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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1947.
MORE BUDGET CRITICISMS
Mr. Dalton Hints At A Reduction In Income Tax Next Year---Maybe Sixpence Reduction
"Impossible"
Now
London, Apr. 23.
Mr. Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, intimated in the debate on the budget in the House of Commons tonight that the standard rate of income tax at nine shillings in the pound this year would probably be reduced next year.
A resolution on income tax was approved by the House after Mr. Dalton, against strong Conser- vative opposition, defended his decision to give
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Scranton, Par Apr. 23. Siz hundred mune were told they should include popular music in teaching at Catholic schoole "ince much of it is the folk music of the nation.
The Rev. Thomas J. Quigly, Catholic in Pittsburgh, adviand mune, at the fires biennial conference
of
the Pennsyl vania Unit of the National Catholic Music Educators As- #ociation, not, to ignore or de- nounce popular music-Unit- cd Preen.
Rondent of
the
income tax relief this year only by increasing STENCH BOMBS
the child allowances and the tax-free allow- ance on earned income.
Labour Government Criticised
It would have cost £72,000,000
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Lords' Debate On Palestine
London, Apr. 23.
The Palestine situation was discussed today in the House of Lords, where Viscount Hall, speaking for the Government, said that terrorism-in- Palestine was on a minor scale during the war years and few casualties were caused. Casualties since August 1, 1945, however, were:
Killed-68 military, 30 police and 15 civilians. Wounded (including assaulted)-191 military, 49 police and 9 civilians. These figures, said Viscount Hall, did not include casualties in the recent Palestine railway disaster caused by a terrorist mine, of which full reports had not yet been received.
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London, Apr, 23. Three railway acci- dents which blocked the London suburban lines
During the same period, 168 | faced with great difcalifes in delayed scores of thou-Jews were convicted for ter.cooperating. sands of Londoners onrorist activitice, 28. sentenced ter The failure of the British their way to work today. death and four executed, while Intelligence
On the District Line, a derail
22 persons had their sentences trincham saki, was conspicious, | floor. "Himited number of tifins will be obtainable at the Club ment at Ravenscourt Park cut the electric cables and put 7 miles of track out of action.
far-
On the Metropolitan, a collision nt North Harrow stopped trains between Pinner and row-on-the-HD for nine hours.
On the Londen, Midland and Scottish line, the Waltord-Euston trains had to be stopped at Chalk Farm when a locomotive was de-
must be recuncillation
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reduced to life imprisonment and terrorlat intelligence seem- and two persona had recently ed to be superior. committed suicide while lying The Brat step in Palestine (Tel. 27818), under sentence of death. nil In clashes with the police, agreement between the peoples 33 terrorists were knowin to and the catablishment of a have been killed and at, least 29|Joint Government, Lord Al- The price of admission to wounded.
tho Public Enclosure is $3 trincham concluded.
including tax for all persons fuelling ladies, and is payable at the Gate. Asked bow the two men who had committed:
Viscount Samuel, leader of!
Bookmakers, Tic Tac ren, ofc., will not be permitted to operate sufele had the Liberals in the House of within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the taken explosives into their lords and former High Com-Race Meetlug. fouling points eelis, Viscount Hall replied that misationer in Palestine, sald that on the electric line.
Refreshments will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public The accident on the
the explosives were taken to the the terrorists were "fanatica", Enclosure. District Nor-Line put thirteen stations on that cells Inalde oranges. The inside mostly very young and animat-
has been taken by the abominable doctrine ONLY on application to the Secretary, 1st Floor, Exchange
SERVANT'S PASSES. pence in the pound-were quite Wegian soprano Kirstenine out of action for many hours, of the orange
Passes for Servants will be legued to Private Box holders in Philadel-
out and explosives substituted. that the end justifles the means.
Opening the debate in the
Buliding. AN sections of Palestine
to reduce the standard rate by sixpence, ahmost as much as the olher two reliefs Because of Britain's Jsition, he had decided to wait
put together, financial
at any rule for another year.
Philadelphia, Apr. 23. : Stench
bombs, boos
The suggestions for a reduction and fisticuffs greeted the maxineten of 10 shillings and six-appearance
of the surtax-now reaching a
fradmissable, ho said.
Answering an
of
Flagstad
railed at Euston.
