CHINESE TROUBLE
[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]
CHINESE SUR-TAXES
(Received this day at 11.0 a.in.) PEKIN, January 14
Mandates issued impose 2.] per rent sur-tax on ordimiry goods with a fnrtlier five per cent on luxury from Ist February, 1927. Tliey declare tariff autonomy and instruct the Office to urge the Powers to resume the traffic conference, apparently in order to regularise these taxes. Another mandate declares the revenue ®*Yrom surtaxes is to he used for tho abolition of the likin fprovincial transit duty in China), readjustment of Sinn foreign loans, and constructive and administrative purposes. JAPAN’S PROTEST. TDK VO, January Id. It is learned that the Foreign Office has decided to instruct Yosluyawa to lodge a protest with the Chinese authorities against the proclamation of their intention to impose sur-taxes. It is unlikely that Japan will resort to force unless China attempts to collect the taxes at Tsingtan and Dairen forcibly. It is considered that tho Chinese declaration is intended more for the facilitation of a domestic loan issue than for tille actual collection oT the proposed taxes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1927, Page 3
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