The following important communication with reference to the prospective winding up of the above has been received by a local firm, who kindly sent it us for publication "War Loans Investment Trust of Malaya.—In reply to the inquiry in your letter, the Governor has power to wind up the Trust any time after one year from the end of the war. No_ information either publicly or privately of the winding up of the Trust has however yet been given. The difficulty apparently is to decide legally the date of the termination of the war, and though January 10, 1920, has been given out by decree as the end of the war between Great Britain and Germany the lawyers are still undecided if this date is to be taken as applied to the Trust, no belligerents having been specially mentioned. understand, however, that the Trust is not to be kept going much longer than the period after which it is legally possible to close it."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.