Dr. Kung's order has reduced the present Customs duties imposed on these goods by one-third and the order will hold good until the end of the hostilities. The order, however, will not be applied to. those goods the importation of which were Denned in another order which became effective on July 1 of this year. Tt will be recalled that in the previous order more than 200 kinds of foreign goods (luxuries) were prohibited from being imported into this country.
The Customs duty collecting office in the Shanghai Customs office has just been taken over by the Japanese fat the request of Mr. Li Chien-nan, Superintendent of the Customs pointed by the new Nanking regime. Doubt has therefore been expressed bby the Chinese press that they will be able to carry out Dr. Kung's new order. People who live in the interior under Chungking's control, however, are favoured by the order and It is learned that they should feel much relieved because prices of foreign goods in the interior are much higher than those quoted in Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.