NEW REVENUE BILL FALLS SHORT.
About '$165,000,000 in
Arrears.
MR. OGDEN MILLS ESTIMATE.
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AUSTRALIA AND IRISH TANGLE.
POLICE
PEACE PARLEYS FUTILE
PESSIMISTIC OUTLOOK. Japanese Remain Stubborn.
China Making All Efforts.
Shanghai, To-day.
decision The Japanese gree to shorten the military line in Shanghai does not remove the
Washington, Yesterday. The new Revenue Bill, provid- ing $999,000,000 in new taxa- tion, still falls about $165,000,000 short of meeting the anticipated $1,251,000,000 deficit on the 1933 Budget, according to a statement made by Mr. Ogden Mills, Secre tary of the Treasury to the House of Representatives, in a speech to the Ways and Means Com- mittee to-day.
Mr.
that it Mills staler wonk! be impossible to realise;
to
Rumour of Message in London.
OFFICIALLY DENIED.
Rugby, Yesterday, A Press report from Melbourne states that the Australian Com- monwealth Cabinet, in response communication from the United Kingdom Government, to a
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CENTRAL EUROPE'S THE “STIFF KEY”
FINANCES,
Grave Danger of
Collapses.
AT NICE LEAGUE COMMITTE'S REPORT.
Not
Malayan Planter
have considered the attitude of Cummins
the Irish Free State Government
deadlock in the Sino-Japanese Conference in the opinion of one of the Chinese delegates, who towards the Oath of Allegiance. stated today that China would not agree to accept this as a solu- tion to the problem.
The report states that the Federal Cabinet have replied, emphasising the necessity of
Leaves Monte Carlo
maintaining and strengthening Police Fail To He pointed out that Japan has the existing relations between anticipated $241,000,000 still failed to set a time limit for Britain and all the Dominions, savings on 1933 expenditure. He the completion of the withdraw and the importance of maintain estimated that savings would not al, and until she did so an agreeing
the
exceed $125,000,000,
ment was impossibe.
Representatives to-day adopt- Mr. Quo Thl-chi has wired to amendment applying; Dr. W. W. Yen at Geneva stating ed the
to that the Conference so far has normal income tax rates stock divider, ds. The measure failed and points out that it is expeted to yield $80,000,000. seems futile to continue the dis
General Sales Tax.
cussions,
a close understanding be- tween all parties to the Ottawa Conference,
Tax, which was expected to pro, has been made, nothing of a sub- tish Wireless Service. vide an increase of $1,100,000,000 stantial nature has been accom-
in taxation.
New Bill Passed.
plished. The Chinese delegates,] however, will make yet another a time table attempt to secure for the Japanese evacuation when the tenth session of the Conference takes place at the British Consulate to-day.
THE SHANGHAI ARMISTICE.
Trace Him
Nice, Yesterday,
·
TRIAL.
ANGRY DUEL.
Serious Allegations Made.
Waitresses' Evidence.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
TREE TRADE NOT DEAD.
Lord Snowden Expresses Opinion.
LIBERAL MINISTERS' ACTION.
Geneva, Yesterday. Action must be taken as soon posible in order to avert the vé consequences of a further cial collapse in many parts of ppe declares a report from the
A prolonged angry duel between rangement Tague of Nations Financial Counsel for the defence, Mr. Levy, press their views on the tariff ques-
mmittee.
and Mr. Dashwood, the solicitor for tion, have sent message to the In- are report covers seventeen the prosecution, was the sensation ternational Conference to promote free trade which is being held in iscap print pages and deals in the "Stiff Key Trial" to-day. th the finances of Austria, Mr. Levy elicited the fact that London to-day. lgaria, Greece and Hungary. Miss Barbara Harris had been sap- Sir Herbert Samuel, in his letter, strin-ported and received money from said that if there was prospect that The report attributes acy as the cause of the world the prosecution for some time. I the lowering of tariffs would be pression and urges the import suggested that unfair methods had simultaneous, hopes of ce that creditor states should been adopted by the prosecution to would be vastly enhanced." thdraw the special measures prevent the Rector from clearing parties in Britain had declared in ken against countries which himself. He further alleged that support of such a movement which dre forced to adopt a tem- the prosecution had interferted would immensely case the inter- rary means for, the control of with the witnesses and had urged national situation and thereby im eir currencies,
the Rector to resign while the prove the economical conditions of
Rugby, Yesterday.
