Nanking, Apr.
In connection with the tice shortage in Kwangtung, General Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung Pro: vincial Government, has telegraphs to the Ministries of Finance and dustry, reporting that hw has ordered enforcement of the measures Concerning exemption of foreign for Kwangtung from payment of the ister Import Duty.
the meantime tie Shanghai City Chamber "or "Commerce has. ayant pelitoned the Central authorities Fescind the order" ranting exemption duly since the interes of" the farmers in Hunan, Anhiwel and other provinces, where's alleged there 10,000,000 louis, wilt sutor by the surplus stocks of rice' exceed
concession cup Min,
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