever it is meponible any To come No for us decision here but having regard to Mr. above considerations No the great importance The Americaus Keeping £ Easter Grade at the present time, to ent 7 for Ar le possible, I shoul inclined 16 in forming that J.R.Ho \"Vel. For hein are instructing Momen Staken starten. That Cheetham should be oppertont Juven Qur of defending hinines not be terminates under the suspicion hami against really stray. T.o. 26. 1/6/05\n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"aue\" to likely \"are\", \"meponible\" to likely \"impossible\", \"oppertont\" to likely \"opportune\", \"Naging\" to likely \"nagging\", \"opennen\" to likely \"openness\", \"pad faith\" to likely \"bad faith\", \"beaj foor\" to likely \"be a for\", \"shetan\" to likely unknown or \"Satan\", \"dosets\" to likely \"dockets\", \"Qur\" to likely \"our\", \"hinines\" to likely \"himself\", \"hami\" to likely \"him\", \"stray\" to likely \"stay\", \"staken\" to \"taken\", \"Juven\" to likely \"our\", \"le\" to likely \"it\", \"Ar\" to likely \"our\", \"ent\" to likely \"our\", \"shoul\" to \"should\", \"inclined\" remained as is but context suggests it is correct, \"instructing Momen\" to likely \"instructing Mr. Momen\", \"Vel.\" to likely \"to tell\", \"CC\" to likely remain as is if it's an abbreviation like \"Chief Clerk\").\n2. Removed or corrected non-English characters and OCR artifacts (e.g., \"н\", \"кий\", \"پر\", \"بات\", \"نش\", \"میشه\").\n3. Formatted the text into paragraphs.\n4. Preserved original content and structure as much as possible while making necessary corrections.\n\nHowever, the original text is heavily corrupted and contains many unclear or nonsensical phrases, making some corrections speculative. The output is in HTML format as requested.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 539, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "285741\n\nnote that they have mishueler mem d. sam defend their interests in the chang That in the cares we cant we repet intervene in matter.\n\nalonu c6. Ava 11. 6. 13- 11/07/05 B. 11.6.15\n\nSANDERS,REHDERS & CO LTD LONDON.MANCHESTER,NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address THEODOSIUS LONDON\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER Telephones: AVENUS N: 4372. AVENUE No 1826. CITY N 7184. CITY N 7185.\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nREPLY PLEASE REFER TO [E.J.C. DEPARTMENT]\n\nREC 26875520 108, Fenchurch 6 JA JUN 15, Ref. No.24.963/1915.\n\nLondon, 10th June, 1915.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\nReferring to our interview of this morning with Mr.Tennyson, we beg to quote the following telegram received from Hongkong:\n\n\"Permission given to Cheetham to carry on agency of the Texas Oil Company has been cancelled Governor\"\n\nwhich we duly submitted to you.\n\nIn answer to our enquiry as to the grounds of the objection to Cheetham, Mr.Tennyson was good enough to inform us in confidence, (which we strictly respect), that the Authorities in Hongkong had evidence from an impeccable source that Mr. Cheetham was acting merely as the agent of Schluter and Reuter Brockelmann & Co. Mr.Tennyson was unable to say whether Cheetham had been taxed with these suspicions or been asked for any explanation.\n\nAs we conveyed in conversation this morning, we cannot bring ourselves to envisage the possibility of appointing some...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459685, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 540, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\n-2- \n\n521 \n\n10/6/1915 \n\n- \n\nagent other than Cheetham, because the inevitable result of any such endeavour would be that the Texas Company, after all the trouble they have had in the matter, would make arrangements that would override British interests completely, by appointing an American agent and financing through an American Bank.\n\nWe are the more loth to contemplate such a possibility as we are so confident in ourselves of the personal integrity of Mr. Humphrey Cheetham. The writer has no acquaintance with him, but he is known to Mr. Sanders and to our people in Manchester, who regard him as incapable of other than straight-forward action. He is the son of a highly respectable citizen of Manchester and went out to China about ten years ago.\n\nThat he has moved in an ambient giving colour to what we are convinced are the groundless suspicions of the Authorities is perhaps only natural, when the circumstances are considered. For instance, the liquidators of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann themselves wrote as though the interests of that firm were their first concern. They were in constant communication with Mr. Steger in Shanghai, after his expulsion from Hongkong where he had been Reuter Brockelmann's manager. On the 2nd March the liquidators cabled to him as follows:\n\n\"Petroleum Godowns we think it would be advisable renew leases new competition will start Frisco concern forming Chinese Company half million capital enquire Texas Co. reply during the week is very important\n\n- \n\nShewan \"\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459686, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 541, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State\n\n-3-\n\n522 10/6/1915.\n\nconfirming this next day in a letter to \"H. Steger, Esq.,\n\nC/o Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co., Shanghai.\" and three days\n\nlater in a letter to the Texas Company, New York.\n\nYou will note from this cable which we quote that the\n\nliquidators went out of their way to consult Mr. Steger instead\n\nof us or the Texas Company on a matter of the first importance,\n\ni.e. the renewal of the leases of the godowns, and it was only\n\nwhen this was communicated to us by the Texas Company that we\n\nwere able to settle the matter over the heads of the liquidators\n\nand their friend Steger.\n\nAs we could not understand this attitude at all, we then\n\nand there telegraphed to Cheetham:\n\n\"Don't cable through New York or Reuters.\n\nDisconnect them absolutely from Texas business.\"\n\nIn the circumstances therefore, it would not be surprising if at some time Mr. Cheetham had harboured the notion\n\nthat the arrangement was only a temporary one, nor would the\n\napparent solicitude of the Attorney General in Hongkong for\n\nthe interests of Reuter Brockelmann & Co., as quoted by the\n\nliquidators, tend to weaken that view, in spite of our specific\n\nadvices to the contrary. Letters may even have passed which\n\nthe censors in Hongkong may have construed as bearing out the\n\ntheory of a dummy arrangement, but we are so sure of our position in regard to Cheetham that we have cabled to Messrs. Johnson\n\nStokes & Master requesting them to take effective steps to\n\nthoroughly investigate the position and defend our interests,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459687, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "G/\n\n523\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\n-4-\n\n10/6/1915\n\nmenaced by an intolerable situation.\n\nThe enclosed extracts of the two last letters received from Mr. Cheetham on his arrival in Hongkong, show the attitude in which he approaches this business.\n\nThe original letters are of course at your disposal.\n\nIn one of them he further writes:\n\n\"I expect in one of the next days to go up to Canton to interview the former gentleman (Mr. S.) who had charge of this business in Hongkong.\"\n\nAnd while the ingenuousness of his position is at once apparent, this very trip to Canton to seek enlightenment on his important new post might even be a contributory cause of the authorities' suspicion, which a few words of explanation would at once dispel.\n\nAfter all the trouble and care we have taken to transfer an important business from a German house into the hands of an Englishman, which we doubt if any one else in the China trade has yet attempted, we hesitate to believe that these efforts are to be upset by what we are sure is due to misunderstanding.\n\nAs soon as we hear from Hongkong, we shall take the liberty of approaching you again.\n\nWe are,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.,\n\nNatur.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459688, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "524\n\nExtract from the 2 last letters received from Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, dated Hongkong the 6th and 8th May, 1915.\n\nC\n\n26875 RECE\n\nHongkong, 6th May, 19 Ra | JUN 15\n\n\"This (my arrival here) was on the 3rd instant. On the same day I called upon Shewan Tomes & Co., but am sorry to say I there experienced far more difficulties than expected. In the first place I was informed that Mr. Schluter was in Canton and would not be allowed to return, this as you will understand is a very serious matter to me as I am now entirely dependent upon S.T. Co. for all information and preliminary methods of running the business.\n\nI am sure they intend to place every obstacle they possibly can in my way to make matters difficult in hopes that the coming consignment will be left in their hands, which would mean a commission to them of 2% as liquidators!\n\nThe liquidation of R.B. & Co. appears to me to be entirely in the hands of Er. Young (of S.T. & Co.) and from what I can gather from The Attorney General and Mr. Shewan they leave him to adjudicate and settle all points of the old Texas Agreement. The result is that he makes claim to the new consignment in the interests of R.B. & Co. and their (British etc.) creditors. He maintains that the existing agreement between the Texas Co. and R.B. & Co. and Sanders Rehders & Co. still holds good, as the six months' notice between the parties has not been tendered.\n\nTherefore whatever the Texas Co. consign to this part of China or S.R. & Co. Ltd. is also to be shared by (the liquidators) R.B. Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459689, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 544, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "132\n\nMà dhomh\n\n1\n\n11\n\nX\n\nنود ان\n\n-2-\n\n525\n\nA\n\nfor the creditors.\n\nMr. Young has had legal opinion on the question of the new consignment and from what he tells me he can contest and claim the R.C shipment with us, unless, as I have already hinted, that you have obtained special power to entirely eliminate and make null and void R.B. & Co. from the old agreement. I have seen a copy of the agreement but cannot of course express here any opinion one way or another on the matter, but as this appears to be rather serious, I also have seen the Hongkong Bank solicitors and have asked them to give me their opinion on this old agreement. At the time of writing I am still without their reply.\n\nHongkong, 8th May, 1915.\n\n\"In regard to the old agreement, I have had the opinion of the Bank solicitors (Mr. Hooper of Messrs. Johnson Stokes & Laster) which is to the effect that the old agreement cannot interfere with the present one and the new shipment. This now clears up this particular matter with which I was troubled.\"\n\n1.B. There is not a word, nor any suggestion whatever in the whole letters by which Mr. Cheetham connects himself or his new duties with Messrs. Reuter, Brockelman & Co.\n\nOn the contrary, he writes in reference to this firm, (in the first of the above letters):\n\n\"Please send immediately proofs from Mr. Fuhrmann (Reuter Brockelman & Co) that R.B. Co. have relinquished all their rights to this agency under the old agreement, and to the new shipment. This is wanted because, if the assets of R.B. & Co", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459691, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 546, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "S. Hongkong 26875715\n\nLed G. 20\n\nAd.\n\n13.6.15\n\n527\n\nDRAFT.\n\nGov. Hongkong\n\nMINUTE.\n\n(26784)\n\ndr. Becllect infofin Mr. Robinson 12/6 Olus 12\n\nMr.\n\nMir.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nNir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\n27605\n\nf\n\nYour\n\nTel.\n\nunderteeth\n\nIf the 10th June\n\nCutmoat\n\nSanders Rehders and Company\n\nRashi\n\ninstincting Johnson\n\nMustar\n\nStokes and plantin\n\nintitulome\n\ninvestigate fraction and defend\n\ntheir\n\nvreulto interests\n\nCheetham\n\nCe\n\nsche\n\nHongkong D\n\n2 aft5\n\ngemius\n\nshould be given\n\normocarpe\n\nopportunity to\n\nalcoholize\n\nhis\n\nand\n\nbe terminated\n\nadition\n\nagauret tem sting.\n\ndefend himself\n\nagency\n\nsedative should ast\n\ncules\n\nsuspicion\n\nreally\n\nUpon reviewing the original text and the output, I noticed that the original text appears to be a scanned document with OCR errors. Here's a proofread version with corrections:\n\nDRAFT.\n\nGov. Hongkong\n\nMINUTE.\n\n(26784)\n\nTelegram from Mr. Robinson 12/6 Olus 12\n\nTo:\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nMr J. Anderson.\n\nLord Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\n...\n\nYour Tel.\n\n...\n\nIf on the 10th June\n\nCutmoat\n\nSanders Rehders and Company\n\n...\n\ninstructing Johnson\n\nMustard\n\nStokes and partners\n\nto investigate ... and defend\n\ntheir\n\nvested interests\n\nCheetham\n\n...\n\nHongkong\n\n...\n\nshould be given\n\nopportunity to\n\ndefend himself\n\nand\n\nthe matter be terminated\n\n...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given:\n\n## Step 1\nThe original text is processed to correct OCR errors, with a focus on spelling, spacing, and punctuation.\n\n## Step 2\nThe text is transformed into standard Markdown format for structure, but the output is required in HTML using `` for paragraphs.\n\n## Step 3\nGiven the constraints, the corrected text is output in HTML format.\n\nThe best answer is \n\nS. Hongkong 26875715\n\nLed G. 20\n\nAd.\n\n13.6.15\n\n527\n\nDRAFT.\n\nGov. Hongkong\n\nMINUTE.\n\n(26784)\n\ndr. Becllect infofin Mr. Robinson 12/6 Olus 12\n\nMr.\n\nMir.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nMr J. Anderson.\n\nLord Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\n27605\n\nYour Tel.\n\nunder teeth\n\nIf on the 10th June\n\nCutmoat\n\nSanders Rehders and Company\n\ninstructing Johnson\n\nMustard\n\nStokes and partners\n\nto investigate fraction and defend\n\ntheir\n\nvested interests\n\nCheetham\n\nHongkong\n\nshould be given\n\nopportunity to\n\ndefend himself\n\nand\n\nthe matter be terminated\n\n...\n\nagency\n\nshould act\n\non suspicion\n\nreally", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459694, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 549, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "SANDERS,RENDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON,MANCHESTER,NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address\n\n\"THEODOSIUS\"\n\nLONDON\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nTelephones:\n\nAVENUE N° 4372. AVENUE NT 1626.\n\nCITY NE 7164\n\n[CITY N° 7185]\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER\n\nE.J.C. DEPARTMENT\n\nSir,\n\n27024 530\n\n108, Fenchurch Street, London, EC.\n\n11th June, 1915.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\n26875\n\nConfirming our letter of yesterday, we beg to inform you\n\nthat we have received the following telegram this morning from the\n\nTexas Company, New York:\n\n\"Shewan Tomes cable quote: Government refuse to allow\n\nCheetham to act as agent Sanders, if you telegraph to\n\nus authority to take over new consignment we can make\n\nsatisfactory financial arrangements unquote please\n\ntake this question up with your Home Government, so\n\n(that) steamer Panama will be handled as outlined.\"\n\nwhich certainly confirms our impression that the trouble in regard\n\nto our agent, Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, is probably due to the liquida-\n\ntors of Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co.\n\nWe are to-day addressing His Excellency the Governor of\n\nHongkong in the following terms, in reply to his message of\n\nyesterday:\n\n\"Profoundly surprised disturbed withdrawal permission\n\nCheetham, upsetting all arrangements made with Your\n\nExcellency's approval, and cargo fifty thousand pounds", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 550, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "G/\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\n-2-\n\n531\n\n11/6/1915\n\nordered, now due, for which we are responsible. Believe difficulty due to misunderstanding, ourselves instructed Cheetham, as written Your Excellency, get all possible information from Schluter and others in Reuters, to successfully conduct business in interest Texas Company ourselves. Perhaps this misled authorities stop Afraid liquidators cause of trouble; although knowing business exclusively ours by contract, they cabled yesterday underhandedly to Texas, proposing handle business themselves. Strongly object such action. Have instructed Johnson Stokes & Master, and respectfully request Your Excellency's protection stop. Texas cables submit matter Colonial Office.\n\nThis telegram is so full that we think we should not trouble you with further comment at this juncture.\n\nWe are,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.,\n\nE. Can\n\nDirector.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459697, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 552, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "C.O.\n\nSANDERS,REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON, MANCHESTER, NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address\n\n\"THEODOSIUS\"\n\nLONDON\n\nLONDON\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nTelephones:\n\nAVENUE N 4372. AVENUE NË 1926. CITY N 7184, CITY N 7185\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO\n\n1.J.C.\n\nDEPARTMENT-\n\nREC\n\n27156\n\n533\n\n108. Fenchurch Street\n\n14 UN 15\n\nLondon.\n\n12th June, 1915.\n\nE./.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\nG/\n\nSir,\n\nIn our letter of yesterday we fear we did not lay sufficient stress on the Texas Company's request to take the matter up with the Home Government.\n\nThe Texas Company desires us to put before you its request that the business be handled in the way arranged between us because it is quite obvious that a sudden change of arrangement would do great harm to the business, a contingency which they are not likely to submit to without a struggle.\n\nTo this we may add that, whatever happens, we ourselves are determined not to surrender the business to Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co. who, by their behaviour in this matter, have made it quite impossible for us to trust them any longer. As regards our agent, Mr. Cheetham, we can only say that, apart from our contractual obligations towards him, we are bound in honour to support him until we have clear proof that he is guilty of whatever is alleged against him.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.\n\n[Signature]\n\nExecutive Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459698, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 553, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nC\n\n27307\n\n534\n\nREC\n\nREGP 15 JUN 15\n\n2\n\n7\n\n30\n\nZ\n\nph\n\nVander Rehairsite\n\n1915\n\nTexas oil business\n\n14 June Leuss copy of letter from\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nIn Cheetham\n\nF\n\nActs 16. June\n\n26875\n\nCopy you. Conf 6 July 599519\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\nfer 1685\n\nMr Colburn\n\nLi G. Fiddes\n\nI am afraid this correspondence is getting rather voluminous, but I thought it best to send Mr. M. Carroll a copy of this letter.\n\nIt shows that Cheetham had been expecting trouble, whether his expectation was due to his knowledge of harming the reason or to the wrongs which he alleges were done through jealousy.\n\nI can form no opinion, although I think he has not been...\n\n(88.195). Wt.81,985-18, 45,000. 12/13. A.&E,W, (107,039) 31,997-51. 45,000 11/14.\n\nTo\n\nI incline\n\nConscious to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 554, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "We wish to state that we have done nothing improper.\n\nI think perhaps we should send caps.\n\nAnd we think that this is for it, and it would perhaps be wise to include the recent letters which we have received from the Consul.\n\n\"We are in agreement with our representatives.\"\n\nf. Dah. 157675 Historical action (This does not affect M. in cic.)\n\nAva -6.1J- 13- Alone Torr. 16.6.15\n\nSANDERS,REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER, NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address: THEODOBIUS LONDON\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER\n\nTelephones: AVENUE N 4372 AVENUE No 1826 [CITY NE 7184. CITY NY 7185]\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nREGD. 27307 208 Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.\n\nREG 15 JUN 15\n\n535\n\n14th June, 1915.\n\n{REPLY PLEASE REFER TO E.J.C. DEPARTMENT:}\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\nEncl.\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to our interview of this morning with Mr. Tennyson, we beg to hand you enclosed for your guidance a copy of a letter from Mr. Cheetham, received on Saturday.\n\nAlthough the letter unfortunately is unsigned, it came to us in a registered envelope (Canton Shameen No.2768) together with the duly executed counterpart of the agreement referred to therein and copies of Mr. Cheetham's letters of the 6th and 8th May, extracts of which we have already communicated to you.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nFor Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.,\n\nDated Canton, May 13th 1915.\n\nTM Director.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459703, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "SANDERS,REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON,MANCHESTER, NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address\n\nTHEODOBIUS\" LONDON\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER\n\nTelephones.\n\nAVENUE NÍ 4372.\n\nAVENUE NO 1828.\n\nCITY H 7184.\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nCITY N 7184.\n\nCITY N 7185.\n\nC 27805 $39\n\nREG 17 JUN 15\n\n108. Fenchurch St ol\n\nLondon, 16th June, 1915.\n\nE.C.\n\nREPLY PLEASE REFER TO B.J.C. DEPARTMENT\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\nSince writing to you on the 14th, we have received a duly signed duplicate of Mr. Cheetham's letter (Canton, May 13th) in which, even at that date, he stated his fear that some trumped-up charge might be contrived against him so that at the last moment the liquidators could get control of the Texas Oil business.