Feo Ovk OWN CounEsroxoE®
Hankow, Nov. 17.
The troubles of the Hankow Race wines which it seized, and now the Wuhan' Financial Committee has made such exorbitant demands that the races scheduled for to-day have been abandoned. For some time the Race Club has been paying a heavy charge for police protection, Which was quite ineffective on the recent occasion when a mob of ane'er-do-wells invaded' the public enclosure without paying the charge that had been fixed.
An Indefensible Demand The Club has also been paying percentage of its takings a3 a arrangement with th the Club ed well outside the Concession area a district where rates would ordinarily be imposed. And this Payment ought to have exempted the Club from any farther demands But the Wuhan Financial Committee thinks otherwise, and it hit on a truly brilliant idea. It proposed that the winner of every prize should be taxed, and to make sure of the taxes being paid it proposed that the Club should deduct them Surely it is the acme of cheek to expect a Club which is already suffering from the actions of one Tax Bureau to collect illegally levied taxes for another Bureau! The Club fa of that opinion, for it took the dignified step of cancelling the appointment. It may have effect that is desired, and show the Jocal Bureaux that the foreigners are still able to take a firm stand.
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