"On matters of money, the only reference made was regarding royalties and nothing was said about. the, rates which have the most serious Dearing on the life of the residents," they are reported as declaring.
"Even inthe contract, indefinite terms are used, making the decision regarding rates rest solely with Britons, "The criticism that SMC, employees "are receiving excessive salaries, is being answered by the vague declaration that the generat efficiency of the sti Is being heightened, However, when one takes a cor rect view of the sufferings that are Doing endured by the majority of the residents, who are in the claws of the depression, it is only natural that the payment of annual salaries, ren Ing. from $20,000 to $42,0000, to S.M executives should be regarded as cessive, For although Shanghai moy international city with peculiar conditions, the Settlements. popula ton, does. not exceed 1,000,000.
"We believe that salaries should be cut #0 that the high taxes may be duced," the spokesmen are reported {o have said, Declaring that its argument for: reforms in the Shanghai Municipal Council was not "an empty one a erring that Britons should moved and some other nationals in. their place," the "Nippo" stated:
The need for a basic readjustment. in the tax rate has been increasingly discussed of late, Attention has been called to the fact that there:
firm basis for the taxation rates and that assessments are, unjust.
But. taxation alone is not all] that' should be aired. Discussion should deal with plans for an tensive reorganization of the §.M.C.
"We do not deny that, in the past, the SM.C., centred about Britons, has been cient, or that it has} achieved results, but we also realize that ite scope of activity gradually reaching the end of the rope, Just the size of various national populations in the Seitlement has Changed from ten and twenty years; ago, #0 has. the political and econ ome significance of the International Settlement been transformed. naturally behoves the SMC, as the direct. administrative machine of the Sottioment, to make similar changes in its organization,"
The publication referred to by the! "shanghai Nippo" Is presumably the *North-China Daily News." If 30, this journal's comments upon muni inal publicity and been, properly understood Nippo."" What the "North Dally News" said was considerably different from what the "Nippo" has quoted,
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