The heavy military requisitions by the Shansi military authorities fruposed upon the various districts throughout the province of Chihli have drawn many protests and petitions from the people to the Chibli Provincial Government.
They point out that successive taxation during the pa year, have already reduced the farmers to degtitutlon and that the present action of the military authorities in commandeering their mules, cows and all available foodstuffs deprives them of their only means of subsistence—Kuo Min.
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