Canton, Feb, 3.
Since the Red retreat, Kweiyang has been released from the stringent martial Law regulations. The gates fare open, and even the foreign missionaries are gradually coming back.
Resting after their exertions on the field, Hsieh Yo's Nanking troops and the Kweichow soldiers shortly will pursue the Ho Lung Reds. There are Several divisions of Humanese in Tungehi_and Chenyu, and the Yunnanese have dug themselves their frontier. The retreating enemy fare not being left undisturbed either, for when they evacuated Pingyueh three Yunnan. battalions went tear ing after them. A battle is on in Taling, County.
Sunday newspapers recorded that the few native all refineries that are left in existence suspended business a protest against the collection of the exorbitant tax on the crude Imported product. How it came to pass that the heavy duty was not being assessed by the Maritime Customs follows:—the Provincial Treasury "beat the Customs to it collected Mex $87 per ton several years back, and the Nanking Government could not get the Treasury to forego this and gave up the collection of the Import duty in Kuangtung.
Now the Customs is showing no merey to the refiners and they have to pay $112.20 In local currency each ton. The Department of Reconstruction takes another $6 per ton fas a "registration fee." Besides the {$112.20 local currency which goes to the Maritime Customs, $120.90 local currency is Tost on each ton of arud all to the provincial tax bureaux, a rand total of $238.10, which Is high-than the original cost of the all, making it too expensive to. warrant reining.
Normally local refined kerosene sells at $4 per S-gallon tin, "With the elosing of the veftneries, the selling price has advanced (0 $5.0.
Vice-Admiral Olkawa's Visit Vice-Admiral Oikawa wilt come to Canton to-day. "As his flagship is not of sufficiently shallow draft to move further up the river than Whampoa the gunboat Saga has gone to Hongkong, and the Vice-Admiral will return in her Chinese reporters who called to seo Mr. Hu Han-min yesterday had to be content with speaking to his secretary. Mr. Hu, it was learned, under doctor's orders not to see anybody os he has been overexerting
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