Peking, Dec. 14
With reference to M. Poincaré's reply to M. Tardieu's letter on behalf of a number of holders of Chinese bonds, Chinese officials are of opinion that the bonds in question were German bearer Reorganization Bonds held by France, as payments on all the other Re-organization Bonds have been duly carried out. They explain that, when the German bearer bonds were presented for payment, such were referred to a firm of English experts, who were instructed to determine whether the bonds had left German hands prior to or after the time that China declared war on Germany. If the former, the bonds were honoured; otherwise, they were not.—Reuter.
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