To Charles B. Boothe
Sept. 4, 1910

Penang
Straits SettlementsDear Sir:
　Your letter of June 25, from New York, only reached me hereyesterday. I was glad to hear that the result of your visiting to theEast is a most satisfactory one. Your former letters to Hawaii werereceived during my sojourn in Japan. I had replied them all, andbesides I had wrote once or twice to either you or the General beforeI left Japan, in regarding to the rumour which you referred.In my former letters I either told you or the General that I wasjust in time, when in Japan, to stop all premature movements inthe Yangtze Valley and South China. The leaders from differentparts of China all agreed with me to wait until our project in Amer-ica succeeded.
　The signatures which I promised to obtain has sent you by reg-istered post from Yokohama. I have no doubt it has reached youlong before now.
　Everything must have been settled by this time. What isthe final result now? Is it succeed or fail, in any case I shouldlike to know the result as soon as possible, so that I may take
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independent measure in the future.
　If you think that our project of raising the funds will be surelysucceeded and final settlement is only a question of time, I shouldlike you would advance me a sum of $50,000 American dollars fromyour own account for the preparatory work. For this will facilitateme to do a great deal of that part of the work, and perhaps ten timesof that money may not done the same amount of work in a fewmonths later. If you would advance this sum, when the project issucceeded you may have twice of it back as interest for the riskyou run.
　There will be no disturbance take place in the Yangtze Valleyand South China up to the coming winter; so you may be sure thatthere is nothing to disturb you in the meantime.I shall be in Penang in the coming two or three months, andwithin that time I cannot come to meet you, even our project suc-ceed, unless the above sum of $50,000, could be sent herebeforehand.
　Our position among the army in Canton has been recoveredsince the last failure, and will be much stronger than before withina very short time. The altitude of all other armies in the Empireare the same and with more eagerness to look for a signal of a gen-eral movement.

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Recently the army in Sin Chiang (East Turkistan) has brokeout into mutiny. This is a part of the previous arrangement of thesummer movement with the Yangtze valley, which I have so ef-fective stopped in conforming to your advice when I was in Japan.This outlying part of China is too far away from our means of com-munication, for we cannot use the government telegraph line andour messengers have not enough time to reach there.With kindest regards.
Very truly yours, ChungsanP.S. The telegraphic code (269) which you gave me at Los Angeles, I found it not very suitable for our use. I think we better use the A.B.C. Code latest edition with modification of our own de- sign. I suggest to add 269 to each figure by sender, and receiver can subtract the same in decipher.
Address: Chungsan
c/o Tek Cheang
197 Beach Street
Penang
Straits Settlements
Cable address: Tekcheang, Penang.
Money order also for Chungsan

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