Tu obedience to the instractions of the Shanghai Taotai, the District Magistrate hss issued a proclamation on the above He also wrote to the British Consul-General to devise some means of compromise in order to tide over the admittedly bad times.
jis Honour also received some pro-question.
It i I bat it does not assist the ree fe out minent local men at the Foreiga Office, forth for the pablic's guidance in their effort to obtain a reduction of house-rents from their landlords, Those houses, whose rent has not been io-creased within the last five years, shall be exempt from any demand for reduction, The tenants may remove elsewhere, if they object to the high rentals, ete. eto.
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