CRISIS IN CHINA
BIG MILITARY CHIEFS PREPARING FOR STRUGGLE PROTEST BY BUSINESS MEN. (t)!UTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTIUOHI.) (AUSTRALIAN ■ NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION,) NEW YORK, 7th March. The "Chicago Tribune's" Pekin correspondent says the Chinese Cabinet has ordered its Ministers, Dr. Alfred Sze and Dr. Wellington Koo to return to Washington and London respectively, hoping these eminent diplomatists may help China during the critical period which is now appearing, i . Meanwhile, the big military chiefs are preparing for war, and Mr. Chang, the Prime Minister, is vainly endeavouring to convene a meeting of the war lords for a disbandment conference. Business men are demanding that China get its house in order. The Pekin Bankers' Association has handed to the Government a Note addressed to the Minister of Finance, pointing out, among other things, that external loans exceeding £208,000,000 are mostly in default, that Customs, railway, and salt sur- [ pluses a-re being dissipated, and that Treasury- notes are being freely issued, while additional loans are contemplated, without providing funds'for the redemption of outstanding obligations.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1923, Page 7
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171CRISIS IN CHINA Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1923, Page 7
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