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China Secures a Loan in Germany

A short financial dispatch on China's post-war borrowing from German banks, part of the scramble by foreign powers to gain financial leverage over Beijing after its defeat by Japan.

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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Page 1

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BERLIN, April 20.

The Chinese government has concluded arrangements here for a loan of 30,000,000 marks at 6 per cent interest. The syndicate which has taken up the loan includes the National bank and Vonder Heydt & Co. of Berlin, and L. Behrens & Co. of Hamburg.

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