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Nanking, To-day. Representatives of the Ministries of Finance and Industry held {joint meeting yesterday to consider the mandate for permission to im- A recent report gives ground for port foreign rice into Kwangtung thinking that the situation as re-free of duty.
London, To-day.
gards smuggling in North China is It was decided to postpone the generally improving, the Foreign issue of licences for this purpose Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, told until Mr. T. K. Ching,
the vice-
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He added, however, that he would consider whether there was any fur- ther action that could usefully be taken.
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Mr. A. C. Moreing, Conservative
The P. and O. steamer Cathay Member for Preston, asked whether left Shanghai for Hong Kong the British Ambassador in China Tuesday and is due here at about had furnished a report on the ar-7 a.m. to-morrow (Friday). bitrary reduction of rents on pro- perty owned by British subjects in favour of Chinese tenants.
Mr. Eden said he had informed the sub-committee of the British Chamber of Commerce, with whom he had discussed the matter, that effective action seemed impossible until an instance occurred which could be made the subject of a test case.
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