Thirty Dollars a Month on Private Motor Cars: Thirty Per Cent. Charge for Remitting Funds: Fever Outbreak in North of Province Taiku, Shansi, Dee. 20, T have already reported the position of a surtax on goods shipped on the Chengtai Railway, by the military authorities of the province. The latest form of taxation to be imposed is to reach the owners of private motor cars. This tax, which the authorities are now trying to feallect, amounts to $30 a. month. Hitherto the privately owned had paid a tax of $3 a quarter, The new tax will make it out of the Jquestion for most of the private fowners to operate their cars, Perhaps half the privately owned motors in the province belong to the various mission hospitals. Thes# ears have been of great service in enabling the doctors to respond quickly to emergency calls. In the Tong run, of course, it will be the Chinese people themselves who will suffer as a result of this latest form of taxation, Not only are the people feeling the heavy burden of old and new axes, the whole of 1927's land tax! having been already collected, but business throughout the province is: tata. stand-still because it is impossible to ship goods in or out. This is because of conditions on the Kin-Han Railway, which is now pas been for many months simply a military convenience. Some months ago many business firms Shansi gave up sending their buyers four to Tiontrin and Shanghai to lay new stocks of goods, for they well knew there would be no chance fof shipping in the goods ro pur
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