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171. 13 TOYO KISEN KAISHA S.S. AMERICA MARU Feb 23th 1911 Dear Colonel At the last hour, China's greatest collector of paintings, Mr. Pong, decided to let me have a few specimens from his group, and to pay for them, I had to cable you, as I did on Sunday last, the request to cable me $ 5.000. Our steamer, the Am Maru, left on Monday the 20th, and I came with her. The remittance had not reached the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank up to the hour of our 207