Liberal Ministers in the National Government who, in accordance
London, Yesterday, with the agreement to differ ar- are at liberty to ex-
t also urges that temporary charges were yet unknown. ins should be made to debtor antries, but adds that the rela-
Waitress's Evidence. A waitress at a Chinese restaur-
every country:
success
Al
Free Trade Not Dead. Lord Snowden, Lord Privy Seal,- vely high proportion in expen-ant at Bloomsbury testifled that ture on war supplies and arma- she had once seen the Rector kiss presiding at the afternoon session, declared that free trade in Britain
EXPORTATION OF COTTON GOODS.
On enquiry at the Dominions' Office in London, it was stated
It transpires that the that no such message had been received by the Government of man found dead here the United Kingdom, and that no yesterday, and who was Washington, Later. The feeling that the Conference request for any such message reported to be Mr. Ernest ents, in its opinion, could be Miss Harris.
A former Lyons tea shop was not dead. He referred to the The House of Representatives will drag on without achieving had been made to the Common- rejected the motion for the re- any material success is growing wealth Government by the Unit-M. T. Cummins, a well-urther reduced: storation of the General Sales for, although a little progress ed Kingdom Government-Bri-known Malayan rubberThe report stresses the desir waitress also testified that the balancing of the Budget as a rag
bility of closer economic rela-Rector had pestered her with at-nificent testimony to free trade.
Britain under free trade had planter, has been found ons in Central Europe-Reu- tentions.
It transpired that some time ago raised the largest revenue produc- to be someone else.
the Rector received $200 as com-jed by any state in the world and had pensation from Lyons for assault a financial and budgetary position Mr. Cummins left
which is sounder and mara' sub- by an employee. Monte Carlo a week ago
The case is still attracting enor- stantial than that of any protec- mous attention and queues of tionist country." his presumed destination Satisfactory Progress
people were trying to enter the Being Made. being Cap Martin. Police
Court. enquiries made there CONDITIONS NEARLY NORMAL.
however, show no trace. ;
Paris, Yesterday. ugby, Yesterday. of him.Renters
Conversation's "between France Armistice negotiations at
[On Thursday Reuter cabled and cotton goods exporting Shanghai are reported to be mak-i
as follows:-Ernest M. T. Cum-countries are expected to begin ing satisfactory progress,
mings, a well-known rubber plant-during April with a view to fix- Conditions in Shanghai were er in the Malty States who has ing futura exportable quotas. nearly normal to-day, following been living here since last Sum- This is a sequel to this week's the lifting of the Curfew and themmer in a small villa near Monte dccree of placing a quota on cer- re-opening of shops and the Carlo, has been found dead under tain classes of cotton yarn goods Stock Exchange.
circumstances into which the until April 20-Reuter.
The House of Representatives passed the Tax Bill incorporating in the new Budget the proposal for balancing the revenue Reuter's American Service,
SEVERE FIGHTING AT NUNGAN.
Japanese Troops Take Offensive.
Changchun, To-day. The general offensive against Nungan, which is in the posses- sion of anti-Manchukuo forces, was launched at 6 am. this morn- ing.
Severe fighting is going on and Manchukuo and Japanese troops are co-operating in the drive against the city.
HOW THE SAGES KEPT
PHYSICALLY FIT.
Breathing System For Schoolboys.
The success of this effort is most improbable.
DR. KOO ENTERTAINS COMMISSION.
Before Leaving for Hankow.
SOUVENIRS PRESENTED.
(Reuter's Pacific Service.)
Nanking, Yesterday. After attending a farewell banquet by Dr. Wellington Koo, the members of the League Com- mission left for Hankow at 11.10' p.m. to-night on board the Jar-
dine's steamer "Longwo."
