The Commission felt the greater! confidence in sending its represent~ ative here at the present time, as:
was aware of the fact that the Nanking Government recently allocated to the Honan Government $800,000 in Famine Relief Government bonds, which are even now be. ing disposed of on the Shanghai market at a rate that will net the local government well over $500, The time was propitious, the envoy was persuasive, and, after being f@ted and feasted for nearly a weel Mr, Clark returned to the Commission to report that the whole of the fund, forcibly taken in 1927, will be restored in three instalments of $40,-
000 during the ensuing months. Both Mr. Clark and the Honan Government are to sincerely congratulated on this happy issue of what has been a very unfortunate circumstance.
When Gen. Han Fu-chu met Mr. (Clark, he bewailed the fact with the best intention in the worl his Government had been unable to make the payment promised, because of the lack of funds even to carry on Yhe functions of the Government. It a well-known fact that what called the "Government of Honan, with General Han as Chairman, controls at the present time a very! small portion of the province, and therefore cannot collect even the
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