The Archive · 1937

Ordinary Rules

Nanking, Oct. 15.

Further to facilitate the sale of Liberty Bonds, the Ministry of Finance has issued orders to all Chinese banks and money shops that the recently promulgated provisional regulations governing the stabilization of currency are not applicable to depositors who want to buy the patriotic bonds with their savings.

All the subscribers have to do, the the order provides, is to/hand in their cheques for any amount they wish to the national committee for Liberty Bonds, or other agents, in exchange for the bonds, When accepted after investigations at the-banks or money shops where the subscribers deposit their money, the cheques will be duly cashed and converted into bonds.—Central News.

Valencia, Oct. 15.

Ten persons were killed and twenty injured in Cartagena, fortified seaport 326 miles south-east of Madrid, last night when @ve Nationalist "planes. in a raid, dropped forty bombs and machine-gunned the streets. Among those killed was the commander of the battleship Jaime 1.—Republican "planes attacked the raiders, and one Nationalist bomber was reported to have been brought down at sea.—Reuter. 4

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