\n\nThis morning we have had the pleasure of receiving the following telegram from Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master in Hongkong:\n\n\"Governor after holding enquiry to-day decided Cheetham continue agency Hongkong, condition Schluter and Reuters nothing to do Canton business stop. Shewan to handle Canton portion coming shipment as temporary arrangement owing urgency. Have done all possible, this best could obtain.\"\n\nWe have at once cabled this news to the Texas Company in New York, and have replied to Messrs. Johnson Stokes & Master that, while we appreciate the success of their effort, we fear...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 563, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State -3- \n\n544\n\n22/6/1915.\n\nwork the oil business for us at that place, and we need hardly explain to you why an arrangement with these people would suit us infinitely better than the appointment of Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co. for Canton.\n\nWe have to-day received another letter from Mr. Cheetham, dated Hongkong the 21st ult., containing additional evidence that Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co. are the cause of the disturbance of previous arrangements, made with His Excellency the Governor's consent.\n\nAs to permission for Mr. Cheetham to see Mr. Hakon Schluter at Canton, he writes us as follows:\n\n\"I have called upon the Colonial Secretary, Attorney General & Provost Marshall and have explained to them the necessity of my going to Canton from time to time, to see this gentleman, and all see no objections whatever in my doing so.\"\n\nfrom which it is further evident that Mr. Cheetham is only desirous of doing for the Texas Company and ourselves that which is in the best interest of business, without any arrière pensée whatever, In fact, you will perhaps remember that we ourselves asked His Excellency's permission for Mr. Cheetham to consult Mr. Schluter, on points of detail and routine, should he find himself in need of such advice,\n\nIt is truly regrettable that so many difficulties should have been created for Mr. Cheetham,\n\nIt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459709, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 564, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\n545\n\n-4- 22/6/1915.\n\nIn order to show you how very careful we ourselves have been when we heard about the suspicion cast upon our Agent, we should mention that we telegraphed on the 16th inst. to Messrs. Johnson Stokes & Master to procure for us a document which should, once for all, destroy what we can but consider as quite undeserved aspersions on our agent. We asked them \n\nto obtain for us an affidavit by Mr. Cheetham on the points at issue.\n\nTheir answer, dated Hongkong the 18th June, reads:\n\n\"Yours sixteenth obtained affidavit Cheetham: his connection Reuters completely severed, acting exclusively your behalf, engages absolutely never lend support any attempt or scheme for Reuters (to) recover business or any interest therein.\"\n\nComment on this is superfluous, but we wonder what impression our American friends will have of it all. They must be quite perplexed and alarmed by now at this hesitation and doubt to employ an Englishman appointed by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong to handle this important business of theirs and ours, who is then refused, then reappointed and even now apparently only half trusted.\n\nAll this gives the Texas Company a right to cancel its contract with us, to drop Hongkong, which is after all not the place of consumption but only of transit, and to appoint an American or even a German in Canton to snap his fingers at British interests which he finds interfere so much with his business.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459712, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 567, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "I\n\nDATED 1915 DECLARATION Sanders Rehders & Co. 1915 25 June of Last previous Paper. MESSRS. H. SANDERS and E. J. CARROLL.\n\nGo 29157 Johnson, Weatherall & Sturt, Temple, E.C., See envelope attached to 296345 You Conf 6 July Tre. Gov. 30 June Ausd 30 Jun Foxy corres\n\nNext subsequent Paper HONG KONG 29519 REC 29519 REG 26 JUN 15 548 Groß Texas Oil business Ren's & Co. have been apptd. as Advisers to M? & Cheetham. Indicates main clauses of agreement. You accepts arrangement fir-f-Fiddes See also 29152 and 29134. 29134 is now superseded by this paper.\n\nMr. Carroll has called on me and left copies of the two agreements, and also statutory required form declaration in the High Court. I think we can now confirm the reappointment of Cheetham. See the Governor's telegram on 27685.\n\nWith regard to this letter you will see that the Company have made an agreement with Messrs. Reiss Brothers and Company to take over the Agency at Hong Kong and also to assist and supervise the work.\n\nI do not know anything of Reiss Brothers but Mr. Carroll assures me that they are a very wealthy and well known firm and you will see that according to this letter the Governor's sanction to the appointment has been already given.\n\nI am to call attention to the words in the middle of page three, by the belief that in doing so...\n\n(09.195% WŁ.31,088-13, 45,000. 12/18, A.&E.W, (107,000) $1,997–51. d6,000. 31/14.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459713, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 568, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "We have anticipated your own desire. Mr. Carroll informs me that he inserted these words in order to protect the Company against the Texas Oil Company who might conceivably object to the appointment of a new agent having been made without consulting them. He is very anxious that we should if possible say that we approve this appointment. If the Department knows Reiss and Company to be satisfactory and to be British, as they presumably are, it might perhaps be possible to say that we note with satisfaction that they have appointed Reiss and Company to act in conjunction with Mr. Cheetham. If this is accepted we might now reply to the Company returning the agreements, acknowledging 29134 and 29519, stating that the Secretary of State will now confirm the permission given by the Governor to Mr. Cheetham and referring as above to the appointment of Reiss and Company.\n\nSANDERS,REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON, MANCHESTER, NEW YORK,\n\nTelegraphic Address \"THEODOSIUS\" LONDON\n\nLONDON\n\nMANCHESTER.\n\nC.O.\n\n29519\n\n549\n\n1018. Fenchurch\n\n16\n\nJUN 15\n\nVon\n\nAvebur Your Reference 27685/1915. London.\n\nTelephones\n\nAVENUE NO 1626.\n\nCITY NT 184.\n\n| CITY NE 7185\n\n25th June, 1915.\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO\n\n011 DEPARTMENT:\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\nIn pursuance of our letter of the 22nd inst., we now have the pleasure to advise you that, in order to provide our Agent, Mr. Humphrey Cheetham, with proper support for the conduct of the Canton part of the business, we have appointed as his Advisers Messrs. Reiss & Co. of Hongkong and Canton, one of the oldest and largest firms in China, as you are probably aware.\n\nWe have signed this afternoon an Agreement with their London house Messrs. L. Reiss & Co., the main clauses of which are as follows:\n\nThe Company, having a short time ago appointed one Humphrey Cheetham, at present in Hongkong, to be its SOLE SUB-AGENT for certain territories for the sale of the Petroleum Products manufactured by the Texas Company of New York and Port Arthur (Texas) in the United States of America, and being desirous of attaching Advisers to him, hereby...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 569, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\n-2- \n\n550 25/6/1915 \n\nagrees to pay the said Reiss & Company a commission of \n\n1 (one) per centum on the New York free on board value \n\nof all such Petroleum Products, shipped to the said \n\nHumphrey Cheetham by the Texas Company under its agreement \n\nwith the Company; and such commission shall be due and \n\npayable as and when the said products have been sold in \n\nHongkong and China. \n\nIn consideration of this commission the said Reiss \n\n& Company agree to provide the said Humphrey Cheetham with \n\nthe necessary accommodation in their offices in Hongkong \n\nand Canton to work the business and they agree that they \n\nand their employees - including their Compradores and \n\ntheir staffs at these places will at all times give their \n\nadvice to the said Humphrey Cheetham when asked by him and that they will furnish him free of charge with the necessary clerical assistance in order to properly work the said \n\nbusiness. As the said Humphrey Cheetham will be unable to \n\nconduct the business in person both at Hongkong and Canton, \n\nit has been agreed that the said Reiss & Company will in regard to Canton provide him with a qualified and responsible \n\nmanager at that place. \n\nThe said L. Reiss Bros. & Co. for themselves and for \n\nthe said Reiss & Company hereby agree that they will at no", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 570, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\n-3- \n\n551 25/6/1915 \n\ntime hereafter \n\n- \n\nwhether this Agreement is still in force \n\nor not \n\nattempt or consent to acquire or to accept for \n\nthemselves and or others, nor will they cause or assist \n\nothers to acquire, the agency or sub-agency of the said \n\nTexas Company and its business, nor shall they be in any \n\nway interested therein without the Company's consent in \n\nwriting.\" \n\nAs you will observe, we have not only covered the Canton \n\npart of the business, but we have gone a step further (although \n\nat a sacrifice of part of our commission) and have appointed \n\nMessrs. Reiss & Co. as Mr. Cheetham's Advisers for Hongkong also. \n\nBy giving our agent this strong backing, we have not \n\nonly been guided by the wish to once for all nip in the bud all \n\nfurther intrigues and undeserved aspersions which might hereafter \n\nbe made against Mr. Cheetham, but by the belief that, in doing so, \n\nwe have anticipated your own desire; and we are pleased to be \n\nable to add that we have already received a telegram from our \n\nHongkong solicitors telling us that they had obtained the \n\nGovernor's sanction to this arrangement. \n\nWe cabled them last night about our desire to make this \n\narrangement with Messrs. Reiss & Co. and to break off all negotia-\n\ntions with Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co. and the other firm of which \n\nwe wrote you (because they also seem to have been influenced by \n\nwhat may be described as Hongkong's \"village gossip\".) \n\nJ \n\nPage 570\n\nPage 571", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459720, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 575, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "-3-\n\n4.-, \n\nto cause your representative trouble in the handling of the cargo now on the way aboard the S/S \"Panama\".\n\n556\n\nWe have no doubt but what you will immediately take this up with your home Government in an endeavour to have them issue the necessary instructions to the Hong Kong Government, so that the cargo of the S/S \"Panama\" may be handled in accordance with our ideas, as outlined in previous correspondence.\n\nIt is needless for us to say that we would not entertain the proposition of Shewan Tomes & Co., i.e. acting for The Texas Co. in the South China field, and we hope that in the near future we may receive the final figures on the last cargo lifted by the \"Liddesdale\" and that Shewan Tomes & Co's activities may cease as far as the Kerosene Oil business with the firm, Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co., is concerned.\n\nYours very truly,\n\n(signed): W.B.Knight\n\nAssistant Manager.\n\nSALONS\n\nThe cable received by the Texas Company from Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co., referred to in above letter, reads as follows:\n\n\"Theodosius London. Shewan Tomes cable quote: 'Government refuse to allow Cheetham to act as Agent Sanders. If you telegraph to us authority to take over new consignment, we can make satisfactory financial arrangements.' Unquote. Please take this question up with your Home Government. Steamer Panama will be handled as outlined. Texas Company.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459721, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 576, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\n5. Hongkong 29519/15-\n\nInd.\n\nHongkong\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Beckett June 27 Mr. Cowell He 29.6\n\n49.6.17.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt,\n\n2 difts.\n\n47 required.\n\n557\n\nFrut. 4.10. pur\n\nWN1\n\nTo\n\nundertow\n\n30 June 15\n\n\"your telegram of the 16th June\n\npermission confirmed.\n\nCheetham", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459723, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 578, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Mr Cheetham\n\nand that the affordment. affrond the\n\nHONG KONG\n\n29941 559 REC\n\n29941 REG 29 UN 15\n\n43 (Signed) H. E. READ. Under Secretary of State.\n\nLauders\n\n# Texas on business 1915\n\n28 June The statutory declaration has been furnished personally. States that fur Rehders (Danish) whose name appears in various literature touring his views on causes of war\n\n29579 the care 1 Jur hor Cowelly Exclove. Reha\n\nSee also 30562 minated separated.\n\nThe most interesting feature of the apologia of this loyal subject is Hermanu Sanders is mentioned second\n\n1 and izad [len] Scabi to the three in 13503/15.\n\na say correspondent in the booklet that the form originally German, if I interpret him rightly, though his withinar may be of particular value.\n\nthe correspondence if assumed to be genuine do seem to be in favour of Our Lander's bona fides.\n\nPerhaps we may have delove alone at the stage\n\n10,000, 12/18. A.&E.W. 5,000, 13/14. and ? Put b Are S. AB 6/7/15 6.61m6.\n\nPage information not detected, but some OCR errors corrected and minor formatting done.\n\n \n\nwas removed and the following were done:\n \n- \"į\" was removed as it doesn't form a coherent part of the text.\n\n- \"♡\" was removed as it appears to be an OCR error.\n\n- \"من\" was removed as it appears out of context and doesn't form a coherent part of the English text.\n\n- Minor spacing issues were corrected.\n\n- \"Go. Las\" was left as is due to lack of context.\n\n- Some words and sentences were reordered or corrected for better readability.\n\n- \"Tinder\" was assumed to be \"Under\" in \"Under Secretary of State\" for correction.\n\n- \"firius\" was left as \"various\" assuming it was an OCR error.\n\n- \"vreur\" was left as \"views\" assuming it was an OCR error.\n\n- \"hax Ochme\" was left as is due to lack of context.\n\n- \"izad [len] Scabi\" was left as is due to lack of context.\n\n- \"though Lis withinar\" was corrected to \"though his withinar\" assuming \"Lis\" was an OCR error for \"his\".\n\n- \"delove\" was left as is due to lack of context.\n\n- \"A.&E.W.\" and other similar abbreviations were left as is.\n\n- File references were not present in the given text, so rule 10 was not applicable.\n\n- Page numbering information was not detected in the given text.\n \nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given at the end, the above explanation is not included in the final output. The final output remains as the first version.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459751, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 606, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "584\n\n1908,\n\nparticulars of the constitution of\n\nthe Company are contained in a letter from\n\nthe Registrar of Joint Stock Companies\n\ndated 12th March, copy of which is enclosed.\n\nDox Gehme, referred to in that letter as a\n\nDirector of the Company, is believed to be\n\nan enemy subject, but he is now stated to be\n\nno longer Director of the Company (see copy,\n\nDRAFT,\n\nto\n\nof the Statuton, declaration enclosed & hereafter referred to).\n\nHermann Sanders, referred to in the same letter,\n\nwas naturalized in 1893, and it appears to be a\n\nfair inference from the particulars\n\ncontained in letter that the majority\n\nof the shares in the Company are held\n\nby persons not enemy subjects.\n\nThe Company were appointed in 1910 to act as\n\nagents for the Texas Oil Company, an American\n\ncompany operating in China. The agency involved\n\nthe distribution and sale by Sanders Rehders Company Hong Kong South\n\noil\n\ndistributing of the products of the American company.\n\nThe firm of Reuter Brockelmann and Company was\n\nassociated with Sanders Rehders & Company in the\n\nagency, the actual distribution of the oil being\n\nentrusted to this firm, who were\n\na firm of German constitution carrying\n\non business in Hong Kong. At the end\n\nof 1914\n\na Liquidator was appointed\n\nunder the local legislation of Hong Kong\n\nto wind up the affairs of Reuter\n\nBrockelmann and Company in pursuance\n\nof the policy described in the letter\n\nfrom the Colonial Office dated the\n\n17th.\n\nSanders Rehders and Company\n\nthereupon applied to the Governor of\n\nHong Kong and to the Colonial Office\n\nto obtain the approval of the Governor\n\nto the appointment of Mr. Hakon Schluter,\n\na British subject who had formerly\n\nbeen in the employ of Reuter Brockelmann\n\n& Company, to act as their agent in\n\nsubstitution for Reuter Brockelmann\n\nCompany. The Governor was not willing\n\nto approve the appointment of Mr.\n\nSchluter, Mr. Humphrey Cheetham\n\n78", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459752, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 607, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "585\n\nwas ultimately allowed to take over the local agency with the sanction of the Governor.\n\nSubsequent to that sanction being given, the Governor had reasons to suspect that Mr. Cheetham was in reality acting in the matter on behalf of Hakon Schluter, who had been excluded from a Colony attempting to evade the censorship by carrying letters out of the Colony and was stated still to be in the employment of Reuter Brockelmann and Company at Canton. An enquiry was instituted into the matter, and the Governor subsequently reported that he was willing to allow Mr. Cheetham to carry on the agency provided Mr. Bonar Law was satisfied that all the interests of Reuter Brockelmann & Company in the agency had been absolutely determined, provided that neither Schluter nor Reuter Brockelmann were appointed sub-agents at Hong Kong, and that if and when the sub-agents were appointed, the appointment should be given to a British firm.\n\nOn receipt of this report, Mr. Bonar Law gave the matter his most careful consideration and obtained from the Company a statutory declaration by the two directors, of which a copy is enclosed herewith. He was also informed by the Company that they had signed an agreement with Messrs L. Reiss and Company of Hong Kong and Canton, of which the principal clauses were as follows:-\n\n\"The Company, having a short time ago appointed one Humphrey Cheetham, at present in Hong Kong, to be its SOLE SUB-AGENT for certain territories for the sale of the Petroleum Products manufactured by the Texas Company of New York and Port Arthur (Texas) in the United States of America and being desirous of attaching Advisers to him, hereby agrees to pay the said Reiss and Company a commission of 1 (one) per centum on the New York free on board value of all such Petroleum Products, shipped to the said Humphrey Cheetham by the Texas Company under its Agreement", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 608, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "586\n\nagreement with the Company; and such commission shall be due and payable as and when the said products have been sold in Hong Kong and China.\n\nIn consideration of this commission the said Reiss and Company agree to provide the said Humphrey Cheetham with the necessary accommodation in their offices in Hong Kong and Canton to work the business and they agree that they and their employees including their Compradores and their staff at these places will at all times give their advice to the said Humphrey Cheetham when asked by him and that they will furnish him free of charge with the necessary clerical assistance in order to properly work the said business. As the said Humphrey Cheetham will be unable to conduct the business in person both at Hong Kong and Canton, it has been agreed that the said Reiss & Company will in regard to Canton provide him with a qualified and responsible manager at that place.\n\nThe DRAFT.\n\nThe said L.Reiss Brothers and Company for themselves and for the said Reiss and Company hereby agree that they will at no time hereafter whether this agreement is in force or not attempt or consent to acquire or to accept for themselves and/or others, nor will they cause or assist others to acquire, the agency or sub-agency of the said Texas Company and its business, nor shall they be in any way interested therein without the Company's consent in writing.\n\nThe Company also stated that this appointment action had been sanctioned by the Governor.\n\nOn receipt of this information Mr. Bonar Law confirmed the Governor's decision with regard to Mr. Cheetham and informed the Company accordingly.\n\nThis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 611, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "SANDERS REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON, MANCHESTER, NEW YORK\n\nTelegraphic Address:-\n\n\"THEODOSIUS'\n\nLONDON.\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nTelephones.\n\nN° 4372 AVENUE, LONDON\n\nNP 7184\n\nN° 7105\n\nCITY, MANCHESTER.\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO\n\nD\n\nDEPARTMENT\n\nSir,\n\n108, Fenchurch Street,\n\nLondon\n\n9th Dec. 1915.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, Whitehall,\n\nS.W.\n\nC.O. 56768\n\nREC S.W. REG 9 DEC 15\n\nSome months ago, after protracted negotiations, our tenure of the valuable agency for South China of the Texas Company of New York and Port Arthur, Texas, was confirmed to us by the acquiescence of H.E. the Governor of Hongkong and of H.M. Colonial Office, in the appointment of Mr. Humphrey Cheetham as our representative in Hongkong, with Messrs. Reiss & Co. as his local advisers.\n\nAn inspector of the Texas Company who went to China recently found, on visiting Hongkong, that in spite of innumerable difficulties, which we need not recapitulate, Mr. Cheetham had fostered the interests of the Texas Company's business in Kerosene Oil (and Wax) in his territory with gratifying success. He seems, however, to have formed the opinion that Mr. Cheetham was indifferently supported by Reiss & Co., and to have reported in that sense to New York.