More than 400 farm women, with babies on their bucks, some' with mall flags in their hands setting forth their grievances, paraded from the West Gate of Canton City to the House on March 24, praying for the repeal of the nev? tax on sucking pigs, The Com: missariat of Finance has imposed war tax of ranging from 20 to 40 and sometimes ax high as 60 cents fon every time a sucking pig: which changes hands. Graft has also been alleged against the Kuomintang who has farmed out the tax for eollection. According to the "Canton Republican," of March 25, the militarists will receive only 85,000 an-annually from the tax collector, while the latter will be benefit to the extent fof $80,000 and perhaps more, The Butchers AIL Cantonese will welcome the vigorous prosecution of the owners of unsanitary butcher shops and stands, but Canton newspapers are siding with the butchers in the present suspension of trade, agroving with the contention of the meat market guilds that Kuomintang inspectors, when seizing articles inspection" purposes and chemical analysis so as to prevent the sale of impure food, should only take '4 small piece of meat back to the Department of Public Health labora. tory and not carry away pounds of sausages for their own kitchens, The Fecent campaign against impure food in Canton—is characterized by. the butchers as a campaign for raising funds by indirect means for the Health Department owing to. the failure of the Municipality regularly to appropriate tenanea, shops were fin was collected. The butchers, however, on March 24, decided to suspend business temporarily, they being powerless to oppose the local tarists in any other ton Mayor, however, jenouh to assure the butchers that he will look after their interests, Toxyo, Mar. 31—The Diet was formally" closed Pacific Service.
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