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2)In view of the fact that a.up to the present, we have not received your irrevocable L/C, we have missed the steamer of this month. b.there is no direct steamer this month, we will have to ship the goods via Hongkong. c.we have lot of orders to be executed, we are not in a position to advance the shipment of your order. d.we are in urgent need of crude oil, please complete the shipment of 50,000 tons under this contract within this month. 3)We regret to say that a.the absence of your L/C up to now has caused us great inconvenience. b.owing to some delay in the sailing scheduled, we will have to ship the goods at the beginning of next month. c.owing to the problem of supply, we are unable to advance shipment. d.owing to the late arrival of your L/C, we cannot see our way (clear) to deliver the goods under your order No.3335 within the contractual time of shipment. You are requested to extend the validity of L/C No.11236 till the end of September under advice to us. II. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words . Gentlemen: Re: Our Order No.34769 Your sales Confirmation KJ-9543 This is to inform you that we have booked shipping space for the goods under the captioned order on the s.s. “Maria” which is scheduled to arrive at your port on or about the 25th of this month. Please contact our shipping agents, Messrs… for loading arrangement, and send us a short cable confirmation when loading is completed. Yours truly, III. Write a letter with the following hints. Dear sirs, We thank you for your letter of August 5, contents of which have been duly noted. Upon receipt of your previous letter we lost no time in getting in touch with the manufacturers and pressed them for prompt delivery. They failed, however, to let us have a prompt reply with the result that we were not sure about the time of shipment and that is why we could not reply to your said lette