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" is maintained". And
according who is to
to the Chartered mercantile Bank
of
India Condon & China "the
"Japanese Consul's letter of which
in main
Strait
you favoured me with a copy "seems strangely illogical throughout
must
"I hurt any deny the statement "therein that all the Banks here
"have poncised their support. The
oufre
u
remarks I made to the "Consult representative In Pitman,
were unfavourable to thes " introduction of the Japanese "Trade Dollar!"
I think, ottaman, it probable, however, that the Japaness found that the your own could not
compete with the
Trade Dollar A
Amerian
4 gr.
s-heavier,
6798
and so
pressed their Wade Dollar
upon us. They withdrew their
2009
*Made Dollar as
as the
Americans withdrew theirs.
and it seems to me that the
Explanation of thiers anxiety to push their coins, botter in the
case of the made dollar and in that of the You, mary be found
alluded to
in the fact t
4 Sir
Harry Parkes (3204 (8)
their mint, erected at an
that
profitabl
exormous cost, is not employed, the year not being current in the interior of Japan where an inconvertible paper currency still prevails.
I should be inclined, to