CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 427

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Tientsin, the Doyen of the Diplomatic Body addressed

to Prince Ch'ing and of His Highness's reply that a

Commission had been appointed to deal with the ques-

tion and report to the Throne. Since that time I

have frequently asked the Ministers of the Wai-wu-Pu

whether the Commission had presented its report and

have been informed that, owing to the divergent

views of its members, no satisfactory scheme for a

uniform currency has yet been decided upon.

While the want of a uniform silver coinage is

a serious obstacle to the foreign and internal trade

of China, the difficulties attending its introduction

although not insuperable, are by no means light.

That a suitable coin in the shape of a silver dollar

can be made in China is evidenced by the fact that

the dollar issued by the Pei-yang Mint at Tientsin

holds its own here with the British dollar and that

both are at a premium as compared with the Mexi can

dollar; but the aim of the Chinese Provincial Mints

is not so much to coin as to make money and this ob-

ject is facilitated by the lax way in which they are

controlled by the Central Government. A dollar

coined