Tientsin, Sept. 10.
Me. It Ching-hsuan, Counsellor of the Binistry of Finance, told the local press in an interview yesterday that the Hopel-Charhar Inspectorate General was only a recognized organ of the Teanghsien-Yenhslen. Inspec-Won Bureau for the Prevention of Smuggling and Arms and. Ammuni-tons, Reports recently—published in newspapers to the effect that the new organ would collect a "consump~ ion tax" amounting to one-eighth of the regular import duty on smuggled goods, he said, were essentially based on misunderstandings and conjecture. Central News.
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