Unable to collect back taxes from: local Japanese "habitual defaulters," the Shanghai Munt~ cipal Couneit has filed ten sults with the Japanese Consular Court, the local Nipponese papers reporied en June 26. The total umber of Japanese tax default rs, to. whom nal notices have been Issued by the Council, exceeds 360, the papers added. sixteen persons Including six women had sponsored this "go to. prison" movement. The sponsors were either fastocinted with the organization or in sympathy with the defendants, and rimest every one of them had worked with them for national salvation. A few hundred had joined the movement, and the number might grow Mr, Chu then emphasized that the Association's leaders were innocent He.said what they had advocated was to unite the whole country against Japanese aggression. They had repeatedly announced that the Three People's Principles wire national salvation principles. They wore ready {o put themselves under the guidance the Government In any national salvation work.
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