In view of some extraordinary expense in high Government circles, a special tax is bring imposed in Shantung. Tt would seem tht each chihsien, or local magistrate, has permission to raise the wind as best he may. whether by levy on rear estate dee!s and mortgages, imported merchandise, or otherwise. The Chime magistrate attempts! the former method, und had his walled town besieged in consequence, as already reported by your singluo correspondent.
AT WEMISIEN, the magistrate levied a two per cent tax upon Jocal imports, such as foreign cloth, arn and paper from the South, A rumour came rife that grain and fuel would also be taxed, whereupon the populace arusa as one mun'aud smote the tax-collectors, looted the office of the receipt of custom. Soldiers were summoned from the camp, who quelled the riot and arrested the mng-Tealers. Next day every shop in the city was closed and for several days no business was done. The magistrate implored the shop-keepers to resume trade, promising immunity from the tax, cu'axar cry ({5)58) a similar outbreak is reported, where it seems the effort wes mud" to tax sult to ride. grechithertounknown, Rum urfurther reports trouble at Changistu (9% fp), just east of Chinanfa. This general stwe of unrest among the people bodes ill for the coming war tax, which has not been imposed.
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