They were accompanied by Dr. Wellington Koo and Mr. Yoshida, the Chinese and Japanese asses- sors, respectively,
A skeleton force of regulars police are enquiring.] is being maintained round the International Settlement. Bri-R tish Wireless Service.
SWEEPSTAKES. A
SOCIAL EVIL.
Canon Spencer Elliott's Condemnation.
FAIR.
The weather report issued from the Royal Observatory to-day states:---
The anti-cyclone is central between South Japan and the Loochoos, moving eastwards.
Forecast:-East winda, mo- derate, fair.
The members of the Commis- As soon as the purchaser got # sion
are due at Pukow from sweepstake ticket something enter- Hankow on April 7, at which ed into his composition to take his Bombay, March 4. point they will travel by train thoughts away from the ordinary,
to Peking.
honest way of earning a living, said PRIME Experiments with the world's
Prior to their departure the Canon Spencer Elliott, vicar of oldest method of "keeping fit"
Commissioners were individually Bolton, at the St. Ann's Lenten ser- system in which games and exer-
Yat-sen vice in Manchester. Surely, in eise play no part, are being made presented with a Sun
an auto- these days of psychological study, by the Government of the United Memorial Medal and
General it must be admitted that thoughts of this kind sank into the sub- conscious life. The mind was
Provinces.
a
This is the system of breathing!
graphed portrait Chiang Kai-shek.
of
CAR TRIP.
Braving Black Tribes and Crocodiles.
AT
MINISTER WINDSOR.
Guest of the King and Queen.
Rugby, Yesterday). known as Pranayama, or Yogl phy- SISTERS' 13,000-MILE drawn away from work and the
The Prime Minister who is sical culture, by which the ancient
desire for work. Canon Green had sages of India lived to be over 100
shown that on the day of a great guest of the King and Queen at Windsor Castle, arrived there from years old, spending their lives in
race there was a smaller proportion London this afternoon by car and meditation. An ashram (semin-
of proper work done in the great had an audience with His Majesty ary) has been established at!
factories and offices. The sweep- He will remain at the Castle until Lonavla, the health resort near
stake, instead of making that less to-morrow morning, when he will Poona, where pupils are being
serious, actually doubled its serious return to London--British Wire trained in Yogi physical culture.
ness, for the day of the newspapers Service. The United Provinces Govern
Two Australian women have re- announced the results of the draw ment have invited the "professor" turned home after a 18,000 mile was added to the day of the actual to Lucknow for a fortnight to train motorcar tour along the Australian, race. young men, who, in turn, will train coast. schoolboys.
MUSEUM EXHIBITS VANISH,
Sydney, March 4.
France and Other Countries.
MYTHICAL MUSIC DID NOT SUIT.
Tuneless Band Before Customs.
Cologne, March 4.
No Organised Distribution. Unparalleled world wide depres
AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN sion and unemployment were at
INJURED.
Plane Crashes Into
Cables,
tributable to the fact that the world had not organised distribution. |to end with its prodeation, which is mainly due, in his opinion, to artificial restrictions which the countries had improved to hinder the free exchange of commodities.
MYSTERY CATTLE DISEASE
Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, the Australian-British Wireless Service. airman who took part in the famous Southern Cross flight with Air Com modore Kingsford-Smith, "crashed into some high-tension wires while flying from Sydney to Melbourne. He was seriously injured, together with his passenger, Mr. J. A. Kerr, Both were rushed to the military hospital.
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The force of the crash was great that the engine of the aero-
500 Head Lost in Herefordshire.
As the result of a mysterious in Herefordshire 500
plane was hurled fifty yards. The disease
pedigree animals, have recently died.
On four successive evenings a petrol tank exploded, and the flam- cattle, including many valuable brass band marched through the ing spirit started a grass fire.
Mr. Ulm and Mr. Keer were re- German Customs control post at
¡turning from an Air Force reunion Haltern, near the Dutch frontier,
at Laverton, Western Australia. "to serenade à lady."
