Rice shop managers and nine fokees in Swatow were held on Sunday, and from 20° shops lessor or greater quantities of rice were taken by Preventive emeers who had reason to elleve all had been smuggled into Swatow. Although a clique of Japanese are reported to have obstructed the officers while search-Ing the shop, the Japanese Consul was immediately gotten hold of by' the Mayor, and by 4 o'clock they had withdrawn, Allogether 196 bags made up the! haul from all the shops searched that day, Treatment of offenders is to be uniform, and most severe, Their fine will amount to five times the value of the grain which they got in with out making declarations and settling for the special rice tax, 'Tuesday two Japanese destroyers yot to Swatow from Taiwan, but there'is no special excitement among. the citizens, and the Incidents, thai have arisen' are being looked Into by the Mayor and the Consul at that port, with every prospect of thelending an_aceeptable solution, Shops handling the smuggled rice had been disposing of it through hawkers on the streets, who convayed It on hand trucks, "Since Sunday the hawkers have not been seen, Three New Demands All the Japanese business folk of Swatow with their Consul also. present fore gathered on Sunday, and it understood they drew up ' list of fen demands which they are asking the Consul "to present to Mayor Li Yuan-hwa, The substance of three of the demands have leaked out, accord: Ing to advices from Swatow, although none of them have been transmitted the Mayor as yet.
livery grain of the rice that the Treasury agents confiscated,—the Japanese business men claim, was (er property; It had not been paid for by the shops, and therefore the litle still remained with the Japanese Importers. The Arst demand, then, will be that all this rice be given up by the Treasury, 'A Taiwanman, it is claimed, was injured by one of the Treasury gents in Chang Fa, when he sought restrain the seizure of rice from this shop. The punishment of the person or persons who did physical Injury to him will be the second Henecforward rice belonging to firms is not to be interfer:
by amicers from the Treas is interfered with, uld be landed to protect this Japanese property.
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