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CANTON A FREE PORT?
FOREIGN INTERESTS,”
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THE CHINA MAİL.
The proposal made by merchants in Canton to make Canton a free port is gradually gaining support from these who have studied the question of Chinese tarif, says the Canton Times in an editorial.
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China, since 1543, has been denied the right to regulate her own rariff. At present import and export duties are levied on the basis of a fixed aniform rate imposed upon China by
treaties.
It is obvious that a'five per cent. Marine Customs rate, a land frontier customs "rate" of about three and one half per cent." and a two and one-half per cent, transit dre cannot constinate a scientific or economic adjustment of China's needs nor help the industrial development of the country.
It has been admitted by many foreign writers that China's present tariff was imposed with the sole object of protecting the interest of foreign importers. There has never been an honest attempt to deal with the ques- tion from the standpoint of China's interests.
While every country cognizes the right of a free nation to
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HALF-MILLION STRUCTURE TO BE BUILT.
WIRELESS IN JAPAN.
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PLANS FOR A POWERFUL STATION,
The Yokohama City Council has Plans for Y200,000 wireless re- approved an appropriation of hata ceiving station to be located in the million yen for the construction of Kwansat district will be carried ou the new bridge in front of Sakuragicho station. When completed, this will if an estimate submitted by the Tokyo be the finest piece of modem eng-Communications Department passes peering work is the city. Work is the Imperial Diet. The station will to commence the first of the year and be among the most powerful receiving the contract calls for completion instations in the world. February, 1922.
A desire to keep in touch with
The structure will be of reinforced foreign information, prompted by a concrete, 188 leer. long and 72 feet) realization of the use to which Ger- vide. The centre will be used for a man and French propagandises pur driveway and for the double electric the wireless is the chief reason for tram line. It will have a width of his advocacy of the new wireless, 52 feet. On either side will be according to Mr. Saeki, 'commanica- sidewek 12 feet wide...
tions expert who has recently com
A temporary bridge has been cor-pleted an investigations trip to the bridge and the old bridge is being in the Kwansai.. Quoted in the lift, structed above the site of the new proposed site of the receiving station torn down and will be rebuilt acrose Mr. Saeki says.
It is planned to enlarge the park in regulate its own tarif and to guard front of the station and greatly in the integrity of its own economical prove the general appearance of the development, this right has been de-square, which will be enlarged con- nied to China, and Chinese merchants siderably.
find themselves penalized because
↑ marive goods exported by natives must
the creek near the Grand Hotel. "Most of the first class Powers when the new-bridge is completed have several very powerful wireless the electric tram live will be straight-stations. In the Western countries ened and the present unsightly bridge these stations are used for forward- ing various kinds of messages, from torn down.
news Jown to exchange quotations. Most of the success of propaganda în France and Germany, for instance, is due to the use of wireless. When the occasion demands the sending out of j reports of the same nature, the radio beats any other form of transmission. less station in Japan has been prompt The plan to establish a powerful wire- ed by a desire shared by both the government and people to get lapan in direct touch with other Powers so
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pay in comparison with native goods revision. It is neither scientific nor handled by foreign firms, a much reciprocal. No consideration is given higher rate.
to the struggling infant industries of China. There is a total absence of reciprocity on the part of the foreign that she may be kept up to date in nations that are favoured by the pre-the matter of foreign information."
"If Canton is made a free port, foreign and Chinese firms will be placed upon the same level only by
Ci
sent system.
The Chinese Delegation at the Peace Conference prepared an appeal for the revision of Chitsee mriff, but it was never presented because the leading Europear statesmen were im- mersed in what they believed to be far weighter matters.
the abolition of the Likin system, Simply doing away with the Customs duties at the port of entrance would not relieve Chinese merchants from the present unequal competition but world tend rather to aggravate this injustice as the proportion of foreign goods would be correspondingly great- Foreign merchants would ca.
But now the Chinese people are doubtedly welcome this new innova-becoming aroused at the injustice of tion. Bar there remains the question this foreign imposed tariff. The com of how the Government will provide mercial world should understand the means for the payment of the national development of commerce in China indebtedness formerly paid from the depends to a large extent upon an Customs reverte. Some propose to increase in the consuming power of pur a high tariff on wire and tobacco, the people. Since the Chinese pro- and it is estimated that from this | dactive power is checked by bad tariff source alone, Kwangtung will be able systems, what things can the people to pay its quota of foreign indebted offer in exchange for foreign po ness So the proposal to make Candace? The only possible result will toa a free port will in no way jeopard-be a decline in foreign trade. The ize the interests of foreigners, while trade, at present, is continued be- it will greatly stimulate trade and cruse the foreigners lend money to promote commerce.
the Chinese to spend. If the lend- ing were stopped, the foreign trade of China would be contracted.
Therefore, the proposal to make Camon a free port deserves the atten- tion the anthorities and should
It has been argued that the tariff rate has the power to alter the direc Bon of the economic development of a country, that is from an agricultural to a commercial and industrial tend- ency. If that be true; then China's recei: support from both foreign and marif is in sad need of immediare | Chinese merchants.
