Forty thousand bags of flour are to be shipped to China for the relic of flood victims. This gift is being made by an organisation styled the Flood Sympathy Association Reuter.
Wheat Sales Approved Nanking, Sept. 3.
The National Government officially announced to-day that ai agreement, had been reached wit the United States Government for the purchase of 450,000 tons of American wheat for the of the flood refugees in- China, The terms of the agreement were submitted by the Finance Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong, to an extra ordinary session of the Central Political Council this afternoon, and were approved.
The agreement provides:
American wheat purchased, That the total quantity shall be 460,000 tons, but th if required, one half of this quantity may be substituted by, 2—That the price shall be the prevailing market price on the Ay. of export.
3—That beginning from th month, "September, at Yea 50,090" toms of wheat shall be transported "to China each month.
4.—That the purchase price shalt be paid in American gold dol-
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