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BANKS OF CHINA (Continuation

Apparently the restrictions on the banking facilities of those times were too much for the new enterprise coupled with the severe depression which set in just then, and the Bank of China never materialised. Nevertheless those efforts to start another local banking institution and the fact that it failed to develop are of historical interest today.

There is in the Colony at the present time a Bank of China Ltd., a semi-Government Chinese Institution. It was started in Shanghai in 1912 after the establishment of Republic and opened a Hongkong branch in 1920.

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( BANKS OF CHINA (Continuation Apparently the restrictions on the banking facilities of those times were too much for the new enterprise coupled with the severe depression which set in just then, and the Bank of China never materialised. Nevertheless those efforts to start another local banking institution and the fact that it failed to develop are of historical interest today. There is in the Colony at the present time a Bank of China Ltd., a semi-Government Chinese Institution. It was started in Shanghai in 1912 after the establishment of Republic and opened a Hongkong branch in 1920. 36
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( BANKS OF CHINA ( Continuation Apparently the restrictions on the banking facilities of those times were too much for the new enterprise coupled with the severe depression which set in just then, and the Bank of China never materialised. Nevertheless those cf- forts to start another local banking institution am the fact that if gailed to develp are of historical interest topday. There is in the Colony at the present time a Bank of China Ltd., a semi-Government Chinese Instutition. It was started in Shanghai in 1912 after the establishment of Republic and opened a Hongkong branch In. 1920. 36
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BANKS OF CHINA ( Continuation

Apparently the restrictions on the banking facilities of those times were too much for the new enterprise coupled with the severe depression which set in just then, and the Bank of China never materialised. Nevertheless those cf- forts to start another local banking institution am the fact that if gailed to develp are of historical interest topday.

There is in the Colony at the present time a Bank of China Ltd., a semi-Government Chinese Instutition. It was started in Shanghai in 1912 after the establishment of Republic and opened a Hongkong branch In. 1920.

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