“NO SAVVY!”
JUNKS ON STRIKE. r TROUBLE AT CANTON. toy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sidney “ Sun ” Cable (Received Mav 14. 9.5 a.m.) PEKING, May 12. Dr Sun Yat Sen's Government at Canton has imposed a number of new W».r taxes, during the past fortnight, including 20 per cent on freight and passenger rates in river traffic. As a consequence of this a general fctrike of launch and junk owners has been in progress since the fourth instant. and hundreds of towns in the interior are cut off from Canton by the suspension of services and trade is paralysed. The Government states that launch iand junk owners have hitherto been paying fees to pirates for immunity. The Government proposes to nse part of the proceeds of the tax to suppress the pirates, but the owners of the various craft have no confidence in the Government's professions and demand tho lepeal of the tax.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17349, 14 May 1924, Page 7
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