This Summer Prest Oux Ov Consesroxsexe Kaifeng, May 20.
Mr. Li Wen-hao, financial commissioner of the province, declared the local press that more than 80 kinds of miscellaneous taxes were abolished in the province in 1931, fand 270 in 1988, "Altogether some '360 miscellaneous taxes had been abolished in the past four years. 'There are some other taxes which' cannot be abolished, as they are used educational funds.
tu the disturbed regions, on the Honan-Hupeh border, the land tax; has also been abolished. He also slated that the expenditure and the Revenue of the province since 193)
to the present seem to have balanced, and that the Provincial Government has to raise some more money, as the building of the Yellow River "dykes, reconstruction of the highways, restoration of the rural areas, are not included in the bud fet. Mr, Li left for Nanking on May Conference.
16 to attend the National Fipancial
Tu the city here, there is prevailing'a ramour that the Yellow River will burst its dykes this coming sum~ mor, as a "tsao shu", or date tree, has been seen to. bring forth "tao tue" or peach fruit, near the river. InChinese, "tsao", or date, is "early", and "tao", or peach, is "escape". The wonder suggests tothe people that
carly." they should' ""tsao tao" oF "escape The farmers, living in the regions along the Yellow River, are ordered to bulld its dykes. In recent days, the weather has become very hot. The thermometer runs up to 905 degrees, Fahrenheit. In several hsiens of districts in Northern Honan, the wheat was destroyed by hails.
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