Mukden, May 29.
Under the pressure of repeated demands from Peking for money, remittances, various expedients. are being tried by the provincial authorities to raise the surely needed.
The Kirin Emergency Vinaneingy Office will shortly issue 10,000 lot~ tery tickets at $10, thus hoping to realize about $60,000, the prized offered being one first prize of $5,000, five second ones of $3,000, each, ud ten third prizes of $2,000 each, Similar tickets will also ba issued at Mukden, and the drawings will take place on July 1. 1
Meanwhile various new taxes are Being imposed and existing ones me creased, such as the Kerosene Tax fof $1.50 per ease (the total cone sumption s estimated at 17,000,000 ceases annually.
Recently the Generalissimo' Office demanded the immediate ree pittance of $100,000 for distribution among the Mukeen troops at the front, and to raise this. paltry sum Governor Liu had to invoke the assistance of the Eastern Provin~ cial Rank, Bank of China and' Banke of Comminications—Reuter.
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