IN FURORE.
Japanese Attach Property of Foreign Nationals. LONG-STANDING DISPUTE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) TOKYO, September 20. The foreign communities of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki are in a furore. The municipalities have attached office and home furniture, even telephones, surgical instruments, personal effects, automobiles and clothing of upwards of 200 British, including Australian and Canadian, also French, American, Swiss and other occupiers of perpetual lease property. This has been done for what the authorities call "delinquent taxes" over the past five years. The total approaches 1,000,000 yen plus 10 per cent compound interest. The occupiers claim that they are exempted by British and French treaties as interpreted at The Hague, which the Japanese resented. This has caused sporadic controversies and ill-feeling over the past 30 years, during which time the Government compensated the municipalities but has suddenly stopped doing so. The municipalities also threaten to attach 80 per cent of salaries until the debts are satisfied.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 September 1934, Page 7
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