Double Duty Enforced on For= eign Goods at Taichow Frog Ork OWN Com aichow, Mars 19%
A few weeks ango, the likin fle sink at Haimeng. seized several boxes of foreign, goods which wer their way to Taichow and Tei They were told that duty ale reedy had been paid on the goods Shanghai theless they sisted on the Tikin duty: being paid Things inthe A distriee fare quiet andy nel goldie fon ay ual, though people ave taxes be inge greater than ever before. The ladow: farmers in the eoune try, t00, that they are beginning to sigh for a return of the "good old days" of the past. Unfortunately, the 6 have taxes fe (YEE the hills: consequently, the owit= ere are cutting them down hem rather than pay The policy of cutting trees en the hills ly very. serious. as, when the heavy. summer rains fand typhoons come, thes wash orth down from the hills whites surround the city. Great streams vith and ud sane come down, sides and fall ante. the iver, the bed of which is heine filled' ap. Consequently, whenever there is a Lad typhoon, the city and riot are inundated, which means, of course, that the crops are des troyed, and the people imporerished. Now that the large trees are Tieinje cut down, matters will st improve,
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