Tae Municipal Council at the request of the Consular Body, who appear. to have acted on the inspiration of the Taotai, have yielded to mob violence, and the collection of the increased tax on the wheelbarrows is to be postponed until the Ist of July, ie. for three months. That this should raise a storm of popular indignation was only to be expected; and we are glad to know that the Committee of the China Association, which held an emergency meeting yesterday afternoon, has sent in to the British Consul-General a very strongly-worded protest, to which all the members of the Committee assented except those who are also members of the Municipal Council. A more fatal step could hardly be taken in China than to back down before mob violence. We have had similar strikes before when taxes have been raised, but the Counci} have been firm, except in
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