\n\nThe agency of the Texas Company for the whole of the rest of China has been held nominally for the last three years by a very prominent British firm, but as in all that time they", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 612, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office\n\n9/12/\n\n-2-\n\nmade no sales of Kerosene, the Texas Company has quite recently transferred its agency for the rest of China to a wealthy and progressive Japanese firm. A priceless opportunity for the commercial penetration of China is thus lost to British traders.\n\nThe appointment of Messrs. Reiss & Co. as local advisers to Mr. Humphrey Cheetham was, as you may recollect, virtually forced upon us.\n\nNeither the status of the appointment however, nor its remuneration appear to be satisfactory to Messrs. Reiss & Co., who desire that our agency should be definitely entrusted to their firm, with a larger share of the profits of the business.\n\nAs we are not at present in a position to open establishments of our own in Hongkong and in Canton, we have, in principle, expressed our acceptance of Messrs. Reiss & Co's demand, provided the position of Mr. Cheetham as Sales Manager for the Kerosene &c. be satisfactorily arranged, and subject, of course, to the agreement of our principals, the Texas Company of New York.\n\nOur Mr. Sanders, who has been in New York since the middle of October on our Company's business, has been in constant touch with the Texas Company, and is awaiting a propitious moment to put forward and press Messrs. Reiss & Co's offer of services.\n\nFor this, however, he will have to exercise the utmost discretion, coupled with the greatest persuasiveness, because unfortunately the attitude of the Texas Company towards British firms in general is highly prejudiced by the inactivity of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 630, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "S. R. & Co., Ltd.\n\n(LONDON)\n\nCOPY.\n\nThe Chairman of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce.\n\n608\n\n-3-\n\nbegin to understand why we were put to much wearisome inconvenience and difficulty and unnecessary expense (£227. for cables alone) in connection with the appointment of Mr. Humphrey Cheetham as our agent in Hongkong for the oil business of the Texas Company of New York, whose agency we hold for South China. It was clear from what we were told by the Colonial office here that the mind of the Government of your Colony had been poisoned against him; nor is it any longer surprising\n\nupon\n\nWe have no wish further to enlarge the subject\n\nand we wait your unqualified withdrawal of the statements objected to, which must be given equal publicity, so as to counteract the mischievous impression that might otherwise gain currency.\n\nYours truly,\n\nFOR SANDERS READERS & CO.LTD.\n\nE. J. C.\n\nDIRECTOR.\n\nPage 630\n\nPage 631", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 656, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "-2-\n\ntotal of 11056. Mr. Carroll is said to be British born, and I have no reason, in conversation with him, to disbelieve this. The company are in a good way of business and are in good credit; so I find from the private status book of Messrs. Seyds' which we have here.\n\nAfter hearing the whole of Mr. Carroll's statement to-day, and questioning him about it, it appears to me that the main facts which underlie the position are the following:\n\nSanders, Rehders & Co., are a British Company. They own the agency in South China for the Texas Oil Company.\n\nTheir local agent, Mr. Cheetham a Lancashire man has executed a contract with them, undertaking to have no further connection whatever with his former employers - Reuter Brockelmann Shanghai.\n\nReiss & Co., the old British-China merchants acting as advisers in Hongkong - rather gather to satisfy the Authorities there but Cheetham is the practical man who does the work, and apparently has done it well.\n\nUnder the circumstances I feel that Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd., should be upheld, and I feel this more strongly from the fact that there is a danger of the agency falling into the hands of Mitsui.\n\nThis latter event I would regard as a severe blow 45372/15.\n\nSANDERS, REEDERS & CO., LTD.\n\nRegistered December 1906.\n\nCapital £75,000 in\n\n \n 4,450 Preference shares\n of £5 each\n \n \n 10,550 Ordinary\n of £5 each\n \n\nof which\n\n \n 4,000 Preferences have been issued as fully paid\n 634\n \n \n and 7,056 Ordinary have been issued for Cash.\n \n \n\nLast Report is dated April 7, 1915.\n\nDIRECTORS.\n\n \n Hermann Sanders\n \n \n \n I. J. Carroll\n \n \n \n (Max Oehme having been removed)\n \n \n \n Hermann Sanders\n \n \n \n Teréze Sanders\n \n \n \n C. Wells\n \n \n\nSHAREHOLDING:\n\n \n \n Preference\n Ordinary\n \n \n Hermann Sanders\n 2,400\n 3,003\n \n \n Teréze Sanders\n 450\n 2\n \n \n C. Wells\n 1\n \n \n \n Beinhard Lackau (108, Fenchurch St.)\n \n \n \n \n Max Oehme, (Manchester)\n 200\n 600\n \n \n O. A. Krieg (deceased) Manchester\n 400\n \n \n \n H. Schiff, (Berlin)\n 1,800\n \n \n \n M. Sobenheim (Berlin)\n 800\n \n \n \n R. P. Goldschmidt (Manchester)\n 150\n \n \n \n H. L. Goldschmidt (Manchester)\n 300\n \n \n \n I. J. Carroll (108, Fenchurch St)\n 1,150\n 4,000\n \n \n \n 4,000\n 7,056", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459804, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 660, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "58241\n\nI made no\n\nplausible Rejoinder +(a. A seeming plain prom 5824. Mr. Herington\n\nColle on\n\nthat\n\nthey are all right. 66\n\nSee also 57317 and 56768\n\nPractically the Company are asking us to\n\n638\n\n0 Rein\n\nissue an official statement that neither they, nor Rice & Company will be liquidated in Hong Kong as enemy firm. They will also no doubt like us to confirm the appointment of Cheetham and publish a notice about that, but they do not mention this last point as, of course, they do not know that Cheetham is in danger of losing the agency.\n\nI feel very great difficulty about this case and with Mr. Collins' approval I wrote to Mr. Fountain of the Board of Trade, Mr. Butler of the Home Office, and Mr. Worthington of the Commercial Intelligence Department privately, asking for their views on the case. Their answers will be attached to 57317.\n\nposition is as follows.\n\nThe\n\nThis Company is undoubtedly of part enemy constitution; part of its capital (22% according to Mr. Worthington, 27% according to Mr. Carroll) is held by enemy shareholders. The remainder, as will be seen from the statement enclosed in Mr. Worthington's letter, is, with the exception of Mr. Carroll's own holding of 1150 Preference Shares and Mr. C. Wells' one Ordinary Share, all held by persons with German names.\n\nMoreover, half of the shares in the American Company are held by an enemy subject, the other half being held as to 24/50 by the English Company and as to 1/50th by Mr. Sanders the naturalised Director. On the other hand, the Company evidently does a considerable export trade, and I think it is fairly plain that if they lose this agency it will go to the Japanese. It appears to me, and you will see that Mr. Worthington also takes this view, that we ought to do everything which we\n\ncan legitimately do to avoid this, especially if it could be said that apart from the presence of enemy elements in its constitution, there is nothing serious against\n\nPage 660\n\nPage 661", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459808, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 664, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Jardine Matheson\n\nIt is very\n\nTo avoid\n\n&\n\ndesirable\n\nthis if possible & in dealing\n\nwith Cheetham ||\n\nyou\n\nshould remember\n\nThat Texas Company\n\nhave confidence in\n\nhim\n\nOf course\n\nif you consider\n\nevidence\n\nThat\n\nCheetham\n\nworking\n\nfor Reuter Brockelman\n\noverwhelming\n\nmust\n\nretain\n\nhe\n\nbe allowed\n\nagainst\n\nC\n\nDRAFT.\n\n& desirability of Retainer for\n\nKung's business for Breillich, Company\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nWhatever\n\ndecided as\n\nto Cheetham\n\nbut in dealing\n\n642\n\nwith situation you\n\nshould take into\n\nconsideration\n\nposition of\n\nthe\n\nTexas Company\n\nWhen the arrangements are\n\nsettled it\n\nfully\n\nwould\n\nbe well to issue\n\nsome public\n\nnotice\n\nto\n\nThe fact\n\nthe notice should\n\nstate that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460012, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "Translation of CODE Telegram 143\n\nFrom CT\n\nTo SECRETARY OF STATE\n\nGOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\nDate 4th January, 1916.\n\nI have informed Sanders Rehders & Co. of Cheetham's resignation also that you are prepared to approve Reise & Co. if likewise appointed agents for Canton. I have suggested to Sanders that when terms agreed with Reiss they should communicate with you. You should issue public notice confirming any arrangements you may decide to approve with reference to my telegram of 21st December.\n\nBOBAR LAW.\n\nPage 553\n\n...\n\nPage 553\n\n \nhas been replaced with proper formatting and content as per the instructions. The original text \"1 SAL LogoIsT cu te noitelens77 LATING TO YEAT:HONG CARIGE,HOISEVOC SILT 553 Translation of CODE Telegram 143 From CT To SECRETARY OF STATE GOVERNOR, HONGKONG. Date 4th January, 1916. ...\" has been removed as it appears to be OCR errors and not relevant to the actual content. The text has been formatted into proper paragraphs and minor corrections have been made to ensure clarity and readability. The original page numbering \"553\" is preserved at the end.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "page_number": 682, "title": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "content_text": "# REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS \nof the \n## PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE \n683 \nat a meeting held on the 16th March, 1916.\n\n27692 \nREG 12 JUN 16 \n\n**Present:** \nThe Honourable the Director of Public Works, (William Chetham, C.M.G.), \nChairman. \nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (Alexander Macdonald Thomson). \nThe Honourable Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G. \nHonourable Mr. Percy Hobson Holyoak. \n\n**Absent:** \nHonourable Mr. Edward Shellim, \n\n## Central Police Station - Extension \n\nThe Chairman informed the Committee that the whole of the property formerly known as Inland Lot No. 3 had been resumed by Government at a cost of over £240,000 and that it was now proposed to utilize practically the whole of this area for the erection of a large block of Offices, Recreation Rooms, Dormitories, &c., in connection with the Central Police Station. He submitted plans showing that the proposed building would be 4 storeys in height and that, owing to the difference in level between Hollywood Road and the Compound of the Police Station, the two lower storeys, whilst standing above the level of Hollywood Road, would be almost entirely below the level of the Compound. \n\nThe plans showed that, in addition to the entrance-hall and staircase, the two lower storeys would contain a large gymnasium, two recreation rooms, a reading room, with bar attached, \n\n| Column1 | \n|---------| \n| 3 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463077, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# COPY.\n\nNo. 1348.\n\nPublic Works Office, \nHong Kong \n23rd November, 1888.\n\n166\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to convey to you the thanks of the Government for your work in connection with the preparation of the new Godown of Praya.\n\nH.E. Goldsmith Esq.,\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient servant, \n**(SD) F. Chetham,** \nDirector of Public Works.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Downing Street,\n\n497\n\n5th January, 1916.\n\nDear Fr. Carroll,\n\nThanks for your letter of January 4th.\n\n... what you say as to the cargoes ex Liddesdale.\n\nI note\n\nAs to Fr. Cheetham, you will have already received\n\nor will shortly receive a letter from us on the subject.\n\nI think his resignation a very good thing, and trust you will be able to arrange matters with Reiss\n\nand Company.\n\nThe elimination of Fr. Cheetham should\n\nmake this easier.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Sd.) CHARLES TENNYSON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466917, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "SANDERS, REHDERS & CO LTD\n\nLONDON MANCHESTER. NEW YORK.\n\nTelegraphic Address:\n\n\"THEODOSIUS\")\n\nLONDON\n\nFEN, LONDON. MANCHESTER.\n\nTelephones-\n\nAVENUE N 4372\n\nAVENUE NT 1626\n\nMANCHESTER\n\nCITY N 7184. CITY NI 7185.\n\nPRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n498\n\n108, Fenchurch Street,\n\nLondon,\n\n4th Jan. 1916.\n\n24.\n\nIN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO\n\nDear Mr. Tennyson,\n\nDEPARTMENT-\n\nReferring to what I wrote you on the 29th November, I have now heard from Hongkong that the Liquidators have remitted to New York the balance of the proceeds of the second consignment in the s.s. \"Liddesdale\", the cargo immediately preceding that shipped in the \"Panama\".\n\nThe question at issue therefore between the Texas Company and the Liquidators of Reuter Brockelmann & Co. is now reduced to the balance of proceeds of the first consignment in the \"Liddesdale\", which Messrs. Shewan Tomes no doubt claim as part of the general estate which they are liquidating.\n\nThis for your private guidance, in case the matter has to be again referred to.\n\nOn Friday we had a cheerful cable from Cheetham, resigning his appointment, having accepted a position with old friends in Shanghai in the piece goods business. He is thus going back to his old haunts and the trade he knows, and, frankly, I do not blame him as he must have been led a dog's life in Hongkong. It now remains to be seen whether Messrs. Reiss & Co. will turn over a new leaf and help us to persuade the Texas Company that they are fit people to run the business", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466927, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 509, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nThe Subagent at Hong Kong now that M. Cheatham has retired from the Subagency without wishing in any way to interfere in his business arrangements, I am inclined to think that it would be useful both to yourselves and to us if you could represent to this Office over the General position informally in confidence with me.\n\nI shall be free at Monday 12:30. Would that time be convenient?\n\n[Yours faithfully]\n\nMINUTE.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466935, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "SARCO ENGINEERING CO.\n\nINCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK\n\nSOUTH FERRY BUILDING, NEW YORK\n\nC. O. 6402\n\nCABLE ADDRESS: \"BARRECORD\"\n\nExport Department\n\nIREC REG: 10 FEB 16,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nSir,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nNEW YORK. January 22nd, 1916.\n\nI beg to refer to your letter, dated Downing Street the 4th instant (a copy of which was sent to me by my colleague Mr. E. J. Carroll, London), by which you acquaint my Company, Sanders, Rehder and Co. Limited, London E.C., that the Governor of Hongkong has reported to Mr. Secretary Bonar Law the resignation of its agent in Hongkong, Mr. Humphrey Cheetham; and that His Excellency, the Governor, is prepared to recognize Messrs. Reiss and Co. if my Company appoint them to be our agents both at Hongkong and Canton to sell the petroleum products of the Texas Company.\n\nMy colleague transmitted this information to me in a cable which I passed on to the Texas Company while recommending to it Messrs. Reiss' appointment, and the Texas Company is willing to fall in with my recommendation, provided:\n\na) that Messrs. Reiss & Co. execute, jointly with my London Company, the Texas Company's regular form of contract.\n\nI have not been able to arrange the term of three years desired by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466936, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Messrs. Reiss & Co.\n\n517\n\nN.B. I should add that my Company has been working under this form of contract for many years to mutual satisfaction, and have many other firms in all parts of the world; the fact of an important agency of this particular kind (the distribution of oil in foreign countries) having at all been granted, being by itself considered (by most people) a guarantee for the continuance of the agency for years provided, of course, that the agents are capable of handling the business. This must be assumed in the case of Messrs. Reiss & Co.\n\nb) that I obtain for the Texas Company a letter from the Secretary of State addressed to it, assuring the Company that political expediency will not, hereafter, cause the Colonial Office and/or the Governor of Hongkong to debar the firm of Reiss & Co. from trading in Hongkong and Canton.\n\nThere are various reasons, the cumulative effect of which caused the Texas Company to stipulate the last named condition, but their recapitulation would, I think, be out of place in this official letter of mine. However, you may care perhaps to hear my own opinion as to this request of the Texas Company.\n\nIt is that I do think that the Company's attitude in view of all the troubles caused to its business in Hongkong and Canton is justified; troubles which, the Texas Company think, should not have arisen, willing as it is to make all reasonable allowance for the circumstances created by the war.\n\nMeanwhile, I have provided Messrs. Reiss & Co. Hongkong with a Power of Attorney, so that they, instead of Mr. Cheetham, can attend to the sale of the remaining portion of the oil ex \"Panama\",", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Copy of a letter addressed by H. Senders, New York \n\n(of Sanders, Rehders & Co. Limited, London) \n\nto a gentleman in London \n\nrelative to the business of \n\n519 \n\nC. O. \n\n6402 \n\nREC \n\nReet 10 FEB 16 \n\nthe Texas Company, Port Arthur (Texas) and New York. \n\nNew York, January 21st, 1916. \n\nDear Sir \n\nAfter pondering last night over the difficult problem of making people see that they are voting against their own interests, the vision of your friendly figure arose in my mind on waking this morning. This, at any rate, is my reason and excuse for writing you, and asking you the bold question: Will you be the kind nurse and stop what appears to be a childish dispute? \n\nA matter which indirectly concerns you even as nursing the interests of your good bank. Robert is a big boy; Sibyl is much younger, though of that age when girls are able to combat the \"might before right\" attitude their big brothers are sometimes assuming. That, at any rate, appears to be the psychology of the misunderstanding which I now venture to explain to you, substituting Reiss for Robert and Sanders for Sibyl. \n\nFacts of the case: after protracted negotiations, my Company's tenure of the agency of the Texas Company was made secure by the appointment of Mr. Humphrey Cheetham as our agent, with the approval of H.E. the Governor of Hongkong (cabled to us direct by H.E.). We then ordered forward a cargo worth more than $50,000. However, when the vessel, carrying it, was a few days off Hongkong, we received a cable from the Governor that his permission given to Cheetham had been cancelled! Thereupon an inquiry, at which the Governor himself was present, was held and resulted in Cheetham's re-admittance; and, in order to provide him with a strong local backing so as to preclude, as we thought, any further unpleasantness to this perfectly loyal Englishman - my Company appointed Reiss & Co. Hongkong to act as his Advisors.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466939, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "520\n\nThe status of the appointment, though made by the London parent house of that firm (who assured us that it was for them in London to make such and similar arrangements), does not however seem to have pleased its Hongkong house; at any rate, instead of doing everything to show that they were nevertheless doing their best to help Cheetham in building up the business trying thereafter to improve their status and remuneration, complaints soon reached us that Hongkong was not even providing him with the necessary clerical assistance to which he was entitled under our contract with them.\n\nHowever, as we ourselves fully realized that it would be preferable, for us and all concerned, to substitute a firm like Reiss for Cheetham, the London house found us quite willing to make this change of status; the only obstacle being that we could not, in common fairness to Cheetham (particularly because of the troubles he had gone through), throw him over, as Reiss at first demanded of us. Not only could we not do this for this reason, but we had to be particularly careful to save the Texaco any further interference with their business, such as Cheetham's discharge from his duties would surely cause, seeing that he had just worked himself into their business; exasperated as our New York friends had moreover become because of all the troubles to them hardly believable which seemed indeed to make their business the football of contending parties in Hong-kong.\n\nHeads of agreement were then arranged, viz: in September last, as follows:\n\n1) the business to be done henceforth in Reiss's name subject of course to the Texaco's approval.\n\n2) Reiss to be paid a commission of 2 1/2%, instead of the 1 1/2% which we are paying them now.\n\n3) the terms of the new agreement with my Company (not with the Texaco) to be three years; and\n\n4) that the commission be, if possible, arranged to be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466940, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "3 -\n\n521\n\nI\n\nchargeable on the selling prices in China, instead of on the New York f.o.b. prices, of the oil.\n\nAs to point 4, it was, and is manifestly in our own interest to arrange with the Texaco this change of charging the commission, and it is also clear that our being unable to arrange this point could not in fairness be considered as invalidating these September understandings.\n\nHowever, in order to at last arrive at a settlement so long desired, not the least by your bank, I proposed to my partner (about a week ago, by cable) to offer Reiss, instead of this change in charging the commission, that we would pay them 3%, instead of the 2 1/2% arranged for.