The Chinese landlords involved the dispute with the Council have sued the Jatter in the Court of the Consular Body here and the question fg still pending. In its petition to Chungking, however, the Association quotes in full the text of a Judgment dotivered by the First Special District Court many months ago In. connec: tion with a similar ease in which the Council was the plainti. The court than ruled that the Council had aht to levy the tax on the "Fanta Tt ly mentioned in the judgment that every part of the "Fantan™ Tand ie purely Chinese just like any other piece of Tand in this country outside the Settlecent. The Judgment oes so far og to quote part of Mr. Justice Feetham's report to sup= ort arguments "presented by the court, asserting that the foreign Toya) expert invited by the Council many years ago to study the problem was of the same opinion as the court.
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