CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 370

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failure of his scheme for raising funds by means of a

further internal bond issue to be secured on the Customs

(see "aragraph 14 of my despatch above refßrred to). Fis

brief tenure of office was typical of the spirit in which

Chinese Ministers of Finance now function, bending all

their energies to raising funds by any means for their

military patrons without a thought for the future or the

manner in which the obligations they incur are later on

to be met by their sCCOBBOTE, As stated above the

Ministry of Finance remained vacant unt 11 Chang Thi was

appointed a few days ago. At one time Tang Ko-win, Gover

of the Bank of China, was put forward as the Chihli

candidate for the most, but he withdrew at the last

moment, apparently under pressure from his Bank and Chinese

Banking interests; it is said that Thang Tso-lin announced |

his intention of closing all the branches of the Pank

of China in Manchuria if he accepted office. It is

customary now to expect each candidate for the post of

Minister of Finance to have some scheme up his sleeve for

carrying on the financial affairs of a bankrupt administra-

tion, and it was understood that Tang intended to assume

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