ON DEC. 1
Ten per cent, Levy in Aid -of Flood Relief Nanking, Nov, 19.
It is learned from authoritative sources that the Flood Relieg Customs Surtax of ten per cent. on all imported goods, except the [which are ordinarily' exempted from Customs duty, will go into force on December land will be effective, for eight months, till the end of July, 1982, and that beginning from August 1, 1982, there will be a Flood Relieg Customs Surtax of five per cent, on all imported goods with! no time limit, The regulations have been approved by the Central Political Council and handed over islative Yuan for examination.
tis has already _adoptey regulations—Reuter. available. Tt will aim frst to trans ate into definite projects auch of the schemes "as. will. be "select "being "the most" urgent, fo, correlate them with one an.
to. establish "an order of Priority, and in essence to elaborate 8 rapidly as possible a ce-ordinated lan of develop: first period fe three years beginning in 1082, The financing of this frst plan will have to be done of of the national resources.. "The newly established National" Finance "Commission will determine the amount of credits that set aside for the purpose of reconstruction, and {twill be. the {aah ofthe National Beonomic Coun.
of these credits, pronounce upon the proper
of eeparing' vse three-year. pla adn to the immediate task the Council, will have to examine and give its opinion from time. to time on current proposals emanating either from. central vor local. a thorities or from private institutions, and from. Chinese and. foreign tu, dustrial, "trade and" finances me tore 'Among the specific als which you as a body. will consider are Hwa River conservancy and land reclamation, harbour development Greater Shanghai, construction moter' road from. Shanghai "to Nanking, and land reform and agricultural improvements. In gen ral-the Council will examine and planning, for a. period of or more, the main course of development which China desires to achiev Such a plan must be based upon the natural development of those industries that are best adapted to the natural resources and conditions. of the country. The programme of, economic development should of course of closely related to the development of the system of educasutomaticaly become members, any few more have to be selected.
Tris estimated that. there are already 112 members. of the two] committees, thus leaving only 48 to be elected,' of whom 2 are to be selected by the Canton congress and the other 24 by the local congress.
General Ho Ying-ching, Minister lof War and ce-chairman of the {foreign relations committee of the Congress, submitted "a. detailed report regarding Japan's military strength, his statement being based fon the figures supplied by Japan to the League General Ho stated" that Japan could mobilise six million men with the four-year pla emphasis will be lad strengthen Ing' the national defence. system of Manchuria and of the north-western provinces of Eh "The followin have been elected members of Committe Yo Marshal Chang Haueh-liang Yang Hey General, Chang. "Teo-pin, Chinewo "Minister at "Toky os ca 'At midnight the votes' recorded for nominees for the Central Exeeutive Committee, of whom 18 are being selected, had not been counted, at, the election of the following Chow Fu-lal, chief of the training barony "of "the General Chien Tacchen, common: of the Model Military "Aendemy" Hankow; and General Ho Yao-chu, chief-of-start of the Generalissime's headquarters-—
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