Very interesting to the outsider is the internal political friction within the ranks of the Japanese authorities themselves in the city of Hotel. Tt seems that the dire poverty of the people in the city make governmental income from taxes, legal and other~ wise, very unprofitable. Houses prostitution have been proposed as a. Jmeans of income; but given up be-Jcause of the extreme malnutrition of the local civilians. Gambling dens were proposed, and are still, being. [considered in the Japanese circles, it reported, but have been argued against by 'Chinese of the city, since itis so evident that the people have! no money for food, let alone for' gambling.
But of course that may not be a good argument to some who would rather gamble than cat. There is. some small income available from the sale of morphine, heroin, opium and the sale of small stores of merchandise The guerillas have effected a rather emeient boycott on selling food stuffs to the city and. receiving of any. Japanese goods from the city. Rice, ery few vegetables, chickens and eggs can only be- obtained by the 10,000 inhabitants. within 'THofel" from farmers to the east of the city, along the Japanese-controlled railway Business in the city of Hofei is dead, consisting only of the supplying of food stuffs to the fow civilians who have returned to their destroyed looted by the local "self-government" from the homes and shops of civilians not yet returned from their fight to the country during the hostilities. Acing to the report these goods are hot "looted"; just appropriated for coal governmental needs.
The latter funds are the source of much of the internal difficulty between the two Japanese governing Jorganizations, the Special Service Bureau and the military police of the hsien, As a result of these jealousies
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