Paris, Nov. 3.
Under the presidency of M. Adrien Daviac the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies has begun to examine the bill for the reconstitution of the Banque Industrielle de Chine. On the suggestion of M. Leon Blum, he Commission charged the Reporter, M_. Bokanowski, to ask the Government to make certain modifications in the contract for the purpose of obtaining the eventual participation of the State in the profits of the bank owing to the sacrifices which the State would have to make in effecting the reconstitution of the bank.
Later.
The Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has adopted M. Bokanowski's report on the Bill approving the Peking arrangement with regard to the Banque Industrielle de Chine The Committee inserted a clause whereby the annual payments under the Boxer Indemnity after satisfying the Far Eastern creditors of the bank, will be ultimately refunded out of the bank's profits and employed in Chinese enterprise.
The Colonial Committee has also endorsed the Government's scheme for rehabilitation of the bank. It is now. only necessary to obtain the Foreign Affairs Committee's assent before the Bill is placed on the Chamber's orders of the day.—Reuter.
Paris, Nov. 6.
In response to a request from M. Poincaré and in order not to delay discussion of the Banque Industrielle Bill, the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Bill without amendment.—Reuter.
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