CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12] — Page 554

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basis with silver as token coinage would necessitate The Cocking

up of

a Gold receive Equal to the silver in

Currency the freater portion

which is at presunt

absorbed by

China

annually and never

returus,

find

and we should

on silver Commap.

depleted

A

Ecscrve

all

increased out of

prosentin to an

-ments, or

liable to

require find merchan

a retum 7

Subsidiary cons fon

China beyond

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Government House.

Expectations apart from

The possibility of

au & tensio

common in China of fandubent comes of Equal Purity with our

tohen Comage.

3. In Mayer caid that They had formed in hudo China The same absorption

by

Chica

of thin

eilun

Coms, and that persmally

he Entirely concurred in

The situation,

my view of

The foretlemen then withdrew.

4.

The adoption o

Gold basis be

Sing

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