London, Feb. 24, The Foreign Office announced today there was no. truth in, the recent. Domei news agency report from Lon-on, published in the Far East, that it was "reliably understood" that Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, Hat indicated to the Japanese Ambassador, on February 20, that the British Government regarded the Chinese silver question as virtually settled and had intimated that General Chiang Kai-shek had assented to a plan for transferring the silver to a neutral bank.
The same report attributed to Lord Halifax a further statement, that Great Britain was prepared to alleviate restrictions on exports to Japan of such commodities as Australian wool and other Empire products, so long as British war aims "were not hampered, and that other neutrals were not able to demand, similar treatment. The Foreign Office states that this is also entirely untrue.—Reuter, The system of local government is outlined in the iith chapter, with 18 articles. A Governor's term is three years. Provincial assemblies shall be composed of one member from each district or municipality. Distri elect their own councils and magi trates for a term of three years.
The sixth and seventh chapters of the Constitution contain 32 articles and outline matters of national economic life and education, The eighth chapter, with ten articles, concerns application for amendment of the Constitution.—Reuter.
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