Chinese Ratepayers Assns. in Both Settlements to Lose Govt. Subsidy Mr, Huang Shen-hsi, a member of the local gentry, has telegraphed to the Governor at Nanking "the Ofice of Chinese Counefllors in the Rrench Concession and. the Chinese Ratepayers' Association of the "International Settlement, organizations for the protection of the, interests of Chinese residents in the foreign settlements of Shang hai, should rgarione Fon Appropriations "for these twe rgantzations have been disallowed by the Financial Commission on the Budget" Estimates, probably because of its ignorance of the purposes for which they have been atabisheds Kindly refer the question to. the Comméssion for res Slderation, #0 that the appropriations may be included in the Budget Bstimates."
"Mr. Han Kno-chan, Civil Governor, in reply, admits that the Chinese Councillors' Office and the Chinese Ratepayers' Association Took after Chinese interests in foreign settlements, but as the appropriations have been excluded from the Budget by the Financial
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