THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1947.
INCOME TAX EXEMPTIONS Earned Income Relief Raised To
To £250; Forces Lose "Cheap Fag Issue" Heavier Duty, On
Tobaccos
London, Apr. 15.
Announcing an increase in earned Income relief, raising the maximum relief from 150 to £250, and increasing the child allowance from £50 to £60 the pre-war allowance figure-the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton,! said that these concessions, and other tax re ductions, would amount to £96,000,000 when he presented his budget today. Mr. Dalton added that his relief concessions will mean that 750,000 people in Britain will be ex- empted from income tax payments in future. In order to counter-balance this réduction in revenue, Mr. Dalton proposed to increase the profits tax to 124 per cent and to raise the cus- toms duty on imported tobacco leaf by appro- ximately 50 per cent.
OVERSEAS SUBSCRIPTIONS
Nanking, Apr. 15,
In order to facilitate sub- acription by Overseas Chinese to the National Government's 1947 United Stater Dollar Bonds and short-term Treas murg Notes, the Ministry of Finance has requested the Central Bank of China imme- diately to set up anica offices Furious
large TCFRPOR
Campaign Against Wallace
Washington, Apr..15.,
Representative L. Men, del Rivers today submit- ted a resolution to put Congress on record con- demning planned to TC- organise a subscription Rules commission in every ¡TTE portout city throughout China tu pal the campaign for honda and treasury notes-Reuter,
It in also
tabacco which he regarded as the
Henry Wal-
lace's blasts against the administration's foreign policy and accusing him of having "rendered
"Queen Elizabeth", Refloated
Southampton, Apr. 15.
After being trapped on Bramble sandbank outside Southampton Harbour for 26 hours, the world's largest liner, Britain's 85,000-ton "Queen "Elizabeth," was refloated tonight by the con- certed efforts of sixteen tugs and the glant screws of the liner.
Two thousand people watching from the shore saw the "Queen Elizabeth" then head for South- ampton Harbour. Before the liner was set free, some 400 passengers had been taken off and transported to Southampton.
It is expected that the bown The operation of freeing the of the vessel will ho examined liner was an imprensive night. by a diver for possible damare The sixteen tugs clustered before she salis on her next around is stern of the Uner. I Voyage to New York this week, and at a signal of two loud
'Operation
High Jump'
grave disservice to the A Success
welfare of the United States."
Washington, Apr. 15,
blasts from the "Queen Eliza- beth's" siren and responsive aqueaks from the whistles of the tugs there was a big pull.
Smoke poured from the fun- Bels of the "Queen Elizabeth" as the mammoth vessel cracked on her own power, while funnels of the fuga belched dense clouds as they strained to move the 85,000-ton bulk.
Very slowly the liner went. astern; gradually she moved All stamp duties re-ed prots but proposed to leavertet of a one-quarter reduction in
Several members of the Unit faster until within a few sec- lating
The proposal, which was refer- 10 stocks and the profite tax at the present level the total national consumption of
jof five per crat on didistributed shares will be doubled.
"minimum of patriotic duty." Hered to the House Foreign Affairs Stores Navy's Antarctic exonds she had completely disap
told United Press penred into tho sen for. petit
estimated & saving of $30,000,000 Committee for study, also would pedition
serve notice to the world that the today that the successful return
Low Tide... this year."
Gingship
For ten minutes there was Mr. Dalton said that tax reduc. "ideas and opinions expressed" in of the trek fören
Mr. Wallace's speeches through "Mount Olympus" and other
then of "Operation craft
two High silence, and tion would cost £84.000.000 this
England "do not represent in a full out
blasts on the ship's siren told year and 408,000,000
Jump"
tribute to
that she was going forward to year. Tax increases would bring the views of Congress."
of Rear-Admiral Senate. Demceratic leaders dis.leadership €108,000,000 this year
make her berth in the Ocean cussed a shnilar plan, but in. Richard H. Cruzen, U.S.N., and 148,000,000 m n Tuit year.
