THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 17, 1939
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"FIERCE" INCREASES
IN INCOME TAX
DRASTIC INCREASES IN taxation were announced by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his emer- gency War Budget. His proposals included— Income Tax: Present Budget year 7s. in the pound; next, 7s. 6d. Reductions next year in earned income, mar- riage, and children's allowances, and further upward revisions in methods of charging on first part of income. Surtax: New scales ranging from 1s. 3d. at £2,000 to 9s. 6d.
over £30,000.
Excess Profits Duty: 60 per cent.
Estate Duty: Increases bringing the maximum rate up to
60 per cent.
Sugar: Increase of 1d. per pound.
Tobacco: 11⁄2d. an ounce. Beer: 1d. per pint.
Whisky: 1s. 3d. a bottle.
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Wines: 2s. a gallon on imported light wines and British wines, and 4s. a gallon on imported heavy wines.
BUTTONS ATTRACT THE GIRLS
Polishing brass buttons was not bad after all, think modern Tommies who now wear button- less battle dress.
But Tommies to-day would like those buttons back. Girls prefer the soldier who has shining but- tons, say the boys of 1939,
Cripps Back To
Labour Party?
Sir Stafford Cripps, M. P.
· Mr. Aneurin Bevan, M. P., Mr. G. R. Strauss, M. P., and others who were associated with them in the Popular Front campaign, will probably be re- admitted to the Labour Party.
The National Executive have told them of the conditions under which they can return to the party.
Peer Who Was
Bank Clerk
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Lord Fairfax, who at the time he succeeded to the title was working as a bank clerk in New York, has died at his home at Thorpe-le-Soken,
Essex,
He became a naturalised British subject in 1906, and his title was con- firmed by the Committee of Privi- leges of the House of Lords in 1908.
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Mr. Simpson Has
Become A Father
Birth of 2
son to Mrs. Mary
Simpson, wife of Mr. Ernest A.
Sir John Simon said that the pay- ment of these heavily increased taxes would not exhaust the duty of the private citizen. There would be na-
THESE MEN REMEMBER-Band-bags at the Star and Garter Home for Disabled Soldiers at Richmond must remind the many inmates of the last Great War, in which they fought and were disabled. They are not being moved out of the comparatively safe region of Richmond, but protective measures such as sandbagging are being taken. Photo shows Private Thomas William May (wearing glasses) and Rifleman Harry But- ler discussing the situation. (Copyright, Fox).
tional defence loans on a large scale, Say Girls In
to which he should contribute to the greatest extent possible.
The effect of the income tax changes is that assessments for payments due on January 1 will be at a standard rate of 7s. in the pound, and the first £135 of taxable income will ხი charged at 2s. 4d. in the pound in- stead of is. 8d., as at present. In 1941 the standard rate will be 7s. 6d. in the pound, and the first £160 will be charged at 3s. 9d. The raising of the Arst part of taxable income to £160
is the one concessioh made. The re- duced allowances, which will not come into effect until next year, will be:
Earned Income allowance, now one-fifth, with maximum of £300, to be one-sixth, maximum £250.
Marriage allowance to be £170 in-
stead of £180.
Allowances for children £50 each instead of £60.
Individuals who have suffered salary reductions of 20 per cent or more will be able to substitute this year's actual income for last year's income as the basis of assessment for the payment due in January.
The extra yield expected from in- come tax is £70,000,000 this year and
£146,000,000 in a full year.
Slacks 'Disgusting'
Women Conservatives of Rich-
mond, Surrey, think the wearing of slacks by their sex "disgusting." They say war is no excuse for it.
At a meeting of the Town Ward branch of the Association, Mrs. A. when she Shadwell was applauded said: "I think it is disgusting for girls to go about like this, and, what is worse, they insist on showing their toes. If they must dress as men, why not wear the whole outfit, with socks and everything else. If men were
about the seen walking women's clothing they would be ar
streets in
rested. It is a pity some of these girls are not taken to task.
It is lowering the prestige of British women."
