The Archive · 1935

Prompt Bond Payment

'On the due dates principal and interest was met so promptly in the case of the short-term kam foo linen bonds, of which $2,000,000 worth were issued last November, that! trading in the newer issue, of' March 11, has been brisk. The quantity is double that of the 1934 issue.

The older kind brought In specie that contributed to the restabilization of the $1 and $5 paper currency. "It is to get the $10 bills back on their feet that the $4,000,000 is wanted.

Emerging from the ts, these $10 notes have forged ahead' up, to 99 points. Yesterday the Government authorized repayment of these outstanding loans which merchants made of the Government at the end of, 1933.

They may be deposited furthermore in the Provincial Bank, and credit will be given at face value, When three months have elapsed such funds may be withdrawn, and en them one rer cent. interest wil be allowed.

Gardeners preparing flower-beds at the residence of Mr. Moh Teh-lit formerly Chinese negotiator to Soviet Russia, have dug up two. targe bombs, each weighing approximately 200 1b, and a small artillery shell The bombs and shell are much rusted, but are, of comparatively modern make. Four or five years ago, the property was occupied by Gen. Wan Furlin, gar-risen commander of Peiping, and it VJs presumed the explosives were buried in the garden at that time—United Press.

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