Thuvediy was the first day of the surtax collection in Shanghai and it passed off quietly. AS murly) merchants as possible had secured the release of their cargo on Wednesiay with the object of evadice the tax, #0 that the rev: nue obtained by the mew department was dentedly small fe the dey.
Ca interesting eatare, however, tran spired, as indicating that under pre sent auspices the Surtax went, which ix situated in the —the day before the wa instituted—were precented to the Bank of China together with the necessary payment of captors dubs, bat the of the Surtax Department insisted upon collecting surtax thereon. This was [Hid, but upon its being represented t0 the Surtax Department that thi cargo was actually due for release) a day prior to the imposition of Ure additional duty, those in charge once informed the people ea-cern: that the payment would be refund-mon, who were in a very real sense" the fathers of the modern cath movement. The imrk of Jenner, Pasteur and Robert Koch heralded the golden axe of bacteriology.
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