Peking, Apr. 23.
'The Fifth Annual National Bankers' Conference held its losing -session yesterday morning "at the 'Peking Bankers' Association, Besides making final touches on various decisions reached at, the previous, sessions, the delegates assembled passed the following declarations to be issued to the public, Before the session was adjourned, Nanking was chosen as the conference place for the 1925. sessions.
The decinrations rend xis follows:—"The political turmoil of the country as prevailing both at Peking and in the provinees has} remitted in one unique and un-unfortunate situation, namely, the increased hardship of the people's living and the fearful abundance of bandits and outlaws. The principal causes of attach a situation are attributed to the fact that an overwhelming, amount of national revenue Gisposed of every yenr for military purposes and hence the finaneinl state of affairs of the country is rendered into disorder and tumult, As a consequence, commerce and industry have been'
reatly disorganized and starver on lis become a common pheno-thus. the mass of people "helplessly driven to 00 ing except brigandage, economic entity of the nation has been virtually" broken down, and a remedy for, the situation has been Jong: sought: for.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.