CHINESE CUSTOMS
TROUBLE NOT YET ENDED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PEKING, February 28. (Received March I, at 10.15 a.m.) Advices from Canton state that, despite a proclamation that the Chinese Maritime Customs Office is the only authority for the collection of Government duties, and that there is to be no interference with import and export cargoes, the pickets continue to maintain the boycott by seizing cargo after leaving the custody of the Customs officials. This places the Government in a serious position, as it amounts to the piracy of foreign goods. The British river steamer has resumed the service between Hongkong and Canton.—Renter.
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Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 5
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102CHINESE CUSTOMS Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 5
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