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Eaten up with Rheumatism But DeWitt's Cured him
Another splendid triumph for Famous "Proof Cure"
In your e
Do you suffer from sheumatic shoot the bladder. For efnnot hare good vised to try De. Will's Kidney and ing pains in the limbs and stik aching health and spirits while this poisen Bladder Fils. I was surprised and junts?
Bright's Diawase delighted at the relief I obtained after Few people know the real cause of one of the deadliest of modem the first dose. I continued with them, these troubles and how they lead up to plaints, and if you neglect any kind and got rapidly better, and erald soca wwiat diseases that came thousands of of kidney or bladder weakness, you get about without craiches. I have are running & verices risk. It is dan been able to walk and work la comfort
deaths very year.
Those who are inclined to kidney gerona to delay. It is no longer neever since that time, and I feel I owe trouble should be on the look-on for Ary to suffer. Here is the story a complete and wonderful cure to De symptoms which will prove to them bi à man who was erred completely of Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pilla. whalber their kidsers are weak or not, kidney trouble.
and these symptoma should not be over- booked or disregarded, became serions and incurable forms of kidney and bladder disorder start with very slight symptoms, and gradually get worse. How are you to recognise kidney and hinder trombie! Just ask you the qeution, “Esta I agy of the following Kyngtona?" "Have Ĺ a mosty taste, în the mouth first thing in the morning, puffiness under the eyes, general feeling of weakness and irritability, aches and pains in various parts of the body! Have I notipation, clandy urine, or sharp stabbing or aching painama pain **as though my "hack" will- break"!: These are the rare and certain evanptoms of kidney trouble, and those who sudes from. 'Enckache, rheumatism, gout, scistics, gravel,' alone, cystitis Getam mation of the bladder), or pains in the muscles and joints, are-áll szfering these pains through, weak or disesaad kidneys, for these are positively the
mptoms of kidney trouble,
signs of kidney or bladder trouble are caused by the poisonous acid. in the blood which ibs Edneys should remors, but they do not, owing to their being in a weak sheta za
The kidneys are the filters of the
and it is through them that
body
the impurities from the blood pan ori
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De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pilla Igu` siznight to the kidneys, instead of merely regulating the bowels, 4 mont so-called "Kidney Pillado. This is the secret of their marvelloca efficacy. They are so finely compounded that they pass from the stomach straight. into the kidneys and into the bladder. Thi Isitively proved to you wh n ran see that blue-coloured szine. bere cacaot be any doubt-this very fact alone proves that De Witt'a › ilis have been just were you require them to go, the kidneys and the
jbl dder. 1ou see it fryourself.
If your kidneys are dealthy you make a fair bid for geners! good health and spirits. Many people's lives are made à brden ly those tring, weakening, backache pains, those rheumatic twinges in the limbs. those borning bladder paint, and discomfort, and the irritability and depression that is always a sure sign Jofdrey, and · hladder weakness. These ymptoms are the Lor runners of theamatism goot, lumbago, a d Hbladdér inflammation that make ilie fan incessant torture, or the terrible Bright's disease that canses so many Ejderüh every year;. A proper kidney.
ME. TECWAS THOMAS, Iron Photz), remedy, properly. administered, will
curve from the system the cisors which cause all this pala and dise 30,
cd the system."If the kidneys as put) Mr. These Thomas, of Pick dideja d "pron të pornak good "health di arder, these impurities, which take Tredegar, anys Poe four or freand outlook.
the ton of tay jagged szpitale of years I was eaten up with rheumatism Within 24 hour they are shaolutely uric acid, are held up in the body, jy aims and legs swelled so badly guaranteed to relieve the pain, and a exosing those rheumate twinges in the that I had to houble out on crutcher blue linge in the urine, proves to you, joints and muscles and stabbing pains Sometime Lhad to crawl up and down for your own satisfaction, that the in the back. – Other ways in which the stairs, on hands, and cones, thehaaling properties have passed right Hidasy trouble shows itself in. bind-pain was a terrible. After I had through the kidneys and bladder. acbe Dervons debility, swollen feet,ried many doctor and advertisedThey hardly ever fail to effeck a pur bad breath, constipation, and westen gemedies, without anecess, I was' ad-manent curre
KIDNEY & BLADDER
De Witt's Pills
When you buy the pilla; be sure they sri De Wild's in the rod - božans printed: in red and "paid, "with-than them red, wat seal on the bottle. Cifth them a file trial and prosé for yourwil what relief they bring. If you a would like any further information on this czis vendid bral card to the makers --P. C. De Witt and Ca Sitha hrestoran Foedus. London: Eichiad - mestguing thân tưng, taDa Visis Kelody and Ehüdke
are sold by Charmed and Startkeepers everywhereVin" every" part of the civilised world. If you have sty dimenity Kini, chiaining - gemine. Be Wai's Kidney and Bladder Pili arith the keď sell on the bark write to The Shanghai Dispensary, Finchow Bosd, Shangla
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