The Archive · 1924

The Peking Octroi

THE ROUTE — AND BAD PAPER

Mhig itinerary, which has been divided into six sections for the purpose of organization, is rough-Dismay Among Holders of ly as follows:—Leavingg Seattle coast as far as Alnska, and then party the Canadian Treasury Notes: Who Is Making Money turning west will follow the Aleutian Islands to their western From Rodney Gilbert, extremity. From here a long "hop" must be made across the Poking, Apr, 4. North Pacific to Cape Lopatka at The Peking Octroi is a gate the southern end of the Kamchatka tax of three, per cent. to which Peninsula, and this promises to be no reference has over been made the most hazardous part of the in any knowe treaty. It is there journey across the Pacific. Once fore @ tax which the Chinese kamchatka is Foached, the expedi-authorities are entitled to raise tion will alter ite course again ud lower as they like but which and follow the and: they cannot abolish because cor-down past Hokkaido to the coa tain foreign loans axe secured of Japan proper. A stop will be upon it, The various institutions made at Yokohama, and another at which have lately come to feod Nagasaki, selion land will once upon this source of revonte are more. be left behind in a straight the President's Office, the primary, flight for Shanghai. This ig an. schools, the Christian army, the alteration of the original plan, unhappy. police, "the emaciated which wae to include, Chemulpo} gendarmerie uld "a few other and Tsingtao. From Shanghai the lessor groups. party will fly, via Amoy, Hong-Among the holders of Chinese Keng, Haighone,,, Touraine paper none hag over been, so nerve Saigon, Bangkok, Rangoon an ous as the holder of a Treasury, /Akyab, to Calcutta. Thence they Note of the Republic of China, are to cross Northern India, vid Treasury notes were once partic Delhi, to Karachi, and their course ularly goods then after Li Shih then, "leads them northwest hhao's occupation of the Ministr Bagdad, Bucharest, Belgrade, Finance they became parti 'Vienna, Paris and London. Concularly bad, 'The writer knows tinuing' up the cash " coa of a case in which an official of England and Scotland, actually had to pay the dustman: and haviog Kirkwall be-to gather up fis vast collection hind, they will proceed to jad paper and trundle it off Iceland, thence to the east coast the premises. 'Than, thanks to of Greenland, and thence, vial the Octroi, it went up a bit, Labrador and' Newfoundland, to} For. long time past the Octroi New York, for their final ' lap bag served the Government and be. across America to Seattle. cent. of all payments in. treasury, tha, public, by accepting 20 jeer

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