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HANKOW SEIZURES.

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The following statement has been issued by the Hankow Bri tish Chamber of Commerce on the subject of the taking over by the Chinese of Special Districts Nos. 1 and 2.

Provincial Government and is open

SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929.

ARMS FOR BOLIVIA.

ARGENTINE SEIZURE ON GERMAN VESSEL

AUSTRIAN WAR DEBT.

AMERICA TO SANCTION POSTPONED PAYMENTS.

Buenos Aires, Jan. 18. The author!tios have seizod two

Washington, Jan. 18, thousand cases containing rifles, has favourably reported ou

The Senate Finance Committee consigned to Bolivia, aboard the

the German steamer Sachsenwald, Burton Bill authorising the post- anchored at Santa Fe.-Renter's ponement of payments of Aus- American Service.

tria's war debt, in view of a pro- posed hundred million dollars ré- construction loan. --Reuter's Ameri- can Service.

The netion of the Hupeh Pro- vincial Government in abolishing the administrations of the 1st and 2nd Special Districts and Incor- porating them under the Wu-Han

A Breach of Faith. Municipal Bureau creates a situa- tion which can only be viewed with ment authorities by not proserving (5) That the Chinese Govern- the gravest apprehension in that, the principle of taxation for the being both, arbitrary and unlaw-exclusive requirements of the ministration has hitherto existed, fal towards the subjects and special districts and thus foreign in the far larger Wu-Han Munici citizens of Treaty Powers general- British residents in these dis- pality, which in respect of Au ly, it forms a dangerous precedent tricts to become Hlable for Chinese ministrative action is still quite which should not go unchallenged taxation for Chineso purposes are unorganized, is a retrograde stop The action is in accordance with causing a breach of the existing which can only lead to the de proclamation No. 8 of the Hupeh Trontles. Further that in so far as terioration of the former, while the taxation is local rather than their respective standards of effl- to dispute on the following counts: national and taxation which places ciency differ so vastly that any (1). That the Hupeh Provincial them at a disadvantage as com common forms of administration, Government in usurping the au-pared with residents in other areas just to the former would be on- thority of the National Govern of Hankow and must therefore be tirely impracticabic. ment by a unilateral action which considered as directly discrimina- affects the persons and properties tory that the action is contrary perience there is no reason to an (b) According to all. past ex- of the foreigners, whereas such to the spirit of Sir Austen Cham-ticipate that funds collected by action can only rightly be taken by berlain's declaration of December, the Administration, unless ade- the National Government as a re- 1926 and January, 1927. Ault of negotiation and agreement

quately controlled ns in the past, with the Ministers representing (0) That the fact the Chen-will not be aquandered without any the foreign interests involved, have | ('Malley Agreement was negotint-regard for the requirements of the created an unlawful net in accored in the spirit of Sino-foreign co- Districts, dance with international pro- operation working towards the,

(c) Without such control there cedure. In contradiction to this amalgamation of the five conces will be no limit to the taxation action having been sanctioned by sions in similar manner indicates with which the Chinese Adminis the National Government, advices that the action of the Provincial have boot received that quite re- Government in connexion with the cently the Chinese Minister for two Special Districts is not in ac Foreign Affairs informed II.B.M. cord with the original intentions Minister that no change in the as understood at the time of status of these districts was con- negotiating the Agreement and templated.

therefore is a breach of faith.

tration will endeavour to burden these districts in general and the foreign ratepayers in particular, whilst the relative opulence of these districts, when compared with the poverty of the Wu-Han Municipality as a whole can only result in a disproportionate share Against their Own Laws.

(7) That the Municipal regula-falling upon the two Speelal Dia- (2) That whereas the laws and tions which have been abolished tricts, which must lead to a heavy regulations under which theor submitted to the Consular Body

having been either nogotiated with increase in existing taxation. Chinese authorities themselves in and the approval of the latter, if

Representations to Whitehall, (d) Lack of adequate expendi troduced the Administrations of not actually requested having been ture on the districts, which is re- these two Special Diatrists de tacitly assumed and actually regarded as Inevitable, can only finitely lay down that no further quired to enable the Administra-result in a general déterioration of change can be legal except by ation to collect taxes from subjects order and upkeep, leading to a two-third majority vote of rate of treaty Powers the abolishing of gradual withdrawal from the two payers in favour and that as this these now is a breach of faith. districts to the two concessions. vole has not been obtained the Also that in the case of the S.A.D. (e) The collective result of action is illegal in accordance with No 1 foreign ratepayers made a these conditions can only be a civil procedure.

voluntary payment of approximate-rapid depreciation In the value of ly Tis. 80,000 against unpaid and property and Investments, the legally uncollectable taxes, after jeopardization of mortgages, etc., negotiating this arrangement and fand a general destruction of affect being given to it the rescind security and therefore of credit. ing of this agreement is a breach Therefore urgent representa- of faith.

tions have already been made to

(3) That the incorporation of these districts in the Wu-Han Municipal area technically de- prives them effectually of the status of Treaty Port Areas and creates a position in which foreign property owners, are either do- prived of their rights belonging to them by Treaty or retain them only because the Chinese them- selves are forced to avoid this fa- sue so proving the action a direct

breach of the Treaties,

as the 29th instant the Commis-strong request that appropriate (8) That the fact that as late H. M. Government supported by a sioner for Foreign Affairs for action be taken to deal with the Hupeh informel the Senior Coneal situation,

that although the matter was un- The Wuhan Safety Bureau has der consideration, to decision had issued a census of residents living very day the proclamation abolish-Special Administration Districts yet been reached whilst on that in the Japanese Concorsion and ing the existing regulations was of Hankow, This showa a total faith. issued shows a gross breach of of 23,443 males and 12,897 females of whom 21,147 males and 11,420 females are Chinese. The British total is given as 95 families, con- sisting of 234 males and 110 females; the American as 34 families, with 61 males and 32 females; the German 18 46 families, with 78 males and 33 females; while the Russian total is 68 families, with 99 males and 133 females...

(4) That in the arbitrary as sumption of ownership of the Municipal properties which were acquired by right of purchase by the ratepayers and which cannot be even handed over by the gov The Reasons for Anxiety. ernments formerly leasing the ter-1 ritories without the ratepayers'

The grave apprehensions which previous sanction, the lupeh Pro-ure felt with regard to the future vincial Government have carried out an act of confiscation which is not in accordance with either in- ternational or civil proerdare dur ing time of peace.

of these two Special Districts are based on the view that

(a) The incorporation of these two relatively efficiently organized units, where a systematized ad

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