FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN
PROPERTY ATTACHED ACTION IN THREE CITIES TOKIO. Sept. 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 upward of 200 British, including Australian and Canadian, and 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 fivo years. The total approaches 1,000,000 yen (about £IOO,OOO at par) plus 16 per cent compound injterest. The occupiers claim that they are exempted by, British and French treaties ' ps interpreted at The Hague, which the Japanese resented. This has caused sporadic controversies and ill-feeling pver 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 12
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