Samuel Chang, who apparently has seaepted the post of publicity officer for the Yin Ju-keng administration, which has its headquarters at Tungchow, broadcast glowing accounts of the improved conditions accruing to the inhabitants as the result of the separation from China. The bullet Uns retort to that contention that avithout the support of the! Japanese Kwantung Army the ré- gime could not survive. By that Support a direct encroachment _on the authority of the Chinese Customs was inspired, with the result that an orgy of "smuggling began, although eventually some pretence respectability was sought in the form of instituting a tariff with Jewer "import duties than those sanctlorfed by the Government of China. Narootie trafic. and gamble Ing are said. to be. encouraged the unauthorized "Tégime, although Mr. Chang has lately "denied "that assertion. The conclusion is that the existence of the regime is a grave obstacle to the establishment SinorFapancse "economic co-opers-
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