'Powers' Protest Against Retain ing Shantung Revenue Peking, Sept. 6.
The British, Japanese and French Legations are reported to have protested jointly to the Waichiaopa Against the action of General Chang Chung-chang in detaining certain salt revenues in Shantung.
Sept. 7
'The Powers' Note with reference to the detaining of certain salt revenues in Shantung protests against the arbitrary action of General Chang Chung-chang, firstly, in collecting a surtax of 80 cents picul on salt, and, secondly, in transporting into the Interior of Shantung large quantities of salt sored at Tsingtao with the object of appropriating the proceeds of the sale of them.
Attention is also drawn by the Note to General Chang's propose! to impose a stamp tax of Si a picul on refined salt, which, estimated, would bring in more than $400,000. The Note declares that these actions constitute a flagrant violation of the Reorganizi~ ion Loan agreement of 1913 and are calculated to throw the existing salt administration into confusion. Reuter's Pacific Service,
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