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...bounced across north Szechwan, Tso Tsen-hwa, tax collector for the Chinese Government, sat squeezed among his fellow passengers and their luggage. Suddenly the brakes screeched. Outside were eight bandits...
...passengers were lined up, stripped of money and valuables. Tso Tsen-hwa was the last man in line. When the bandits reached him, he spoke out: "At last I have caught you! I am the tax collector. You are engaging in business and you are evading taxes...
...bandits were ashamed. They stood by as Tso Tsen-hwa inspected their loot, calculated its value at $5,000,000 (Chinese, inflated). "The business tax," he said, "is 3.35%; $120,000 will be sufficient. Since Government regulations provide that itinerant traders may pay their taxes directly to the collector, I will class you as itinerants and conclude the transaction on the spot...
...Fact. The Chinese Government asked Donald to establish a Bureau of Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...Another Mansfield high. Previous one: Communist Lin Tso-han's 470,000 (TIME. Sept...