Cigarette Companies' Protest Against Nationalist Plan to Contiol Sales 'With the announcement that the wovinee of Chekiang is taking steps Tovenforce a tobacco monopoly. which wil institute. for the province a system of enormous revenue, both Chinese" and' foreign cigarette factories in the province have registered their protest.
The former make the followin announcement under the signature of the local guild: "The cigarette bus ness. in China had been controlled by. foreign imperialists for "more than 0 years since the opening. the treaty ports, Foreign clgaretie merchants "were allowed to trade felling. agone tnvevery part of the county. AB 8 result, millions of dollars are thus Ibsorbed and shipped away fron China," Te'is a. great pity to have uch things. going on. After. the 30" affair, many Chinese cigarette factories. were organized Dut they could not carry on very well, During the interval of two} Years, most of them were compelled dawe down, with only a few concerns surviving, 'The cause of tha failure was partly lack of, capital dnd limited. production and distribu Ton, and partly suppression by the'
The cigarette tex which was: inaugurated seven years 060, Uperating in every province. Shanghai the situation is diferent. Only Chinese territory has to bear the" burder of taxation as no tax fun be levied in the settlements. Gigarette merchants in both Nantao Chapel are perpetually in, very bad way, No, sooner was, the Trouble ofthe, Pacanan tit Fee atted than "the Chekiang regarding collection o Authorities proposed the official sale fof cigarettes in that province.
avheavy View to the already heavily taxed Chinese merchants. We can say the proposal fs, in fact, monopoly to get more money for the provincial government, without Yegard for the hard condition of cigarette merchan 'Three Months' Credit According to the proposal, it fmated that the amount of Cigarettes to be consumed in_Che-Kiang is. $2,000,000. The ofcats vill buy this amount of cigarettes From the merchants anc will them-Selves. db the selling, to retailers. However, they will not pay for the ceria oh Bae sag ump a ter ae ging to Dene whole profit from the sale - of Sine Sem cee feet, all the Chinese cigarette
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