THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1940
INCOME TAX IGRAND N. Z.
APPEAL IN MALAYA
Singapore, To-day.
The need for more Income
RESPONSE TO CALL
Enlistments had shown a
sub.
Wellington, Yesterday. The magnificent response Tax was stressed by Sir to the recruiting campaign Shenton Thomas, Governor-in New Zealand was discuss- General of Malaya, in aed by the Premier, Mr. M. J. broadcast speech in which he Savage, in a speech to-day. announced that the Govern- ment had accepted the re- commendations of the Spe- cial Committee which dis- cussed ways and means by which Malaya could make a full contribution towards the cost of the war.
The Committee's recommendations, he said, provided for the raising of St.$10,000,000 a year by the Federat- ed Malay States and St.$5,000,000 by the Colony. This would impose some sacrifices on certain industries, whose representatives were consulted and accepted the proposals.
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Sir Shenton asked the people Malaya to agree to pay more Income Tax, without which it would not be possible for Malaya to make their proper contribution towards the war cost. The minimum revenue which could be expected in the
first year from this source would also St.$10,000,000.-Reuter.
NAZI PROPAGANDA CONTRADICTIONS (Continued from Page. 10)
be
stantial increase and the quotas for full in most military districts.
the third contingent were more than
hud
Four thousand young men
joined up as pilots in the Air Force, and recruiting was brisker than in the corresponding period in the last war.
"It is a plain fact,” Mr. Savage declared, "that our young men are keen to serve against the Nazi enemies of freedom. The unity of the Dominion has never, been stronger. "It shows the paramount deter- mination of our people to maintain an effective standard in the war.
"New Zealand wants the righ and privileges of democratic govern- ment and the peaceful opportunity to achieve social progress."-Reuter,
BANK OF HAINAN TO BE FORMED
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW BANK, WHICH IT IS PRO-
days earlier all the resources of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry had been trying to persuade the world that the Germans were not turning the Poles into slaves! Gauleiter Grelser him-POSED ΤΟ NAME THE HAI- self said: "We are not deporting Polish workmen to the Reich."
ANOTHER CONTRADICTION
These are the attempts of the Great Nazi Masters. If the. Masters cannot avoid contradicting themselves, one cannot expect the junior officials to be any
more consistent. And so it has proved.
NAN BANK, WITH AN AUTHOR- ISED CAPITAL OF $2,000,000, IS CONTEMPLATED, BY PROMIN- ENT CHINESE FINANCIERS, IN- CLUDING MR. T. V. SOONG, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE BANK OF CHINA AND CHIEF OF THE BANK OF CAN- TON, AND ADMIRAL CHAN CHAK.
The new institution will be inau-
The "Danzig Volkposten" said that gurated with a paid up capital of there was no question of Warsaw be- $1,000,000 as soon as plans are com- ing overcrowded with refugees. Re-pleted, and it will be incorporated ports of widespread deaths, epidemics in Hong Kong. and plague were all without founda- tion.
Two days before, however, a Cracow paper said that if there was plague, famine, etc. in Warsaw it must not be forgotten that four months ago it was the centre of war and destruction and therefore, difficulties must arise with the refugees.
The Danzig paper, thus, was trying to prove that black was white. The Cracow paper, nearer to Warsaw, did not go so far as this; it suggested, however, that black was really gray!
Reuter.
FRANCE'S ECONOMIC
POSITION
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London, To-day, France's. economic situation is "different from that of Britain in that she has no need to purchase products necessary to feed her population," the "Yorkshire Post" declares in an editorial on the new French measures
The nine sponsors will each sub- scribe $50,000 while shares of $10 each will be issued to the public.
Later, it is planned to establish branches of the bank in China and abroad.
LIVESTOCK HURLED
INTO WATER
There was much excitement among villager on Saturday morning on the beach at Shek-O when numbers of fowls, ducks, geese and pigs were seen floating on the sea.
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It was later discovered that a hig cargo-junk fully loaded with poultry and livestock had capsized outside the bay.
PETROL RATIONING
PROPOSALS
London, Yesterday. Motorists who laid up their cars
to bolster the country's economy.. for the Winter may now register for ...However, the journal adds, France the Easter holidays. Cars of under and Britain must Import most of the 10 horsepower will got two gallons raw materials, necessary in produc-of petrol and bigger cars three gal-
Havas,
tion.
ITALIAN MILITARY LEAVE STOPPED
Romo, To-day.
No military leave is to be granted Italian soldiers as from March 1, ad- cording to a cirqular letter from the War Ministry.
Official reason given is that "the military forces · now represent less family men than the older classes up fill now kept under the colours for complementary training."Reuter.
lons-Reuter.
LONG MOSCOW TALKS WITH U. S. ENVOY
London, Yesterday. Reports from Moscow state that Foreign Commissar Molotov has had a further long talk with the Ameri- can Ambassador to Moscow.
law is expressed here that this conversation was in connection with rumours of a possible American mediation in the Soviet-Finnish war.
Havas
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