EMPTY EXCHEQUER.
CHINA'S FINANCES.
By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association PEKIN, Jan. 6.
A Tientsin message states that the Chinese Treasury is empty. The Government is pressing the bankers' commissioner for a loan of £3,000,000. The officials are squandering money upon unnecessary troops. The Southern leaders continue truculent, as they do not trust the Pekin Government.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1718, 8 January 1920, Page 5
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