$5,000,000 Shortage due to Tobacco Tax Abolition Nanking, Mar. 1.
Measures to make up the deficit of $5,000,000 of Shens! province will be discussed between Dr. H. H, Kung, Vice-President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, and Lieut Gen. Sun Wel-ju, chairman of Shensi, its stated.
Though the Sisn impasse. accor ing to Gen. Sun, has not seriously affected the Shensi financial situation, the province nevertheless has suffer~ a huge deficit, caused by the abolition last year of the tobacco tax—Central News.
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