Hankow, Nov. 4.
Rumour is rife in Chinese circles! that Marshal Wa Pei-fa has succeeded in contracting a $1,000,000} Joan with the Chinese Bankers' As sociation and the Guild of money-exchange shops in Hankow and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Wuchang ati that the contract was signed yesterday. It is also reported in this connexion that the loan, which bears 15 per cent. interest, will be redeemed in 10] months.—Eastern News Agency.
A, protest has been filed by the Japanese Consul-General in Toman with General Chang Chung-chang, Typan of Shantung, on the ground that the latter on the evening of the 2nd instant illegally seized a sum of $ 1,600,000 out of the posit of the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway by intimidating the Chinese actor of the Bureau of Accounts of the Railway without the know. ledge of the Japanese Director of the same Bureau.
Against this unlawful action on the part of General Chang Chung-chang, Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Minister in Peking, also has lodged strong protest with the Central Government, as being absolutely incompatible with the provisions of the Shantung Agreement—Enstera News Agency.
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