Floatsam from the s. Wutachou, ives rise to the belief that she sank near Tenyel about the 22nd. Aeroplanes from Hongkong and the gunboat Kuangehin from Canton are said to have been searching for the missing steamer.
Wednesday the Wutachou should have gotten to Kisngmen from Shul-
Canton, Jan. 10, Writlen into the agenda of the Jsecond Three Year Plan are the sup~ pression of opium smoking and of gambling in public houses. A com: mencement of the first objective will made on February 1, but the stop ping of fan-tan playing has been post-Jponed to some indefinite date, The business tax is not bringing in what it should, and it and the land tax will have to be augmented if the valuable fan-tan income is to be "Abou! 1928 the Canton firms had meet this novel business tax bill, and by degrees there was an extension include Swatow, Fatshan and other towns of size. Possibly in ten, or a more cities, merchants pay this tax. "During 1935, excluding Canton, not more than $70,000 was collected from all these" communities—not enough to cover the cost collections. The depression is responsible for this, and bowing to the inevitable the Government has not gone on with the extension of its scheme to Include the more rural sections, and will not during 1986. Over $1,000,000 was (urined into the Business Tax alice min 1934. Canton alone account ed for more that year than last year when business houses paid round $500,000 The land tax collection has been 0 dismal failure too. Before last December the law was to have been effective in all of the ninety odd feounties, but barely ten have accept-fed, though it was two years ago that the Government promulgated the act. The peasants objected because their assessments already were too high. All and sundry clamoured for reduces tions without avail.
For reasons known to itself, the Kiwangsl Government preferred not fo renew the throughetransit pact which regulated the carriage of prepared opium from Yunnan to Canton when It expired at the end of 1935. These eight days anyone has been free to buy the narcotic in Kwangat by paying Scents per tael by weight, which rate Kangst charged, Control of Opium Trame Such purchasers have smuggled colum and the authorities of Kuang~ tung lost control of the importation fond. distribution in their own ter fltory. Mr, Chan Wal-chow, old brother of the Commissioner of th Salt Gabelle, with Mr, Chan Man-po, Vice-Superintendent of the Opium Suppression Bureau have gone to Nanning to straighten out the affair.
continuation of the understanding with Kwansi will be sought, Other wise a substitute of some kind is to [be arranged whereby the opium from the time it Teaves Yunnan until 1 Canton will remain in the of one government or the other.
About 2,050 boys and girls, large and small, will soon preach the gospel! fof anti-imperialism in every nook and joomer of Kuangtung and Kwang: missioner Reconstruction [By the gracious act of the Com
students. we priation of one. salaries of teacher and office clerks, This oratorical band of 2,500 docs not include pupils under the age of fittoon. Other children, 12, 19. and 14 yeaes old, will stay tu the metro: polls, and "stump" the city while the elder pupils are roving through the country. AMI will devote 50 days in expounding the Soctrine of anti-imperialism and the school" winter vacation has been Tengthened, for this purpose, Cosmeries Imported into China uring the first eleven months of 1935, totalled about $0,000,000, according to statistics just issued, tung, and as she failed to appear her owners made a report to the Hongkong authorities Thursday. Last [Saturday a fishing smack out from that part of the coast known us, Chipo discovered corpse floating on the surface, und spotted a life belt bearing the characters Wutachou. On the same day from the s. Tachang, bound from Shultung to Klangman pieces of luggage were seen ation small boat was lowered and other Hosting objects from some wreck were observed, including a band with the name of the lest vessel on it, such of was worn by. Wutuchot guards.
'About 200 passengers had been taken aboard at Shuitung. 'The miss-Ing ship was carrying a large cargo her return trip fo Klangman, it being valued at over $200,000, and the probability is that the' ship foundered because she Was too heavily
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