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CHINESE, FINANCE.

The American Withdrawal.

4 political combination, and its commercial efficiency had gone. By directly inter- fering in U matter wholly within the competence of the fin Mr.Huntingdon Wilson, Assiet-ancial community, Sir Edward ant-Secretary of Stato in the last Grey has produced an episode as well as the present American the true history of which is cort-

ainly without parallel in the re-

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immediate acceptance, owing to it was designed, its immediate the radical difference of opinion result has been to prevent the free which exista between him and the supply of money to a country which has immediate use for it. new Administration regarding its For it would be ridiculous at this Chinese policy,

stage to dwell on the question of Meanwhile.comments the "Daily the safeguards necessary for the Special Corres security of such money when the Telegraph's pondent at Peking, the Germanis sole question which finally pre- are working as busily as beavers vented the conclusion of the loan to secure all possible concessions last mouth was the nationality of during the embargo place by one of the advisers. The British Sir Edward Grey on British in- merchant in China has had little dustry and finance in China.to thank the Government for in Thus, apart from numbers of the past, and now it seems that, small loans by powerful mar. by persisting in an ill-judged cantile houses ensuring future interference with the natural remunerative buginosa, Messrs course of trade (for, after all, Krupp offer to supply all the arms money is a commodity, just ne and ammunition needed on three much as any article which it yoars credit, thus cutting the purchases), the Government are, ground from under the feet of the likely to jeopardise and cortainly great British armourers, such will not advance, the great interest as Vickers and Armstrongs, who we have in that country. have long been represented here

"The Times" in the course of

but are now officially cold-a leading article remarks:-

shouldered.

It must be confessed that the A wire from Peking to the far problem of loins to Chins grows Eastern Agency anya that pro-

loss simple every month. On the posals have been made to the ne hand, the original reasons Chinese Government by British, signed when loans were sought German, Belginn, and American by the Republic in foreign mar- kots are no longer completely financial groups. An-American group, notably, offers to advance valid. We wore told that money to China $35,000,000 in return was urgently needed for tho for a concession to exploit the disbandment of troops; but that patrol mines. No decision, has was a year ago, and it is now yet been taken on this subject,

tracted between the

fers that most of the troops then-

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A Threatened Strike.. According to the "Pinang Gazette, strike of engineers

ly averted.

suggested in well-informed quar-] The U. S. S. Albany, command employed on the Straits Steam- According to the "Berliner referred to have already beened by Captain Bristol, has ship Co's boats has been narrow- Oar contemporary Tageblatt," it is now definitely disbanded. On the other hand, departed from Shanghai for stated that the special loan con- China's larger needs are steadily Hankow where she will romain says:-It appears that the trouble

Chinessccumulating. Heavy foreign

for an indefinite period. The originated on board the Sappho Government and the banking obligations continue to mature, cruiser Rainbow has come up the at Singapore,, Under the new concern of Empain, Brussels, for and the Government frankly con river to the Albany's old berth ordinance certain ships of a de- the construction of a railway line fessess that it cannot meet them off the Dund and Rear-Admiral fined horse power need only to connect the province of Kangsu The buge loan which has been Nicholson has transferred his flag carry an engine driver instead of of a second engineer. It may with the son coust, amounts to under consideration for so long from the Saratoga, which is

be mentioned that there is a 1.250,000,000, bearing interest at will not suffice now to restore down the river, to the Rainbow.

difference in the pay of the two the rate of 5 per cent. Of this

financial stability. Another great "You ask me what has impress The Sappho is one of the boats ratings of between $90 and $100. amount f.100,000 were to be loan would be required next year, issued in Brussels on March 31 at and the work of finance is rathered me most during my stay in the price of f461.50 for enchalarmed at the prospect. Though America, Paid the Princess released by the terms of the ordin-

-bond of £20.

Bays "The

Times"

The American Girl.

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it will be gathered from our Lowenstein Wortheim, just before ance from carrying a second engi- The latter has generally It is generally felt in Peking survey that Chingen affairs are sailing from New York for her Leer.

Corres- more gloomy than they have been home in London. "My answer been a European, and when he Her was replaced by an engine driver pondent there, that the American for some time past, the vitality of is your American girl. who was not a European, a syndicate was the least essential China's trade still gives hope of energy which she door not seem element in the Consortium, and better conditions. is a reflection able to direct to special purpose protest was raison. The whole of that its disappearance need not of the vitality of the Chinese race, always is seeking some other the engineers in the employ of the affect the continuity of policy of which is proof against greater channel of activity. Even when company are said to have given the other Powers or the existence shocks than it has experienced of resting, she is moving. Your notice that they would cease work. of what henceforward becomes the

rocking chair is an example. The within twenty-four hours unleas quintuple banking group. Pro

American girl is a slave to fanati- the second engineer of the Sappho sident Wilson's statement of the

cism to exaggeration. She be- was reinstated. Subaquently s policy of the new" United States

lieves still in miracles, thinks telegram was received stating Government with regard to

that luck will-or at least should that the company had agreed to Chinese finance is considered pe-

decide everything in her favour, the reinstatement. culiarly unfortunate in view of

which, I suppose, explains the the false hope engendered in the

many slopement marriages and Chinese thit the United States

subsequent divorces, are prepare to give financial assistance without recurity.

Hate.

FAILING STRENGTH.

And How to Restore. It.

Why the physical and nervous strength should diminish in those who lead normal lives is difficult The "Morning Post's" Wish to explain. The fact remains that ington correspondent observes:it does, as is weakens in three President Wilson's purpose in who burn the candle at both ends retiring from the Six-Power loan in husiness or in pleasure.

Whaters the cause of this agreement is to be in the position

in which the United States can lack of strength, which makes render greater service to China the

China Association Dinner at Tientsin.

The annual dinner, given by the Tientsin branch of the China As sociation, in the Gordon Hall on Saturday evening, 12th inst., was

a

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In the course of a letter to have been using Sanatagen for a Kent. the Daily Telegraph" a cor- number of years in my practice, Soy Beans in Darjeeling. respondent signing himself "X" with excellent results. remarks:-

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Whatever may have been the in cases of convalescence after Bihar Government, and Mr. position a year ago, it is clearly severo illnesses, especially those Taylor, the Agricultural Chemist, not the same now. The fatility of an infections nature, and also who contribute an interesting of the present unwieldy con- when it was desirable to build up paper on soy beans found in The Wastrel By Harold Bindloss. Velled Women sortium has been proved by hard the strength, to stimulate the Bengal and Bihar to the Memoirs facts. The arguments which were bodily fanations and improve the of the Department of Agriculture, Come Rack Come Rope! used in support of it, and which circulation of the blood.".

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writer recently discussed this therefore, a man whoso position a foodstuff it is more potent than ifs & Ands By E. Marriott Watson. vory point with one of the leading gives his words peculiar weight. the ordinary pulses consumed by bankers in Peking, who remark He writes: "Banstegen seems the peoples, as a crop for growth White Motley By Max Pemberton. No Other Way By Louis Tracy ad that in 1910 the Quadruple both to nourish me and give me in the plains it has the disadvant

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