The Nanking Claims We are afraid that we cannot five our correspondent "Hsiakua who wrote in yesterday's paper to] ask what was being done about payment for the Nanking claims, any information, The statement that Americans had been paid was that of one of our readers, which we have not been able to' verity. But the point to emphasize is that the agreement between Great Britain and China closing the incident of March, 1927, and under which the Nanking Government undertook: to pay damages, was signed as far ack as on August 9, 1928—twenty months ago—and it is preposterous to pretend that the amount due could not have been ascertained fund payment made long before this. For the claims at Chinkiang a lump of $68,000 has been paid, fact does not_ anywhere How Many Words Do You Know?
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