3, Ju particular, traders and other persons are warned:—
Not to pay, lend or send money, negotiable instruments or securities to or for the benefit of an enemy or to 'a place in enemy territory oF enter Into, continue or complete any transaction which will enable an enemy to obtain money or credit oF riy transaction which will release fan enemy from an obligation to pay money; Gil) Not to discharge any debt due to an enemy (including debts on bills of exchange) which the enemy has Assigned to a neutral assignee; iii) Not to accept any payment from an enemy of a sum of money due in respect of a transaction unless all' obligations on the part of the Person receiving payment had been completed before the outbreak of be distributed here to relief the shortage of small money.
'The problem now centres around the cashing of the stamps since most fof the old $400,000 postage stamps thus sed are hardly' acceptable for any useful purpose to the disadvantage of many poor people who keep most of them. It has been suggested that @ cashing committee, supported bby cash reserve funds contributed by the public bodies concerned, be organized, No definite decision has yet been made, however.
The reports yesterday that the new official cent notes would be circulated here at the end of this month were denied by an official of the Shanghai 'OMice of the Central Bank of China. He said he did not know when the new notes could be circulated.
The $500,000 worth of new cent notes officially printed for Shanghai circulation were "pirated" by coun-forfeiters before their circulation. They may be totally destroyed and reprinted or simply changed in appearance by printing more characters 'oF designs on them, and instructions this respect are still being ows by the Shanghai bank. ordered to proceed to the neat est port. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan, which was to have sailed from Shanghai yesterday morning, still remained in port last night and no information was forthcoming as to her departure. The Empress of Asia, scheduled to sail at a late hour last night for Hongkong, was, according to Canadian ' Pacific oMcials, 10 Jeave on schedule, moured to buoys 12 and 13 downriver. Troops and passengers disombarkini, Shanghai were conveyed to the Cus toms Jetty in a Moller tuy. The marines were then whisked to their billet on Ferry Road in a fleet trucks. Remaining in Shanghai {or only eight days, the Chaumont will sail for the United States via Manila, Guam and Honolulu on September 12.
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