The Archive · 1939

Many Trading Difficulties Caused in Shanghai

Hope is freely expressed by Chinese circles in Shanghai that the Central Bank of China would lose no time in, increasing the circulation of 10-cent, 20-cent and 50-cent notes it many of which have recently disappeared from the local market causing great inconvenience to the public.

The shortage of these notes is so acute now that on its pretext shops are asking people to buy more goods necessary so that they may hand as fewer 10-cent and 20-cent as change as possible, Former-hen one exchanged a dollar for 10-cent or 20-cent notes the exchange shop obtained only one cent as a commission but now four or five cents are demanded. In other words, the Chinese dollar is worth only 95 cents, Well, vno Garden Apartments, 1173/11 Bubbling WANTED, Chinese or foreigner as tive or silent partner to invest National $300,000 in sound profitable business, Address Box 4464, NCDN.

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

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