In the House of Commons this afternoon Mr, H. T. Muggeridge, Labour member for Romford, ask-whether British subjects in China bore a part of the cost of the British army in China?
The Secretary of State for War, Mr. Thomas Shaw, replied: except in so far a9 the Shang! Municipal Council exempted from taxation and rent the lands and buildings occupied by the troops and some British residents who were subject®to income tax."
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