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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1988.
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Hong Kong, Friday, July 1, 1938.
CURRENCY WAR
MAIL FROM the United States brings to light, a somewhat shock- ing exposure by the Department of Agriculture of the primitive condi- tions in the mountainous district of Carolina. It seems that many of the families there spend more money for food and clothing than they do for motoring.
deter- THE Czechoslovaks are mined to defend their sovereignty, with or without help from France. and they promise to put up a hot operate. argument if Hitler decides to co-
OF the most interesting of the several efforts by Japan and Japan's govermental regimes in China to bark back to olden ways fór a firm basis, is the request of Tsingtao officials for old style Chin- ese musicians to be sent down to the Shantung port from Peiping "because," it is explained, "old style important Chinese music is an means of promoting old style Chin- ese morality." Westerners may be reminded of how "music hath soothe the savage charms
Playing tricks with currency breast," and amusedly wonder whe
can work harm
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put down Calculated music one way as has been shown re-ther there l anything in Chinese cently in Hong Kong by the re- fusal of the Japanese banks to patriotic feeling against an aggres- give foreign exchange for gen- uine yen notes on the plea that
THE MAN who can extract olive- yen notes have been smuggled out of Japan by speculators, and oil from cotton seed should be able that they must decline to contri- to gather figs from thistles.
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QUEER ducks, aren't we?
bute to the wages of over-clever speculation. The Japanese would do well to remember, their own
To an admirer who said he was objections to damaging activities when they
hey make their raids on pleased to meet him, the Duke of the Chinese currency in Shang-Wellington replied haughtily, “And hai. If the pen, on occasion. may, so you damned well ought to be!"
Once assured that there were only “You and be mightier than the sword, re-
great painters, cent developments indicate that two the banknote may be economical- Velasquez," Whistler icily inquired, ly as destructive as the bomb. "But why drag in Velasquez?" Nero believed that he was China's new managed currency
in
has been so well buttressed by everything brilliant. His dying popular confidence that it surviv- words were, "What an artist is lost ed intact the first eight months in me! of the devastating aggressive
war on Chinese territory.
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FOR YOUR information it is: The first signs of a crack ap-quite O.K. for you to say "It's hot peared in March, after the Jap-ter than Hell in Hong Kong' if you anese-sponsored Federal Re- feel that way about it. This should serve Bank in Peiping had put be good news to those who like out its issue of rival banknotes. let fly ever so often. "Hell" happen The Japanese design was to to be a place in central Norway utilise banknotes as well as shells where the summers are very cool to break down China's resist and the winters are bitterly cold- ance. The Japanese hoped to de- if you were not already advised of plete China's limited stock of the fact foreign hange by taking the ational currency which had been
In North China in
WITHOUT COMMENT We thought you might like
THE TAI SANG S.S. CO., LTD. exchange for the notes of the to know that:
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to apply to his lady client's hair"
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could be sold to foreign are directing Japanese policy in banks.
fensive price of this de- China. To the military mind
mandenyre was a break anything that strikes a blow at in the value of the Chinese dollar the enemy has a definite appeal. and a certain loss of confidence, As was stated in the Commons which is likely to become still on Wednesday, this destructive more serious if, as is threatened, military finance is likely to proye a second bank is set up under the hardest blow that foreign Japanese auspices in the Shang- business interests in China have hai-Nanking area.
yet received. For the new North It is doubtful whether Japan's China currency is, for the for- own long-term economic inter-eigner, inconvertible, even into ests in China are best served by yen. The foreign importer can- destroying a Chinese monetary not be satisfied with paymen system which was built up at a currency which has no valu In this high cost Financial chaos is a side the country ways easier to create than to with banknotes, as in ne nese trade will suffer with more obviously lethal An scoeptable medium pons, there seems to
neutral
t it is, generals,
ders, who