Owing ta the fictitious value given to the Japanese yen, the British Government took steps to prohibit its importation into the Straits Settlements and elsewhere, and to enforce this, confiscated many largo sums which were attempted to be introduced, besides imposing a heavy penalty mn the offenders. The true reason of this '{titude may possibly be found in the fact that, at that time, not two years ago, the British Government in the Straits Settlements saw that it could coin its own local ier currency and make a handsome
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