Chungking, Oct. 13.
The first payment of interest fon the first issue of the 1940 Reconstruction Gold Bonds wil be made on October 31, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Finance. The payment will total £125,000 and _US$625,000.
Payment will be made by the Central Bank or its agents within a period of three years.—Reuter. subjecting machine tools to export licensing control in accordance with domestic defence requirements, but officials said that by the first weeks of August when the Soviet Ambas-fader to Washington, Mr. Constantine Oumansky, began talks with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, a large volume had already been cleared for Russia.
Tt is presumed that further shipments will be released to Russia Subsequently upon the recommenda. tion of Lieut. Cotonel Russell Maxwell, of the Army and Navy Muni tions Board, but it understood that there is still a considerable amount Soviet purchases for which export licenses have not yet been granted.
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