The Archive · 1930

Chinese in Japan and Gold Embargo

Four Million Yen of Specie Smuggled Out

Tokyo, July 13.

Some Yen 4,000,000 in gold specia have been imported into this coune try from Shanghai within the recent month, This is due to. the manipulations of Chinese profiteons In Kobe who secretly smuggled-the gold out, breaking the export ambargo ordinances of China, It is now fealeulated that the total sum of profit thus secured by the Chinese merchants will amount to some own iT its treatment of foreign rights and interests i [due to natural soreness at the retention of the Legations at Peking. "The immaturity of the Kuomintang Government may be admitted but be cured by isolation?" Reuter. instalments up to 1944, which are mot in default, It is the other payments due to British creditors] amounting to some £1,500,000, me eluding one item of about £600,000 for wagons purchased from the Metropolitan Wagon & Finance Com pany, which are being disregard. fed, although the earnings of the yi, an appointee of the Mukden Government, but if there is to be redress it must come from the Manchurian Government as Nanking exercises no authority over the line fat the present time. Indeed, a third party will have to be coniderod, and that is General Yen Hsi-shan, whose authority _in-

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