March 11.
Some time ago Dr. H. H. Kung strongly condemned the pernicious activity of the rumour-monger purveying gossip and conjecture on the currency and financial situa tion. Since then the uncertainty of the markets has grown worse; trade has reached a serious state of stagnation. On the top of it all. the medley of rumour has increased. With a sinister vivacity it has ministered to the misguided fancies of the speculator, and at the week-end the Finance Minister was moved twice in a single day to issue what he evidently intended to be a denial of certain assertions which purported to forecast the Government's proposals for dealing with the crisis. In the light of. recent history it is not improbable that the denials will merely be taken as inspiration to further efforts at vaticination. Such is the way of the rumour-monger|the conviction that no really when the oracles are dumb and a
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