By contrast with the 8 per cent. municipal tax, which residents the S.A.D. have to pay, Chinese residents outside the SiA.D. appear nat to have to pay any municipal tax at all. It is trae, the organization outside the S.A.D. is so chaotic that it is difficult to discover what taxes are paid, but the only regular tax, which can be traced, is a police tax, ranging from $3 on large houses to $1.50 per year on smaller houses. Such matters as municipal improvements, building of road and so on are financed out of a 24 per cent. duty, collected on all imperts into the province of Kiangsi passing through Kiukiang. Thi duty is contrary to the spirit of the iff agreement made with the Tt is paid equally by foreigners i S.A.D. and by Chinese side the S.A.D. living out However, the most serious aspect of the proposed King's Regulation not the rate at which it is proposed to fix the tax, so much as the consequences which are likely to arise to the efficiency of the municipal administration, when the Chinese officials find that they are going to receive their money regardless of whether they give service in return for it or not.
Unchecked Mobbing of Foreigner administrators of the S.A.D. Last week a house coolie, who had a grievance against his foreign master, collected a crowd of coolies outside the than the others nearly knocked him, over, He thereupon' turned round and knocked the nearest cooli down. This somewhat sobered crowd and, when another foreigner, whose attention had been attracted by the tumult, ran-up to help him, the crowd broke and dispersed. Fortunately the coolies had no palea and the foreigner got away with sever: contusions on his leg and neck.
During the whole riot, the three policemen stood and looked on and made no attempt of any sort to protect the foreigner and, shortly after, the administrator sent in a claim for compensation for the coolie who had been knocked down and the extent of whose damage was a black eye. This apparently is the sort of thing that the foreign inhabitants of S.A.D.s are going to have to put up with in-future,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.