'The British Cigarette' Company's factories, which. have. been closed for almost four months owing to the exorbitant taxation demands of the former Shansi authorities, are re-opening to-day under the old tax agreements concluded with Naze King.
The re-opening of the factories has been arranged as the result of negotiations carried on at Mukden with - Marshal Chang Haueh-liang iby Mr. A. S. Kent. Direclor of the British-American. Tobacco Go. and Genera! Chang Chi-fang, the Mayor of Tientsin.—Reuter,
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