Chinese merchants see a serious! danger in the provision that public Vulldings are to be classified separately, for they foresee that the Tand-eyner may find that tes and taxes to leave public of the Wuhan it, buildings immune from taxation That Council is not, of course, al for riy building which a Municipal Couneit in any sense of therthe term, for a municipality can only er chooses to occupy a public build-exist where there ix local government, and, as the Mu There are, of course, properties Gouneil was mot elected by the rate-in the two Special Areas which are payers and does not represent them, of high value, ud they. have borne in-any way, it is another example the taxation necessary to provide of imperialism masquerading a> re-those amenities which have given publicanism. It is this unelected: part of their value. body which now assumes the ade] ings in the Chinese city ministrative control of the two ex-concessions,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.