Hard Hit by Natural and Human Calamities Hankow, Oct. 1 A thorough readjustment of the Business Tax collected In the Wus Han area, with an eye to exemption, if possible, is strongly urged by the Hankow City Chamber of Commerce petition to the Ministry of Finance. Owing to successive calamlties, both natural and human, which have befallen Hankow in recent years, the commercial conditions of this city have been seriously impaired, the Chamber states. Added to this, the city, during the past, six monthe, first experienced tremendous Aluctuations in the silver market, which resulted in a financial panic, and. was later stricken by flood, which forced trade practically to a While the various trades are in danger" of collapse, the merchants are bearing a heavy burden of taxa~ tion, and the mast unbearable is me Business Tax—Kuo Min,
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