_Early in November the flotation of a loan by the Pacific Development Ca. became bruited about and it subsequently appeared that the above-named company had signed an agreement with the Chinese Government for a loan of Gold $30,000,000 secured upon the revenue from the Wine and Tobacco Monopoly and of the total arranged for $5,000,000 was to be immediately advanced for the purpose of liquidating the loan of 1916 by the Chicago and Continental Bank; and latest advices tend to show that despite a certain amount of opposition to the loan it was likely to go through.
(To be continued.)
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