The Archive · 1939

To Pay City Govt. Tax

Shanghai, Dee. 7.

Members of, the Special Muni ipality Police who were unsuceess-Tui in. their attempt to. obtain from Mrs. M. M. Cohen, British suk Jeet living at 7-C Titenys Road, yester-May afternoon, threatened to arrest someone in the liely's household if the tax was not paid. When asked for the tax. Mrs. Cohen told the Chie nese policemen that she was British and that she was not yoing to pay fond that they could take the matter with the British Corsul-General After this rebut the policemen eft tthe scene with the threat to arrest some member of the household if the tax was not forthcoming.

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