Harbin, April 18.
The bank-notes issued by the Russo-Asiatic Bank have been accepted by the railway and are now in free circulation.
The International Banking Corporation has also issued bank-notes There is much talk here about the decisions of the Chinese authorities to collect municipal taxes at Harbin, disregarding the Chinese Eastern Railway's rights of control. As this new order actually means that there will be no control of the collection of taxes by the Chinese, it is expected that the measure will meet with considerable opposition.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.