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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1999
No. 30,811
INCOME
H.K.
Price: 10 Cts.
BUTTER
TAX FOR SPECIAL
IN WAR BUDGET
INCOME TAX, TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF A SPECIAL WAR
BUDGET, IS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO HONG KONG.
DETAILS HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETED, BUT IN LEGISLATIVE COUN- CIL THIS AFTERNOON, HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR INDI- CATED THAT THE TAX WILL BE ON THE BASIS OF TWO SHILL- INGS IN THE POUND, OR TEN PER CENT.
HUGE PLANE
In the course of his address to Council, Sir Geoffry BRITAIN'S
Northcote revealed why no hint of the proposals was to be found in the Budget Estimates. The Council was this afternoon presented with two
Budgets, the Ordinary Budget, for the ordinary OUTPUT requirements of the Colony, and a Defence Bud- get, the proceeds of which will be devoted to a special Hong Kong contribution to the prosecu-fore the start of the present tion of the war against Hitlerism.
London, To-day. British air production be-
war - was well over
His Excellency the Governor said:financial policy and intentions of the planes a month.
1,000
NOW IN DANGER ZONE
Oslo, To-day.
The newspaper "Aften- posten" says that the new military situation created by the Soviet ad- vance in the Baltic is of great importance Norway's air strategic position.
to.
"Norway, together with Sweden," says the jour- naf, "have now arrived in the danger zone."-Reu- ter.
HOMEWARD BOUND
London, To-day.
It had been my intention to present a Government and I conceive that these short address to you on this occasion will be more rightly appreciated if I
This revelation is made, "on the more or less on the lines of that which first invite attention to the declared highest authority" by the correspon- last year endeavoured to review the policy of His Majesty's Governmentdent of the "Daily Telegraph," Group- salient facts of the preceding twelve in this regard.
Captain Payne.
A total of 450 Americans, who bad months, and the more Important If one were to compare the manner
He says that the. Air Ministry an- been stranded by the war in Eire, schemes under Government's consi- in which this war is being faced by nouncement that production is already sailed on board the American steamer deration. I regret very much that the the Government of Great Britain with more than double that at the begin-Arcadia for the United States yester- rush of work caused by Herr Hitler's that of 1914 a fundamental difference ning of September, means that our day. intromissions has prevented that in- would at once be observed. Then output has been raised to 4,000 planes
a month.
tention from being fulfilled, and all armies, administrative departments the more because there has been good and war organizations and require- progress in many administrative acti-ments of all kinds had to be hastily vities and social services which is improvised and the national finances deserving of record,
were left to be carried on along nor- mal peace lines; to-day the situation at home presents entirely the trary picture.
I propose, accordingly, to confine my remarks on this occasion to the
H.K. C.I.D. DISCOVERY AT BANK
con-
The likelihood of the outbreak of a major war between Great Britain and Germany had long been foreseen, plans had been laid to met the em- ergency and the appropriate economic policy had been thought out and made ready.
It will be generally agreed, I think, that the outstanding feature of
the
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IT IS REPORTED THAT, WORK-economic plans of His Majesty's Gov · ING DILIGENTLY FOR ALMOST ernment, as disclosed in the speech of · TWO WEEKS, THE CRIMINAL IN- the Chancellor of the Exchequer VESTIGATION DEPARTMENT OF September 27th when he introduced THE HONG KONG POLICE HAVE his first. war emergency budget, was LOCATED THE LARGE SUM OF his Insistence upon the importance of MONEY WHICH WAS REPORTED paying for the war from revenue as MISSING FROM THE VAULTS OF far as that was possible. The inevit- THE BANK OF CHINÁ AT THE END ability of having also to raise war- OF LAST MONTH,”
loans was clearly recognized but the The "China Mail" understands that immediate step taken was the Imposi the missing sum, $100,000 In Hongtion of heavy additional taxation:... at
· Kong currency, has been traced to a the same time he urged most strongly private safe deposit box in one of the foreign banks in the Colony.
Questioned this morning by the "China Mail" Mr. Shou J. Chen, manager of the Bank, declined to con- firm or deny the report, saying that "the matter is still in the bands of the Police?
that it was the duty of the private ci- tizeń and of the public institution to avoid all unnecessary expenditure in order that savings might accrue for subsequent investment in war lohn. It is an inspiring fact that the British taxpayer has readily, not to say cheer- fully, accepted the unprecedented bur- The Police authorities said that theydens laid upon him. had nothing for publication, but did not deny the report.
So much for the way in which the taxpayer at home is facing his duty: what of the duty which lies before us WEATHER FORECAST:-North and in this small unit of the British Em-
East winds, moderate; fine.
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This together with the greatly in- creased French production, assures the increasing ascendancy in the air of the Allies-Reuter.
This was the second batch of Ameri- cans whose transport home has been arranged by the United States Govern- ment.
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Last week the Iroquois took about 600 Americans back home.-Reuter.
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