Nanking. July 3.
The official Central News Agency has issued a summary of the revised smport tariff schedule.
Articles on which the prevailing duty has been decreased include cot ton goods, fishery and other sea prom ducts, and paper, while articles subject to an increase of duty' include chemical products, soap, lumber, coal, porcelain, cameras, and cosmetics, The duty on wines, beer and tobacco 'The duty on cotton goods has been reduced by five per cent, while the duty on the following' has bes revised in an upward direction:
Agricultural machinery..76.20 Bleetric machinery under 30" lio:
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Sewing machines 2 Typewriters and duplicators 3
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3 authorities there, disclaimed all Knowledge and referred the Club to the Chekiang authorities Mission Not Moving It is learned that the two missions concerned are not moving. and have advised the authorities of this decision. in the interview granted them they requested a reason for the amazing order. They were given frane, but when they stated that they would not move, ere im-Medistely told that "the authorities will take mo responsibility for the safety of the missions, when the Japanese. arrive!"
The French Consulate-General, with whom the properties are re-{elstered, has instructed the mis sions to remain where they are, as they believe that the order is entire: Tt & understood that the order is the subject of a strong protest and inquiry of the Nanking Government, by the Freach Con sulate-General here. No answer has, fas yet, been received.
Foreign residents of the. Chapoo area refuse to believe that the evacuation order has anything to do with "the fortifications which are being erected. It is believed by them that, as the value of property that area has Increased considerably since the highway was finished, the oeal_ authorities are all properties into that they can realize a considerable sum from the sale of them fat a future date.
Meanwhile the residents of Chapoo Jare awaiting to-morrow, the date Jwhen the order is supposed to take foffect. with considerable interest, if Rot worry, although they are not of the opinion that the authorities will actually enforce the evacuation they threaten to do,
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