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...Chinese politicos take the field. The Nationalist government must bend all its energies to preserving its existence amid ceaseless civil war. With the first frosts the troops in the field, like the sap in the trees, are stilled. Last week rebel troops were sufficiently frostbound to allow T. V. Soong, China's able, Harvard-trained Finance Minister to promulgate a law for which he and foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from one large town to another, will be abolished Dec. 31. Small in itself, red tape and the juggling...
Under the old Chinese tariff there were five separate bureaus for collecting taxes on wine & loose tobacco, rolled tobacco, stamp, yarn, kerosene (China, unmotorized. uses far more kerosene than gasoline). The new Soong tariff may irk foreign exporters by raising all the rates, but it will vastly expedite shipments by reducing these five tax bureaus...
...Soong, head of the great Shanghai banking house of Soong, finance minister in Chiang's government, graduate of Harvard, is unquestionably the ablest, most potent, most public-spirited Chinese financier...
President Chiang was rumored in Shanghai banking circles last week to have signed a secret treaty promising repayment to Japan of the $50,000,000 Nishihara loans which his Government previously declared illegal. Thus quiet Mr. Soong, the Shanghai banker who will have to find the $50,000,000, may yet draw the strongest weapon which can be drawn in China? Japan...
...schedule of the lectures of these two professors is as follows: by Holcombe; "Sun Yat-Sen and The Spirit of Democracy", tonight; "Borodin and the Spirit of Bolshevism", Friday; "Feng YuHsiang and the Religious Spirit", next Tuesday: "Chiang Kai-Shek and the Military Spirit", Friday, January 17; "T. V. Soong and the Spirit of Modern Capitalism", Tuesday, January 21; "C.T. Wang and the Spirit of Modern Science", Friday, January...