Since July last a tax has been imposed on manufacturers of tobacce in Seoul and eight other towns in Korea. We learn from the "Seoul Press" that the manufacturers number 51 in all, and that the tobacco manufactured by them during the four months ended October last was 776,247,000 cigarettes and 8,492 dwan of cut tobacco, while the tobacco disposed of by them during the same period amounted to Y.1,480,000 in value. In this connexion, past experience shows that the tobacco consumed during July, August, and September is smaller in amount than in any other months, but the figures above mentioned re large and show that the tobacco industry was carried on compar: atively prosperously during these months. In view of this it thought that the tobacco monthly manufactured will amount to more than Y.500,000 on an average up to the coming spring.
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