-Reuter.
argument that phia's staid Academy of 'side to protest the appearance of House of Lords, Lord Altrin-i Jews,' he said, from the most possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the
Music today.
it was unfair to tax invested in.
London, Apr. 24.
erine at the same rate as earned Labour Members of Income, Mr. Dalton said that his Parliament bitterly at-present reductions had definitely differentiated in favour of cam- tacked the Labour Gov-ed Income, and families who bene- ernment today for leav-fited from the child allowances ing them holding the bag would, for the most part, be those when the Cabinet reduc-who were dependent on earned ed the
conscription
incomes.
Two Groups
period from 18 to 12 People with large incomes fall months.
definitely into two groups, They The showdown carne during a either derive their incomes al-1 private meeting of the Parliamost totally from earnings, or inentury Labour Party in the almost totally from Investments, House of Commons, attended by not from a fair share of both. the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee. and other Cabinet Ministers,
Mr. Dalton emphasised that "nobody at all actually paid an The "Evening News" says
effective rate of income tax at Government whip led the attack 190 on his whole income.
on Goverment for reducing th
Conservative members Ralph
conscription period without warn-issheton, Roland Jennings and ing, after asking Labour MPs to Colunei Alan Dower argued that tell their constituents that it, the Government was penalizing would be impossible to train con- the filgher
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earning professional seripts in less than 18 months. man, whose business enterprise Members directed their erit was being stiffed by lack of in- elsm principally at the Defence (centive. Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexander,
1
who had been any reduction
1
issue,
mdamunt against Energy Wasted?
the
were
the Wagnerian singers.
In all, nine hecklers The demonstration inside
thrown out. theatre by a handful of heckler
There threw the concert
a brief
hout of tummaltatieuffa featured by shouts after several hundred pickets and "Communist" and "Fascist" from a crowd of 5,000 gathered our opposing sides.--United Press,
into
Was
Winnie Lays Out In All Directions
Woodford, Essex, Apr. 24.
Accusations that the Labour Government is evi- dently casting away "the mighty Indian Em- pire" were made last night by Mr. Winston Churchill, Britain's war-time Prime Minister, Palestine, he asserted, is of far less importance to
when speaking at his constituency here. Britain than India, but there are four times as many troops in Palestine as in India. Britain is fighting to give Palestine to the Arabs, he added.
ambition.
or
cham, former Minister Resident | moderate and law-abiding to In the Middle Eust, described the most violent and extreme, the conditions of illegal Im-supported illegal immigration
disgusting migration traffle as "inhuman, and approved of it because they and - disgraceful", | declared it was not illegal, and but the disgrace to the name of that what was Illegal was the givilisation was not the fault .Ordinance that prevented it. of Britain.
U.S. Zionists Blamed
Every civilised country WILB IL wns bound to resist an unauthorls that it
of
untruc to Any impossible
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peace.
ed and unfiltered rush of Im. for Arabs and Jews to live migrants Into territory
for together in
he satd. which it was responsible. For eight years there had "failure to resist would be ub.heen no incidenta whatever, and diention of our duty."
no claim was pressed for Bel- The cause
the evil ofting up a Jewish state. Un- | Megal Immigration was the kuf-huppily during the war the fering.am! helplessness of the American Zioniste brought it to demanded displaced persons in the camps the front and they in Europe.
that Palestine should be Britain could not mornily de- [clared a Jewish Commonwealth mand that the Arab people state. They declared also uloue should accept Jewish im. that the inhabitants should all migrants. There would be no have equal political rights from reduction of tension until the the start. problem of displacid persons living_hopelessly in camps was settled.
de-
an
Laird Sumuel declared Amb state in Palestine to be Impracticable and partition im- possible. There should be con- stituted two communities--a
Jewish community and an Arab community, and a third if the Christians so desired.
Lord Strabotgi asked the Govern- ment to consider Dominion he could not conceive that any
There has been a decline, Mr. Churchill said he is shocked to see Churchill claimed, in the esteem the rate at which thai loan Is 'Colonel Dower said that more with which Great Britain is held now flowing cut because a great
Intelligence Poor luring the con-
Lord Altrincham sald that scription debate on the 18 months and more energy was being wast by the United States and Russia- part of it is being spent on to-
ed by all sections of the com- "The Government always bacce and films.
the Government was entitled to Mr. Attlee replied that Govern. Imunity striving to add up their ready to scuttle from any dit-
demand wholehearted coopera No Ambition! ment, after a new survey, had de..i expenses to save an extra six-culty and to run away from
tion of the Jewish Mr. Churchill, who is 72 years
Agency cided that a shorter period could pence en their income tax.
