'Merchants' Proposed Compromise: Half Tax, Half Period and Themselves Collecting A. settlement is expected in con-notion with the threatened rice Chop strike, as the result of a mest. ing' which was held in the offco of {the Shanghai District Magistrate, a [ktge number of merchants, Inclad-Ihe Mr. Fang. Shao-pak (acting Ghairman of the Chinese General Ghamber" of Commerce), Mr. Yao Mortien (Chairman of the Shanghai District (Chamber, of Commerce), Yeh Velehun (Chairman of the Ehanghat Rice Guild), Me.
Shu "(former Shanghat_ District Magistrate, who is now a leading Tocalmerehant) and others, being fre sect at. the request of the Hagisteate. (Me. Li Shou-kuei) and the' Commissioner of Shanghai and Woosung Constabulary (Cal. Chang was explained to the merchants that, according to the instructions fromthe Civil Governor of Kiangsu), the money raised bythe rice. tax hich fe was proposed to levy" millar on each picul of vice sold the Shanghat and Sungkiang Districts) isto be used for ad. Ininistrative exponees, the upkeep of {he troops in. Kiangst, the mainten-free of the Shanghai and Woosung Police and. preparatory expenses in Connexion with the Shanghat Special Sfunicipaity. "The tax was only collected" during' the next' 12
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