Warsaw, June 22.
Ataman Oskilki, former chief of staff of the Ukrainian troops under General Petlura, has been murdered by unknown persons at Wiadzimerz in Polish Volhynia.
There is no doubt that the murder is political. It is presumed to have been perpetrated by Soviet emissaries Oskilki was leader of the Ukrainian party favouring federation of Poland and the Ukraine. ill be recalled that Gen-
Petlura was shot dead a month ago in Paris by a Russian Jew, who said that Petlura had oppressed Ukrainjan Jews during his hetmanship of the Ukraine in the last. years of the War—
Reuter. ness because the expense of employ. ing a foreism book-k: eper would be more than their business could bear According to testimony presented by the Collector of Internal Revenue during the hearing of the case in the local courts, GO per cent. of the entire con Islands is yet they pay only about it. of the income and sales st 72 per cent, of the taxes.
The figures also show that, while the Chinese merchants in the Philip. pines number about 12,000, the Americans, Spanish and English merchants' combined do not exceed 1,500 and yet the latter group pays more income tax than the former.
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