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Telegrams:-"GRAND."
THE GRAND ORIENTAL HOTEL
Colombo, Ceylon
Feby 15th 1907
GRAND ORIENTAL HOTEL

Dear Colonel Hecker,
I returned from my trip to the "buried cities" of the island last night and was pleased to find your full letter of January 9th awaiting me. 

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It is gratifying indeed, to have such good reports of last years business at the State Bank and I thank you for the particulars. It would also seem to me that the Peoples must be in excellent condition so I am now more than ever, convinced that the United bank is starting with unusually clean assets and with splendid

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