CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 170

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KIUNGCHOW.

8th February, 1926.

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817.

I have the honour to report that the first

instalment of pickets has now arrived from Canton. The

blockade of Hongkong was enforced as from February 6th.

A tax of $3 per case on Kerosene and Petrol

was enforced on February 5th and the two Oil Companiés

No warning of the tar

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at once suspended deliveries.

was given and no proclamation announcing it has been

issued, so that I have not been able to ascertain the

machinery of its collection. It is called the "Nainan

Bureau of Finance Kerosene Mongoly Tax".

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When the Cantonese and their Russian masters

arrived, the walls of Hoihow were covered with proses

of the advent of the Golden Age, particular emphasis

being laid on the abolition of all oppressive taxes.

It is true that a few trumpery uroroductive taxes recently

imposed by General Teng Pen-yin have been abolished and

also, as a necessary corollary of the extinction of the

trade, the export taxes on pigs and cattle. All other

taxation has been increased.

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The present officials are apparently still

only temporary and the permanent administration has

still to arrive from Canton. The full extent of the

anti-foreign measures is still therefore a matter for

speculation. The Chamber of Commerce has received

Majesty's Minister,

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