I was told that a proclamation was out a week ago saying taxes were to be imposed on "'smalt fect and skirts." Then later it was said the queue was to go. I have not been able to find this one proclamation in the one place it was said to be. Perhaps it was not as some people would have it and so quietly removed. There has not been any attempt so far as I can find out to adjust either extremity.
Other proclamations call for a re-examination of old deeds and a paying of all legal taxes.
Roads to the east are being repaired under orders. Low lying places are being filled up but as only soft earth is being added they will soon be in the old state: They are not being widened so this is not a carrying out of the recent Presidential Mandate about intercity roads. record speed was recently obtained on a British torpedo boat destroyer which, in deep water, attained the speed of 45 miles pet hour on a four hour official trial. This versal, the last of a series of 29 built since the beginning of the war, is turbine driven, with oil-burning water-tube boilers.
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