Peking, Oct. 4.
The Chita Government is said to be arranging to open stores for the sale of alcoholic liquors, which are government monopoly. The Chita Government hopes by placing sufficient supplies on sale at reasonable prices to be able to suppress. smuggling and illicit distillation.
The Ministry of Transportation at Moscow announces the intention' to lay the entire new railway system with new ties. It is estimated that this will be completed in 20 years by the laying of 20,000,000 ties a year.
On September 4 a new Jaw was. passed at Chita imposing a duty of 60 gold kopecks per pood on all classes of floor, except potato flour, entering the Far. Eastern: Republic.—Reuter.
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