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(a).
He would not agree to be their President.
(b).
That they would allow General Lung and his
troops to march back to Yunnan. He would himself pay them all expenses. (This he did, issuing three months' pay in advance to
(1) d each man, and the troops left for Yunnan yesterday). (3).
That the Manchu and Bannermen were to be left
(c).
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in peace, and as they had no livelihood whatever beyond the
small pittance from Govern.ent (which would now cease) they
should be given government land and allowed to settle down as
agriculturists; when they received this lend they would give up
their arms •
These conditions were accepted. He then left
secretly and went to the British Consulate. Had he remained they
would certainly have made him a prisoner. Canton has now
accepted the general plan of the Revolutionary party if it
succeeds in the North. If it does not he does not know what will
happen, pernaps they may revert to the scheme of an independent
Province.
The Governor then asked what were his present. plans. He replied that vis à vis the Imperial Government he was
a culprit, having failed to maintain law and order in his Pro-
-vince. On the other hand he was not acceptable to the Revolutions
-ries as he had declined their offers. He was yet a young man,
and ignorant of many things, he proposed to remain here a week or
ten days and then travel in Europe and study the art of
Administration, and he hoped to be of service to his country in
the future. He asked for letters of introduction in England which
the Governor readily promised to give him.
He then said there was a question he would b
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the like to ask: What view the Governor hold as to prospects of
foreign intervention. In reply the Governor said he had no
hesitation in saying that he felt certain that Great Britain
would exert her influence very strongly against intervention, and
would be strongly opposed to it. The ex-Viceroy said China was
very rateful indeed to fireat Britain for the help she had al-
-ways
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