Apropos of a previous report we have been asked to state: that the Chirese General Chamber of Commerce has not sented to be responsible for the collection of the new rice tax which the Kiangsu provincial authorities propose to levy. It will bbe recalled that it was suggested at the meeting that, if the tax were (ie. 50 cents) and the time limit of its imposition to six months instead of a year, the Chamber of Commerce should be empowered with its collection for the upkeep of the Shanghai and Woosung Constabulary. We are told that, so far as the Chamber is concerned, the tax is opposed in toto, Manswat Lu Yung-hsiang has se a telegram to the rice merchants of Shanghai informing them that he has no knowledge whatever of the proposed rice tax of $1 per picul, and that the protest to him was the first he had heard of the scheme. At the same time he states that he has no authority to deal with the matter, which should be referred the Civil Governor.
'THe, Commissioner and Woosung Police. hi notice forbidding the mix:
its of wine with water and its sale as kaoliang, Chineze wine,
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