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Chivalry Squad
Guard G.P.O. Girls
B.B.C. Orchestra Has Joined Army
An anti-aircraft battery formed in itself the Belfast, yesterday found possessor of one of the finest orches- tras in the British Isles.
Members of the Northern Ireland B.B.C. Orchestra held a meeting and decided to join up in a body. Their services were accepted immediately.
The orchestra, regarded as the best B.B.C. combination outside London, had for its conductor the well-known Mr. B. Walton O'Donnell, who died six weeks ago.
Their leader is Philip Whiteway. whose ensemble has been frequently heard by listeners.
Last War's Tin Hats Are Being Used Again
Souvenirs of yesterday old tin helmets, British and French, kept Anxious for the safety of girl from the Great War-are being sold telephone operators in Glasgow's for use again to-day. darkened back streets, the G.P.O. has In London's street markets hun- recruited a "Chivalry Squad" from dreds have been sold recently. male operators on night work.
"They fetch less money now than The men start work two hours if they were sold as souvenirs," a earlier than usual and escort the girls market stallholder told the
The Chancellor has reimposed the Excess Profits Duty of the last war, and it will be at the rate of 60 per cent on profits since March 31 which home. are over the pre-war standard. N.D.C. will remain as an alternative to the their men new tax, the amount collected being clear of romance. whichever of the two is the higher. Estimated yields from other creases are-
press.
Each takes three girls.
"People would pay as much
as ten The G.P.O. officials are picking bob for a good helmet to hang on the men who will steer wall. But when it comes to putting it on their heads, well, 2s. 6d. is the outside."
"They are almost too chivalrous," in an operator said, with a sigh.
This year. Full year.
£
£ 8,500,000 18,000,000
8,000,000 16,000,000
Sugar Tobacco Beer Whisky
11,000,000
2,000,000
Wines
1,000,000
Simpson, formerly husband of the Hard On Frau
Duchess of Windsor, is announced.
Zepp Captain
27,000,000 Gets Big Job
3,500,000
2,000,000 Captain Albert Sammt, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, which "visited" times last the Scottish coast several August, during a North Sea cruise, has been appointed technical adviser of the German Air Ministry,"
The baby was born at a. Sutton, Greater men, than Hitler have been Reports that he had flown over Surrey, nursing home, and at the ruined by the jealousy of women. Scotland were denied in official house of Mr. and Mrs. Simpson it was But the Fuehrer is the first man to quarters in Berlin, but admitted stated that mother and child are try to legislate against it.
by Captain Sammt himself. doing well.
According to a broadcast In Gar- He said he went up the Mrs. Simpson, before her marriage man from Paris, German women re- coast towards the Shetlands. in November, 1937, at Brooklawn turning to the Reich from Holland— Experts of the Nazi Air were in the Connecticut, 50,000 men and women have been or- and officers County Club, Fairfield, was Mrs. Mary Kirk Raffray; and a dered home by Hitler - have been during the flight. well-known American society hostess. strictly ordered to avold fashions
“which are too. Parisien."
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The Argentina Chamber approved a bill authorising the Government to ex- propriate the Province of Buenos. Aires Waterworks Company, a British concern, socording to a Havas despatch from Buenos Aires.
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Scottish
Ministry Zeppelin
Czech refugees to the number of This, the broadcast states, is to 208 arrived by boat at Boulogne from avold jealously and envy.
Poland and entrained for Paris. Many
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Carole Lombard, flm sctress wife of Clark Gable, is stated to be doing well after an appendix operation.
We Lead In
Television
"There is no country seriously chal- lenging us in television yet-not even the United States; certainly not Get- many."
Sir Stephen Tallents, Public Reta- tions Officer of the B.B.C., said this when he opened Radiolymplą, 1939, by television.
The Lord Mayor of London Sir. Frank Bowater, and Lady Bowater were the guests of honour at a gela performance of "Carmen" at the. Zurich Opera House.
Three bandits held up a train near of them were members of the Czech Onarga, Illinois, but were driven off in army, and some still wore parts of a gun battle with the train' crew, one their uniforms. There were 13 women bandit and one postal omcial and children in the party,
wounded.
being