Emphatic Denial by Ministry of the Navy Reports have been appearing in the Chinese press to the effect that the Peking Government has been negotiating a loan for Gold $5,000,- 000 with the Kiangnan Dock Engineering Works as security. Numerous protests were raised, and in order to obtain definite information on the matter the management of the dockyard telegraphed to the Ministry of the Navy at Peking:
Yesterday the Ministry replied as follows "The Directors and Staff, Kiangnan Dock & Engineering Works, Shanghai.
"In reply to your telegram of 16th instant, there is absolutely no foundation for the reported mortgage of the Kiangnan Dockyard. It is baseless, founded neither on fact nor intention on the part of this Ministry. Please contradict.
"(Signed) Councillors, Departmental Chiefs, Ministry of Navy." section has made an auspicious besinning by devoting their first show entirely to "the queen of flowers", which requires to be so skilfully cultivated. Roses are well worth growing for their fragrance, beauty and associations. No garden is complete without at least some hybrid perpetuals or brier stock. For these varieties Shanghai gardens, -particularly on the outskirts of the settlement, are found to be quite suitable.
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