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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER SIST, 1928.
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GOLD FRANC QUESTION. NOTE TO THE POWERS.
PERING. Peeraber. 28th. The Waichiaopu sept a Note to the Ministers of the eight Powers, signatory to "the Protocol of 1001 last owning, at which the following is a summary
media for payment and adopting, specio instead, for it would be scarcely possible to lesermine at what stage of the fluctu- at the exchange rate of a currency should be abandoned in favour of apecio,"
...
-The Note then argues that the different application of the chosen method of pay ment is incompatible with the accepted: bractice of telegraphic transfer, and is also contrary to the intent and purpose of the arrangement of 1913
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The Note recall that no sooner had the first instalment of the fademnity beca paid than a difference of opinion arose The Note acknowledges receipt of the garding the precise mature and extent joint Notes dated February 24th and No of the obligation which Chinatsumed vember 8th, 1923 and explains that, the under Article VI. aut controversy delay in sarwering was due ur the neces was brought about by the unexpected Bity for their comprehensive study and rise in the gold exchange rate, which the importance of the question involved. caused a deficit in the respective sama The two Notes in question expred in gold currencies, though China had the unauimus opinion that there is paid the stipulated amount fp Haikuan no doubt whatever that the Protocol of 1901 as well as the arrangement of ingeChina maintamed that her total obliga- provide in a manner which is absolutely tion was expressly limited to Hongkong clear and indisputable that the indem Faels 450,000,000 with interest at four nity should be paid in gold, namely, for per cent in the boul she a gred nud 3rd Jan 109ach Haikaan teldue to each Power delivered so the Diplomatic Corpe For 2nd half Jan., 15
China ought to payasam in gold, which nearly three years, the Chinese Govern Mid. of Feb.,
is shown in Art VI, as the equivalent declined to either sign fractional BORNEO
bonds in gold or make up the deficit
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Sin the foregoing expression of off. account of payment gaiver. It was ion follows closely the language of the only after, the Powers had subsequently med would have little hesitation in giv of payment, applicable till the debt is TIENTSIN arrangement of 1905, the Chinese Govern agreed definitely to fix the future mode the precise meaning which the signatories sign the fractional boufs statul n the BANGKOK RAILWAYing their concurrence if they felt anre of extinguished." that China consented to attach to the phrase in gold Judg.pective currencies, and în addition to ing by the context of the arrangement of Py Tark 8,000,000 as compensation for 1905, as well as article VI... of the Prost loss in gold exchange in the years 1902. col, on which it is based, the Chinese 100 The result was the arrangement of Coverument are inclined to the view that 10%, and the Powers made their selec tions on that day. .China accepted the the said phrase cannot correctly be con SOUTH MANCHURIA AND ONOSE
Arrangement of 3003, and with it the struced to mean anything but the respec- risks of Buctuation in the exchange rate tive gold currencies of the signatories in monthly and yearly, because the Chinese contrast with the Haikuan tael, which is Government understood that while they HOSHIGAURA-Finest Seaside Summer Holiday Resort in North China. Five miles
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able or unfavourable to Ching as pared with the Protocol rates, they can- not be considered as valid ground for placing a new interpretation of Article from the mode of payment selected. by VI, or proposing a radical departure the signatories in accordance with the aid arrangement."
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The tide of business flowing without interruption Briliant thoro¬ghfare gay wilk brill'ant througe - Eiches- jewelslusaries plenty on every hand Churches - shops
-homes cluba everywhere contentment and peace behind the Barrier of the Law!.
ANOTHER SIDE OF IT
Murder in a bloody pageant outlawry gone aad - theit and thuggery in a crimson carnival-Men attacked and women entraged-Homs invaded-Charches despoiled- Peace and co-tez ment cramble before the a arlet force of Sin!
THIS IF WE HAD NO LAW-NO POLICE
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ent of the tal in gold, not as a certain quantity of gold metal, but in the cur- the basis of their respective gold stand ards Au examination of the available records of the discussion among the sign atories which resulted in the drafting of Article VI.. leads to the same conclusion, If there is any doubt as to what was intended to be the manner of payment it was resolved by the arrangement of July 2nd. 1005, which, while declaring the in- demnity a gold debt, settled definitely ence and for all the precise mode of pay men. It provides for China to make these payments unlculated on the basis set the forth above, which fixes the value Haikaan Protocol Tael in relation to the money of each country, either in silver necording to the price on the London market, or in ga bills or telegraphic PARDON FOR AN FU MEMBERS. transfers at the choice of each Power. Chion may obtain bill or telegraphic
transfers as best suits her interests at
PERING, December 29th.
A Chihling mandate gazetted to-day
Ching-yao.
any place and from any bank at the low-pardons the An Fu members Cho Shen, est price, or by public tender, provided Fang Shu, Liang Chung-chib and Chang! the payments in gold be made to each Power direct on due date. It is under stood that China is responsible for the exact payment of the transfer and bills. Each Power, in accepting the present proposals, must inform the Chinese Gov. ernment which" of the three methods cited above is the one it chooses till the debt is extinguished."
On the same day "(July 2nd, 1905), by separate Notes addressed to the Wai chisepu, the signatories indicated their preference each for itself for one or a11- other of the three stipulated methods of payment. The selections were made as follows: For telegraphic transfers in thur respective currencies, Belgiam, France, Great Britain, Holland, Italy and the United States. Provisionally for payment in silver according to the price of silver on the London "market (but in 1908 definitely selected payment: by draft), Spain: For telegraphic trans- fers in sterling on London, Japan, These selections were proposed and accepted with the express understanding that they were to remain effective "until the debt is extinguished." Ever since the con clusion of the arrangement of 1905 they have been faithfully applied to the res“ pective countries without interruption, and heretofore have given no occasion for: any difference of views in their applica- tion.
In the Note of December 28th. 1922, addressed to the Ministers of Belgium, France, Italy and Spain, to whom the Notes under consideration are intended as a reply, the Chinese Government did not wish either to place a new interpre- tation of the language of Article VI, which was made clear by the arrange- ment of 1905, or to propose any modifica tion of the precise mode of payment It stipulated by the said arrangement, way and remains the Ching Govern- ment's intention to continue to make tha indemnity payments as heretofore, each according to its own selected method and in full enformity with Article VI. as interpreted and amended by the arrange- meat of 1903. "I do not understand that by the two Notes poder reply the Powers desire to propose any radical change in the established mode of pay- ment, They appear, however, to intim- ate that the telegraphic transfer should be so effected that the proceeds do not merely amount to the fixed sums in the respective currencies of the Powers, but alco to be gold specie or the equivalent thereof in value. If this be the view of the signatories, the Chinese Government do not for able to accept it." A
The Note then deals technically with exchange fluctuations, which are con stantly occurring. and go on." If therefore, spreis is drigen out of circula- tion by currency "inflation, as is the, case with francs, the money that can, bo so purchased must be goney ubaninable on the market. Each fluctuations, unfavour. able as they are for the time being, do not appear to constitute a practical ground for abandoning currency as
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