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s-ended Sextuple Group have at last the Central Government would be free to AŢUTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the¦renched a sure enough deadlock which | go where it would or could for the money NN.. ORDINARY HALF YEARLY furnishes a test of strength and will exist (necessary to cang on the affairs of the ME TING of the SHAREHOLDERS in jest w long as the Government is able nation. The bankers declared that they this Corporation will be hold we the UITY to carry on with the united internal | could not deviate from their instructions HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 17th day of August, 1912, at Noos, furrerees at hand ful the small loans at control of the sort demanded was the the purpose of receiving the Report of the | high rates of interest which it can obtain: selutely essential. Ou the following way. Court of Directora töröther with a State. from what may be called independent | Haiang Hsi-ling, confirmed his verbal ment of Accounts to 30th June, 1912,
statements of the day befera in writing. That ultimately the Government will be He evidently started out to write à de- zutum to the Sextuple [finite ultimatum but before he finished compelled to Group, than which no stronger financial with bis communication he had put in organisation probably ever axisted, hacked enough to rob the communication of any as it is by the foreign offices of six great | air of finality such as would indicate an nations, few people here seem to doubt. | absolute severance of negotiations, and And that the Governhunt will finally, be thus laid the basis for the belief that, compelled to sccept the terms of super-after all, the bankers and Hsiang will vision and control of finances which the į have other meetings in the near future. Group has outlined, or something very The bankers, tho, eonfirmed their views Isimilar to them, seems to be pructionily (in writing and informed the Goveranent that nothing could be done, ro more ad- vances could be made without the con- trol and supervision demanded. They suggested a slight modification in the matter of the financial agency which hai || BREAKFAST BACON. been proposed, but that was all. Thus came the deadlnek. -
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it to accept the teras of control which
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