Special Taxes Also Not Paid by Smuggling Gangs Front Our Own Comesroxoext Canton, Oct. 31.
From each of six departments 20 to 30 drawing salaries from the Government are being dropped to bring the aggregate of disbursements somewhat more in line with the income. The pruning hook will be manipulated in the Municipal and Provincial Gov-ferment Houses, the Provincial Bureaux of Finance, Reconstruction, 1n~ ternal Affairs and Education.
Budgets cannot be balanced until ways and means are found of bring, ing the debit side of the ledger down bby. $2,000,000. A start was made by the all round 20 per cent, decrease in the size of pay envelopes of civil servants and of military officers, glving a net saving of $300,000 a month, but still leaving a $2,000,000 annual This large disparity between revence and disbursements is caused mostly by the decline in duties col-Teeted. While the Customs has been 'a heavy loser through wholesale smuggling, the local Government feels the effect of the evasion of duty when comes to collect its special charges on commodities that pass through the Customs.
Twenty-four special agents who are going into every nook and corner of Kuangtung quietly to probe the off-dal and private life of all official Intend frst of li to find -out who in government service is in league with the smugglers, What is surprising even to casual observers is the nonchalance displayed by the Government to petty evasions of duty that would seem to encourage larger smuggling operations. Any morning, stitutions in the country. The story of or afternoon when a Hongkong vessel ties up, crowds along the Bund watch {chain of human beings cling to the {side of the pier, passing tins and bags of groceries from hand to hand.
Lack of Cohesion in System Another weakness in the prevention system is the lack of cohesion Detween various "forces of officers charged with the apprehension Aiferent classes of law-breakers. A. man from one office will not assist the arrest of one whom he seer violating the law, if he has not been specially appointed to watch for this: type of violation. A traffic officer is concerned only with the enforcement markable growth during the past 100 of traffic rules, and seldom will run) (after a thief.
One of the outdoor sports of Sha-moon is watching the host that make off with bundles of old newspapers, darting from the British or French Bridge across Shakee Road, down Into alleys. As soon as the backs of the men who are out to break up the smuggling of banned journals are turned, "another miscreant shoots across the, roadway. All the while! the "regular policemen patrol the a closer ce-operation in future among the forces of the Military Administrator, of the Provincial Treasury and of the Provincial Smuggling Supre sion Bureaux. The three will main-fain a central office to direct the activities of each.
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