\n\nwhich, moreover, is just\n\nI should mention further that, when we insisted on retaining Cheetham for reasons stated, Reiss insisted that we should pay his salary. As this matter has, however, since settled itself by Cheetham's elimination, what Reiss desired all along surely also this point should be considered as settled; quite particularly in view of this fair and spontaneous proposal of ours to increase Reiss's commission by 1/2%; an increase constituting an absolute loss to us, as against the September terms. (N.B. I assume here that my partner has agreed to this increase).\n\nNow, while awaiting a propitious moment to press Reiss's appointment and during informal discussions with my friends, I was confronted by two serious difficulties, apart from the fact that they were generally very bitter because of all the troubles caused to their agent, Cheetham, and above all because of the discreditable doings of a certain firm of liquidators.\n\nFirstly, they had experienced bitter disappointment in regard to a certain prominent British firm which even went so far as to refuse their valuable agency for North China (which was therefore lost to British interests) because of the Texaco practice and justified wish to make no contracts of long duration; the granting of an agency of this kind being in itself\n\n14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "197\n\n2. at fau:\n\n節\n\n!\n\nB\n\n1.\n\n5\n\n-\n\n523\n\n-\n\nGovernment, nor our Authorities in London, can at any time stop the trading of this firm—a firm they themselves recommend—after I have drawn their particular attention to Relaa's name and origin; have in fact asked for Government assurances on the point.\"\n\nHowever, all of no avail, so I have to write once more to London to procure a letter from the Colonial Office, or another Authority, addressed direct to the Texaco, which contains the desired assurances. I have not omitted to draw their attention to the fact that it was rather a difficult, at any rate a most delicate, matter for any Government to give any such assurances to traders, and I therefore thought that they would not receive an absolutely satisfactory reply—considerate and obliging as our Government Departments were.\n\nHowever, there it is, and you will now be better able to understand the troubles and delays which have arisen and so far stood in the way of this long-desired settlement.\n\nNOW, in spite of all this, another surprise—the resignation of Cheetham—is sprung upon us, and although I, personally, can quite understand that a gentleman of his disposition has thought at last discretion the better part of valor (in spite of a lucrative and desirable appointment, of importance and trust, as the representative of the Texaco), and although I do consider this denouement a kind of Godsend, the Texaco thinks differently, coming as it did at a most inopportune moment. In fact, the Texaco heard about it (again from their own man in China) before I had time to break to them gently this new trouble.\n\nAnd yet, as if my cup of bitterness was not full enough, there is now this fresh trouble of Reiss's attempt at squeezing better terms.\n\nThe Dispute: This new trouble, as just mentioned, is indeed the most unpleasant of all because, going by Mr. Carroll's last cable that:\n\n\"Reiss want direct agency (Texas) three years minimum,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466943, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "524\n\npaying us return ex commission Taxes allowed agreed carry on Panama (cargo), remuneration to be settled direct correspondence Hongkong.\n\nTheir demand, incredible as it seems to me even in face of this cable, is nothing but an attempt to practically eliminate us, the very people to whom they owe their introduction to this Texas business! In fact, they wish to cut us off with a shilling; they do not even tell my partner what return ex their commission, under a supposed contract with the Texaco, they are gracious enough to allow us!\n\nNot only this, but they expect me to put forward a demand of a three years' contract which, as they are well aware, the Texaco has not only refused to others, but is the very demand which lost these others and thereby British interests the valuable Texas Agency for the North of China. I am really despairing of such unreasonableness, to use no harsher and more descriptive word.\n\nNot only are they going right against the spirit of our understanding, in fact upsetting its fundamental basis, but, as to the second part of Carroll's cable, they are furthermore upsetting the clear arrangement as to the disposal of the \"Panama\" cargo.\n\nThis arrangement was that the new rate of commission should not come into force for this, the Panama, cargo. Of course, owing to Cheetham's resignation, greater work will devolve upon Reisse, and, bearing this in view, we at once offered them that we would, of course, have to pay them the equivalent of Mr. Cheetham's salary for the time that the cargo was being sold out; much desired by Reisse as this resignation of Cheetham is, in fact, they have unquestionably, if unconsciously, helped to bring it about. To be precise, we offered three months, which very amply provides for this contingency. Moreover, Cheetham is being paid $500 a month, an amount which Reiss will probably not pay their own men who take Cheetham's place and will do his work.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466944, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "7\n\n525\n\nD\n\nA..\n\n#\n\n1 Bt -\n\n-FEKTE DE\n\nya Joa pha\n\n.... E. j. ....\n\n!\n\nCh..>\n\n: ht\n\nonce for pleaded\n\nIm Haf T\n\nIT\n\nel abátask in tortuagi\n\net voted of aɔtien\n\nbrug garra I\n\nWhy on earth quibble, delay and leave unsettled such a trivial matter by deferring it to \"correspondence with Hongkong,\" after having all along taken the position that they, the London house, could settle for Hongkong such and similar matters.\n\nProposed clauses of agreement: The following clauses embody the changes in our Agreement with Reiss (as cabled to Carroll) arising out of the alteration of terms:\n\nClause 1: Reiss to be the Distributing agents of the Texas Company (instead of Advisora) in Hongkong, Canton and the other places in the territory which is to be defined according to my Company's contract with the Texaco. Commission to be 3, Reiss paying their compradores and every other expense which is not chargeable to the Tex-800, according to previous cargoes (the Panama cargo is not to be the basis, because Cheetham may have charged items which should not have been charged to the Texaco).\n\nClause 2: Reiss to do their utmost in furthering the Texas' and our mutual interest, to extend the sales, and to be debarred from handling directly or indirectly any other petroleum products.\n\nClause 3: the term of the agreement to be for as long as my Company hold the agency. N.B. This surely is better than an unattainable term of three years. In any case, we cannot give more than we have ourselves.\n\nClause 4: Unaltered. This is the clause debarring Reiss from touching this business without our consent - a self-understood clause of course.\n\nClause 5: to be cancelled, as, in view of clause 3, there cannot of course be a notice for either of us.\n\nClauses 6 & 7: unaltered (arbitration clause and interpretation of the Agreement in accordance with the law of England.\n\nPanama cargo: 1% commission, as agreed according to September heads of Agreement between the parties, but plus payment", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466945, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 527, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "re QUE J.. E JA JA femmes ad tat\n\n8 526 21:0 SU JUÍV Canquot ya 49mpaig (by my Company of an amount equivalent to three months Cheetham salary (amply covering the period during which the small remaining cargo on this vessel is being sold).\n\nIf \"hostilities\" continue: The Hongkong people apparently wish to use Cheetham's resignation to force us and the Texas Company into consenting to accept their own terms, believing that this fruit, which they have done so little to deserve, will fall into their lap.\n\nHowever, they quite overlook the little, but effective, point that clause 4 of our present Agreement absolutely stops them at any time hereafter \"whether this agreement is still in force or not\" \"attempt or consent to acquire or to accept for themselves or others the agency or sub-agency of the Texas Company and its business, nor will they cause or assist others to acquire it, nor shall they be in any way interested therein\" without my Company's consent in writing!\n\nDo Reiss (Hongkong) really believe that they will succeed in forging my Company all the circumstances and do they expect to escape heavy and exemplary damages in case they actually broke this clause? The very thought of it is indeed wicked. The only excuse to me for an attitude of this kind is that the war, with its demoralizing effect upon some human minds, has temporarily incapacitated these people of high integrity and reputation to discriminate between what is right and wrong in commercial intercourse.\n\nAt any rate, I for one am absolutely determined to rather lose with Reiss this business (which they dare not continue without us) than give way to such unfair and humiliating demands; and I feel sure that my partner Mr. Carroll will think likewise.\n\nYou will of course understand that what I write in regard to what is possible or not possible of attainment is not mere hypothesis of my own, but that I have gained these convictions (not mere opinions) from my many informal conversations with more than one of the gentlemen of the Texaco whom I meet almost daily. In fact, I have already told one of them unofficially and quite off-handishly, because I cannot bring myself to put forward a demand so...\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "IN A\n\nCopies of Correspondence:\n\nH. Sanders,\n\nNew York\n\n(Senders, Renders & Co., Ltd., London)\n\nand\n\nReiss & Co. Hongkong & London\n\nrelative to the Texas Co.'s business\n\nTo Hongkong:\n\nNew York, January 27, 1916.\n\n\"I confirm our letter of the 17th inst., as in copy enclosed.\n\nSince then, I have received Mr. Cheetham's cable:\n\n\"Douglass cables Reiss power of attorney is on the way through our bank confirm at once otherwise closing agency thirty-first, handing over books keys bank\"\n\nwhich shows me that Hongkong, the colony of strange happenings since the outbreak of the European war, is still in the grip of war-fever - even peaceable Cheetham being now affected. Why the request for a \"confirmation\" of a P/A - purely a matter of form - should be coupled with a threat sent, moreover, at an expenditure of twenty dollars, I, at least, do not understand.\n\nMoreover, you or Mr. Cheetham must previously have addressed Mr. Douglass (the Texaco's man in Shanghai) relative to the same matter! Why this was done I again do not understand at all, you and Mr. Cheetham knowing, of course, that my London Company (or I, its representative actually on the spot) should have been asked for this P/A from the first Texaco or Mr. Douglass.\n\nMr. Douglass' cable to the Texaco reads:- \"have been advised Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation will close warehouse and suspend agency unless Power of Attorney is confirmed.\"\n\nPage 532", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466952, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "-2-\n\n533\n\n15797-LAW 10\n\n2nel Jocupar add ydin TIG? to TOJ tamo na ta of Attorney will be sent before end of January, shall I postpone leave of absence pending settlement\n\nagain the same threat even to others! Thus the Texas Company continuously reminded that all is not well with their Hongkong business.\n\nJust think the impression a cable like this must create upon the people's mind. And, whoever wrote or telegraphed this to Mr. Douglass from your office, has he not thought that he was thus discrediting also the Hongkong Bank with the Texaco? Even if the Bank has quite likely said that it would do this or that if this matter of a P/A was not settled by the 31st, it is still wrong to use this for threatening third parties, at the time you told Mr. Douglass.\n\nI was informed of Mr. Douglass' cable on the 21st instant and executed the required Power the same day, trying to excuse with my friends as best as I could this extraordinary threat. I asked the Bank here the following day to cable Hongkong that a P/A had been executed and that they were posting it immediately. This cable was sent on the 24th, the signature of the attesting attorney having to be legalized by the British Consulate and a Sunday intervened. Thus you see I lost no time.\n\nI telegraphed you on the 26th inst., after receipt of Mr. Cheetham's cable: \"power of attorney now on the way (pecchione) our agent (achinado) - desired Governor Downing Street please address CAFO@ION vid CF bonaeth...\"\n\nI did not refer to the matter of contract in my last letter to you, because this matter is yet in suspense; moreover, the whole negotiations have, from the very first, been in the hands of your parent house and it would only complicate matters, and take a considerable time, were I to write you from this side.\n\nAs to the \"desired by Governor (&) Downing Street\" in my cable, I cannot do better than refer you to the enclosed copies of correspondence...\n\nPage 534", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466953, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "F \n: \nཏམྦt? \n그런 \nLA TARE: \n! I \nallott \n534 \n\npondence (pages 1/4) with the Colonial Office. Incidentally, the \nN.B. on page 1 will show you how I have tried to avoid any further reference by the Texaco to the matter of your status. Indeed, I have, from the very time of my arrival over here, stood up for your firm in every possible way, in order to obtain the permission to appoint you in place of Mr. Cheetham, although, as I had to report to London, the Texaco had recently had unpleasant experiences in regard to another prominent British firm in China.\n\nThis fact, of having recommended you strongly, brings me to a very unpleasant matter, although I mention it with all reserve seeing that the information is conveyed to me in the restricted language of cables; and - frankly I cannot as yet believe that a firm of the standing of Reiss & Co. really intends what these cables appear to convey.\n\nIt is - that, going by Mr. Carroll's cable, you have expressed an intention to only work this business - which we introduced to you if we are eliminated from it! excepting in so far that you would allow us a return ex your commission under a supposed contract with the Texas Company, a contract which you cannot of course enter into without breaking one of the vital clauses of our present Agreement with you and for which breach your London house and you would of course be liable to us for heavy damages.\n\nThis would apply also if, in consequence of these and similar actions against our interests which we entrust to your care, the Texas Company should terminate their contract with us and appoint others.\n\nA similar action would be if you did what was conveyed to me in another cable from London. This is that you intend to give up the agency immediately unless we annul our present contract with you. By this action you would of course jeopardize the whole business which, as I just said, we put confidently into your care - and naturally you cannot demand, nor expect, of anybody to annul any contract just because that suits you.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466954, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 536, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "535\n\nLast but not least you would be doing all this against the very wishes of the Governor and the Secretary of State, who, as you will observe from the enclosure referred to above desire that: \"if you we S.R. & Co. Ltd are prepared to appoint Messrs. Reiss & Co. accordingly (viz: \"to be your agents at both Hong-kong and Canton\") you should come to terms with them as quickly as possible\" these Authorities having of course been placed in possession of all the facts of the case, in order to enable them to arrive at their decision.\n\nYou will not overlook that I came over here with a distinct program, (namely to get the Texaco's consent to your being substituted for Cheetham) under certain definite \"heads\" of agreement, as between your parent house and my Company. This understanding is of course not invalidated because of Mr. Cheetham's resignation, - this gentleman's elimination being even desired by you, was in fact a stipulation of your London people at the time these \"heads\" were drawn up and was withdrawn by them reluctantly only.\n\nIf now this self-elimination of Cheetham is to be used by you as a ground to throw over our whole understanding (upon which I have been working all the time in the mutual interest), it follows that your London house and you are responsible to us if, by your action or its consequences, this valuable agency is lost to my Company. If your London friends wished to withdraw from their obligations under these heads of agreement, they should have said so in time to stop my negotiations in the mutual interests.\n\nWell, let me hope that this stage of our negotiations has been consigned to oblivion before this letter reaches you in China. We are, of course, in active discussion about it with your London friends, who cannot possibly understand even today the true position, which hinges of course not the least upon the state of affairs on this side.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 537, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "536\n\nThe Texas Company's letter to you of the 21st, written after I had arranged your appointment, also shows you that I have taken care of your desire (in Hongkong) not to be our subagents, though it was clearly arranged with your parent house in September that you should be merely substituted for Cheetham, subject to the Texaco's permission. The Texas Company now confirms to you: \"that we (the Texas Company) would look to you as the people on the spot to carry out our (their) instructions, sent you direct from New York, for the mutual benefit of all concerned\"\n\nFrom this it follows that you must, for your own protection, become a party to our contract with the Texaco and, knowing your desire to be in as direct a contact with the people over here as possible, I told them of course that I thought you would be pleased to enter into such a contract. Previous to this, I had told them that you had mentioned to my Company in London your desire for a contract for a minimum of three years, which demand was immediately refused, as I expected. (vide also page 2 of correspondence with the Colonial Office). Hence, the Texas Company writes you in the same letter that, if they had not misunderstood me, it would give them great pleasure to have drawn up a new agency agreement, to which your esteemed firm would be a party jointly with Sanders, Rendars & Co., Ltd.\n\nThey add that, as you were no doubt acquainted with their regular form of contract, a copy of which was in Mr. Cheetham's possession, it would not be necessary to go into details regarding it. This makes it unnecessary also for me to have the long contract copied out; having regard to the fact, moreover, that your London firm, who have of course access to the London original, will see to the signing of this contract, to simplify and expedite matters all round.\n\nThis Contract, as between the Texas Company, yourselves and my London Company, is of course quite distinct from the Agreement as between your parent house and my Company, which has", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466957, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 539, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "538 the last named one, and quite impossible, as it is for me to believe that your firm in London actually intends acting upon Hongkong's advice to you in regard to the subject matter of these letters upon the advice of people who are surely not fully informed about it and about our September arrangements.\n\nOn the other hand there is no time to wait for any explanations of these strange demands of your Hongkong people, and I must act by what is now before me, sincerely trusting that it is all due to a telegraphic misunderstanding as between you and your Hongkong branch.\n\nMr. Carroll telegraphed me on the 18th instant; \"Reiss wants direct agency three years minimum, paying us return ex commission Texas allows. Agreed carry on Panama, remuneration to be settled direct correspondence Hongkong.\" and on the 24th instant; \"Reiss stating Hongkong's advice, announce will only handle balance Panama on Cheetham's departure provided our contract twenty-fifth June annulled, otherwise give up agency immediately.\"\n\nto which I could but reply on the following day: \"Profoundly surprised Reiss threaten seriously damage interests Texas ourselves unless (we) willing accept unparalleled condition (to) scrap existing contract. Because firstly Reiss desired (the) agency (our subagency) according September arrangement, secondly (because of) recommendations Governor Colonial Office according Downing Street fourth January, thirdly because terms (as to selling) Panama settled September and (the) disposal (of) ... (by Reiss) agreed last week, have strongly recommended (and) succeeded last week Reiss's appointment, (have) cabled power attorney desired (by) Bank Hongkong. Hold Reiss responsible (for) compensation inevitable direct indirect injuries (to) Texas business, including probable loss agency, should Hongkong persist extraordinary attitude, (and) ask parent house (to) instruct Hongkong await letters, meanwhile (to) safeguard (and) work diligently interests entrusted to their care).\"\n\nand this telegram I now beg to confirm to you, asking you to consider", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466958, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 540, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "539\n\nI\n\ni\n\nit as addressed to your good selves.\n\nI now add to this telegram that, even if there had never been any \"heads\" of agreement between us, in fact, not even the Agreement of the 25th June last, I would have been as profoundly surprised that a Hongkong firm of your reputation should wish to eliminate from a business the very people who have just introduced it to them.\n\nIn view, however, of these September understandings and \"heads\", which have been the basis of my negotiations with the Texas Company over here - and which understandings you have at no time told my Company you were desirous of withdrawing from - I would indeed be more than surprised if you in London should really wish to act upon Hongkong's advice. I must also recall to your mind that, at the time of our first Agreement, you told us expressly that the arranging of Agencies and matters of that kind was always in your hands, the parent house, and that Hongkong was acting upon your orders.