Duck. **] count on the balance
dleated they would not go ahend ample testimony and demonstra- of
The "Queen Elizabeth" dc- without President Truman's per- tion of the value of experienco-tually got clear on one of the €22,100,000 this your and
in South-
The Chancellor's fed big blog was the "brutad” meenea! that he gaspained to rare Castrum daty uncomported tabuero lenf by by about fit pry cent
The effect of this would be that the price if a parket +420 rigarettes will be imiseel Hoon 24 to 34", be suki. A erg od," harm was leavel.
t
M-Dalion mutated to aig The Fustrng drsty
kmported tubaren lenf by aliut 50 per cent. The effect of this would be,
brutally to the break the new?
out that the price of a packet 71 20 elparties" "will be raised from 24 to 24”
The price of and pipe tobaccos would sto tip by Tat
per
in
The price of mond pipe tobaren will be increased by about 12 per ounce. The average price of was izported from the United tobacco is 24 and the Chancellor's States, "Ta satisfy this insatiable Keskiveratiniz anets that
Mr. Lead we are drawing heavily average envà an tutine will ass 30 di janul impervidently any dellars," he
Ber 'C.
I
added.
Customs duty on mported leat would he hueveased from 35/6 per | prand "weight" 65 51 10 per pound. Services Privilege
Mr. Eden Anthony Eden
and
(Conn.), speaking after Mr. Dation, declar- ed that the envisaged surplus in To satisfy the "insatiable de
this year's budget of 240 millions mand" for 1. barro, Bratnin
was "not revenue surplus at all. drawing heavily and improvident
I was a windfall of a number of ly on dollars, the Chancellor de-
items such as receipts from the clared. We are smoking mach
sale of war stores." more as a nation than we ran af Mr. Dalton announced that the They were non-recurring items fort." He regarded the saving it privdege in thượ forces of put- fund not matters which could give dollars as much suffre important Jchasing from canteens at prices into confidence and jubilation than an theyease of revenue. {force before 1942 must-
particular evidence of the imme.. Mr. Dalton cuplimed: "We continued from April 27 (mediate mancial strength of the must export or we shall expire," bers of the farees could buy country. In the in nths ahend expets and limited number of elkarettes in imports atst be brought auranterns for 1 pence per packet Bearly Into baloner, Imports meist for which civiliams paid 2/4).
He said that he had set the tar
severely Imited, However disagreeable, Taxation wosti play apart in stimulating expart and reducing needless imports,
He announced the repeal of the excise duty on artlileial silk as from May 1 next.
He said that he with continue for the present the existing sub-
sidy en home produced fuel and gan alls and, would repeal the duly one penny per gallon on these
olls.
Income Relief
Mr. Dalton announerd In 201- crease in warned income relief raising the maximum relief from £150 to 250. He merene ed the child allowance from £50 to 60. restoring the 'allowiner
to pre.
war figure. These allowance in- crcases would relieve 250,000 pel - ple of all income tax payment, he Haid.
altacks on
was a
the leave Rosa Teeshelf, where
the
ampton Waters.
more
į prospective surplus for this year sonal approval, Several prominent the U.S. Navy gained in pre-lowest Spring tides Also! 20 per cent of tobaten raised from 240 millions to 270 Senate Democrats conferred on vious Polar operations.
the controversy before the Cham- It was the fourth South mullions."
An offcial with forty years. {_ber_resumed the debate on the Polar trip for Rear-Admiral
of experience of Southampton President's US$400,000,000 Green-Richard Byrd, who served
Waters told Reuter last night Turkish ald programmnnte, chlet technical director of the ex-that the "Queen Elizabeth" was target of Mr. Wallace's blast, pedition.
partly blocking the tideway, The debate was overshadowed The expedition was forced to and he thought that frequently by
the big former Vice-President.. The De.emporary land-base had been Lines, the "America," would flagship of the United States mocratic whip, Scott Laicas, said established early in February, have been able to get by if the the best rebuke to Wallace would heenuse of the danger of being "Queen Elizabeth had not been overwhelming approval of theirchound in the Ross Sen. Ad- Green-Turkish plan.
refloated before the American miral Byrd sald the Icepack in
liner was due to come up to One Defender.
the Ross Sea was the worst en: Southampton at midday to.
of Arild the Congressional furore countered in the history
Mr. Wallace, only the voice. South Polar exploration.
