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Naval Attaché's Office

CHINA

Naval Attaché-Comdr. Charles C.

Hartigan, U.S.N.

Language Officers--1st Lieuts. Ed- ward G. Hagen, U.S.M.C., Ronald A. Boone, U.S.M.C., James M. McHugh, U.S.M.C., Charles C. Brown, U.S.M.C. Marine Detachment

Commanding Officer-Colonel James

C. Breckinridge, U.S.M.C. Quartermaster Colonel Walter E.

Noa, U.S.M.C.

Executive Officer-Major William H.

Rupertus, U.S.M.C. Paymaster-Captain Thomas B. Gale,

U.S.M.C.

Commanding 39th Company-Captain

Richard Livingston, U.S.M.C. Post Exchange Officer Captain

Clarence M. Ruffner, U.S.M.C. Commanding 62nd Company-Captain

John W. Beckett, U.S.M.C.

Post Adjutant and Commanding

Cap-

Headquarters Detachment tain John T. Selden, U.S.M.C. Communications Officer-1st Lieut,

William M. Mitchell, U.S.M C. Commanding Mounted Detachment-

2nd Lieut. James P. S. Devereux,

U.S.M.C.

39th Company-2nd Lieut. Richard

P. Ross, jr., U.S.M.C.

Paymaster's Office-Chief Pay Clerk

John W. Lytle, U.S.M.C.

Quartermaster's Office-Chief Q.M. Clerk Eugene B. Mimms, U.S.M.C. Naval Officers Attached

Senior Medical Officer

Captain

Joseph A. Biello (M.C.), U.S.N. Dental Officer-Lieut. Commander

Thomas L. Sampsell (D.C.), U.S.N. Junior Medical Officer-Lieut. Julian

Love (jg) (M.C.), U.S.N.

Officer in Charge, Radio Stations-

Chief Radio Electrician Charles H. Ripley, U.S.N.

CHINESE

MONEY

1 li

10 li

釐 (cash) 釐 make I fên (candareen)

032 of a penny

·32 of a penny

10 fên

10 ch'ien make 1 liang (tael)

分 make 1 ch'ien錢(mace)

Ti

=

3.2 pence

=

2s. 8d.

The Tael may be taken as worth one and a third silver dollar.

The above are weights of silver. They are not represented by any coin except the copper cash, which is supposed to be the equivalent in value of a li of silver, but the value of which differs greatly in different districts and at different times. They have no uniform intrinsic value, being made large and small and of varying composition. Silver is used uncoined in ingots, usually of fifty taels more or less, in weight, called "shoes," the usual shape being not unlike a Chinese shoe. In the maritime district from Canton to Amoy chopped dollars are the general medium of exchange. In 1890 a mint was established for the coinage of silver dollars and subsidiary pieces, and more recently mints for silver and copper coinage have been opened at several centres. The coins, although supposed to be of equal weight and fineness, are differently inscribed. Some of the foreign banks issue tael and dollar notes of the value of one dollar and upwards at the larger of the Treaty Ports.