Exports Diminishing From Szechuen; Subsidy Request Sent to Hankow Chungking, May 28
Dr, H. H. Kung, President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, is giving consideration to request from Szechuen exporters to be granted some form of Govern ment assistance, according to a telegram. cived here last night, The request was conveyed to Hankow by the Szechuen Provincia Reconstruction Commissioner, Mr Ho Pei-hen, on May 24, after y meeting of Chinese merchants, at which the question of Government assistance was debated.
The meeting is understood to have decided: that while the merchants were keen supporters of the Govern ment in its trade and fina a policies, merchants in the interior required assistance in order that the economic defence of China might not be weakened.
War risk insurance, it was pointed out, is at 76 per cent, at present abnormally high.
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