Move to Lower Prices for Poorer Classes: Income Tax Postponed: $100,000 for Aeroplane Fae A Comusronoext Chungking, Oct, 4. present_moon (the 8th), however After repeated extensions, the only slightly over 200 tsai, or junk~ period of the registration for oplum= loads, ave been ordered, as com-smokers expired on the last day of pared with the usual 1,000 tsai. September. From the first of the this seriously affects the revenue month, an unlicensed smoker, from salt, the Salt Commissioner is arrested, will be lable to severe endeavouring to find methods of punishment, and even, in extreme remedying the situation. eases, to execution. An interview t> Szechuen's sugar crop this year 15 the press was given by the officer Ju a poor one. Reports have now! charge of the search parties, in which, arrived in Chungking that sugarcanz he. said that government oplumin the districts of Fushun, Lungehang, smoking shops in Chungking and Noikiang and Tzeliulsing' first suffer-elsewhere, which were sanctioned by ed damage in the floods, and then Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, were orlginthrough the drought; the total loss ally' intended to help addicts of the colic class and prevent their turn-Ing, fo, morphine 10 satisfy' tele Douglas Fairbanks Film These shops, he said, were now selling the "prepared opium at be~ for Lamas of Lhasa tween 30 to 60 cents, for small and 'Tokyo, Oct. 12. big portions respectively. 'The ort-Civilization, as represented by ginal use of these shops has there-Douglas Fairbanks' cinematografore, been nullified, since these hie. exploits, will soon invade coolies are unable to' pay such high Lhasa, Tibet's Forbidden City. prices for the drugs; furthermore, the 'The Indian branch of the oficial opium-smoking shops are now 'United Artists, Domei learned no better than the opium. dens of to-day from reliable sources, has the old order, He is to make it his received the permission of' the special task, "he said, to try and Tibetan Government to open a effect a drastic lowering of prices In "movie palace" in the shadow an attempt to meet the needs of the of the Dalai Lama's guilded poorer "class. of opium-smoker: Potala, The first screen pro-'Meunwhile, Gen, Chiang Kal-shek's gramme for Lhasa's 20,000" in-headquarters' in Chungking issued habitants, most of whom are Instructions to the Provincial Govern-Jamas, will include a jungle ment ordering it to ban the sale of picture shot in the Straits Settle-anti-opium pills of any description ments and one of the earlier throughout the whole of Szechuen. cinematographic efforts of Doug-'An alarming Improvement, incident Jag Fairbpnks, sr.—Domel, tally, Is seen in the Chengtu opium market, which is generally trans~ ported by cars; the present average wales per month is now over 2,300 has been estimated at about $1,000,- piculs, as compared with the usual 000, "As an instance of the economy 1,200 piculs averaged in the past. which Is to be practiced. it may he This is attributed in part to the mentioned that the Nelkiang Sugar establishment, of the government Tax Ofce has issued orders that n> opium-smoking shops in Chengtu sugareane to be out and sold for Wtelf, and to the opening of offices chewing purposes, for tha sale of opium in Huayang, Shipping Business Kuanhsien, Mienyang and Ya-an.
In addition to all this, trouble has Szechuen Income Tax arisen in shipping circles. In view Svechuen has yet to feel any of the good business being done by effects of the new Income Tax Law. shipping companies on the Upper Although a mandate was issued by Yangtze River during past fow the Ministry of Finance enforeiny, awnths, a Chinese shipping firm in the collection of the new tax through= Shanghai placed its s. Alsheng on out the whole of China from October the run between Shanghai and Tehang. 1, this does not yet apply to Sze wud has done a considerable amount chuen, "It is understood that no date business due to the lower freight will be fixed for the collection of Fates charged. the tax until the Szechuen Commis This, not unnaturally, caused a sioner of Finance returns from certain amount of anger in upper Nanking, river shipping circles, where movement has been slarted aimed In accordance with Instructions from the Ministry of Finance, Sze against the trans-shipment of goods cchuen's Finance "Deputy Ofleer is brought to Ichang by the s, Aisheng organizing a special Income Tax to Szechuen. As a result, several Committee, which Is to make a close thousand pieces of cargo shipped by and eareftil study of the rules gov-the steamer, valued at several hund-cerning this collection with u view to reds of thousands of dollars, lie adapting it to meet local require stranded at Tchang.
ents. "A number of economic ex-'Jungehang's hemp-thread buyers! pers in Yunnan, -Kwelchow and recently went on strike as w protest Szechuen huve been invited to serve against the sale of the new weight on the committes.
Instruments being forced on them by Upon the instructions of the C two government officers at an ex-missioner for Reconstruction, four ceptionally high price. There was tins of petroleum produced at Tzeunexpected turn to the strike; Hutsing were sent to Shanghai. The wer 1,000 women who make the Chinese Native Products Association hemp-thread found that they could to conduct experiments with this jot find a market for their goods on all in the manufacture of Kerosene that particular day, and naturally pir and both evade and lubricating they, too, protested.
They planned to march to the Dis-Remitted in a lump sum, $100,000 trict Magistrate's headquarters and to has been, sent to Nanking from appeal to him for assistance in the Chengtu. The money represents con matter, but the Impromptu parade tributions from all over the province dispersed when a few blank shots towards the fund for the purchase of were fired by his sentries. The dis aeroplanes on October 29, when Gen pute ended the following day, when Chiang Kai-shek will celebrate als orders were given that the people ituieth birthday, were to buy the new scales of their own accord, and at their convenience.
General's Leg Mounted Kun Wel-ching, who under the orders of Army-Comma der Teng Hsi-hou and General Yang Sha-hsuan was successful in chee! ing Communists.in the northern part the province from breaking Unrough into the Chengtu plain last year, Was unfortunately wounded In the leg during the campaign, and had to have it amputated.
Gen. 'Teng is now reported to have secured the permission of the Provineial Government to have the amputated, leg mounted in the Chengtu Park, where it is to be placed on display, though whether this is being done' as an encouragement to greater deeds or as a deterrent to would-be war heroes, it is dimeult to
comes from Peisha, in in Another "oddity" in the news Itln reported that there are so\many robbers" in the district that they have divided themselves up into no Jess than twenty camps, under their respective leaders. They have come so bold, furthermore, that they stage theatrical plays, lasting for several days, in honour of their latest recrulls.
Salt transporters in Tzellutsing venerally purchase the commodity during the 5th, 8th, and 12th moons of the lunar calendar. During the
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