The people are not personally opposed to the claims of the police. On the contrary they support them, and that is really half the reason for the protest. 'They object to the filching of money in the name of the police, and they ask what ha become of the money that i finitely earmarked for them out of the Octroi, the Stamp Tax, and the Wine and' Tobacco Administration.
Most of the money that should go to the police now goes to General Feng Vu-hsiang for the upkeep his national forees. To maintain these men, the Peking policeman has to go without his pa in consequence is in wretched steaits—0 wretched in fact that the wonder to the foreigner is that he can be so loyal and, it must be said, 0 argumentative.
The householders in Peking doubt very much if this impost is really intended for the police. They have an idea that it will disappear route to its intended channel as other revenue. precedents for this habit on the part of Revenue, so tone cannot accuse the householders here of unjust suspicion,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.