A mistake in policy, an error of judgment' greased the tracks for {the Tobacco and Wine Tax, Super-Intendent's down fall, Knowing that he was obliging everybody to provide themselves with plenty of silver to pay their bills, absolutely refusing to have anything todo with Central Banknotes, Chen Mingshu and Fan Kicmo (who lowes. whatever political success he has had to the graciousness of. Mr. Chen) et fly their haepoons. Thi was the culmination of the stra; fand, neting on telegraphic from Messrs. Chen and Fan, the (Central Government. straightway effect demoted Superintendent Cheng by making the. rule. that causes Shanghai cigarette manu= facturers to settle their accounts afore shipping stocks. to. Kuange tung. Contemporancously stopped the further collection of cigarettes, the internal revenue tax on
Under the local Superintendent. fare the Tobacco and. Wine Tax Offices for all of three provinces, Kuangtung, Kuangsi, and Fukien, The main ofice is in Canton, and here 200 women are kept constant ly employed pasting to each small package of ten or twenty cigarettes the government revenue stamps. With the National Treasury foregoing the collection of the. stamp tax, they will have to find employ ment elsewhere.
The Military Machine Fan Kicmo has stood out stra for the right to, direct Fathering in of the, "tug. foliars. As" the delfyate of the National Treasurer' for this. one rovinee, he should be the one. Tun the cement and match tax fices, and. when they "come into existence, those which will have' ido with the collection of taxes on cotton and cotton yarn and flour 'This overwhelming. triumph. will be. "beneficial to "the provincial authorities, in that it will, keep fore money down south which can disbursed when' the. militar niachine needs oiling. 'Chen Chi-sang would have had to. remit every cent to Nanking, bot Mr. Fun, Chen's own nominee and man Friday, should be able to take care Jof the' financial needs of the vince before making his remittances to" the north.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.