Mayor of Swatow in Scheme to Tax Electricity estimates have recently been made as to the increased expenses which this will involve.
According to calculations by he Chinese side it will involve an extra penditure of nearly two million year, for quite a large staff of competent translators will have 'The Soviet side estimates the extra cost at about half' this amount, But no matter which sum is decided upon, the railway will be burdened with a large extra expense which hardly seems necessary, and Which is sure to retard the bringing cut of accounts for surely" tra lations are only required of import. unt documents and accounts, and hot for all the routine work of the per cent. tax ed, by Mr. Hsu Shih-ching, Mayor of Swatow, and the arrest of banker who refused to obey ruling, resulted in a general being declared by the merchants of that port on the 22nd instant.
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