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Show JAPANESE FOR INTERY NTION London, "Dec. 21. A Peking dispatch dis-patch to the Daily Telegraph says tne Issue of the so-called "patriotic bonds," amounting to 530.000,00G, Is really a contribution forced by the Imperial princes from the metropolitan metropoli-tan and provincial 'officials, ranging from two to llftoon per cent of their annual Incomes. A curious leature, the correspon dent says, Is that six per cent interest inter-est is payable for four years only; after that" the bends bear no interest. This, he adds, agrees with Premler Yuan's expresaed opinion that tho struggle may last foui years. Advices from Toklo say the entire press is indulging in a delibora'fl campaign in favor of Joint Anglo-Jap-jancse Intervention |