The Archive · 1904

Funds for the War

Tokio, 11th May A second issue of exchequer bonds to the amount of a hundred million yen (£10,000,000 sterling) will possibly be made at the end of the month.

The Cabinet is to confer with the bankers and financiers to-night.

The new. foreign loan is intended to secure the convertible notes, and the whole proceeds wil be kept in London.—Our own correspondent.

London viii Bombay, 11th May.

The Japanese loan of £5,000,000 was fully underwritten in New York 93} and is now quoted at a: premium of three per cent.—Reuter.

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