Kuo Min News Agency re-
The Shanghai Chinese Ratepay-(gx8" Association received a letter from. Gen, Chiang Kai-shek on August 6, which is an answer to the petition: requesting the Govern-went to forbid Chinese from" having, their properties and. business registered under the name of foreign: firms or individuals sent to Gen, Chiang on July 22 by the The letter promises the Associa. tion that the contents of the tion will be duly attended to; and that, it-has already been referred to. the Ministries of Finance and Loreign Affairs.
The letter reads as follows:—
"Your letter containing the resolu-passed in your meeting on July which reads:
"That the Chinese are acer tomed to register their pro 2 and: business in the names of foreign consulates, lawyers _or firms, and sometimes under the Hongkong Ordinance; thus making the taxes paid by the Chi-/% niobe appear as if they were paid by, the foreigners, is a fact which tends. to encourage the exploits of the Imperialists and impair the prestige of China as a great "We, therefore, request the Central" Kuomintang Headquarters, the Nationalist "Government and the General Headquarters to issue proclamation declaring such registrations as invalid, and remade with fes; and forbidding the further practice of this ridiculous proce:
ture, the violation of which being liable to.severe punishment, is daly on'hand; and the contents thereof duly' acknowledged.
"The matter therein referred to pertains. to finance and foreign affairs, so T have referred it to. the Ministry of Finance and the Minis:
oreign' Air respective: the receipt of your letter, "This is by way of acknowledging
"Lam, 'CHIANG 'KAL-suez."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.