Unfortunately, there is still the! perennial problem of finance. It must be remembered that the country has been taxed till the 21st Year of the Republic (1932) and that in some districts a second demand for 1929 taxes was made, under the palliative phrase loan." So the Government dare not at the present time make another appeal to the farmers. There is a new Commissioner of Finance, just arrived from Nanking, and he sopposed to bring some relict with hin. The Provincial Cham ber of Commerce has been asked for a loan to pay the current month's salaries, 'The country could not bear another appeal for taxes, especially' in the north and west,' In other'
Parts of the province, "the conditions for the autumn crop. are fairly favourable, but in the two districts that have suffered so much for the last three harvest periods there are the gravest fears, that the autumn again will see no harvest, for the rains have not fallen. if within the next few days there are rains, there is just a, chance for the people of those dis-stricts,
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