by Earthquake Singapore, Sept. 1 Earthquake shocks) were felt extensively along the Peninsula morning, tocal time. The most Serious shocks occurred at Penang where buildings were damaged. No casualties, however, were reported.
Meteorologists. state that the {rerors travelled southward down lay Peninsula and suggested hat sccoenponying, shocker Sagat bbe experienced northward, per= haps i Japan.=-United Pres. Cal., Sept. 19.
An earibquake of vilest peo: portions was. recorded -on "the Selsmograph at 521 o'clock this afternoon, Meteorologists said the occurred "about 9,000 possibly in the region United Press. ection the owners will be charged an examination fee, still to be fixed, whereafter the smuggled goods will given free access to the markets of Hopei, Charhar and the two special munieipatities of Peiping and Tientsin How such a measure will help to prevent smuggling remains a my~ story. On the contrary, to the ordinary person it would seem to be rot only a direct encouragement but. at any rate as far as North China concerned, an official protection for smuggled cargo. For. if by simply paying this examination fee on smug-led woods Importers are relieved from all fear of any further inter= ference by preventive officers. who is going to pay the regular Customs duties any more? What is, in actual fact, happening—no matter under what name the measures may be disguised—is thatthe authorities of Hopei-Charhar are merely taking a leaf out of the book of their friends {in East Hope! who have long ago been levying their own Customs tax. As to its being only a temporary measure, that no doubt applies to the amount of the tax and the methods of collecting it, rather than to the
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