Correspondence on the announcement in Hankow of removal of the Nationalist Government to Nanking; the question of non-payment of the special wine and cigarette taxes; test cases brought by British, American and Japanese courts (in China) over the payment of duties and surtaxes; the removal of the telegraph office in Hong Kong to Chinese territory; Nationalist Government's proposal for abolishing likin and increasing import duty will be put into force from September 1st, Commissioner of Customs asked to undertake collection; the Nanking Government's taxation proposals; the military situation; the Northern Government refuse to follow the example of the Nanking Government until Nanking have demonstrated that tariff autonomy can be seized without opposition from the powers; missionaries' applications for permission to return to the Chinese interior; Nationalist Government issues a notification requiring payment of surtaxes in silver, protested against by the Hankow Consul; the opium supply to Macao; T. V. Soong asked to assume Ministry of Finance at Nanking; Foreign Office policy regarding payment of treaty tonnage dues and surtaxes; a meeting between Lampson and the Japanese Minister over Anglo-Japanese co-operation in China and withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung; the Canton Commissioner of Customs told that the new taxes postponed indefinitely; stationing of troops in the Far East; Nationalist Government announces temporary postponement of the abolition of likin and enforcement of proposed national tariff and excise; a provisional settlement over the payment of municipal rates by the Chinese in the Shanghai Concession.