Autumn Cocoon Crop Exempted from Half Taxes After all the motor "bus men had quit work and presented a complaint at military "headquarters, Fedress was promised, They then returned to work, it being by that time something found seven evening.
That same evening, passing by the 63rd Division Headquarters, a Li Man Ca. driver forgot to turn off his headlights, as required by military regulation. For tut offence the guards pummeled him until he had to be carried into the Municipal Hospital. Next day another driver in. like manner ran foul of the lax, and also ended up in the' hospital. So all of the "bus chavffours of the Li Man Ca. are giving the Man Tak Maloo the cold shouls-ex, and it is reported that charges will be filed with the local court against the guards who used this high-handed method of enforcing their regulations, Nanking, July 12, th a view to promoting the native silk industry in the prov-ices of Chekiang and Kiangsu, the Ministry of Finance, in compliance with petitions from the Chekiang and Kiangsu Silk Merchants' Guild, has instructed the Silk and Cocoon Tax Collection Bureaux to exempt the autumn crop of cocoons frot half of the existing tion, The revenue such taxation will also be devoted entirely to the improvement sericulture in the two provinces.—Kuo Min,
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