Peking, July 24 It is reported from Mukden that General Chang Tso-lin is holding the salt revenues in the Three Eastern Provinces, and threatens to appoint his own man to the salt offices in Manchuria. The Salt Inspectorate has received remittances up to the end of June, however, and it is not thought likely that General Chang will persist in a procedure that would quickly bring him into unfriendly relations with the Powers to whom the salt revenues are pledged as security for loans. Meanwhile the position of the staff of the Salt Gabelle in Manchuria is most unsatisfactory.—Reuter.
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