At the very moment that restaurateurs were opening up affec, their. strike in protest at the ands of the tax concessionaire, hitch "developed that fora. brief Spell threatened to. bring about a Resumption of the "strike. matier how the tax is collected, the government felt, the tiplicateheck system must be carried out. This system was one of the main reasons. for the. resistance of the restaurant men to. the continuanes the old tax collecting method. yet on this point the strikers have iven in.
The outesme of yesterday's conference was not favourable to the restaurateurs, but while they" had to back down, the government took the edge of of the defeat by announcing that it will Keep its hands off 80 long "as. triplicate checks are kept so that the Treasury for storage, 408,859 tons were se-may always have access to the cepted and 170,957, or approximate- records, it will leave it entirely to ly 25 per cent. were rejected forthe eating house owners to say the following reasons:.—Just how the cheeks shall be made Tons out, And so the conferences came Short weight 23,407 away satisfied to Tet things go on Admixture of earth 49,055 Toferior quality of beans T1455, fas they are and throughout Canton Inferior quality of ba 1581 the tea-house-restaurants are Absence of labels 2502 Moisture 46.132 suming business, Not submitted for examination 38,050] Next to engage the attention of Mixed Grades 43 the Treasury may be the complaint Tt will be noticed that over halt of the dealers in leather, Not #0 the rejections were on account of far back these merchants were are and the admixture of, hounding tke Treasurer, and kept earth. at his heels until the tax on the In the present absence of any' goods they deal in was reduced, icans. of checking the quality of Dut they" have found that the crop, it is dificult to trace the modification does, not cover domestic source of the adulteration to any leathers imported from other prov~ of the many hands through which inees, A large part of their the beans go, but the practice has, cargoes are' subject to taxes that been' sufficient to draw many strong. hey objected to paying, so the argument has started anew. protests from Europe, which have been brought to the attention of the Attacks on Nanning Mukden authorities, Peace talk is again in the alr, That these latter fully, realize the Ki wants an, end to. this seriousness to the trade as a whole of the adoption of these practices, is evidenced ' by one suggestion which was made that regulations should be issued making it capital offence to indulge in the-practice of adulteration. This, it is reported, was promptly vetoed by Marshal Chang. Hsueh-liang as too barbara ous a measure. Another school of thought advised the establishment, of inspection bureaux, but this, it fs state the Young Marshal does not find acceptable, because it opens axiother channel for that very kind of squeeze which he is so desirous to stop. In the meanwhile the Unit-Jed States is already devoting con: siderable areas to the growing of beans, and Britain is experimenting in sonic of her colonies, so that un-Jess the Manchurians mend—their ways their bean trade is likely to follow the path of tea and silk From a domestic point of view it is interesting to note that there are no fewer than 70 oil mills in north Manchuria of which 50 are in Harbin, this industry holding preier place in-the list of 23 different industries maintained in the raile] way area. The recorded production of approximately half a million interna! warfare, Canton hears, but she peace on her own She wants to revert tothe status quo ante bellum, Kuangai to be governed by the Kuangsi-ites foe the Kuangsi-ites, which the Can-leaders will not consider.
The Yunnanese army is again manoeuvring against Nanning, G.H.Q. insists, A limited time has deen given the civilians in capital of Kuangsi to remove to place, and while the exodus going'on, by agreement the besieging army withdrew five from Nanning. The time given the civilians to move -out has expired, and the Yunnanese are drawing closer to their objective, As before, they have the aid of the Canton ait force, and correcting mistakes made in the previous drive, the attacking force hopes to be able to gain possession of this city very quickly.
iltaneously, the Cantonese regiments are moving out from the district of Loypan, and are getting farther from Wuchow and nearer Lanchow. In that city the largest Kuangsi force is concentrated, and a decisive defeat in that sector would about spell the finish of the rebel cause. tons of oil is regarded as far below maximemi possibilities, due in the main to general conditions of production and sale.
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