Semi-Offcial Assurance That Merchants Have No More to Fear than Before The Chinese press reports connexion with the establishment of anew Likin Bureau on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, that rumours have been circulated in the Chinese circles to the effect that this is a means of levying a double tax. In the past inland rities on railway cargoes were collected by the likin stations on tke railway. On account of the corruption and squeeze perpetrated by the tawgatherers the authorities of this province finally transformed the aforesaid hsin stations into 10) railway likin bureaux with their
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