ملف ١٩١٧/٣٩٠ الجزء ١ "بلاد فارس: الاجراءات المتخذة بشأن السيد أوتو براندلي، ممثل شركة تصنيع السجاد الشرقي المحدودة في كرمان" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٥] (٢٥٢/٢١٧)

had bought up in November. First they did not agree
that it was my property, and intended to take it over
too, but I fought with them, explaining that this
property, on which the German Consul had already
allowed to put the Swiss flag up, is my own property,
the value of which will go against the unfulfilled
contracts for myself and my staff. They after all
gave in under the condition that this property will
not go back to an English firm.
After taking the big stock and the contracts
for loom advances away, the Germans approached me
several times to offer me to buy'the whole lot back
at a very low price, if I can find the money and start
a business here under my name, as a neutral Swiss.
If I could have got into telegraphic
comrminication with Messrs. The Fritz and La Rue
Company at New York to explain what had happened here
and ask them whether they are willing to back me if I
buy back, .it might have been a good business. But
the international telegraph is Interrupted and to do
such a thing on my own would have been just as much
as to say the whole action had been arranged between
the Germans and myself.
As sorry as I am that Mr. Bruggmann, the Man
ager of the Fetag had the chance to buy the whole
belongings of the O.C.M. Limited, Kerman, at a very
low price and make a nice profitable business out oi
it, I could not help it. My firm here is gone.*
I am now busy taking copies of our books to
take them with me and render account in Europe or New
York, wherever I am asked to do so.