| Show RENCH BENCH LOANS PROPOSED FOR MANCHU STATE ran Asiatic fanco-Asiatic Asiatic co-Asiatic Bank Officer of Financing Tells 1 i Plans i Associated ruu Fru Br 51 y ToKIO TOKIO June 6 6 Alfred Alfred rector tor of the Fr Franco bank Associated Press today that tha M id d the had bad come to Tokio as the Illative of a French financial group includes banks other than wan hism his his' to lend several million ready Wa IDes m Sis tt to the state of for renewal rene of would be money The Saw and rolling stock of the Chie Chi Chi- Astern Eastern railway the loan to be bede beide beide ide de e with the provision that Man and soviet Russia recognize satisfactory extent the claims o of web i a investors who supplied the origInal construction fun funds s for tor the through the czarist govern govern- railway bank mint and nd the Ru Russo Asiatic of ot the a nephew grand composer arrived here last French month but up to now neither he nor norl with whom he is associated one mr gay wOuld ouId L-ouId Ud discuss his his- mission beyond dewin de de- de win reports that he was trying to leU any par part of f the thc French claims the Japanese government 10 He lIe said aid today that the French hope to obtain Lion Jon on on the board of directors of the thc II railway and revival of ot portions of an agreement made in 1920 whereby he I paid aid the Chinese government died ed the thc claims of the thc Asiatic Russo-Asiatic l bank ank in the railway This agreement was nullified In 1924 when th the Peking ad iad Mukden governments concluded agreements with soviet Russia Russin new ew tw or rot JoInt operation of the railway In hose those agreements th the French claims cere re Ignored SUCCEEDS TO ASSETS After the Russian revolution the Drench Fench claimants reestablished the Asiatic RUO-Asiatic bank in lit Paris It is now nowa a Ii the course of ot liquidation and the Asiatic bank succeeded to a of its assets M. M Ma net will stay here until lie te this mouth manth when the thc Ly Lytton com corn investigating the situation in for the league of nations ones back Then he hll will confer with he lie commissioners loners and go on to toh h and Harbin for confer confer- with railway officials Although French financiers loaned Russia pre pre- U francs franes to build the Chinese East East- m mi railway M. M said the resent claims amount to only a small onIon of that sum and the claim claim- are aware of the necessity of the vast changes which he past 15 years have brought brough and andre re ire willing to settle on a realistic basis One of the newspapers printed a alory altory lory to the effect that French inter inter- its h have ve o offered to lend rants nn s to with a Japa Japa- tit ese guaranty but M. M said saida a group was not that strong and that 10 lothing ing on such an n extensive scale rat vaz contemplated I ODD oon MARKET SEEN He declined to name specific sums uthe ut he did say that if and viet Russia readmit the French to participation in the thc rail rail- flY ray it was certain that a good mar mar- rt would be reopened in France for in enter enter- p s but not for political loans In the diet this afternoon Premier Info lito told a questioner he knew notha noth- noth a aj out about negotiations for a French to to The foreign of of- lice uce ice also denied that Japan was negating ne no- gating for a purchase of any part partI or I the French claims in the thc railway S The He spokesman added however that hat Japan welcomed the thc prospect of French reach investment in nd would similarly welcome invest invest- neat nat by the thc United States and other interests He said raid he could sec see 10 10 o reason why Japan should be asked to 0 guarantee foreign Investments in beyond the thc obvious fact of 1 f Ja Japans Japan's s 's support of the thc stability of the he regime at Changchun S I |
