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MAE
Mae
SHE WANTED HIM IN THE WEST WAY!
And Leap Year. or any other year
always gets her man !
W.C.
WEST FIELDS
My Little Chickadee
Joseph CALLEIA • Dick FORAN Donald MEEK - Fuzzy KNIGHT
A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE
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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1940
BUDGET NOT ENOUGH, DECLARE
OPPOSITION
LONDON, TO-DAY.
MR. PETHICK LAWRENCE YESTERDAY OPENED THE COMMONS DEBATE ON THE BUDGET FOR THE OPPOSITION.
Commenting on the burden of taxation and the manner in which the demands of the War Budget have been met he said: "The longer 1. live the greater grows my admiration of British people who uphold a tradition that extends for many centuries and holds a forefront place in the whole world.” Mr. Pethick Lawrence pointed out the problem confronting the country was how to turn a peace economy
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" into a war economy,
with
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KING OF THE DAMNED
with CONRAD VEIDT
HELEN VINSON
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Peter Lone RCS DRAKE
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MARX BROTHERS
"Unless," he said, "great sacrifices are made-sacrifices of the method of life of the great bulk of our po- pulation-wẹ shall not be able give that support to the forces that are fighting our battles for freedom over- seas which they ought to receive.
ATTACK ON
ILLITERACY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") CHUNGKING, TO-DAY, STATISTICS OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION REVEAL THE
EDUCATION we
PRO- GRAMME DEALS WITH A MASS OF 140,000,000 ILLITERATES, RANGING FROM THE AGES OF 15 TO 45.
"We dare not for their sake, dare not for our sake, hold back the full measure of support, which they ought to have from us and there is a surer method than that of taxation carried for enabling what is to be through."
LABOUR RESOURCES He criticised failure of Government yet to obtain the full employment of the nation's labour resources and in sisted on the necessity of observing equality of sacrifice between all classes.
He reserved the attitude of
the Labour Party to the proposed Sales Tax until the Government's inten- that tions are clearer but indicated
it would be opposed if it proved an aggravation of the tendency he had already perceived to unequal distri- bution of taxes. He agreed that the direct taxation imposed in Septem- reasonable ber was as high as was but as the war went on the habits of of life and the whole structure society would tend to change and the time would come when more drastic taxes would have to be imposed.
LIBERAL ATTITUDE
FIVE-YEAR
The mass education programme while deals exclusively with them illiterate children are taught in re- gular primary schools.
The statistics show that out of a are total of 450,000,000, 360,000,000 illiterates. From this number must be deducted 40,000,000 children below six, 45,000,000 between the ages of six to 12, 80,000,000 whose ages are above 45 and about 1,500,000 dumb, deaf, crip- pled and insane-Havas.
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
New York, To-day. The "World-Telegram" declares:"The obvious truth is that Hitlerism is like a revolution against Bolshevism,
against possessions and capitalism, against the very life of all nations, which like this one, prefer democracy and freedom. ̈ ̈
"The British and French are fighting for the same things that Americans would fight for." Reuter.
M
SWEDEN ISSUES BIG DEFENCE LOAN
Mr. Graham White, for the Liberals, expressed doubts if the expenditure the of £2,667,000,000 estimated by Chancellor was sufficiently high.
The Allies had an overwhelming provided superiority over Germany
their resources as they mobilised rapidly as possible. The country would not be satisfied till that was done. He feared the Budget was not realistic- and did not take sufficient accounting a 500,000,000 kroner (about £30,- of the fact that they were. waging a000,000) defence loan: bearing interest at 4 per cent. and redeemable in five totalitarian war.
Stockholm, To-day.
It is announced that Sweden is float-
Life was harder in Germany, years.-Reuter. France and Holland than it was in Britain.
They could not in safety or honour be satisfied unless they were making sacrifices equal to those of Allies,
their
Mr. White also reserved the attitude of the Liberals to the Sales Tax. The debate continues.-British Wireless.
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