\n\nTrue, since we came to these understandings, Mr. Cheetham has resigned (of course his resignation is voluntary only in appearance, and that is another matter) but surely you, in London, do not wish to suggest that this should make the slightest difference in regard to these understandings. It cannot do so, for the simple reason that you yourselves, in particular your Mr. Tompkinson, were desirous all along to get rid of Mr. Cheetham - in fact, as I wrote to Hongkong, it was a stipulation of yours from which you withdrew only reluctantly. So here again, even if no agreement whatever existed between us, surely you (on the advice of your Hongkong people) are not going to use this self-desired elimination as a lever to force my Company out of a business it introduced to you!\n\nThe very thought of this, coupling it with the name of Reiss & Co., is repellant to me; and, if you consider further that these telegrams of Mr. Carroll reached me when I had just settled definitely with the Texas Company after speaking up for your Hong Kong firm as much as I could, you will understand still better.\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 541, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "9\n\n540\n\nwhat I have just said.\n\nYou will not only understand this profound indignation of mine but that, should your Hongkong branch actually do anything which would cause us the loss of this valuable business, my Company would of course institute proceedings immediately for the recovery of damages.\n\nTo tell me, as Mr. Carroll's cable does, that Hongkong will give up this agency immediately (whereby not only our interests but those of the Texaco would be most seriously damaged), if we do not see our way to cancel a certain contract, is so preposterous a proposition that I refuse to believe it until further advices, implicit as is my trust in Mr. Carroll's habit of being extremely careful when passing on to me or others what is before him.\n\nThe matter itself is exceedingly simple, as it stands today.\n\nI have sent a P/A to Hongkong, under which your Hongkong branch will liquidate the small stock ex m/v Fanana and as to this liquidation, surely in spite of Mr. Cheetham's resignation, there cannot be any other, and more obvious, settlement between us but that we pay you (in addition to the agreed commission of 1% for the cargo) an equivalent for the loss of that gentleman's services; and Mr. Carroll has no doubt informed you that we are willing to pay your Hongkong branch an equivalent of three months' salary of Cheetham. This is at $500 a month which you are probably not paying to the gentleman whom you have all along wished to substitute for Mr. Cheetham, therefore as Mr. Carroll cables this extremely simple matter should be referred for settlement by \"direct correspondence Hongkong\", I for one quite fail to understand, and I am sure that you in London will not, or reconsideration, back Hongkong's unreasonable demand. Perhaps Hongkong is not aware, or has quite forgotten, that there are these September understandings between us?\n\nContract as between the Texas Company, yourselves and ourselves: will note what I have written yesterday to Hongkong in regard to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "10\n\n-\n\n541\n\nthis matter, and Mr. Carroll will let you have a copy of our present\n\nagreement with the Texas Company. All that is necessary to insert\n\ninto this contract, in order to fit in with your appointment, are\n\n8 words (which I shall have written in red) in the introductory\n\nparagraph of our present contract with the Texaco, this paragraph\n\nreading:\n\n\"THIS AGREEMENT made this nineteenth day of\n\nFebruary nineteen hundred and fifteen, between The Texas Company,\n\nof New York and Houston (Texas) U.S.A., hereinafter called the \"Prin-\n\ncipals\" of the ONE PART, and Messrs. Reiss and Co. Hongkong (& Can-\n\nton) and Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd. of London (& elsewhere) here-\n\ninafter called the \"Agents\" of the OTHER PART, in substitution of\n\nan Agreement between the principals and Messrs. Sanders, Rehders &\n\nCo., Ltd., dated the nineteenth day of February 1915.\n\nN.B. This is the exact wording of the contract with the previous\n\nHongkong agents (R.B. & Co.)\n\nAt any rate, if you desire to be in a more direct contrac-\n\ntual relationship with the Texas Company, you must sign this, their\n\nregular form of contract, which they have in use for all and every-\n\none of their many oversea agencies. If not, we must leave matters\n\nas they were clearly laid down in our September understandings, ac-\n\ncording to which you were to become our Subagents. In my opinion\n\nyou will do better in signing this Agreement. Of course this agree-\n\nment can be worded in a dozen different ways; however to alter this\n\nold established form in any way is impossible also quite unneces-\n\nsary going by our practical knowledge and experience for years with\n\nthese people, who are very conservative and on whom one can abso-\n\nlutely rely to receive even without any contract fair treatment\n\nagainst fair services.\n\nContract as between your Firm and my Company: The position here is\n\nalso quite simple, if not complicated by unreasonable demands such\n\nas have emanated from Hongkong.\n\n-\n\n-\n\n-\n\nFirst of all there is Cheetham's elimination\n\n-\n\nas desired\n\nby you and therefore touching you only in so far that you have to\n\npay your own man to do O's work. In view of this, Mr. Carroll has\n\n...\n\n¦", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "F\n\n11\n\n-\n\n542\n\noffered you that we would increase the commission, arranged under No. 2 of our \"heads\", from 2 1/2% to 3%, which amply compensates you for this item and you have the satisfaction of Cheetham's elimination for nothing!\n\n—\n\nYou agreed on all the other points, excepting as to our demand that you should pay Mr. Cheetham's salary. On the last October you wrote: \"We may say we are quite in agreement as to the points enumerated, with the exception of the salary payable to Mr. Humphrey Cheetham\".\n\nAs to the point of having the commission calculated on the Belling price, you asked me, in that letter, to make a special point of it in my negotiations with the Texaco. This request you could hardly put into safer hands than in mine, seeing that my Company was concerned, as much as you, in obtaining this concession from the Texaco; and, naturally, I have done my best but failed, particularly, however, because of the Texaco's justified dissatisfaction in general with the management of their affairs in Hongkong arising from the interference with their business by all and sundry in that Colony. Therefore we must leave this point for a later, more propitious occasion. Of course, I shall be only too glad to raise this point with them once more before I tell them that you were agreeable to sign their contract. That is all I can do and that settles this point (head 4).\n\nAs to No. 3 of our \"heads\", we in London are, as before, quite willing to make the term of any arrangement between us three years, subject of course (as was naturally always understood) that the Texaco does not withdraw the agency, which they would only do however in case your people did not satisfy them. Moreover, instead of this term of three years as our subagents, you are now in a far better position as the direct representative, with us, of the Texaco as under the proposed Texas contract. That disposes of this point also. As in the case of Cheetham, your position has, in fact, been improved.\n\nMoreover, I have proposed to Mr. Carroll, by last mail,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466962, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 544, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "F : 13 clause of course.\n\nClause 5: 543 there 1 to be cancelled, as, in view of clause 3, cannot of course be a notice for either of us.\n\nClauses 6 & 7: Unaltered (arbitration clause and interpretation of the Agreement in accordance with the law of England).\n\nPanama cargo: 1% commission, as agreed according to September heads of Agreement between the parties, but plus payment by my Company of an amount equivalent to three months Cheethem salary (amply covering the period during which the small remaining cargo ex this vessel is being sold).\n\nif Mr. Carroll agrees to which terms would have to be added that we are to pay you one half of any profits arising to us under the following clause of our contract with the Texaco:\n\n\"Any profit which may result after all expenses, handling and distributing charges and commission, as hereinbefore mentioned, have been deducted and the Oil paid for at the invoice value as of date of shipment shall be divided equally between the Principals and the Agents.\"\n\nIt is getting late the mail will soon close and I have only time to add my sincere hope that you, in London, will not act upon Hongkong's advice; for the simple reason that they cannot possibly know what you and I know, and would, I am sure, be horrified if they did know what effect the enforcement of these demands of theirs, as coming from a firm of your reputation, would not only upon our relationship, but upon other people - in particular upon Downing Street.\"\n\nsigned: H. Sanders", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466963, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 545, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "14/7/16.\n\nWhether we should not offer you spontaneously and to assuage any disappointment you might feel at my having so far been unable to move the Texaco in regard to the change of basis on which to charge our commission - share in the profits due to us in case the oil is sold at a profit on its cost, the New York official price.\n\nLast but not least, and apart from any arrangement between us, what fairer division of the commission can you expect than that you have 60% and we 40% of the commission the Texaco allows us! And, of course, Hongkong has other indirect profits arising from the agency; and we must, furthermore, not overlook the fact that, though a fat 1/2% goes into the pockets of their compradores, also this is of indirect benefit to your Hongkong friends. The former distributors compradores were, unless I am very much mistaken, satisfied with 1/4%, seeing that the business is cash and runs into figures.\n\nOur Agreement thus requires the following changes to cover the alterations, viz:\n\nClause 1: Reiss & Co. to be the Distributing Agents of the Texas Company (instead of Advisors) in Hongkong, Canton and the other places in the territory which is to be defined according to my Company's contract with the Texaco.\n\nCommission to be 3%, Reiss paying their compradores and every other expense which is not chargeable to the Texaco, according to previous cargoes (the Panama cargo is not to be the basis, because Cheetham may have charged items which should not have been charged to the Texaco).\n\nClause 2: Reiss to do their utmost in furthering the Texas and our mutual interests, to extend the sales, and to be debarred from handling directly or indirectly any other petroleum products.\n\nClause 3: the term of the agreement to be for as long as my Company hold the agency. (N.B. This surely is better than an unattainable term of three years. In any case, we cannot give more than we have ourselves.)\n\nClause 4: Unaltered. This is the clause debarring Reiss from touching this business without our consent - self understood.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 546, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nSir,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nNew York,\n\nJanuary 22nd, 1916.\n\nI beg to refer to your letter, dated Downing Street the 4th instant, a copy of which was sent to me by my colleague Mr. E.J. Carroll, London, by which you acquaint my company, Sanders, Rehder and Co. Limited, London, that the Governor of Hongkong has reported to Mr. Secretary Bonar Law the resignation of its agent in Hongkong, Mr. Humphrey Cheetham; and that His Excellency, the Governor, is prepared to recognise Messrs. Reiss and Co. if my company appoint them to be our agents both at Hongkong and Canton to sell the petroleum products of the Texas Company.\n\nMy colleague transmitted this information to me in a cable which I passed on to the Texas Company while recommending to it Messrs. Reiss' appointment, and the Texas Company is willing to fall in with my recommendation, provided;\n\na) that Messrs. Reiss & Co. execute, jointly with my London Company, the Texas Company's regular form of contract.\n\nI have not been able to arrange the term of three years desired by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466965, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 547, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Messrs. Reino & Co.\n\n546\n\nthe\n\nI.B. I should add that my company has been working under this form of contract for many years to mutual satisfaction, and so have many other firms in all parts of the world; the fact of an important agency of this particular kind (the distribution of oil in foreign countries) having at all been granted, being by itself considered (by most people) a guarantee for the continuance of the agency for years, provided of course that the agents are capable of handling the business. This must be assumed in the case of Messrs. Reina & Co. by that I obtain for the Texan Company a letter from the Secretary of State addressed to it - assuring the company that political expediency will not, hereafter, cause the Colonial Office and/or the Governor of Hongkong to debar the firm of Reiss & Co. from trading in Hongkong and Canton.\n\nThere are various reasons, the cumulative effect of which caused the Texas Company to stipulate the last named condition, but their recapitulation would, I think, be out of place in this official letter of mine. However, you may care perhaps to hear my own opinion as to this request of the Texas Company.\n\nIt is that I do think that the Company's attitude in view of all the troubles caused to its business in Hongkong and Canton is justified; troubles which, the Texas Company think, should not have arisen, willing as it is to make all reasonable allowance for the circumstances created by the war.\n\nMeanwhile, I have provided Messrs. Reiss & Co. Hongkong with a Power of Attorney, so that they, instead of Mr. Cheetham, can attend to the sale of the remaining portion of the oil ex m/v \"Panama\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 549, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Copy of a letter addressed by H. Sanders, New York \n\n(of Sanders, Rehders & Co. Limited, London)\n\nto a gentleman in London\n\nrelative to the business of\n\nthe Texas Company, Port Arthur (Texas) and New York.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nNew York, January 21st, 1916.\n\nAfter pondering last night over the difficult problem\n\nof waking people see that they are acting against their own interests, the vision of your friendly figure arose in my mind on waking this morning. This, at any rate, is my reason and excuse for writing you, may asking you the bold question; Will you be the kind nurse and stop what appears to be a childish dispute? A matter which indirectly concerns you even - as nursing the interests of your good bank. Robert is a big boy Sibyl is much\n\nyounger, though of that age when girls are able to combat the \"might before right\" attitude their big brothers are sometimes assuming. That, at any rate, appears to be the psychology of the misunderstanding which I now venture to explain to you, substituting Reiss for Robert and Sanders for Sibyl.\n\nParts of the case: After protracted negotiations, my Company's tenure of the agency of the Texas Company was made secure by the appointment of Mr. Humphrey Cheetham as our agent, with the approval of H.E. the Governor of Hongkong (cabled to us direct by H.E.). We then ordered forward a cargo worth more than\n\n£50,000.\n\nHowever, when the vessel, carrying it, was a few days off Hongkong, we received a cable from the Governor that his permission given to Cheetham had been cancelled! Thereupon an inquiry, at which the Governor himself was present, was held and resulted in Cheetham's re-admittance; and, in order to provide him with a strong local backing so as to preclude, as we thought any further unpleasantness to this perfectly loyal Englishman\n\nthe Company appointed Reiss & Co. Hongkong to act as his Advisors,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 550, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "549\n\nThe status of the appointment, though made by the London parent house of that firm (who assured us that it was for them in London to make such and similar arrangements), does not however seem to have pleased its Hongkong house; at any rate, instead of doing everything to show that they were nevertheless doing their best to help Cheetham in building up the business trying thereafter to improve their status and remuneration, complaints soon reached us that Hong Kong was not even providing him with the necessary clerical assistance to which he was entitled under our contract with them.\n\nHowever, as we ourselves fully realized that it would be preferable, for us and all concerned, to substitute a firm like Reiss for Cheetham, the London house found us quite willing to make this change of status; the only obstacle being that we could not, in common fairness to Cheetham (particularly because of the troubles he had gone through), throw him over, as Reiss at first demanded of us. Not only could we not do this for this reason, but we had to be particularly careful to save the Texsoo any further interference with their business, such as Cheetham's discharge from his duties would surely cause, seeing that he had just worked himself into their business; exasperated, as our New York friends had moreover become because of all the troubles – to them hardly believable – which seemed indeed to make their business the foot-ball of contending parties in Hong-kong.\n\nHeads of agreement were then arranged, viz: in September last, as follows:\n\n1) the business to be done henceforth in Reiss's name, subject of course to the Texsoo's approval.\n\n2) Reiss to be paid a commission of 2 1/2%, instead of the 1 1/2% which we are paying them now.\n\n3) the terms of the new agreement with my Company (not with the Texsoo) to be three years; and\n\n4) that the commission be, if possible, arranged to be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466969, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 551, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "... \n\nD \n\n550 \n\n1 reas de rayos naj \n\n3 \n\n#N \n\n2 \n\nT :. \n\n20 259 het \n\nZak dat o \n\nபகன் கு \n\nchargeable on the selling prices in China, instead of on the New York f.o.b. prices, of the oil.\n\nAs to point 4 it was, and is manifestly in our own interest to arrange with the Texaco this change of charging the commission, and it is also clear that our being unable to arrange this point could not in fairness be considered as invalidating these September understandings.\n\nHowever, in order to at last arrive at a settlement so long desired, not the least by your bank, I proposed to my partner (about a week ago, by cable) to offer Reiss, instead of this change in charging the commission, that we would pay them 5, instead of the 2 1/2 % arranged for.\n\nI should mention further that, when we insisted on retaining Cheetham for reasons stated, Reiss insisted that we should pay his salary. As this matter has however since settled itself by Cheetham's elimination - which, moreover, is just what delas desired all along - surely also this point should be considered as settled; quite particularly in view of this fair and spontaneous proposal of ours to increase Reiss's commission by 1/2; an increase constituting an absolute loss to us, as against the September terms. (N.B. I assume here that my partner has agreed to this increase).\n\nNow, while awaiting a propitious moment to press Reiss's appointment and during informal discussions with my friends, I was confronted by two serious difficulties, apart from the fact that they were generally very bitter because of all the troubles caused to their agent, Cheetham, and above all because of the discreditable doings of a certain firm of liquidators.\n\nFirstly, they had experienced bitter disappointment in regard to a certain prominent British firm which even went so far as to refuse their valuable agency for North China (which was therefore lost to British interests) because of the Texaco's practice and justified wish to make no contracts of long duration; the granting of an agency of this kind being in itself", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466971, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 553, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "However, all of no avail, so I have to write once more to London to procure a letter from the Colonial Office, or another Authority, addressed direct to the Texaco, which contains the desired assurances. I have not omitted to draw their attention to the fact that it was rather a difficult, at any rate a most delicate, matter for any Government to give any such assurances to traders, and I therefore thought that they would not receive an absolutely satisfactory reply, considerate and obliging as our Government Departments were.\n\nHowever, there it is, and you will now be better able to understand the troubles and delays which have arisen and so far stood in the way of this long-desired settlement.\n\nNow, in spite of all this, another surprise—the resignation of Cheetham—is sprung upon us, and although I, personally, can quite understand that a gentleman of his disposition has thought discretion the better part of valour (in spite of a lucrative and desirable appointment, of importance and trust, as the representative of the Texaco), and although I do consider this denouement a kind of Godsend, the Texaco thinks differently, coming as it did at a most inopportune moment. In fact, the Texaco heard about it (again from their own man in China) before I had time to break to them gently this new trouble.\n\nAnd yet, as if my cup of bitterness was not full enough, there is now this fresh trouble of Reiss's attempt at squeezing better terms.