The Archive · 1939

Firing Again Heard In Hungjao Area

Shanghai, July 24 Rifle and machsonrgun Are wes heard in the vicinity of the Tunglao Sen ne townier Dacre befteor steed 10 po yesterdays Nt was poste te aseatialn the cause of the Shooting but i was believed that guerillas were in the vicinity. cent denominations will be transported to Shanghai from Hongkong In order to relieve the small money shortage here. These notes are b printed by a Hongkong book company upon receiving instructions from the Ministry of Finance, according 10 Chinese reports.

Altogether there are $2,000,000 worth of such notes being printed in the colony for Shanghai circulation but only a quarier will arrive here more than a week later. The new notes are being printed at the Quest of local Chinese public bodies including the District Chamber of Commerce, Many postal stamps now being elrculated here in place of small money fare counterfeit ones. A local Chinese daily printed one of such stamps yesterday. The counterfeit stamp is fof inferior paper and the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen is bigger than that which is printed on a genuine one. The one printed in the paper yesterday ie'a five-cent one. Ite green eolour is also much darker than' the genuine' one.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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