Yang Sen More Friendly to Foreigners Chengtu, Nov. 19.
According to local reports, the National Government has indicated its agreement with the decisions of ths Tzechow conference and preparations are being made for the Inauguration of the new provincial governmen: on January 1, 1929.
In the list of officials published the names of several of the important leaders do not appear and this gives rise to the rumour that a combination of these generals may be made and resistance offered to the new government. 'The ru: mor persists that General Wa Pei-fu's name is being used by the discontented, but there is little evidence to' support the tales of. activity in that part of the pro-
General Yang Sen appears to be adopting a more friendly tone towards the representatives of foreign firms and. although unwilling to forego collection of the taxes he has imposed at Wanhsien, he is ing to negotiate in connection with conditions at Wanhsien, From Chungking west there is no improvement in the mutter of taxes on goods in transit. It is now impossible for merchants in Chengt to purchase kerosene in Chungking: for sale in Chengtu because of these taxes.
The Taxation on Oil All oil for sale on the streets here is sent in by the agents of the itary official of Suining on the little river. This official controls the territory through which the main road from Suining to Chenutu passes and is thus able to profit to the amount that oil coming by any other route would have to pay As a consequence the price of oil is just double what it was two years ago and it now costs ten dollars a tin. A writer in a local paper stated recently that it had colt him two dollars in freight and taxes to bring one della worth of paper from Shanghai to The removal of re the return of missionary the into for has resulted i numbers coming back to 1 tional and mission exceutivs centre. These parties report that the people Were most fricnully along the roads travelled and that a general feeling of confidence in the suees of the new National Government prevails.
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