The Archive · 1912

The Loan in London

REPORTED REPUDIATION

Washington, Sept. 13.

The State Department learns that the new Chinese Minister of Finance has repudiated the tentative contract with British banking interests for a Joan of £10,000,000, and has reopened negotiations with the six-Power group with every prospect of suc-

Peking, Sept. 14.0 The "Journal de Pekin" in its Wader of to-day says that the London loan is bluff only intended to cause the representatives of the Six Power Syndicate to start the negotiations again, and that only an agreement about a loan by some brokers was signed in London.—" Ostasiatischer Lloyd."

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