Chinese Chambers Asks for Official Assistance Harbin, Jan. 17, Confronted with financial difficulties, owing to the decline in the price of soya beans as a result of the olent slump in the white metal price, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce has drawn up the following, emergency measures and presented them to. General Chang Hui-ching, the Administrator-General here:
That the Chinese authorities pur-[chase soya beans issuing bank notes the amount of $50,000, That the bank notes thus issued be used for the purchase of soya beans, and the payment of taxes and railway charges.
That, the North-Eastern Political Committee send a control commis sion to Mukden to control the price of soya bean:
That freight charges on the Chi-Inese Eastern Railway be reduced, Tu this connection much attention fs being paid to the attitude of the Administrator-General_ who will proceed to Mukden on January 20 to confer with Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang regarding the matter-—Rengo.
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