Agitation is going on among of= ficial of the City Government of Greater Shanghai against the privilege which hitherto has been Joyed by the Whangpoo Conseryancy Board of imposing the reclaim ed foreshores and collecting taxes.
The City Government has some time past claimed jurisdicti over these lands and it may be recalled, a petition was submitted by the City Government of Greater Shanghai to the Central Government some time ago, requesting the cancellation of the regulations authorizing the Whangpoo Couservancy Board to enjoy these privileges.
Officials of the City Government demand that the reclaimed lands of the Whangpoo should in future be disposed of by the Ministry of Finance instead of by the Whangpoo Conservancy Beard and that the City Government of Greater Shanghai should hereafter authorized to collect taxes in this connection, not the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, The officials also demand that all moneys hitherto collected by the Board should be handed over to the Government of Greater Shanghai for custody on the ground thas, according to treaty stipulations and the regulations governing the conservancy of the Whangpoo revised in the Bist year of the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu, the Board is not authorized to dispose of the reclaimed lands of the Whangpoo or to collect taxes, The only regulation, they say, which is supposed to give the Board these privileges is Article XII of the Provisional Whangpoo Conservancy Regulations which authorizes the Board to issue receipts for the Payment of taxes by persons refining newly-formed foreshores. However, they continue, these provisional regulations have never been recognized by the Chinese Government, but they were simply sanctioned by a Chinese Premier in 1912 and recognized by the Diplomatic Body.
Based on these reasons, the City Government of Greater Shanghat has submitted a further petition to the Central Government, requesting the Immediate revision of the Provisional Whangpoo Conservancy Regulations and demanding that tne reclaimed lands on both banks of the river should in future be dealt with by the Ministry of Finance instead of by the Board and that all moneys hitherto collected by the Board for reclaimed lands or taxes should be handed over to she Government of Greater Shang-
END OF BOOK SHOP, INTIMIDATION, Attempted intimidation ent ployees of book shops on Foochow Road on September 2 fixzled out when the police attached to the Intelligence Department, having been informed of their activities, made an appearance and arrested four of 10 persons connected with the affair, The intimidators posted leaflets and entered three shops threatening the assistants with violence if they did not close up their shops and join them. As a result, two of the shops were closed but the assistants remained inside instead of joining their potential assailants.
At this point in the proceedings Det-Sub-Inspr. Papp and three Chinese detectives took charge of the affair and four prisoners. wi pear to-day in the. Shanghi trict Court. The leaflets in. their possession contain 20 demands for betterment of employees conditions and of their union as well,
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