Providing the Salt Commissioner agrees, the Bank of China branch in 'Tseliutéing will allow an overdraft to the amount of $150,000 to the Yen Ai Shul Ca, which is trying to raise $1,800,000 for" the' installation of a "method of making brine with electricity, Some $200,000 have been received in public contributions, and the necessary machinery for the improved process has already been ordered from the Siemens China Ca,, in Shanghai.
'A. shipment of! silver, valued at at $5,000,000, has arrived in Chungking from Nanking, This sum is intended by the Central Government to strengthen the reserve fund of the national currency now circulating throughout the province,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.