CHINA: Money

Just one thing might buck up China today against Japan: a fat loan from the West to the Nanking Government of harassed, high-strung little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East.

To get ready for Sir Frederick, Chinese Finance Minister H. H. Kung hopped aboard a cruiser at Nanking and...

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