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234 for their activity. It isn't Selwyn's Bank which must be watched, but the offices of the new company, it is there that the bulk of the cheques will come in, so Scotland Yard must be on the alert, and either intercept the letters sent to these offices or make certain that the thieves do not get away with the plunder. I think it important that every bank in London should be notified, so that the paper may not be negotiable. For reasons that I cannot go into at the present moment, it is impossible for me to put into an English port and reach London. Send to the Press Association a letter for to-morrow's newspapers disclaiming my connection with the company, saying I advise everyone who has sent a cheque to the Honduras Company to telegraph to the bank on which it is drawn stopping payment. Try to induce the police to arrest Isador Isaacstein on any pretence whatever, and hold him as long as they can. They'll find they'll need him very soon, and, as I said before, I'll stand the racket if a mistake is made. Now ask the London operator to repeat this whole message, and, Mackeller, you go down to Scotland Yard as quickly as you can. Oh, yes, I had forgotten; get that statement of mine out in time for the first edition of all the evening papers. The Central News, the Press Association, or any of those companies, will help you to a simultaneous delivery of the news all over the country."