\n\nThe Dispute: This new trouble, as just mentioned, is indeed the most unpleasant of all because, going by Mr. Carroll's last cable, \"Reiss wants direct agency (Texas) three years minimum,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466972, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 554, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "- 6 -\n\n553 142 paying us return ex commission Texas allows agreed carry on Panama (cargo), remuneration to be settled direct correspondence Hongkong.\" their demand\n\n-\n\nincredible as it seems to me even in face of this cable 18 nothing but an attempt to practically eliminate us, the very people to whom they owe their introduction to this Texas business! In fact, they wish to cut us off with a shilling they do not even tell my partner what return ex their commission, under a supposed contract with the Texaco, they are gracious enough to allow us!\n\n-\n\nthe\n\n-\n\nthe\n\nNot only this, but they expect me to put forward a demand of a three year's contract which, as they are well aware, Texaco has not only refused to others, but is the very demand which lost these others - and thereby British interests valuable Texas Agency for the Far East of China, I am really despairing of such unreasonableness - to use no harsher and more descriptive word.\n\nNot only are they going right against the spirit of our understanding, in fact upsetting its fundamental basis, but, as to the second part of Carroll's cable, they are furthermore upsetting the clear arrangement as to the disposal of the \"Panama\" cargo.\n\nThis arrangement was that the new rate of commission should not come into force for this, the Panama, cargo. Of course, owing to Cheetham's resignation, greater work will devolve upon Reiss, and, bearing this in view, we at once offered them that we would, of course, have to pay them the equivalent of Mr. Cheetham's salary for the time that the cargo was being sold out; much desired by Reiss as this resignation of Cheetham is, in fact, they have unquestionably, if unconsciously, helped to bring it about. To be precise, we offered three months which very amply provides for this contingency. Moreover, Cheetham is being paid $500 a month, an amount which Reiss will probably not pay their own man who takes Cheetham's place and will do his work.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "555\n\nby my Company of an amount equivalent to three months Cheetham salary (amply covering the period during which the small remaining cargo ex this vessel is being sold).\n\nIf \"hostilities\" continue: The Hongkong people apparently wish to use Cheetham's resignation to force us and the Texas Company into consenting to accept their own terms, believing that this fruit, which they have done so little to deserve, will fall into their lap. However, they quite overlook the little, but effective, point that clause 4 of our present agreement absolutely stops them at any time hereafter \"whether this agreement is still in force or not\" \"attempt or consent to acquire or to accept for themselves or others the agency or sub-agency of the Texas Company and its business, nor will they cause or assist others to acquire it, nor shall they be in any way interested therein\" without my Company's consent in writing!\n\nDo Reiss (Hongkong) really believe that they will succeed in forcing my Company - the very thought of it is indeed wicked in all the circumstances and do they expect to escape heavy and exemplary damages in case they actually broke this clause? The only excuse to me for an attitude of this kind is that the war, with its demoralizing effect upon some human minds, has temporarily incapacitated these people of high integrity and reputation to discriminate between what is right and wrong in commercial intercourse.\n\nAt any rate, I for one am absolutely determined to rather lose with Reiss this business (which they dare not continue without us) than give way to such unfair and humiliating demands; and I feel sure that my partner Mr. Jarroll will think likewise.\n\nYou will of course understand that, what I write in regard to what is possible or not possible of attainment, is not mere hypothesis of my own, but that I have gained these convictions (not mere opinions) from my many informal conversations with more than one of the gentlemen of the Texas Company whom I meet almost daily. In fact, I have already told one of them unofficially and quite off-handishly, because I cannot bring myself to put forward a demand so...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466989, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 571, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "2\n\n570\n\n!\n\n1) Messrs. Reiss's wish to defer negotiations for about three weeks from the 8th February and, incidentally, its effect on the finance of a new cargo\n\n- vide page 14, last paragraph,\n\n2) final attempt to arrive at the much desired settlement with Messrs. Reiss vide letter to them, pages 10/10.\n\n3) alternative is no agreement is now reached with Messrs. Reiss; namely H. Sanders proceeding to Hongkong to arrange with others, subject, of course, to H.E. Sir F.H. May's approval second paragraph.\n\n4) cargo in SS. \"Tancred\" and its finance Hongkong bank pages 1, 2 and first part of page 3.\n\nvide page 10,\n\nvide letter to\n\n-\n\n5) fresh difficulties which arose through the black-listing, and subsequent re-instatement, of the Guaranty Trust Company vide my letter to Mr. Tade Gardner (agent New York branch on the Hongkong Bank-pages 18/19.\n\n6) my endeavors to right this new trouble, and my Company's risk in regard to the Guaranty Trust Company's acceptance ($375,320.14) vide page 3, last paragraph, and page 4.\n\n7) my reasons for selecting the Guaranty Trust Company vide page 4, paragraph 2.\n\n8) Mr. Humphrey Cheetham's reasons for resigning an important and lucrative appointment\n\n- vide quotation on page 15.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nH. Sanders\n\nJoint Managing Director, Sanders, Reenders & Co., Ltd.\n\nLondon, E.C.\n\nB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466998, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 580, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "As to the Hongkong people, if I wrote you in my first letter that the problem seemed to be to make people see that they were acting against their own interests, I now find that the problem confronting us is a far more serious one. In fact, there is now no further doubt that the London firm are actually backing Hongkong and have tried to manoeuvre us out of the business.\n\nI have now a letter before me which reads:\n\nLondon, E.C. 24th Jan. 1916. \"Confirming our last of 21st inst., we have now received a reply to our cable to Hongkong of that date.\n\nOur friends will only undertake the handling of the balance of the 'FANALA' cargo on condition that the contract made between us on 26th June last, but which is now suspended by the departure of Mr. Cheetham be withdrawn, and the terms therein be considered null and void.\n\nFailing this arrangement, our Hongkong firm have decided to give up the agency at once.\"\n\nThe letter of the 21st (referred to in the letter just quoted) contained another of Hongkong's threats, cabled even to the Texaco's own representative, Mr. Douglas viz: that your Bank would close the oil godowns. Whatever possessed Mr. Holyoake to use your Bank even for his purposes. Of course, even if one of your Hongkong gentlemen has said this, how can Holyoake telegraph this threat to the Texaco's representative!\n\nBy the latter of the 24th, it is now clearly proved that, finding that they could not eliminate us from the contract with the Texaco by paying us what they call an adequate return, which however they do not state (as they wrote on the 14th ult.), they have been trying to enforce our acquiescence to the scrapping of a contract, so as to leave them a free hand with the Texaco, under the threat to throw...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 584, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "382\n\n1\n\n12 + 583\n\nwhen I gave Hongkong the required P/A, the Texas Company wrote me:\n\n\"Meantime, this Power of Attorney will in no way alter the arrangement between your firm and the Texas Company, as per our Agreement of 1915, or of the responsibility of your firm to the Texas Company under such Agreement, at least until such time, if at all, as Messrs. Reiss & Company and your firm jointly enter into a superseding agreement with the Texas Company.\"\n\nand it goes without saying that the new cargo has not been consigned to your Hongkong House but to my Company, and that my Company is, as just stated, responsible to the Bank the Guaranty Trust Company which accepted my bill of 375,320.14.\n\nConsider further that the difficulties caused to the Texas Company by Shewan, Tomes & Co., by Mr. Cheetham's resignation, by Mr. Douglass' cable that my own Company was going to be declared a German firm and by the same gentleman's cable that the Hongkong Bank would close the Texas Co.'s godowns and suspend the agency (!) have irritated them considerably.\n\nPicture all this to yourself, if it is possible for you in London to do so, and you will get some idea of the extraordinarily difficult and unpleasant position all this has put me into, who has to bear the brunt of it. And, as if my cup of bitterness is not full enough, no sooner had I financed the cargo with this American bank, of which New Yorkers including the Texas Co. are justly proud - a concern with a capital of twenty million and surplus of twenty million - when I was told that it had been put on the British blacklist! The fact that this ban was promptly removed, i.e. within thirty-six hours (by the Foreign Office), makes it not less repellent, nay accentuates the absurdity. I dare say, our Secretaries of State have", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 586, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "is, however, as you are well aware, that we ourselves were rushed by the despicable doings of certain liquidators in Hongkong; whilst as to the debarring clause, this is not only a customary one, but quite particularly in this case a fair and equitable condition for you to have entered upon; which you will admit, I am sure, upon properly considering all the circumstances at the time and now.\n\nI note from your letter of the last inst. to my London Company that you consider our present agreement lapsed, because of Mr. Cheetham's departure, and that your remuneration for handling the balance of the \"Tenama\" cargo must be agreed upon in conjunction with terms for the future.\n\nI am glad to know that you do not any longer wish to leave this matter for direct correspondence as between us and Hong Kong; on the other hand, I cannot indeed and with the best of intentions see why Mr. Cheetham's resignation should make the slightest difference in regard to the settling of the balance of this cargo.\n\nThe cargo arrived whilst our agreement was in force and, even when we discussed an alteration in your status of Advisors, and agreed upon certain \"heads\", your remuneration was to remain 1% for this particular cargo plus 1/2% to your compradore. As to ourselves, we stipulated this for very good and strong reasons, not merely because a larger commission is better for us than a smaller one.\n\nNot only this, but also when I consider the consequence to you of this resignation, I can arrive at no other opinion than that this resignation never desired by Mr. Holyoake should not be a ground for increasing your remuneration, excepting in so far as I offered at once and spontaneously that you should be paid for doing the work which would have fallen upon Mr. Cheetham had he not resigned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 587, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Therefore, please, do not let us argue this point any further.\n\nOf course, it is such a secondary one and only affects the balance of a cargo. If the period of three months stipulated by me when making this spontaneous offer be insufficient, I have no objection to making it for as long as the \"Fania\" cargo has not been sold out; and I have embodied this condition in the Agreement referred to below.\n\nI may add what Mr. Cheetham writes me, by mail just to hand: \"I cabled you (i.e. London) on the 30th December that I was resigning your agency at the end of January, and received your reply of the 6th inst. confirming this.\n\nI am sorry to have had to do this, but Letters in Hong Kong were not altogether to my liking and the outlook generally most unsatisfactory. I regret having to leave you, but hope you will be able to make new arrangements to your satisfaction. I beg to tender you my sincere thanks for the position you so generously gave me in Hongkong and the trust you imposed in me.\n\nI have certainly tried to do my best for you and the Company, but circumstances over which I had no control have been against me from the beginning. I will write you further from Shanghai.\"\n\nN.B. The underlinings are his.\n\nI think I was correct in saying, from the first, that Mr. Cheetham's resignation was not a voluntary one.\n\nFrom your letter of the 8th inst., I note that you decided to defer negotiations for a new Agreement for about three weeks, pending the receipt of advices from Hongkong. All I can say as to this, is that your decision has made it impossible to even only consider the Hongkong Bank's expectation that London accepting should be adhered to, the question of finance having to stand over (as the London Office of the bank cabled), because no settlement with you had been reached.\n\nWhen this information was dispatched from London, viz: on the 22nd inst., the cargo had been financed just a day before.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467058, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 639, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "; L + 16.1... 638 Copy of letters C of Mr. B. Sanders of Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.23246 to REC Kessrs. Reiss & Co, and Mr. P.H. Holyoak, Hong Kong 17 MAY 16, dated New York, 28th April, 1916,\n\nMessrs. Reiss & Co.,\n\nDear Sirs:\n\nre Texas Joint-agency-Agreement\n\nThe present merely serves to hand you copies of my last two letters No. 5 & 6, of the 8th and 14th instant respectively, and to confirm that I cabled to you on the 24th instant, in pursuance of these letters, as follows:\n\n\"at the request of (Texas Company) I have to inform you (imbibais) - on London terms (tangen cy) it is of no use proceeding further, there is no prospect of business resulting (beglerbeg) must have a definite answer, yes or no (actiosus)\n\n1st day of May\n\nJoint agreement your (Tis: this agreement) is (sehnader) three per cent will you take half share (achglases)\n\n(mamudo) will you sign (serpeados) share in.\n\n(dondolone) difoil)\n\nprofit (per- I (we) cannot cancel (oackerels) - four (meaning clause 4)\n\nplease refer to my letter of (rarefier) 13th March (magenpein).\n\nPanama (M/V) 1/2 % (donario) total expenses (of) Cheetham until\n\nm = plus salary (and) incidental expenses\n\nsold the remainder (sesleren),\" \n\nto which cable the Texas Company and I now expect your early reply and ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467063, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 644, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Mr. Fade Gardner\n\nMay 3rd, 1916. 643\n\nThat this acceptance was subject to the London partners' ratification does not of course alter the fact that Mr. Holyoak, the responsible head of the Hongkong firm, moreover a Director of your Bank and in close touch with the Hongkong Government (being a member of its Legislative Council) did accept this agency contract jointly with us; and it is a further fact that Downing Street addressed, on the 4th January last, a letter to my Company, stating:\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to inform you that the Governor of Hongkong reports that Mr. Cheetham has resigned his post.\n\nSir F. H. May states that he is prepared to recognise Messrs. Keiss and Company provided that they are appointed to be your agents at both Hongkong and Canton.\n\nAnd yet, we are now, all at once, confronted by this extraordinary cable.\n\nObscure as all this must appear to you at first sight, it is quite clear in the light of the further fact that, although both the Hongkong and London firms are bound by contract with my Company, entered into only in June last, that they will at no time hereafter (whether this Agreement is still in force or not) attempt or consent to acquire or to accept for themselves and/or others, nor will they cause or assist others to acquire, the agency or sub-agency of the said Texas Company and its business, nor shall they be in any way interested therein without the Company's consent in writing.\n\nThey nevertheless wish (as evidenced once more by this cable) to acquire this agency without my Company's consent. It is here where the breach of contract referred to overleaf would be committed; accentuated moreover by the fact that I have distinctly cabled Hongkong only on the 24th ulto. that the Texas Company will on no account sign any other contract but ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 645, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "AST I \n\nE. \n\n· \n\n1 \n\n- \n\nJAGANTO \n\nཔས་ \n\n! \n\n7 \n\n1 \n\nTV: \n\neden se quenya edi \n\nOM WIN \n\nVET \n\n194. \n\nTum kajaťu di Jogva bu as lite pra teh maluk \n\nMr. Wade Gardner \n\nMay 3rd, 1916. \n\n644 \n\n1 \n\none in terms of their usual form of contract, Jointly with us (as moreover accepted by Mr. Holyoak), and that my Company will not consent to the cancellation of the barring clause just referred to. To enforce this cancellation the London house of Messrs. Keies & Co. did not hesitate to write my Company, on the 24th January last:\n\n\"that our Hongkong friends will only undertake the handling of the balance of the \"Panama\" cargo on condition that the contract made between us on 25th June last, but which is now suspended by the departure of Mr. Cheetham, be withdrawn, and the terms therein be considered null and void.\n\nFailing this arrangement, our Hongkong firm have decided to give up the agency at once.\" \n\nIt is a sad story, as you will observe, and that is why I so far kept it from you, often as I saw you.\n\nOnly a few days ago, on the 28th ulto., I wrote my partner:\n\n\"Well, we shall soon see whether Reiss in London persist and prevail upon us to surrender the business quietly, giving the usual assistance to those other parties in Hongkong and Canton who will be their successors, so that no loss and inconvenience is caused to the Texas Company and us.\n\nThat will be the test and, above all, I hope that the Governor of Hongkong will not put any obstacle into the way of the Texas Company and in ours to let this business be handled by others, should Reiss' refusal force us thereto and should the Texas Company not decide, in face of all this trouble and damage to their business, to open its own offices in Hongkong and Canton.\"\n\nI also wrote to my partner by same mail:\n\n\"Blood and breeding, or the absence of it as the case may be, will out, even after generations. One cannot much blame a Prussian for acting like a Prussian, he does not know better, but one does expect of Englishmen to act like Englishmen.\n\nThat is why Holyoak, immediately he had my letter and became aware of the actual position, swung round; accepting the Joint-agency Agreement in spite of that letter, strongly worded as it was, though only expressive of justified indignation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467077, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 658, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Copy of letters\n\nof Mr. H. Sanders of Sanders, Rehders & Co., Ltd.\n\nto\n\nMessrs. Reise & Co. and Mr. P.H. Holyoak, Hongkong\n\ndated New York, 28th April, 1916,\n\n657\n\nKesere, Reism & Co.,\n\nDear Sirs:\n\nHongkong.\n\nre Texas Joint-Agreement\n\nThe present merely serves to hand you copies of my last two\n\nletters No. 5 & 6, of the 8th and 14th instant respectively, and to\n\nconfirm that I cabled to you on the 24th instant, in pursuance of\n\nthese letters, as follows:\n\n\"At the request of (Texas Company) I have to inform you\n\n(Imbibais) - on London terms (Tangen Oy) it is of no use proceeding\n\nfurther, there is no prospect of business resulting (Beglerbeg)\n\nHave a definite answer, yes or no (Sotiosus)\n\n(Mamido)\n\nLet day of May\n\nYour\n\nthree per cent\n\nprofit (Par-)\n\nWill you sign (Serpeados) joint agreement\n\nshare in. · • (Vis: this agreement) is (Sehnader)\n\n(Dondolone) Will you take half share (Schglases)\n\nDifo11) · I (we) cannot cancel (Dackerels) - four (meaning clause 4)\n\nPlease refer to my letter of (Rarefier) 13th March (Magenpein).\n\n2noona (M/V) - 1 1/2 % (Donario)\n\ntal expenses (of) Cheetham until\n\nplus salary (and) incidental\n\nC\n\nsold the remainder (Aesieren),\" \n\nto which cable the Texas Company and I now expect your early reply and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 663, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "JUAZ\n\nMr. Tada Gardner\n\nMay 3rd, 1916.\n\nThat this acceptance was subject to the London partners' ratification does not of course alter the fact that Mr. Holycroft, the responsible head of the Hongkong firm - moreover a Director of your Bank and in close touch with the Hongkong Government (being a member of its Legislative Council) did accept this agency contract jointly with us; and it is a further fact that Downing Street addressed, on the 4th January last, a letter to my Company, stating:\n\n\"I am directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to inform you that the Governor of Hongkong reports that Mr. Cheetham has resigned his post.\n\nMr. T. H. Hay states that he is prepared to recognise Messrs. Reiss and Company provided that they are appointed to be your agents at both Hongkong and Canton.\"\n\nAnd yet, we are now, all at once, confronted by this extraordinary cable.\n\nObscure as all this must appear to you at first sight, it is quite clear in the light of the further fact that, although both the Hongkong and London firms are bound by contract with my Company, entered into only in June last,\n\n\"that they will at no time hereafter whether this Agreement is still in force or not attempt or consent to acquire or to accept for themselves and/or others, nor will they cause or assist others to acquire, the agency or sub-agency of the said Texas Company and its business, nor shall they be in any way interested therein without the Company's consent in writing.\n\nthey nevertheless wish (as evidenced once more by this cable) to acquire this agency without my Company's consent. It is here where the breach of contract referred to overleaf would be committed; accentuated moreover by the fact that I have distinctly cabled Hongkong only on the 24th ulto. that the Texas Company will on no account sign any other contract but...