Will Provincia! Authorities Keep Their Promise not to Levy Tax?
'We understand that the local rice merchants on' Tuesday sent $50,000] to the authorities for expenses in connexion with the upkeep of the Shanghai and Woosung Constabu-Try on the latter's promise to cancel their order for the collection of the special tox of $1 on each picul of rice sold.
Readers will recall that the merchants and the local people protest.
vigorously Of the authorities to levy this tax and threatened to declare a general rice shop strike if any action was taken to enforce it. The Shanghai District Magistrate (Mr. Li Tsu-Kvei) and the "Commissioner of Shanghai and Woosung Police (Col. Chang Tz-ying) intervened, with the result that the merchants offered to pay the above-mentioned sum if, the tax was cancelled and an under-aking was forthcoming that no future attempt would be made to levy taxes of a similar nature.
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