Forced to Close Through Intolerable Official Inquisition and Annoyance Making Business Impossible: The Bank's Services (o China Trade on March 25 for the approval of the Bank's report for 1928, the shareholders know that 1998 was record year, in the activity of 1 Bank. As compared with 1225 when first afler the establishment of the Bonk its financial sition could be considered as steady, the average balance sheet total in 1928 increased, 25 times reaching 512 million yen; the annual volume of operations for the same period increased 1.8 times ing an amount of over billiard yen; the average balance of Current Accounts increased from 11.5 mil rullion yen, ie., 22 times; the average balance "due against Bills discounted, Loans and Credits raised from 63 million yer to 257 million yen having increased 3.9 times, the total amount of advances in 1928 reaching 130 rullion Yen—2.5 times more than in 1925.
The figures for the first half of 1029, that is to say for the period when the Bank's business was conducted under comparatively normal conditions, evidence further growth of the balance sheet totals as well as of the volume of operations, compared with the corresponding period in 1928, as shown by the following table:
Lut half Qud half Increase in 1929 1924 "ofa aa compared Amount ik thous yen.
41635 i329 wots fos 8 mois maT4G
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