In local philanthropic circles there was mach perturbation about the question of fooil-stuff taxes, Wouldn't it he sufficient if taxes on relief supplies were remitted? for the most elementary and of reasons.—Why quibble about the taxes on four when famine victims don't expect to eat flour? For the ebrious reason that if flour is overtaxed, the flour eaters are driven into the millet and kaoliang eating class, the prices of cheaper grains) mili upo Mongol border and when he was isolated the bonier suffered in that had to live on itself without the usual big profits from its middlemaa's trade but had also to surrender its surplus stores—its reserve strenzth—to the Inge Feng Vu-hsiang army. With little toll from commerce it supported the Kuominchun for tio solid years and then went through a painful and expensive readjustment under the! Fengtien and Shansi folk up to the. time of the Chang Tso-lin with. drawal Last summer, since when it has enjoyed unlimited banditry and: [chaos. And now for the results,
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