All this availed nothing, and the armed men loaded about a. thousand bottles of wines and spirits nto a motor lorry which had been 2 up to the Club House. {While the Josding was, being carried out, the leader of the searching party promised that the lorry should not leave before further orders had been received, but a5) soon as the loading was completed this promise was ignored and the wines and spirits" were rushed round to the offices of the Bureau.
Men of this stamp doubtless deem themselves efficient servants of the Government, sand probably fail to. realize the harm they are doing to the national cause.
The Pound of Flesh Oct, 27.
Although four days have passed since the seizure of a thousand bottles of wines and spirits from the cellars of the Hankow Race agents of the Wine Tax there is no in the Bureau will modify The fact that the legal dues have all been paid, and also the stamp tax, ix perfectly clear. The Club holds all the stamps necessary for affixing to all the bottles in its store. and it also hold: a scaled let. ter from the Bureau stating that the seals need not be affixed to the separate bottles. But it haz proved quite futile to submit this evidence to the head of the Bureau, His attitude is that since the letter to the Club was written there have been three changes in the head-ship, of the Bureau and that he is not bound by the acts of his predecessor. He maintains that hoteles of wine bought as far buck as last May on which the stamp tax was paid by cheque and the requirement that the stamps affixed to the bottles was waived, fare now liable to seizure since they do not bear stamps. And all thi without any notification to the Club that he did not agree with the attitude of his predecessor or—any suggestion that the stamps should he licked and stuck on the bottles.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.