Beatrice-Lillie wis raised in his defence-that of Observers asid the ice did not
The 400 passengers who were ntana), who said Mr. Wallace's "North Wind"
and "Burtonour. Among them for the country" and donionstrai-expedition, even though some oflic-who were a hat with an was Lady "grand thing Island" which accompanied the Peel-the actress Beatrice Lii- ed the "free speech principle of the floes which drifted in the sea enormous ostrich feather pois. democracy."
had surface arcus of "We won't hang Wallace when thousand square yards,
many ed 50 centimetres above it. he gets home, which might be
She said that the delay As it was, the "Olympus" and landing was well worthwhile, his rate if he were Russian-uther craft were badly batter-"just for the sake of another United Press,
ог
morrow.
Mr. Eden said that the national Senator Junes Murray (Democrat, } endanger leebreakers like the token of landed in good hum-|
expenditure was still far too high.
The debate was then adjourned
until tomorrow. Reuter.
Jewish Immigrants Killed In Haifa
Haifa, Apr. 15.
Two male immigrants were killed on Sunday when a British naval party boarded the illegal Jew- ish immigrant ship "Theodore Herzl" carrying more than 2,000 passengers, which was towed into Haifa harbour this morning by a British destroyer.
The Jews were disembarked from the vessel quiet- ly and without incident today, but have not yet started to board the ferry ships which will take them to Cyprus.
The total cost of tax reduction in the port
would be $86,000.000 inful
yeur and £80,000,000 this year.
The Chancellor said that he had
Depth charges were exploded
aren of alfa preenulion against "frogmen,"
as a
and a battalion if the Glider Re Children's Book
ment of the 6th Airborne Divi
carefully considered the tax on sion stood by in case the terrorists
betting but was convinced that he attacker.
could not get substantial rovertic
from it. It would be possible to
A spokesman of the ship sald
tax the totalisator but I would Jews, der as
be unjust to tux this alone and let wounds and injuries from a burst
the book-inaker go free. To faxing tear gas grenade.
Flunk Test
Norman, Okla. Apr. 16.
The quayside that the two
Many result of bullet
"good" children's books go unread because they are overloaded with words for beyond the vocabulary age of the children for whom they were intended, a survey here discloses.
all forms or betting would pro Their flag-wrapped bodies lay sent the most formidable adminis. on the deck of the "Theodore trative difficulties.
Herzl" when she berthed in Haifa
He could hold out no hope for harbour..
a reduction in the total weight of "Down. With Bevin"
motor taxes. The present revenue must be raaintained.
Stamp Duties
The Chancellor proposed
Cliniging to the rigging and ning the ship's side, the immi- with ranty chanted "Down
Dr. Henry D. Ringland, direc- tor of the bureau of educational of research at the Univerity Oklahoma, says his studies show readability of children's books, including some textbooks, might
for the Ruard to deal account
offspring's
to Bevin's Government" as the ship
double all stamp duties relating came into harbour.
to stocks and shares, He pro- Paratroopers wearing steel
pased also, subject to relief for helmets were on
transactions, tu double with possible resistance from the turning to comic books.
overseas tour was
Wallace A "Private
Citizen'
Washington, Apr. 15.
A White House spokes- man said today that it was "obvious that Henry Wallace is speaking as a private citizen in his British speeches attack- ing the United States foreign policy."
and Turkey.
