Local Chinese reports forecast that the meeting just concluded of the United Council of the Provisional and Reformed Governments will probably be the last to be held by the Council, and that the Council may be dissolved.
The meeting is believed to have devoted time to winding up all affairs left over from the previous meeting, such as the exchange of southern rice for northern coal and cotton, the fixing of a definite exchange rate between Federal Reserve Bank and Hua Hsing Bank notes, the conservancy of the Yellow River and the revision of textbooks issued by the two Governments, It will be recalled that the United Council was established on September 2, 1938, It has six members: Mr, Wang Keh-min, Mr, Wang Yitang and Mr, Chu' Sheng, representing the Peiping Provisional Government, and Mr, Liang hung-chih, Mr, Wen Tsung-yao end Mr, Chen Chun, representing the Nanking Reformed Government,—Reuter,
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