FURORE IN JAPAN.
BRITON’S PROPERTY ATTACHED. ALLEGED TAX DEFAULT. Received September 21, 12.10 p.m. TOKIO, Sept. 20. The foreign communities at Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki are in a furore over the municipalities attaching the office and home furniture, even telephones, surgical instruments, personal effects, automobiles, and the clothing of upwards of 200 British residents, including an Australian and a Canadian, also French, American, Swiss and other occupiers of perpetual lease’property. The attachment has been made for what the authorities call delinquent taxes during the past five years, the total approaching a million yen, plus l 6 per cent, compound interest. The occupiers claimed that they were exempted by the British and French treaties, as interpreted at The Hague, which the Japanese resented. This has caused sporadic controversies and ill-feeling in the past thirty years, during which time the Government lias compensated the municipalities, but has suddenly stopped. The municipalities also threaten to attach 80 per cent, of the salaries until they are satisfied.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 252, 21 September 1934, Page 8
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