A statement appeared in yesterday's " Sinwénpao" in the form of a telegram from Tientsin to the effect that Yuan Shih-kai had succeeded in getting the payment of the instalments due from the Four Nations syndicate under the agreements made with Dake Tsai Tse and Hoong Honan-huai Now this is a very serious statement and we must, with all respect to our Chinese contemporary, point that it appears to be based on an entire misapprehension.
We are in " position to say that "|n0 money whatever has been paid over by the banks, whether in Shanghai or Peking.
All business connected with the was suspended at the outbreak of jes, and that attitude has been strictly maintained.
Farther with reference to the ramours that have recently arisen of a projected loan to Yuan Shibkai, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce has sent in a strong protest to the Consalar Body here fashion any Iden of sack 4 lon, and this has been forwarded to Peking.
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