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CHINA

from Japanese sources with a recklessness that scandalised all people interested in this country, especially as the proceeds were dissipated among the selfish Tuchuns and their followers. National assets were pledged with the prodigality of those who give away what is not their's. During 1918 alone over 150,000,000 yen was borrowed. As W. W. Willoughby remarks in his authoritative "Foreign Rights and Interests in China," it is practically impossible to estimate the total obligations, both government and provincial, of China to Japan, but the following table has been compiled from reliable data and is believed to be the nearest to accuracy in existence. It takes the place of the table that was used in the 1921-1922 Directory :

A.-Japanese Loans to Central Government

From Japan :-

1.-Tai-hei Co., Ammunition Bills

Amount estimated from reliable sources in 1919

Yen 302,609.00

1,188,416.75

1,505,250.61

2.-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ammunition Bills 3.-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Nanking Government

Loan

Amount Outstanding (June, 1921)

83,153.03 1,188,416.75

1,505,250.61

4.-Okura Co., Commercial Guarantee Bank Bills... Tls. 1,100,177.40 Yen 2,457,134.78

5.-— Yokohama Specie Bank, Student Abroad, Loan... Yen 100,000.00 6.-

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7.-Sino-Japanese Industrial Co, Hankow Paper

Mill Loan

8.-Japanese Bank Group, Flood Relief Loan 9.-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Printing Bureau Loan 10.-Chosen Bank, Students Abroad Loan

11.-

12.-

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13.-Tai-hei Co., 1st Ammunition Loan

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14.-Tai-hei Co, 2nd Ammunition Loan

15.-Koa Co., Loan

(@Yen 1-$0.80)

100,000.00

100,000.00

100,000.00

2,000,000.00

2,000,000.00

5,000,000.00

5,000,000.00

2,000,000.00

2,000,000.00

150,000.00

150,000.00

150,000.00

150,000.00

200,000.00

200,000.00

§ 13,053,317.50

3,860,000.00

18,716,421.00

12,520,000.00

8,500,000.00,

13,365,126.00

5,000,000.00

1,350,000.00

16.-Japanese Group Bank Loan, 1st Advance

5,000,000.00

17.-

2nd

10,000,000.00

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3rd

10,000,000.00

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19.—Mine and Forest Loan

30,000,000.00

30,000,000,00

300,000.00

Yen 869,291.46

100,000.00

30,000.00

Kaisha)

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200,000.00

20.-Kuhara Co., Advance

21.-Tai-hei Co., Ammunition Treasury Bills

22.-Taiwan Bank Education Loan

23.-Mitubishi Bank Loan

24.-East Asia Commercial Co. Loan (Toa Tsusho

25.-Wu-ling Damage Bills (Takebayashi)

26.-Tai-hei Co., Treasury Bills

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27.-Sino-Japanese Industrial Co., Loan Interest and

Advance

28.- Okura Co., Treasury Bills

29.-Tai-hei Co. Loan, Treasury Bills

30.-Mitsubishi Co., Ammunition Bills....

31.-Japanese Industrial Bank Advance

32.-Yokohama.Specie Bank, Educational Loan

33.-Sino-Japanese Industrial Co., Spinning Mills

Szechuen Taels 26,225.12

Yen 50,000.00

1,200,000.00

1,459,341.60

91,449.37 466,999.90 4,541,640.00 600,000.00

3,000,000 00 3,000,000.00 20,000,000.00

Loan

31.-East Asia Industrial Co. Loan (Toa Kogyo Kaisha) 35.-War Participation Loan

36.-Chosen Bank, Participation Loan Interest........ 37.-Exchange Bank of China, Advance 38.-Exchange Bank of China, Loan

1,600,000.00

3,847,500.00

800,000.00

Approximate Total of Amount Outstanding

$120,258,439.20