The Mukden War Lord is expected back home in a few days, to pass the New Year holidays and to settle financial and other problems. He is to have entered into nogotia-{tions with Japanese and British interests for a loan of £50,000,000, partly to stabilize the taiyuan and partly to redeem the fengpiao notes circulation. This report probably accounts for the sudden appreciation of the clatter currency which to-day stands at 6.20 to the yen although some days ago it stood Do you remember that for every {foreigner in China we have a hundred of yours in our countries? If] you wish to act barbarously vith jus we should be able to retaliate hundred-fold on your people. But} you know quite well that our standards of honour are infinitely above those you are now setting before the world and that even though your people here treat us savagely your people will be preserved in peace and safety under our dominion. Under no circumstance will the British Empire permit itself to be dominated by lawless mobs and further there are no such Tawless mobs in. existence in our Jands who would wish to commit] such acts of sheer cruelty, Borodin's Record T wonder if you realize that) whilst the bulk of your countrymen may hold the same views:
to the revision of the trea-fies and soon, they are die gusted.at the methods you. are tuned up in Shanghai ready for service. Marshal Sun's aviation officers are reported to have been very busy in the last few days getting the machines into flying condition.
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