Among those who were simply annoyed by this on the part were Sir Franc!
Aglen, Mr. Chang Chia-ao and Messrs. Wut Ting-chan and Ho Teh-ling, with their associated bankers who had once lost so heavily by selling +96-million" forward. The Inspector General felt that a breach of confidence on the part of the Bank of China and the chairman of the Bankers' Association had made it possible for all the bond gamblers in China to use his name as an excuse for a season of particularly loose and reckless speculation. Mr. Chang Chia-no and his colleagues in the Bank of Communications and the Ta Lu (Continental) Bank, whom he had consulted about the 99,000,000 advance, were the targets not only for Sir Francis Aglen's accusations of bad faith, but also for the slings and arrows of all the other Chinese bankers, led by Messrs, Wu Ting-chang and Ho Teh-ling, to whom the news of the Inspector General's offer had not permeated before the news of the fatal letter had been broadcast.
Not only Mr. Chang Chia-ao and his colleagues, but Sir Francis Agen also, were accused by those who thought they had reason to consider themselves as outsiders, of collusion and conspiracy. The disgruntled bankers who felt that they had not only lost heavily through previous speculation in the "95-million" through sheer bad luck, but had been' denied an opportunity to recover through a conspiracy to which the Inspector General of Customs, Mr. Chang Chia-ao and his friends were parties, were so injured in spirit that they resigned from the Bankers' Association. Thereupon Mr. Chang Chia-ao also offered his resignation as chairman.
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