When an irate inspector of the Nationalist. Stamp Tax Bureau, sitting in a motor truck at the inter-Section of Chekiang and-Peking Rox} ft 10am, on August 15 waiting for the traffic signal, took it into his head to snatch the ignition Key from the switchboard, thus holding up the truck and its contents, and got off the vehicle, he started Something which his superiors would probably give much not to have had The inspector's action resulted from an argument between the truck-driver and himself over the matter of stamp tax payable on cigarettes, The driver was employed by the! Foh Chang cigarette factory, No. 820 North Chekiang Road, and was in the course of delivering boxes of cigarettes to various establishments] in Avenue Edward VII. At one of the shops he was told to deliver some of the smaller packages taken from large ease to their branch shops in various parts of the Settlement, and {t was while in the purse of this work that the inspector of the Stamp] Tax Bureau came on the scene and demanded that, since the small pack-lages bore no stamp tax, the driver would have to accompany him to the Bureau, No. 15 The Bund. The driver refused to go to the Bureau and said that he would go back to the Stamp Tax Bureau were in! attendance in nearly every factory] in. the Settlement where products Tiable to tax were manufactured, and their duties were to see that no manufactures left the establishments without the necessary tax stamps being affixed, The Court remanded the case till August 23, accused to be released on the same bail,
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