Chinkiang, Sept, 14, "It is leamed at the Kiangsu Provincial Department of Reconstruction that construction of the Chungshan Highway at Chinkiang, a wide avenue which runs from the railway station through the heart of the city to the northern gate of! the city, is nearing completion and is expected to be thrown open to the public by October 10, the Natichal Indgpendence Day—Kuo Min, Tue Deputy Customs Commissioner in Tientsin, acting under! instructions of the Nanking Govern-_ ment, has lodged a protest with Mr. Lennox Simpson, the _Tientsin Customs Commissioner appointed by Gen. Yen Hsi-shan, against the retention by the northern militarists of $360,000 of the Tientsin Customs revenues each month, states a Tientsin telegram to the' Chinese press. Mr. Simpson, it may be recalled, has declared that the money to be retained will be used to defray the expenses for the maintenance of the various government in Peking and Tientsin, Tue Government-General of Korea is proposing to establish a meropely in liquors in order to augment its financial resources, and will insert an item in the Budget for next] fiscal year for making investigation. Tt is calculated that the total quantity of liquor consumed Kores annually is worth Yen. 70, 000,000, "However the establish ment of a monopoly will call for Jarge amount of capital, and this will make it diffcuit to put the plan into execution in any short time. is expected that, following the ex: ample of Formosa, the monopoly will be confined to Japanese sake and spirits.
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