On the fifth evening the Customs
officers became suspicious. No C. B. COCHRAN'S
matter how much the gentleman who employed the band loved his lady, he surely would not tickle her ears with music every evening.
of the week.
"What about giving us a tune?" said the officers.
The bandamen blushed. "We are not good enough," was their un- convincing explanation,
When their instruments were dismantled" a large quantity of contraband goods, was revealed.
They had been hired to smuggle at eight marks each a day.
LATEST.
£100,000 Taken in Ten Minutes.
HELEN AT ADELPHI.
This disclosure was made by Alderman J. E Cooke, chairman of the Diseases of Animals Com-. mittee, at a meeting of Hereford- shira County Council: The trouble, he said, appeared, to attack the cattle Immediately after calving. They were stricken with a kind of paralysis, and died in a very short. time.
The complaint had not yet been diagnosed. Farmers were advised to give their cattle a salt-lick and London, Feb. 2.to include sugar in their food, Helen of Troy, whose face once Mr. R. Wooff, county veterinary "launched a thousand ships," hold officer, In his report, said that simi- £100,000 worth of theatre tickets lar deaths were occurring in other yesterday.
counties. The diagnosis in very And in record time! Mr. C. B. many cases was one of meningitis, Cochran, who presented "Helen" at but that diagnosis appeared to be
GOLD QUEST ON the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday of one of the symptoms without
SPANISH MAIN.
night, met representatives of the determining ite etiology. Inves- libraries and ticket agencies at tigation showed the cause of the 12.45 p.m.)
disease was an acute condition of, Selling tickets for his new show the blood of varying degree, caus- at the rate of $10,000 a minute, ined by the repetition of pregnancy, ten minutes time he had complet with some change in metabolism, ed a deal amounting to almost aggravated by the lack of annihine £100,000;
and extreme wet of last year, with This figure, is a record for any, probably some deficiency of cal London theatre
| cium, and sugar, 5w4
After describing the excitement shops young people were not only
Nine Adventurers They are two alalers, Mrs. D. W. and the lack of balance among peo- pestered to buy sweepstake tickets, Cummins and Mrs. H. 3. Holman, ple on the day on which the results they were scoffed at for being
to Set Sail. and during their trip they passed of a great draw are announced, "unce guid" if they did not. through parts of Northern Austra- Canon Elliott said the whole thing He did not think people realised
SOUTHWARD HO! Antiques Valued at £1,000. lia inhabited by treacherous tribes was andermining the strength of the awful curse of winning, He Tag of blacks, and braved the danger our people. People were losing did not know how far it was true
people would not buy That even in this prosaic age high: Though the locked doors and win- of being seized by crocodiles while their common sense. If the sweep that mah dows showed not the slightest trace fording rivers.
was for a prize of $10,000 and the tickets If a sweepstake were not for adventure still stirs the blood is of having-boen. tampered with, his- "We've had, a great time-but tickets were 108, each, it meant that the hospitals. He did know that shown by the men who are saling with applications from all over the
ences with from Brixham Harbour Devon, in country. toric coins and other objects of, we're glad to be back," said Mrs.119,999 people had lost 10s, each antiquity, valued at about $1,000, Cummins. We've been away one assumed.
the prize have vanished from a room in the eight months. It was some holl simple. The greate Alexandria Museum.
me more
The coins, which were of gold, "We did plenty of hunting. We suppo
and the othe
from their
se day
sappeared went out with buffalo-hunters, and
the we jo huated crocodiles. “Ai Stubllebre
back
aking to prove:iti
mans
WHITE TIGER SHOT IN INDIA.
9ft, Zima. From Nuse to Tail
any- the converted trawler, the Vigilant, The expedition consists of nine the to search the Spanish Main for the men, explorers, adventurers, scien-
The Maharaja Bahadur of Gid- It long lost 1
rate gold, tists, and business men.
Jolly has been an explorer in haur has shot a white tiger in his ard D.Jolly, of Bourne
the skippe Com-jungle, reports Reuter" from Gid- saur.- The animal was a fine súd rape specimen and measured 91
from mose to t
bought the trai