Dairen, Oct. 19.
'The Municipal Government of JMukden has applied to the South [Manchuria Railway for a loan of 'Yen 2,000,000 for completion, of the water works and sewage system' the city.—United Press. contribute to them' should be assur-fed that the money is devoted to its proper purpose.
This is now micro definitely felt since the damages wrought by the Moods have been, to a large extent repaired by funds collected elsewhere, and those who have suff from the floods, both private dividuals and public bodies, have also spent large sums of money, both to repair the damage and to safeguard their properties damage in the future, of through partly at municipal and partly at private expense to render: the city and suburbs at Hankow safe from a flood of last year's magnitude. If this scheme is to be successful for any length of time, the works erected must be continual.
tinaintained in proper state of repair, and local residents who are already contributing large sums in Dyke Tax feel strongly that they should not be called upon to provide further funds for the protection of Hankow against floods.
'There is therefore a very general {feeling that if-the tax is to be continued, "a proper administration sheld' be set up, that accounts of receipts and expenditure should be made public, and that a definite Proportion should be allotted for expenditure in and around Hankow i self, and if such an administration were brought into being, and the Toney' genuinely devoted tothe public ends for which it is contributed, it is likely that much of the: opposition to this levy would disighbour-'Commis-and in particular by their [eincers and administrators appointed by the Central Government. jeansed wide-spread commendati and it is likely that nothing would more acceptable to. the communyy in Hankow than that a nucleus of this organisation should be left behind to. maintain and extend the liable work which has been the past year. however, any organisation under central control were estab lished, provincial feeling would demand' that sums collected for Dyke which "are contributed Hupeh and Hunan only, should 4 finitely be spent entirely: in public]
ial interests should be fully. re-these provinces, that presented on whatever body is plac. accounts of their collection and penditure should be available, The memorandum sets forth the fe following figures representing the tax collections recent years: 1928, Hk. Tis, 925, 1020 Hk. Tls. 723, 2 35 1930 Hk. Tis, 642,884, month in order to acquaint. League teles "with "rear conditions
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