$200,000 Vanished From Our Own Correspondent Fakumen, May 10.
For a considerable time the Governor-General of Manchuria has been engaged on the reform of the currency. And no wonder! For the dollar paper notes, issued under his orders, are based, not on a reserve of silver, but on the credit of his government. As long as exports are kept up, the value of the paper notes is comparatively good, in Mexican dollars or Shanghai taels. Before the Manchurian legal paper dollar, however, can be brought up to the value aimed at by Chang Tso-lin, it is necessary to sweep away the competing local currencies all over the country. This is no easy matter even for an autocrat.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.