The protest from Yuanehi and and Tenmen is particularly virus lent and outspoken, It is directed particularly against Li Shu and his recent changes in the regulations governing the stamping of property deeds and the imposition of a poll tax. He is dubbed as an autocratic tyrant, who openly flaunts all cons stitutional machinery and constantly foes over the heads of the Provincial Assembly, He is accused of having raised the taxes by 300 percent, and is regarded as altogether unspeakable. In consequence, the leaders of the hsien or county have met together and pessed three solution The first has to do with the stamping of deeds and states that anyone. {in the hsien, who goes secretly to the officials under the present methods to get deeds stamped will be struck off the family records and driven out of the boundaries of the county. This is one "of the divest threats that can be made in the country, The second resolution states that they will resist with all their might and means the present poll tax (TMP and the third is a call to all to refuse to pay any taxes until the present oppression is removed. These resolutions were passd by a to all Te they are any re addressed
true indication of the state of the whole of Hupeh, it would seem that the province is ripe for revolt against their present rulers, Every day sqme stich protest is published.
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