Hankow, June 16. Trouble threatened to break out today between foreign firms here and the newly-organized Wuhan Special Municipality over the refusal of the members of the Foreign Chamber of Commerce to pay taxes, Contending that they had no jncgone nines the Yangtee was closed to commercial naviga tion, the various foreign establishments here have declined to pay the taxes imposed upon them by the Municipality. While Japanese are represented on the Foreign Chamber of Commerce, Japanese firms were understood not to be taking part in this movement.—Domei. the Japanese _gendarmes considered the evidence against a suspect suffice Jent to warrant his being handed over for trial by the Chinese authorities, the British Municipal Police might think otherwise.
He could not say that the grant of these wider powers appreciably changed to situation, since the crux fof the present problem was the handing over of the four men requested.
Regarding the two men whom the British Municipal Police had offered fo turn over to the Chinese authorities, Mr. Tashiro admitted they were dangerous anti-Japanese elements, ud he thought the Chinese authorities would accept the offer. _Nevertheless, they were not the mei parti-
These two men, Mr. Tashiro vealed, were arrested by the British Municipal Police last February. One was a member of a notorious gang of terrorist-gangsters and the other the "Chief of Staff of the anti-Japanese elements who had their base in the British Concession.'
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