"The Japanese are flooding Shansi province with forged Chinese notes in an effort to discredit the Chinese money, but our people are not to be deceived," the magistrate stated. He handed me a counterfeit five-dollar note purporting to have been issued by the Shansi Provincial Bank, together with a genuine one for comparison. The imitation note was printed on thicker paper, which felt altogether different from the genuine One, while the ink in which it was printed was much paler.
The money question, the magistrate said, was causing much trouble at present, the most serious question being that of obtaining a sufficient supply of Chinese goods. Production had practically ceased at present Therefore, unless small-scale industry was successfully established, people might be forced to buy Japanese goods by using Japanese mone} Reuter.
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