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CANTON NEWS. '
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] WHO SHOULD HAVE THE MONEY!
The General Chamber of Commerce in Cariton City has been asked to grant a loan of $600,000 to the local military and civil authorities, $300,000 to the Hend quarters of the Yunnanese Army and $300,000 to the Commissariat of Finunee The other day the Yanganese inlted for $36,000 and wanted to charge aanse to the account of the Commissariat, while the Commissariat held that the sum should be credited to the account of the Yunnanese. SIGN-BOARDS TAXED. Sign-boards and other hangings in Can- ton other than the denotation of the firm name and business will be subjected to the Be tax on advertising recently promulgated, according to the ruling of the Municipality. It has been the practice of many frins to advertise "sules" and the like by displaying long scrolis on poles! extending into the street from upper windows or porches, nad the municipal authorities say that such action con- stitutes advertising within the meaning of the regulations governing signs on walls, roofs, fences and the like.
LOCAL BUSINESS MERGER.
UNION INSURANCE CO. BECOMES: PARENT OF THREE OTHERS.
YUAN TUNG SCHOOL- The Yen Tung Hok Yaan School .at Canton, opened a year ago to take in stulents who bad left the Sacred Heart
A merger of insurance interests where- College because of the Catholic authorities by the Union Insurance Society of refusing students paroission to par- Canton becomes the parent company of ticipate in an anti-Japanese boycott move the Yangtazė Insărance Association, Ltd., mcat, celebrated its first anniversary on and the Far Eastern Insurance Co., Ltd., May 9th. At the beginning some 800 as well as the North China Insurance students withdrew from the Sacred Heart Co., Ltd., and the British Traders In- College and when the Yunn Tung startedsurance Co. Ltd., has been completed. only 70 entered the school, 400 returned The transaction is the largest ever effecte to the Sacred Heart, and the rest scattered by Far East companies. ed into other institutions. It is said that the Cantonese parents are always in sympathy with foreign schools and the many agitations of similar character have ofter been led by paid agents of certain political parties.
CHEN "KWONG COMPANY. The Chen Kwong Company in Canton, one of the largest local department stores, has been put under the manage ment of its creditors, who are appointing a temporary board of seven members to carry on the business..
Mr. C. M: G. Burnie, General Man- ager of the Yangtze Insurance and the Far Eastern Insurance companies, be comes, additionally, under the terms of the Few arrangement, general manager and secretary of the North China and British Traders insurance companies.
With the amalgamation of these buge interests, the staffs of the five organiza- tions have been centralized and now are housed in the Shanghai Bund premises of the Yangtaze Insurance Association.
The senior organization involved is the aion Insurance Society of Canton, one of the first insurance houses established | in the Far East, whose head offices are in Hongkong. The Union, for mouths, has been steadily acquiring stock in the Yangtze and Far Eastern companies.
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YAM DYEING INDUSTRY The Yam elith-dyeing industry in' Ya po and other towne west of Canton City along the Canton-Samshui Railroad.! involving thousands of workers, which has been killed "temporarily by war imposts] A London correspondent Sends us part by the militarists to which the inhabitants of a catalogue, issued by Messrs. White, Drace and Brown of Hanover Square, refused to submit, may be revived upon and writes: "It may be of some interest the Kuomintang postponing the collection to your readers who, I believe, consider of the tax. The industry was suspended themselves hardly done by in the mat What would last year upon the Kuomintang refusing ter of rents in Hongkong.
they think of a demand for £9,000 a the petition to repeal the imposts. The year for a second floor,-plus rates, taxes, yam dyed native cloth is much used by lifts, etc., totalling probably £14,000 per
agaum. How many of them farmers, and also by boat people, because ausssed, if they have been into Lyons. of its durability, and piece-goods from Begent Street) for a cup of coffee, that abroad do not meet the needs of these they hare contributed in a modest way towards paying a ground rent of £2,350, plas & capital outlay of £65,000, or, af ternatively, a rental of £8,5000-add rates, taxes, etc?"
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CHINESE "MERCHANTS" BANK.
The liquidation of the Canton Branch of the Chinese Merchants' Bank of Hong kong had to be again delayed by the unwillingtress of the militarists to submit to ordinary proceedings. The other day an army officer visited the office of the temporary receiver with a body-guard and, at the point of pistols, forcibly took away. $20,000 worth of documents, alleged to be the amount dua bim by the bank. The receivers have resigned and decided to serve no longer.
PIECE-GOODS,” TRADE.
The Piece-goods trade in Canton, al- ready had because of unsettled conditions in the interior making shipments inland impossible, will be further affected by the attempt of the Yunnanese mercenaries to collect trade taxes in addition to the cus tomary dues payable to the Bureau of Finance annually in Canton. Like the botel, water, and other luxury taxes which both the civil and the military authorities attempt to collect, the people have to pay
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BRITISH PROTEST.
The British Consulate-General at Can- ton has made B. protest against the kerosene oil tax levied by the military authorities on the same ground as the American consular authorities, who hold a double duty on foreign importa, which, is contrary to treaty provision made be tween China and other Powers.
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. PROTECTION FOR BANKS.. Replying to the petitions of the "OD, Beans, and Rice Guilds in Canton to the military authorities to encourage the a tive banks in the city to again unlock their safes and resume transfer of specie, tho Headquarters of the Cantonsso Army have authorities are ordering the Police to provide special protection to the bankers
·REELERS' ́ STRIKE- ENDED, » and will hold the Police responsible for Practically all the reeling workers in further day-light robberies on the streets. the silk filatures of Namhoi and Bhuntakt may be recalled that the native banks districts near Canton returned to their in Canton were forced to cease handling work unconditionally on May 7th, the sash recently because of frequent com- strikers having been. assured of an in-andeering of valuables on the streets by persons whom the anti-Bolshevista crease of 20 per cont. in thair pay. The call Reds but the Reds blame as only All Orders and Enquires receive strike which was ended April 25th last was culprite disguised in their uniforms. caused by a series of defnanda which the employers, had considered hardly worth discussing but they complied with a re
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