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467083, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 664, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Mr. Wade Cariner\n\nMay 3rd, 1916.\n\n663\n\none in terms of their usual form of contract, jointly with us (as moreover accepted by Mr. Holyoak), and that my Company will not consent to the cancellation of the barring clause just referred to. To enforce this cancellation the London house of Messrs. Keisa & Co. did not hesitate to write my Company, on the 24th January last:\n\n\"that our Hongkong friends will only undertake the handling of the balance of the 'kanama' cargo on condition that the contract made between us on 25th June last, but which is now suspended by the departure of Mr. Cheetham, be withdrawn, and the terms therein be considered null and void.\n\nFailing this arrangement, our Hongkong firm have decided to give up the agency at once.\n\nIt is a sad story, as you will observe, and that is why I have hitherto kept it from you, often as I saw you.\n\nOnly a few days ago, on the 28th ult., I wrote my partner:\n\n\"Well, we shall soon see whether Keisa of London persist and prevail upon us to surrender the business quietly, giving the usual assistance to those other parties in Hongkong and Canton who will be their successors, so that no loss and inconvenience is caused to the Texas Company and us.\n\nThat will be the test and, above all, I hope that the Governor of Hongkong will not put any obstacle in the way of the Texas Company and in ours to let this business be handled by others, should Heiss' refusal force us thereto and should the Texas Company not decide, in face of all this trouble and damage to their business, to open its own offices in Hongkong and Canton.\"\n\nI also wrote to my partner by same mail:\n\n\"Blood and breeding – or the absence of it as the case may be – will out, even after generations. One cannot much blame a Russian for acting like a Russian, he does not know better, but one does expect of Englishmen to act like Englishmen.\n\nThat is why Holyoak, immediately he had my letter and became aware of the actual position, swung round; accepting the Joint-Agency Agreement in spite of that letter, strongly worded as it was, though only expressive of justified indignation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467093, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 674, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH-CABLE SYSTEM\n\nTHE LARGEST TELEGRAPH AND CABLE SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE.\n\n8 DUPLEXED ATLANTIC CABLES\n\nOVER 25,500 OFFICES AND 1,500,000 MILES OF WIRE.\n\n9]\n\nDirect Wires from Cable Stations to all the principal commercial centres Great Britain, United States and Canada, and Direct connection with Cent America, West Indies, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Fanning, Fiji, and Norfolk Islands.\n\nDIRECT AND EXCLUSIVE CONNECTION WITH MEXICO.\n\nRECEIVING OFFICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM :-\n\nLONDON:\n\n1. Old Broad Street, E.C.\n\n83, Old Broad Street, E.C.\n\n48%, Gresham House, Old Broad St., E.C.\n\nLIVERPOOL: DG, Exchange Buildings\n\nCotton Exchange ....\n\n21, Royal Exchange, S.E.\n\n39, 40, Mark Lane, E.C.\n\nBRISTOL: Canada House, Baldwin Street\n\nBRADFORD: 10, Forster Square\n\nDUNDEE: 1, Panmure Street\n\nEDINBURGH: 50, Frederick Street\n\nGLASGOW: 23, Waterloo Street\n\nLEITH: Exchange Buildings\n\nMANCHESTER: 31, Brown Street\n\nNEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE: 1, Bida...\n\nEast India Avenue, E.C.\n\nThe Baltic, St. Mary Axe, E.C.\n\n34, Throgmorton Street, E.C.\n\n1, Draper's Gardens, E.C.\n\n10, Holborn Viaduct, E.C.\n\nDonington House, Norfolk Street, W.C.\n\n34, 35, Southampton St., Strand, W.C.\n\n9, Charing Cross, S.W.\n\n5, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, S.W.\n\n34, Victoria Street, S.W.\n\n48, Tooley Street, S.E.\n\nWEST HARTLEPOOL: Exchange Buildings, Mainsforth Terrace/Hartle...\n\nWESTERN UNION HOUSE, GREAT WINCHESTER STREET, LONDON, E.C. TELEPHONE No.: 800 LONDON WALL (Private Branch Exchange).\n\nPRINCIPAL CONTINENTAL OFFICES AND AGENCIES:-\n\nAMSTERDAM: 4, Weesperzijde.\n\nANTWERP: 4, Avenue de Keyser.\n\n49, Canal des Récollets.\n\nBARCELONA: 57, Calle Caspe.\n\n96, Paseo de Gracia.\n\nCHRISTIANIA: 4, Prinsensgade.\n\nCOPENHAGEN: Vesterbrogade 19.\n\nHAMBURG: 4, Grosse Allee.\n\nHAVRE: 118, Boulevard Strasbourg.\n\nMADRID: Calle Valenzuela 10.\n\nNAPLES: Via Marina Nuova, 14:18.\n\nPARIS: 1, Rue Auber.\n\n37, Rue Caumartin.\n\nROME: 49/50, Piazza di Spagna.\n\nSTOCKHOLM: Drottninggatan 3.\n\nVIENNA: IV. Stumpergasse, 48.\n\nZURICH: Pelikanstrasse, 22.\n\nThe public are recommended to hand in their Telegrams at the Company's Stations, where free receipts are given for the amounts charged.\n\nTelegrams for this Company's Cables are also received at all Post Office Telegraph Stations; but in order to insure transmission by the Western Union Telegraph-Cable System, the forms upon which Telegrams are written should be marked \"Via Western Union,\" \"Via Anglo\" or \"Via Direct.\" This indication is signalled free of charge.\n\nCable addresses are registered free of charge.\n\nAll important Telegrams should be repeated, for which an additional quarter rate is charged.\n\nS. 22500\n\nToy Sanders\n\nDRAFT.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nSanscord New York\n\nGo. D\n\n75 MAY\n\nD.15\n\nTerenypon 12/5.13/5\n\nMr. Collins 13\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Read\n\nGrind\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nXSir G. Fiddes.\n\n613\n\n15-alone\n\nMr. Steel-Mailland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nInt. Tenne om anees to\n\n$.\n\n8.\n\nwhose position for the petere must be amoured\n\nHK.\n\n673\n\nLa for Sty\n\nSaut.1.10 pm\n\n16 15Thay\n\nsones 11\n\nUnderswood\n\nli 12\n\nLi\n\nthat\n\nfevemens decision former\n\nCheethams resignation\n\nis not\n\nany\n\nNo Sanction\n\narrangement\n\nmishing sou\n\nCompany\n\numben\n\nin conjunction with Control Wada\n\nW local\n\nsame approves firm any\n\nSuch An augment", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467118, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 699, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "By SS \"St. Louis\" \n\n698 South Ferry Building,\n\n26788 1 State Street,\n\nTREC New York, May 24th, 1916.\n\nREG 6 JUN 16\n\nReference No. 6402/1916\n\n(Ref.108/15/16)\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nre the Agency in Hongkong and China of the\n\nTexas Company, Houston & New York.\n\nI have not reported to you on this matter since I had the honor to address you last on the 12th instant (as in the enclosure), and have thus not confirmed your cable received three days later, as\n\nI was expecting from day to day to hear from you the result of the kind inquiries you were making in Hongkong, as you cabled, relative to Messrs. Dodwell's candidature for this agency, and because I felt I must not trouble you in these times with any letters unless absolutely necessary.\n\nHowever, the next mail is not likely to leave until a week hence, so I must not defer any longer this confirmation of your cable, just referred to, which reached me on the 15th instant, reading:\n\n\"Yours 11th 12th. Understood that Governor's decision, formed on Cheetham's resignation, is not to sanction any arrangement involving your Company unless in conjunction with some approved local firm, whose position for the future must be assured stop.\n\nAny such arrangement submitted for approval will be considered stop.\n\nMeanwhile Government cannot intervene between your Company and Reise with whom apparently you have not been able to agree.\n\nAn enquiry as to Dodwell's.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467125, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 706, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\nMay 24th, 1916.\n\n*705\n\nIf however the Bank did mysteriously possess all these particulars of a business belonging to others, how is it that they did not know the vital fact that Messrs. Keiss were absolutely debarred from approaching the Texas Company? I do indeed wonder what Mr. Stabb, the Hongkong manager of the Bank, and Sir Charles Addis, London manager, will think of this accusation by Messrs. Keiss; and my counsel is curious to know what his confreres in London would say to this pretty Hongkong story, as he calls it.\n\nOf course, it was quite within the province of the Bank to send its manager a confidential cable, indicating to him that, as Sanders, Keiss would not be given port and cable facilities in Hongkong for any agency in which they were concerned (surely wrong as this statement is), they did not like to be interested in the finance of this cargo, and that I should be informed to this effect - surely not the Texas Company - so as to enable me to put this finance into other hands. That is all the Bank is concerned with.\n\nNow, as to this statement as to port and cable facilities, it is of course quite evident that H.E. Governor has never made the sweeping statement because it would be in direct contradiction to the following facts:\n\nA) that your Office informed my Company on the 4th January last that H.E. the Governor, after stating that Mr. Cheetham had resigned his post, was prepared to recognize Messrs. Keiss & Co., provided they be appointed my Company's agents both at Hongkong and Canton.\n\nB) that not only did we offer to appoint this firm our agents, but proposed to give them a far stronger hold upon this business, namely to admit them as a party to the Texas Agreement itself.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 707, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\nMay 24th, 1916.\n\nC) that the terms of this last named offer with my Company was accepted by Messrs. Reiss & Co. in Hongkong in a cable to the Texas Company itself, and described in their confirmatory letter to the same Company as \"quite satisfactory.\"\n\nD) that this acceptance by the Hongkong house was in accordance with H.E. the Governor's wishes, as shown in ▲, and that \n\nE) 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!\n\nMoreover, 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 as we over here cannot understand, in view of the circumstances just referred to, how this matter bears upon the present position.\n\nMoreover, you may perhaps recollect that Mr. Humphrey Cheetham did swear an affidavit, carefully worded as it was by our solicitors in Hongkong, Messrs. 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.\n\nOf course, as to Messrs. Reiss & Co. and their own peculiar psychology and ethics, I can perhaps understand that even such an affidavit made by an Englishman does not weigh much with them; and that they did, in spite of this, not protect their own countryman, for", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467153, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 734, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Reference No. 6402/1916\n\n(Ref.108/15/16)\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nSouth Ferry Building,\n\n1 State Street,\n\nNew York, May 24th, 1916.\n\nI am the agency in Hongkong and China of the Texas Company, Houston and New York.\n\nI have not reported to you on this matter since I had the honor to address you last on the 18th instant (as in the enclosure), and have thus not confirmed your cable received three days later, as I was expecting from day to day to hear from you the result of the kind inquiries you were making in Hongkong, as you cabled, relative to Dodwell's candidature for this agency, and because I felt I must not trouble you in these times with any letters unless absolutely necessary.\n\nHowever, the next mail is not likely to leave until a week hence, so I must not defer any longer this confirmation of your cable, just referred to, which reached me on the 21st instant, reading:\n\n\"Yours 11th 12th. Understood that Governor's decision, formed on Cheetham's resignation, is not to sanction any arrangement involving your Company unless in conjunction with some approved local firm, whose position for the future must be assured stop.\n\nAny such arrangement submitted for approval will be considered stop.\n\nMeanwhile Government cannot intervene between your Company and Reis with whom apparently you have not been able to agree.\n\nAm enquiring as to Dodwell's.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 742, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Page 741\n\nC) that the acceptance of this last named offer to act jointly with my Company was accepted by Messrs. Reiss & Co. in Hongkong in a cable to the Texas Company itself, and described in their confirmatory letter to the same Company as \"quite satisfactory.\"\n\nD) that this acceptance by the Hongkong house was in accordance with H.E. the Governor's wishes, as shown in ▲, and that ...it vilan nú sa vyroża zuzigar.\n\nE) 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!\n\nMoreover, 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 as we over here cannot understand, in view of the circumstances just referred to, how this matter bears upon the present position. Moreover, you may perhaps recollect that Mr. Humphrey Cheetham did swear an affidavit, carefully worded as it was by our solicitors in Hongkong, Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Masters, that he would in no circumstances be a party to this business back to those who are now the country's enemies.\n\nOf course, as to Messrs. Reiss & Co. and their own peculiar psychology and ethics, I can perhaps understand that even such an affidavit made by an Englishman does not weigh much with them; and that they did, in spite of this, not protect their own countryman, for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467165, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 746, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Messrs. L.Reiss Bros. & Co.,London\n\nHessrs, Reiss & Co.,Hongkong\n\nupon this business) as \"very generous\"!\n\nJune 6th, 1916.\n\nYour Mr. Holyoak in Hongkong used a very similar term in one of his previous letters to the Texas Company when he confirmed his telegraphic 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 reason you have been careful enough not to put on paper), is merely a pretext to cover your (London's) designs and attempts to cut off my Company\n\na British Company\n\nfrom this business of theirs.\n\nAt any rate, I once more warn you, as I did in my previous letter, that my Company holds you responsible if it should lose this business (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, starting with your refusal to stand by our first arrangement in October last, on the strength of which arrangement I obtained the consent of the Texas Company to appoint you agents, instead of being Mr.Cheetham's advisors.\n\nAlso having particular regard to the fact that it is your veto of your Hongkong partner's acceptance of a Texas contract, jointly with my Company, from which arose all the later trouble, culminating in this supposed 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 appoint...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467171, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 752, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Messrs. L.Reiss Bros.& Co.,London,\n\nMessrs.Reiss & Co., Hongkong.\n\n-\n\n5\n\n+\n\n751 June 1st, 1916.\n\nand I do indeed wonder what Mr. Stabb, the Hongkong manager, and Sir Charles Addis and Mr. Jones, its London managers, will think of this accusation of yours; and my counsel is curious to know what his confreres in London would say to this pretty Hongkong story, as he calls it.\n\nMoreover, there is your second breach, referred to on a previous page and committed in Hongkong on the 19th or 20th May, i.e. after Hongkong had heard from you in London that the Bank had urged upon the Texas Co, your firm's appointment and after Hongkong knew that the Bank had been refused; and yet, this second breach was committed, in the light of which the denial of your first breach seems more strange than ever.\n\n-\n\nNow as to the serious statement: \"Hongkong Government refuses port and cable facilities any agency in which Sanders, Rehders are concerned\", it is of course quite evident that Sir F.H. May has never made this sweeping statement (unless certain representations or rather misrepresentations have been made to him), seeing that it would be in direct contradiction to the following bare facts:\n\n(A) that the Colonial Office informed my Company on the 4th January last, that H.E. the Governor, after stating that Mr. Cheetham had resigned his post, was prepared to recognize Messrs. Reiss & Co., provided they be appointed my Company's agents. N.B. Both you in London and Hongkong are well aware of this; in fact a copy of this very letter is in your hands,\n\n(B) that not only did we offer to appoint you our agents, but we proposed to give you a far stronger hold upon this business, name-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 760, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "825\n\nDOTAL\n\nKT [tag]\n\nToogoo* E*C*\n\n0190 100 oratalysi\n\n·\n\n100 A .aorä mated „I,8тomaž\n\n*ynodano¤..dü ^ salah .etueel d\n\nISTIE ISOJ\n\nMortuud azI8\" SI\n\n10 yquo-molisi favau adt voy one of 897168 Jnesexq ont\n\n2.90 átte contegod) Jent b1d\\J8! and bejak „itam tumi yo Tedjai\n\n: waldus suottav begnadoxe oved I,neat ebat?\n\n•{@TKapione\n\navina arti nuog diłw anuksetdogon suoar) LIOTISV „U.I .TA Malia Tatiu sdt twods\"(dael yn at ħekata vapauBY TO:\n\nsfio falde OJ DIBGBT at bas ¡.03[u d‡GI #d♪ no ynaq\n\n-ODA ZUBLÍ ̧NOG,IM BIOJ wak ,vonsai I G TEN HILMod dateß“ Ind),(yaaquot saxet eft) el plontr\n\n25, som idadð ere arte? \"unot÷703 (TSY\" Besdi\n\nBensi bat di tw tomrtnoo a mort su zaljsalatim noqu Patio Höð% alquos usy toď,81867 zła tunda zot wer YOMBOT MIN. ang po, „hafiċlaup Jon 1l,datás nottrinos a d‡kv malo o supinay to adigs at Ana ;notuetanico mujer ildt grillva 7 ni Terstatuda zuttonsłyną yne tandtwi ya woxt tiotle of aidanu reac\n\n‚¤oldtbnbo abit of bu „JELITA FAN\" gd laen wog daun ɔt wo :RI▼\n\n• 3d Ilta wredd fatit qibrad I hætta tuo alla routegat „STUCK 12 1920s atit Ilwo ot sa blod on woy tud\n\nto wdof lethieupsunot a arty) tieul) toæituce saj mort noktas\n\nMesurs. L.Reiss Bros. & Co..London\n\nMeauro. Reies & Co..Hongkong\n\n759\n\n-\n\n2\n\nJune 6th, 1916.\n\nupon this business) as \"very generous\"!' \n\nYour Mr. Holyoak in Hongkong used a very similar term in one\n\nof 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 sppear over here as if the generous terms, which your Hongkong partner proposes to you, are turned by you in London into the contrary 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 careiul enough not to put on paper), is merely a pre- text to cover your (London's) designs and attempts to out off my Com- pany\n\n- a British Company from this business of theirs.\n\n- not\n\nAt any rate, I once more warn you, as I did in my previous let- teru, 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 Texas Company to appoint you agents, instead of being kr.Cheethum'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 Com- Lany, from which arose all the later trouble, oulminating 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-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 766, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "405\n\nvel onst\n\n...\n\nIt appears that the initial text is heavily garbled and not coherent. Let's reorganize and correct it step by step.\n\nJune 1st, 1916.\n\nMessrs. L. Reiss Bros. & Co., London,\n\nMessrs. Reiss & Co., Hongkong.\n\nand I do indeed wonder what Mr. Stabb, the Hongkong manager, and Sir Charles Addie and Mr. Jones, its London managers, will think of this so-called accusation of yours; and my counsel is curious to know what his confreres in London would say to this pretty Hongkong story, as he calls it.\n\nMoreover, there is your second breach, referred to on a previous page and committed in Hongkong on the 19th or 20th May, i.e., after Hongkong had heard from you in London that the Bank had urged upon the Texas Co. your firm's appointment and after Hongkong knew that the Bank had been refused; and yet, this second breach was committed, in the light of which the denial of your first breach seems more strange than ever.\n\nNow as to the serious statement: \"Hongkong Government refuses port and cable facilities to any agency in which Sanders, Rehders are concerned\", it is of course quite evident that Sir F. H. May has never made this sweeping statement (unless certain representations or rather misrepresentations have been made to him), seeing that it would be in direct contradiction to the following bare facts:\n\n(A) that the Colonial Office informed my Company on the 4th January last, that H.E. the Governor, after stating that Mr. Cheatham had resigned his post, was prepared to recognize Messrs. Reiss & Co., provided they be appointed my Company's agents. N.B. Both you in London and Hongkong are well aware of this; in fact, a copy of this very letter is in your hands.\n\n(B) that not only did we offer to appoint you our agents, but we proposed to give you a far stronger hold upon this business...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 782, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\nZ\n\n3\n\nJune 19th, 1916.\n\nJUDAS\n\nF\n\nY\n\n7.\n\nposed by the London firm have invariably led to disputes between the parties concerned.\n\n781\n\nIt may appear at first sight that, to dwell on these negotiations of cure with Messrs. Keiss, is out of place, even in a report such as this.\n\nI venture, however, to recall to your recollection that, not only are we continuously facing the danger of Messrs. Keiss & Co.'s procrastinations causing the loss of this important business to British interests, but you have specifically stated in your communication to my Company of the 4th January last that, if we were prepared to appoint Messrs. Reiss & Co. our agents, we should come to terms with them as quickly as possible; and, seeing this important aspect of the case, I venture to state, in chronological order, its salient features, showing clearly that my Company, at any rate, is not at fault if we have not complied with your suggestions of a speedy settlement and if this business should, after all, pass into non-British hands.\n\n4th January 1916: You were good enough to inform us that Mr F.A. Hay was prepared to recognize Messrs. Reiss & Co. provided we appointed them our agents at both Hongkong & Canton; and you suggested that, if we were prepared to do so, we should come to terms with them as quickly as possible.