payments on Instructions of Finance Ministry Nanking, Nov, 22.
In a ministerial order, dated the 2st instant to Mr. A. LIF. Edwardes, Officiating Inspector-General of Customs, the Ministry of Finance instructs that, inasmuch as the second repayment ($2,250,000) of the principal of the 7th year (1918) Long Term National Loan for $15 millions, together with the 2nd payment of the loan interest amounting to $1,282,500, will fall due on December 31, 1928; and also in view of the fact that the Ist redemption ($96,000) of the Treasury Notes of 1924 for $4,000,000, secured on the German Boxer Indemnity Fund, and the fourth payment of interest amounting $96,000, will fall due in December 20, 1928, the required sums of. money as stated above should be appropriated from Customs Surplus} and deposited before December 1, 1928, with the Central Bank of, China, the Bank of China and the Bank' of Communications, as pro vided for by the agresments—Kuo Min, The I. G's Custodias ***By a mandate issued in 1921 by President Hsu Shih-chang Sir Francis Aglen in his quality of] Inspector-General of Customs was made responsible for the service of these and other domestic loans secured on the Customs Surplus. This mandate was never rescinded. With the departure from China and the fall of the Peking Government)
appears to be assumed by Nan-'King that the Inspector-General personal custodianship ceases. the above message the Ministry of Finance takes responsibility for the payments, instructing the Officiating. specific duties, but this is true, more; or less, of all the experts' engaged by. here. Tt is the none of them will ever have as much influence over the government dr the leaders as the Borodin group had with the Canton Government, The Russian experts were the authorized agents of Soviet Russia, and hi tremendous influence over the leaders at that time because they, {in many instances, actually helped to finance the projects of the Canton Government and gave military supplies to the Southern Army, In spite of the frequent, denials issued by the authorities, there are numerous foreign military experts connected with the Chinese army, but they receive no authorization from their governments for their here and they are of many nationalities. Most of them are personal friends of the leaders and] outside giving technical advice to} the government, their part in the general military' affairs of the country is very small—Reuter.
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