Exchange of Old For New Not To Be Permitted Nanking, Sept. 28.
Despite te opposition raised in certain quarters, the Ministry Finance has definitely decided to enforce the sale of the new documentary stamps, which willie obtainable by the public only through the local post offices, on and after Nov. 1.
The old stamps will be simultaneously declared null and void.
Interviewed, a spokesman of the 'Ministry said' that a clamour has been raised or the privilege of exchanging old stamps for the new ones, so as to preclude losses by the merchants. But the present stock of stamps available only amounts to $2,000,000, which should be easily absorbed in the ordinary—course between now and the end of October.
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