The White House press secre-
water.
in
ed coming out into more open of those simply lovely meals we The "Olympus" took got on board."-Rtuter. about two weeks to pick its way from the Ross Iceshelf through about 600 miles of trencherous icepack to the safer waters of the Buy of Whales.,
German Trade
The central group did not | Uncertainty
"
Geneva, April 15. Uncertainty about the volume.
encounter any whaling ships,
member une expedition
told United Press, but they contacted of future trade with Germany Japanese vessels and others by is one of the inevitable difficul- radio at frequent intervala. -
ties now being revealed after United Press.
the feat day of private talks between the delegates to the International Trade Organisa. tary, Charles Ross, when asked tion Conference, which opened whether the United States would here last Thursday.
British
The leader of the Czech Government notify the that Wallace was speaking only delegation, in an informal inter- as a private citizen, said: "It is view, said that Czechoslovakia'a an obvious fact, is it, noi, that attitude to the tariff negotia- Mr. Wallaco is speaking s tions would have to be one of private citizen?"
United Press.
reasonable
It was the first comment fram Ross said the White House has extreme reserve until his coun- the White House since Wallace taken no official notice, of Wal-try could make a began his attacks on the Ameri-lace's statesments but he declined estimate of her future trade
Grece to prophesy when asked whether with Germany. can programme to aid
this would apply to the future.- This, In turn, would depend on the future level of Ger- unny's Industry.
"The tariff conditions that we obtain. at this conference might be very advantageous un- der present circumstances, but their value might disappear If the later direction of our trade is changed and we return to our pre-war markets. between one- us-quarter and one-third of which were with Germany," he said.
Reuter.
Military Outposts On Mars Next?
Washington, Apr. 16, A race to establish military outposts on Mars,
ing rockets with a velocity of 26,000 miles an hour to span the 400,000,000 miles from the earth it is forecast by Major J. Randolph. "Rockets capable of going topledged to a policy of prepared- Mars may come more quickly; ness.
#mol: the stamp duty an the immigrants, who at first refused transfer di real property. He to disembark, but after forty Rinsland an authority on chil proposed un additional stamp ininutes' discussion shuffled meek.dren's vocabularies, is the au-
than we now think possible. And Citing American occupation of duty of ten per cent on the value ly down the gangplank.
thor of a book, "A Basic when they come, there will be a World War II bases in remote of all bond issues passed by the The first off were two babies Vocabulary of Elementary race to get there
first with on parts of the earth, such as the Capital Issues Committee, which carried by grinning paratroopers. School Children," which gives adequate expedition," he wrote Aleutians and the lonely beaches would have extensive discretion. The Theodore Herzl" is re- data on the number of times in the "Army Ordnance Associa
The Chancellor said that heported to have sulled from Mar- various words are used by chil- tion Journal." proposed to increase the profits efiles fourteen days ago Reu-dren in the first eight grades. The Association, founded in
per cent in distribut, |ter,
United Press.
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International Travel Pass?
Genova, April 15. of the Pacific, Randolph declared: France proposed an intersa- "In World War III, we cannot tional travel, pass when the limit such occupation to the earth. Travel Conference of Govern- alone. We must extend it out ment experts from 30 countries into space as far as rockets can discussed here today ideas sim- go and to our neighbour worlds in plifying world travel. - Бросе."
The British delegation re- An attack from Mars, he said, plied that the French plan would afford "vastly greater cp-should be carefully studied to portunities for secrecy and sur sec whether it would really prise" than a sudden assault from mean an Improvement, or whe Fearth against any enemy counther it would mean additional
try:
documents for travellers
•
to
Victory More Certain carry. "Money and lives will be say. The proposals 'before the con. ed and victory made more cer-faronce Include an unified pass- tain, by all that we do in peace port system, abolition of 'vians time to prepare for such decupa- and simplification of frontier tion-studying these other worlds, inspections health certificates sending expeditions to them, andand customs formalities devising" équipment to meet their special needs.
He also noted the prospect of
París, April 15, · |-| sending "satellite ships" to cruise M.. Paul Coste-Floret, Minis. in the vast sinknown outside the ter of War, Is to dy to Dakar earth's air belt and circle "round tomorrow. From there, with and round, the earth like, little the Minister of Navy, he will man-made moons.” —- Associated go to Indo-China for a four of
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