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The Hunan gentry and
merchants also telegraphed that they had no scheme
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for providing vast funds at once.
that as the position of the three provinces was identical
there was no help I then decided on borrowing the
money.
At the same time I telegraphed my views to
the Governor of Hunan to take the opinion of his gentry
and his reply was that after thorough inquiry amongst them they agreed to my proposal.
Exhaustive
inquiry proved that the English consul's offer provided
the lowest rate of interest and the full sum in sterling without discount, only he demanded besides privileges
in Kuangtung, a point which I politely put off.
This caused the negociations to be protracted without
settlement, until on 31st August Liang Ch'eng, Your Minister to America, suddenly telegraphed that the
China Development Company's directors had executed the
draft agreement under which the first instalment of
2,900,806 odd gold dollars was payable on 7th September,
1.0. 9th of 8th moon, at New York, and as the date was
at hand he must ask the combined provinces quickly to
provide that the funds be remitted by telegraph to
America before the 7th September to prevent a catastrophe.
His answer was
I replied asking him to get an extension of 10 days
to enable provision to be made.
that he had consulted Foster as to postponement
suggested who replied that he had in accordance with
my telegraphic statement that we were ready to redeem the concession at figure demanded apprised Morgan that
the