One of the annoying little taxes is the special tax levied on £00 sent by parcel post. This tax, is hot collected at the Post Ofc, but fat a building some distance away. in one of the local newspapers there was recently a suggestion that this Bureau ought to be abolished for several reasons. One was that the purpose for which the tax was levied has been accomplished now Peking has been taken, "but course a reason like that is invalid! Another was the annoyance which system causes to traders anxious to send small quantities of goods and. The third would be a valid one if only it could be brought to the notice of the proper persons, namely, that the Bureau uses $5,000. alavies and expenses for very, 000 which it collects.
Another annoyance is the attempt to enforce the collection of stamp taxes and other extra taxation withi the Special District in contravention of the terms of the Agreement of 1997." The blame for this annoyance foes' not seem to rest. with the Some of these men, wearing no uniform or badge and producing no authorization, have tried to inspect woods in several shors. There are so many thieves and bandits about these days that no one can blame a store-keeper who objects to letting: an unknown person wander round his premises, In one case such a man was handed over to the police by a store-keeper and as he could reduce nothing to prove his identity he was taken to the police station, A telephone message to his Bureau brought the evidence necessary to secure his immediate release and the matter seemed to have ended quietly and to the satisfaction of all those in office.
But the "Ming Kno Erk Pao" seized the opportunity to launch another diatribe against the authori-of the S.A.D. 3 and incidentally revealed something of the real purpose of these attacks. For the question raised was not whether the taxes should be enforced by men in plain clothes, but the question whether S.A.D. 3 ought main a separate territory as provided in the Chen-O'Malley Agreement or whether it ought not now to be merged with other Chinese territory. It. argues that since the British Concession has been taken Back, taxes which are fixed by the
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