Foreign consumers of liquid inspiration buy tax-free wines and spirits from the foreign dealers, the only inconvenience being oe-casloned by the small-fry evllectors who linger about the shops and hold up servants who appear abroad with untaxed bottles. Some of these even invade the Legation Quarter and {rail their victims beyond its boundaries where they pounce upon them. The only recent instance of a tax offer interfering with a foreigner was one in whick a pack of the Wine and Tobacco Bureau's jackals held up a truck load of tigavettes en route to a Greek shop by a Greek chauffeur.
weeks are under French protection in China, so an official of the French Legation proceeded to tie tax office und came away with tuck, cargo and chauffeur without resistance. Peking is so obviously in the wrong in imposing this it will not risk enforcing it in the fact of determined resistance.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.