Latest Scheme for Aiding Provinees: $40,000 Loan for Hunan Peking, Sept. 11.
The China International Famine Relief Commission has decided to grant a loan of $40,000 to the Hunan Committee of the Commission. The is to be loaned out by the 1 Committee to districts most, seriously affected by the floods, about 20 in number, for the pure chase of seed rice, The loans to the guaranteed by th sembly, the Hunan Commerce and the Custodians of the vai The latter are officials elected by' the people as trustees for all public property, such ax the endowments of temples and the old examinati halls. These endowments consist of fields and pawnshops for the most part, which properties thus become for the loans. method of loan and guarantee works out satisfactorily, the scheme will be largely extended. The Hunan Committee has already asked for $200,000 on this basis—
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