Chang Tso-tin fs in part as follows:—
"When the 1st National Army announced its intention to collect rent taxes' and to issue debenture bonds' the public bodies of Shanghai wired to you in protest and quested you to take steps to cancel the order. You cheerfully replied with your usual kindness that this was a civil matter and should not You promised matter to stund uncollected until the new Civil Governor of Kiangsu, Mr. Chang Chien, arrived" at his post for a solution. You have abl tinguished between military and civil authority and we, the people, very much appreciate this and thank you. But the agents of the st Army are still collecting the tax' and issuing bonds'; they refuse to wait for a solution and the people fare alarmed and angry.
"There is the Shanghai Arsenal and its properties. This, we think, should be sold, These ' properties tare easily worth more than $10,000, 000. If they are sold the money will be sufficient to pay off the debts outstanding, including the tax' levied by Gen. Ho, and there will stilt be a surplus from the money. realized. This is money derived from the sale of public property and such money should be used for the public good.
"We hope, therefore, that you will issue orders for the cancellation of this tax' and instruct the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai to sell the Arsenal and its properties and use the money realized for the purposes suggested. Thus there will be no need for Gen. Chang to collect the paltry $2,000,- 000, which he hopes to collect, in this shameless manner, and the People will not be made to suffer much.'
An Order to Pay In a letter to the Chapei Benevolent Association, the Shanghai and Woosung Rehabilitation Bureau for the collection of rent taxes and the issue of debenture bonds says that orders has been received. from Gen. Chang directing that this tax must be collected at all costs. "Notices and advertisements have been published," this letter is sent so that th in order that the people may be in-forme:
cordingly. ication has been published by the Commissioner of Shanghai and Woosung Police, who says that all who have already paid
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