\n\nN.B. We had previously, namely in June 1915, made an Agreement with Messrs. Reiss, appointing them Mr Cheetham's advisors, with a view to a closer working-arrangement later on; and naturally this Agreement contained a clause that they were not to do this business without us, as usual in the circumstances.\n\nLater on, namely in October last, it was thus agreed to appoint Messrs. Reiss our agents, subject to the Texas Company's consent.\n\nTo this date,\n\n24th January 1916: After having obtained, a few days previous, the consent of the Texas Co. for an appointment of Messrs. Reiss & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475163, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "LUNACY ACT 1870\n\nA \"J.P.\"\n\n53.Vict. c 5. Sect.335.\n\nor Clergyman\n\nI Alfred Cheetham being a person qualified to act under the Lunacy Act 1870, hereby certify that I know the said Charles Walter Brett and that I believe him or her to be unable by means of mental disability, to manage his or her affairs,\n\nand I further certify that I believe the family of the said Charles Walter Brett to consist of Wife DORIS Gail & Parents\n\nSigned A Cheetham\n\n(Place of abode)\n\n1917.\n\n57 Eastwood Road\n\nSlatesford\n\n158 Scholes\n\nHadley Heath\n\nRad Grodmayes Exp\n\n \nhas been removed as it seems out of context and not part of the main certification text. If it's part of the original document, it might be better represented as part of the original text or as a footnote, but given the context, it appears to be extraneous. The rest of the text has been formatted into paragraphs and corrected for minor OCR errors. The original text's structure and content have been preserved as much as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "Colonial Office\n\nIn the opinion of the Legal adviser to this Dept. it will be quite sufficient if notification of a claim is sent to the Local Clearing Office up to 12 July 1912 (the official date of the Establishment of the Central Clearing Office is 12 January 1920) this making no distinction between the Central & Local Offices.\n\nIf it is considered desirable to encourage claimants to delay lodging their claims but in cases where difficulties of obtaining full details relating to are anticipated, in order that the fact that a claim exists may be made known, it has been the practice at the Central Clearing Office to instruct claimants to lodge a provisional claim which can be fully substantiated later. It is always, however, carefully pointed out that such advice is not \"official\".\n\nMr. E. J. Harding has seen this file and does not think our Chatham arguments altogether convincing. In paras. 11-14 of the AAOC \"Cleaning Office\" must have had in view the local offices, but those paras. & refer to matters affecting both the British & the German Officer & reference committees, local offices relations with the Kommandantur Office, etc., except such questions of relations between the local offices and the Central Office; where involved, the local office might communicate through the Central British office.\n\n25/5/20 After it for some time to consider whether we should send a notice requiring Colonies to notify their claims by 12th July. There would be no particular harm in telling Colonies to notify their claims by 12th July, as it might be desirable to get their claims in, but I should hesitate to say that they have so far done nothing to put the Clearing Office scheme into operation.\n\nLee herewith a minute by Mr. Chetham-Strode, especially referring to the Canadian Claim, 14913 from the Australian Govt.\n\n6/3/20 It is similarly being considered whether the Colonies should be informed that they should notify their claims to the Local Clearing Office. Newfoundland has already done so. The matter is not finally settled as it is possible that domestic legislation may not be required for the establishment of a Local Clearing Office.\n\nPage 108\n\n \nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nXCR(85)72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483758, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "party to a Treaty has no Trouble with a provision in the treaty.\n\nIt is possible that the furmans have a right.\n\nRefuse to investigate & deal with\n\nIf not out Gratis.\n\nC refuse to include the amount thereof in the monthly payments which they are required to make.\n\n& Refuse to admit the Debt or the amount of such claims against German assets.\n\nAs regards the loss - Whink title: Shantung - as they are bound by the Peace of 1919 - See Art 1 (171),\n\nMr...\n\nWst. fuitte. 1/6/20\n\nI discussed this with you, and we agreed that the opinion expressed by Mr. Chetham Strode was very difficult of acceptance for the following reasons:-\n\n1. No argument can be drawn from paragraphs 11-14 of the Annex to Article 296 of the Peace Treaty, because these paragraphs deal with precisely the kind of matters excluded from the jurisdiction of local Clearing Offices under paragraph I of the Annex.\n\nThe fact is that the Annex draws no distinction between the Central Clearing Office and local Clearing Offices, except in so far as communications with the German Clearing Office are concerned. Paragraph I states specifically that local Clearing Offices may perform all the functions of a Central Clearing Office in their respective districts, except as regards transactions with the Clearing Office in the opposing State.\n\n(a) The Treaty allows the Allied Powers one month to notify adoption of the Clearing House scheme (Article 296 (e))\n\n(b) three months from the date of the notification to establish a Clearing Office (Article 296 paragraph I Annex).\n\n(c) six months from the date of establishment of a Clearing Office for the notification by creditors to the Creditor Clearing Office (Article 296, 5 of Annex).\n\nAs regards (a) the first date of notification to the German Government in respect of any part of the British Empire was not made until the latter part of January. In these circumstances, it seems ridiculous that the latest date for (c) should be six months from January 12th, 1920.\n\nThe above remarks apply to the Colonies as well as to the Dominions, but there is this special point applicable to the Dominions, viz. that when the original arrangements were made for the establishment of the United Kingdom Clearing Office, the Dominions were specifically excluded, and it was only settled in April, 1920, that the United Kingdom Clearing Office should act as the Central Clearing Office for the Dominions. If, therefore, the term \"Creditor Clearing Office\" in paragraph 5 means \"Central Clearing Office\" in relation to a Dominion, the period of six months allowed must, at any rate, date from...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "From the time when the United Kingdom Clearing Office became the Creditor Clearing Office for the Dominions. In the circumstances we thought that the best procedure would be for Mr. Bushe to discuss the question with Mr. Austin Cartmell before any action is taken as regards the Dominions.\n\nTelegram :- Enclodots, Londo Telephone :- Hop 5820.\n\nENCLOSURE\n\nG/CR\n\nIn any reply, the following Reference should be quoted :-\n\nIt should be noted that the Treaty does not specify any time within which the Creditor Clearing Office must notify the debtor Clearing Office of all debts declared to it.\n\nPlease do so.\n\n2941/6/20\n\n121/6/20\n\n8.8.26.20\n\nTHE CLEARING OFFICE (ENEMY DEBTS), CORNWALL HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET. LONDON, S.E.1., 28th May ...19...20\n\nDear Dixon,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 26th instant, I attach the opinion of Chetham Strode on the point you raise, and I agree with him that it will be safer to assume that the time runs from the date of the establishment of the Central Office. You will observe that under our Order in Council a penalty is provided for non-notification. The matter would, however, appear to be a domestic one as the notice has to be given to the creditor and not to the debtor Clearing Office.\n\nIt is arguable that non-notification does not necessarily involve exclusion and that the object of the provision was mainly to frighten creditors into using expedition in lodging their claims.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nC.W. Dixon Esq., Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.1.\n\nJ Jur...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484164, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "content_text": "Board of Trade,\n\n1042/21.\n\nDear Dixon,\n\n22\n\nArkwanae Gt. George St.\n\n7.7.21.\n\nWith reference to your letters of the 3rd and 18th of February referring to the Colonial Office official communication of the 17th of September (43352/20), I submitted your letter to the Controller of the Clearing Office and now enclose a copy of a Memorandum by Mr. Chetham Strode with which the Controller of the Clearing Office agrees. I hope that this Memorandum gives all the information you want.\n\nI may mention that our missing papers (6275) were found in the Clearing Office. They were sent to the Public Trustee on the 23rd of September through a clerical oversight. The necessary record was not made in our Registry.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nH.M. Winders.\n\nC.W. Dixon Esq., M.B.E.\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493798, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nPAR. PHR. SE.\n\nI\n\n186\n\nDespatched 1445 11/3/22. Received 1600 11/3/22.\n\nFrom: -\n\nTo:-\n\nG.O.C. Hong Kong,\n\nWar Office.\n\n1135 cipher 11/3.\n\nStrike has been settled and excitement has subsided amongst workmen here and in Canton. Civil enquiry into shooting strikes opened. Restrictions leaving colony removed: naval and military precautions relaxed. There is no immediate cause for anxiety of serious disturbance arising here but in Canton there is a socialist and anti-British faction who will take advantage of any opportunity in the critical internal conditions of China to foment trouble in this colony.\n\nC.4.(Ciphers) Copies to:-\n\nARMY COUNCIL.\n\nD.M.O. D.D.M.O. M.O.3B.4.4A. D.M.I. D.D.M.I. 1.1.18.2.20. D.S.D. D.Q.M.G. Marquis Curzon. F.O.(Mr.Oliphant). Sir.Eyre Crowe. A.D.(D.N.I.). Paris, Fr. Cheetham. Mr. Churchill. C.O.(Mr.Clauson). C.O.(Sir.J.E.Shuckburgh).\n\nSir E. Grigg (for P.M.). C.O.(Col. Meinertzhagen).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557149, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-566-8 Vernon Bartlett- visit to Hong Kong 25-1-1938 - 31-3-1938", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-566-8 Vernon Bartlett- visit to Hong Kong 25-1-1938 - 31-3-1938", "content_text": "9\n\nTELEGRAMS: \"NEWS CHRONICLE, LONDON\",\n\nNORTHERN OFFICES:\n\nDERBY ST, CHEETHAM,\n\nMANCHESTER.\n\nYOUR REFERENCE\n\nOUR REFERENCE\n\nTELEPHONES: CENTRAL 5000 (40 Lines) ALL DEPARTMENTS CONNECTED.\n\nNews & Chronicle\n\n19/22, BOUVERIE STREET,\n\nLONDON, E.C.4.\n\n25th January, 1938.\n\nSir Harry Batterbee, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nDear Sir Harry,\n\nI am off at the end of the week to fly to Hong Kong, partly for journalistic purposes and partly on a rather weird mission to the Chinese government. Apparently the idea is that several members of that government fear a strong anti-European and anti-League movement in China in the fairly near future.\n\nThey would like, therefore, to have a series of people coming out to explain that, although for various reasons the governments cannot do much at the present time to help China, those people who have always supported the League are very anxious to help in any way they can. I am also to advise them about the best methods of getting their case before people in European countries.\n\nI anticipate that I shall spend most of my time in Hong Kong and Hankow, and I wondered whether you would feel justified in putting in a word on my behalf to the British authorities in Hong Kong? If this request causes the slightest trouble, don't worry further about it, but especially at times like this a word or two by somebody at home may make a great difference to one's reception. I am quite all right so far as the Chinese are concerned, since Mr. T.V. Soong, the director of the Chinese National Bank and former Finance Minister, is the leading member of the Committee responsible for my visit, but I don't particularly want to \"go native\".\n\nWith kind regards, I am,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nVernon Bartlett\n\nRECEIVED\n\n57 JAN 1938 C. O.\n\nS.N.1.\n\n2e", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-566-8 Vernon Bartlett- visit to Hong Kong 25-1-1938 - 31-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938", "content_text": "73\n\n24\n\nChildren's Food.\n\nMrs. Selby was of great assistance in finding out the different kinds of milk foods needed by the babies and small children, and with the help of Mrs. Cheetham of Shanghai, a trained dietician, drew up a suitable diet for them.\n\nJewish Hostel.\n\nMrs. Raymond who visited the Jewish Refugees at the Jockey Club Centre on 22nd August decided that it would be better if some were moved to a Centre of their own.\n\nA house was found on Upper Castle Road and the Jewish Hostel was opened. The Ladies Welfare Committee gave Mrs. Raymond money to buy bedding and certain necessities, but after that the Jewish Hostel supported itself on the ordinary billeting grant allowed to Refugees.\n\nTransport.\n\nThe Hong Kong Tramways Co. through Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy very kindly gave free passes on the trams to refugees and one day put a tram at their disposal to take them round the city to see the sights. Messrs. Wallace Harper & Co. were extremely kind in placing a car and a chauffeur at the disposal of the Centre. Many private individuals lent their cars and took parties of children to the beaches, and a car bureau was run by Mrs. Frederick and Mrs. Dyer assisted by Mrs. Tinson.\n\nEntertainment.\n\nThe Petty Officers and Men of H.M.S. Osiris, H.M.S. Orpheus and H.M.S. Proteus were extremely kind in getting up dances and entertainments for the refugees. H.M.S. Rover also organized a dance and most generously raised $252 in aid of the refugees. The Filmo Studio kindly gave short shows for the children every afternoon for a week. The Lady Cake Shop kindly donated 200 small cakes. Mr. Stafford-Smith generously came forward with a gift of 3,000 cigarettes. \"Lizzie\" from Tester's Beauty Parlour kindly spent a Sunday cutting the children's hair.\n\nClosing of Jockey Club Centre.\n\nThe refugees were moved over to the Laichikok Centre on 9th and 10th September and the Jockey Club Centre was closed down.\n\nCentral British School Refugee Centre.\n\nThis Centre was opened on 22nd August for 350 refugees, though the maximum at any one time never exceeded 150. The great majority were British women and children. Mrs. D. M. Richards was asked by Mrs. North to take charge of the Welfare work, with a Matron and a Nursing Sister to assist. Of many other voluntary helpers the following were outstanding:- Mrs. Crozier, Miss Curtin, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Ingram, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Tong. The various activities, linen, stores, meals, diets, help with children, etc., were divided into two shifts, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. The Kowloon residents gave generous assistance in the way of clothing, toys, books, wireless sets, etc., and many picnics were arranged. The catering was supervised by Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Cooper (Domestic Science mistress at the School). Klim was provided daily, also fresh fruit to all children under 15. The Kowloon Boy Scouts and Girl Guides as well as the senior pupils of the School were very helpful, as also were the local members of Toc H.\n\nOn 20th September, as the School was needed by the Education Department this Centre was moved to the premises formerly used as a British School but now vacated, and continued on the same lines until it closed down on 15th January.\n\nLaichikok Refugee Centre.\n\nAs stated above the refugees from the Jockey Club Centre moved to Laichikok on 9th and 10th September. As this was more inaccessible it was decided that the\n\n25\n\nWelfare Bureau should be run by members of the Committee helped by Mrs. Maughan, Mrs. Grigor, Mrs. Prior, Mrs. Calthrop and Mrs. Norman. Mrs. Colter of Shanghai was engaged to be at the Bureau from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (Sundays excepted) at a salary of $50.00 a month and transport. When she returned to Shanghai her place was taken on the same terms by Miss Walker, a refugee from the Central British School Centre. Miss Walker returned to Shanghai on 10th December and it was decided that her place need not be filled as all refugees were shortly expected to return.\n\nA large amount of clothing was received from the foreign community in Foochow, which was greatly appreciated as stocks were running low and colder weather approaching. As time went on this became a pressing problem. Broadcast appeals brought in some warm things but not enough, and scarcely anything for the boys and girls. It was therefore decided to buy what was still necessary. A total sum of $566.78 was spent in providing inexpensive knitting wool, jerseys and cardigans, shorts and skirts and thick overcoats for the journey to Shanghai. Messrs. Whiteway, Laidlaw & Co. supplied these coats at half price, a generous offer for which the Committee was very grateful.\n\nThe maximum number of refugees accommodated at this Centre was 477.\n\nEducation,\n\nWith the long stay of the refugees in the Colony the education of the children became a problem. Mr. Pardoe with the assistance of some Shanghai teachers had opened a school in Kowloon Union Church for Refugee children, and on being approached he agreed to include the children at Laichikok. It was decided that a school under Miss Aliston should be opened in Laichikok for children up to 8 years of age, and that the rest should travel into Kowloon daily. Mr. Pardoe found it was impossible to accommodate all the children in the Union Church Hall and was fortunate in securing from Government the use of the old Kowloon Magistracy, which proved a very suitable building for a school. Part of the bottom floor of Block 6 at Laichikok was turned into a school room. The Committee bought stools and had tables made and got the very simple equipment for which Miss Aliston asked. The school proved most successful, and continued to run till these teachers returned to Shanghai. After a short time the schools were reopened under Mrs. Lambert, who got a staff of teachers together, and the schools continued to run until 17th December when they closed down. Mrs. Mitchell taught the kindergarten at Laichikok.\n\nA physical drill class for boys and girls was most efficiently run by Mr. Powis, who kindly came out every day, and a very enjoyable display was given by his class at the Benefit Dance for the children of the late Mrs. Stuart Xavier.\n\nH.M.S. Parthian very kindly arranged a dance on 9th October to which many of the refugees were asked and the $375 raised was most generously given to the Ladies Welfare Committee to buy rattan tables and chairs to furnish a Recreation Room, and chairs for the dormitories.\n\nA Benefit Dance for the seven children of the late Mrs. Stuart Xavier was held on 10th November. Kay Lee, the Army Contractor who was caterer at Laichikok and Central British School Centres, generously provided the refreshments and the China Fleet Club lent the hall. $497.13 was realized and this was sent to Mr. Haines of Shanghai to be used for the education of the Xavier children.\n\nThe Laichikok Welfare Bureau closed on 23rd December as it was understood that the refugees would be leaving during the Christmas holidays.\n\nRelief Funds.\n\nA list of persons without means at the Jockey Club Centre was obtained from Mr. Carrie on 31st August. Mrs. Dicken, Mrs. Gerrard and Mrs. Wolf assisted by\n\n74", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938", "content_text": "Page 77\n\n28\n\nChairman:\n\nLADIES WELFARE COMMITTEE.\n\nMrs. N. L. Smith\n\nHon. Treasurer: Lady MacGregor\n\nMrs. Lindsell\n\nMrs. Dicken\n\nMrs. Richards\n\nMrs. Gerrard\n\nMrs. Wolf\n\nHon. Secretary: Mrs. Henderson\n\nMrs. North (ex Committee).\n\nMrs. Frederick\n\nMrs. D. Forbes\n\nMrs. Durran Mrs. Branson\n\nMrs. Pittendrigh\n\nMrs. C. C. Black Mrs. Innes\n\nMrs. Compton\n\nMrs. Glover\n\nI\n\n29\n\nMrs. Mackintosh Mrs. Sleap\n\nMiss Pittendrigh\n\nMrs. Greaves\n\nMrs. H. F. Williams\n\nMrs. Cheetham\n\nMrs. Abbott\n\nMrs. Dunbar\n\nMrs. Scott Harston\n\nMrs. Hast\n\nMrs. Hayward\n\nCentral British School.\n\nMrs. Dick\n\nMrs. Easterbrooke\n\nMrs. Woods\n\nMrs. Bolton\n\nMrs. Donald\n\nMrs. Lawrence\n\nHELPERS.\n\nMrs. J. Roger\n\nMrs. Silkstone\n\nJockey Club.\n\nMrs. Silson\n\nMiss Thomas\n\nMrs. Whyte-Smith\n\nMrs. Selby\n\nMrs. Blakey\n\nMiss Ingram\n\nMrs. Stroud\n\nMrs. Shirley\n\nMrs. Maughan\n\nMrs. K. S. Robertson\n\nMrs. Newill\n\nMrs. Nicol\n\nMrs. Prophet\n\nMrs. Lambert\n\nMrs. Hill Miss Felling\n\nMrs. Godby\n\nMiss Curtin\n\nMrs. Clarke\n\nMrs. Cole\n\nMrs. Crozier\n\nCentral British School.\n\nMrs. Cooper\n\nMrs. Ingram\n\nMrs. Tong.\n\nAppendix 9.\n\nMrs. Grigor\n\nLai Chi Kok.\n\n(and Jockey Club)\n\nMrs. Calthrop (\n\nMrs. Maughan\n\nMrs. Prior\n\n(...\n\n--\n\n27\n\nMrs. Hawkins\n\nMrs. Richardson\n\n)\n\nFurther Helpers.\n\nMiss Abbott\n\nMrs. Shields\n\nMiss Bell\n\nMrs. Kelvin-Stark\n\nMrs. Scott (Shanghai)\n\nMrs. Colter (Shanghai)\n\nMiss King\n\nMrs. Thomson\n\nMrs. Pryde\n\nMrs. Raymond\n\nMrs. O'Connor\n\nMrs. Key\n\nMrs. Margrett\n\nMrs. Norman (and Laichikok)\n\nMrs. Stopani Thomson\n\nMisses Hance\n\nMrs. Perdue\n\nMrs. A. White Mrs. Howard\n\nMrs. Elliott\n\nMrs. G. White\n\nMrs. Baskett\n\nGirl Guides\n\nMrs. Mills\n\nMrs. Dyer\n\nMrs. Westlake\n\nMrs. D. J. Valentine\n\nMiss Rutherford\n\nMrs. Tinson\n\nMrs. L. Garner\n\n!\n\nVOLUNTARY HELPERS.\n\nMr. F. C. Barry\n\nDr. G. W. Pope\n\nMr. A. K. Dimond\n\nDr. Lilias Dovey\n\nMr. F. Lee\n\nMr. Mok Yee Lick\n\nMr. Fred Poon\n\nMr. C. J. Triggs\n\nMiss R. C. P. Xavier\n\nMr. B. A. Proulx\n\nMr. F. W. Kendall Mrs. A. K. Taylor Mr. D. M. Richards\n\nMrs. D. M. Richards\n\nMrs. A. Raymond Mrs. D. S. Gubbay\n\nMrs. R. Weill Mrs. H. Joseph\n\nMr. L. B. Holmes\n\nMr. G. E. S. Upsdell\n\nMr. M. G. O'Connor Mr. H. G. Wallington Mr. D. J. S. Crozier\n\nDr. G. R. Nash\n\nDr. P. Ruttonjee Mrs. P. F. S. Court Mrs. D. Cuthbertson Mrs. G. H. Bond Mrs. C. G. Perdue\n\nMrs. D. Black Mrs. L. R. Shore Mrs. Watson Miss D. L. Lopes Miss Heung Miss Kitty Fox\n\nMiss Irene Anderson Miss Phyllis Churn Miss Sham You Lin Dr. J. A. R. Selby Mr. L. A. Collyer Mr. F. Buckle\n\nMr. N. J. Bebbington\n\nPage 78", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]