China is resolved to try her hand at another loan, this time of one hundred million tals, Germany is bidding strongly for this loan and offera to negotiate it at 5 the security, it i: security, although that half the amount. Ulterior designs are naturally suspected. The Board of Revenue, although desirous of fixing the loan at the above price, hesitates to appropriate the Land Tax to this object. We hope "the little incident" at the Audience may not have st the minds of the Chinese Ministers against the German proposals. The Russians and French are said also to be in tthe field with a demand for the Salt Revenue as. security. We nood hardly China is not likely to give awa; revenue at present, The Hongkong Bank is also said to be in the field, and, rumour L°8 says that there yn agreement between the Deutsch-Asiatische and our local Bank to divide the loan as before. This is, however, denied.
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