CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 114

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3 to 60MAD**Bq nĨ

3 to ausdhed" wis mort barlaser

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rigningat

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, no fedd of drous1 2 31AE

(SEM) detrit of s8

ativa ni

Гор

At the same time it must be admittedcthat in certain

respects at least the Chinese Goverment have shown some

appreciation of the disadvantages of irresponsible action

on the part of the provinces.

been

Restrictione have placed on the issue of copper coin

jo

from the provincial ints, the experiment which His Excel-

lency Chang Chih-tung was authorized to make of introducing

a Tael coinage has been stopped, and its failure seems to

have convinced the Central Government that the dollar must

be adopted as the standard coin.'

Apart from the above and the visit of inspection

which His Excellency Ch'ên pi, the Vice President of the

Board of Pinance, lately ande or the provincial Fints,

China has not yet taken any effective measures towards

accomplishing the difficult task she has set herself by

the Second Artiole of the British Treaty of 1902.

I have the honour to be,

With the highest respect,

(nieten alle abismod

sflavonol &

Vein breH

sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant

(rd) J.M. Jordan.