CHINESE AFFAIRS
BELGIAN LOAN TO BE CANCELLED. PEKING, April 25. The Premier (Tang- Shao Yi) has agreed to cancel the Belgian loan. The Indian opium merchants at Shanghai complain that opium of the value of nine millions sterling is stored there, and that they are unable to sell it in the interior owing to the obstruction of those Chinese authorities who are supporting the anti-opium movement.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3033, 1 May 1912, Page 23
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66CHINESE AFFAIRS Otago Witness, Issue 3033, 1 May 1912, Page 23
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