Conservative Rupert Boothby, pears fierce, and It has, evidently • { saying that he had no political cooperation of the Jewish po- status, while Lord Linyd anidi
During the debate, anything that looks large and ap-of age, concluded his speech by Kainst terrorism. He felt more be instituted without affecting the
doubtful about asking for the needs of the armed service.
advocating a differentiation atcast away our mighty Indian Ern He appealed for
the higher as well as the lower pire," he said. 10 per cent
"I have only stayed in politics putintion in general, for if the Party support when the 12-month rate of income tax, declared that "When we look at the position amendment
bettre coines
the there was no House probably next
them security they would week, who had the energy and initiative Seventy-two Labourites vated against Government on the see. ond reading of the bill on April 1. At that time the bill speelfed that conscripts should serve 18 months. United Press.
APPEAL REJECTED
Herford, Apr. 23. The Allied Control Commission Appen Court today rejected the appeal by two Russians sentencesl
reason why men in Palestine, we see a different to do my duty and help the coun. { Government could not guarantee thing but a miracle could lead
process at work in the minds of
19 earn £1,000 a year should be the Government. There we have taxed at the same rate of a man
costa.
many
to go on fighting at all who happened to Inherit a for- There are four times as tune.
troops in Palestine as in India.
A Labour Member, Mr. J. A. "We must carry on this squalid Sparks, suggested: "We are evolv.war of terrorism. We are fight Ing a new system
of society fa ling the Jews in order to give which this money
Incentive is Falestine, to the Arabs. We have going to take place."Reuter.
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a very backward worked safely and done our best
ira Palestine, but, it is not twentieth part of the importance fof India.to us, and is an Immense to death at Duesseldorf for thes of war they were st!!! subject in bringing upon us a great deal source of expense and worry and 1 Russian military law, but the The Russians were living in dis court ruled that they were de- ecuntries throughout the world of disapprobation from many placed persons' camp, posing ns serters, subject to the jurisdiction Poles at the time of the crime. nt the Control Commission court by our maladministration of the
whole problem."
murder of a Cerman.
Their British counsel contend. in respect of the crimes commit- ed that as former Russian prison- fed in the British Zone-Reuter. Government's decision to reduce
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Mr. Churchill attacked the
empulsory national service from cighteen months to twelve months. Commenting on the do- |mestic aituation, he said: "The
divided." nation today
Cotton Exchange
Mr. Churchill also attacked Sir
try," he said.-Reuter.
Jewish Terrorists'
New Threat
London, Apr. 23, Responsibility for Tuesday's attack on a British troop train in Palestine, which caused the death of eight people, including five British soldiers, was admitted tonight by the Jewish "This was in retaliation for the hanging of our pri terrorist organisation, Irgun Zvai Leumi.
soners of war," the organisation announced in its broadcast. The organisation also announ- ced what it described as "a new code."
Long-Range Housing Bill
Washington, Apr. 28.
Troops and police are also liable to be taken and tried as "mem- bers et an allegal organisation in the Jewish homeland. Those con- vleted will be executed on the spot, either by bullet or hanging." Meanwhile, the High Commis sioner, Sir Alan Cunningham, today Invited David Ben Gurion, Chairman of the Jewish Agency
Stafford Cripps, President of the The Senate Banking Com Board of Trade, for being resmittee, by a seven to six vote, ponsible for the Bill "which was has approved the Taft-Ellen-executive, to Government House passed through the House of der-Wagner longrange, housing
"for a talk on the current politi Commons abolishing the Liver-bill.
cal situation" in Palestine. pool Cotton Exchange."
The measure will provide A comparison between the pre- Mr. Churchill described the Federal aid for alum clearance ent Palestine situation and the Exchange as of great value to the and redevelopment and urban clash between French and British cotton trade of Lancashire, and and rural putle housing at an elements in Canada at the time of said that it earned every year at estimated cost to the Govern-the rebellion, was drawn today least £1,000,000, mostly in hardment of US$7,500,000,000 over the Jewish Dominion of Palestine by Lord. Strabolgi, President of currenty in foreign 'exchange. a 45-year period,
Recalling that while he was in It is designed to encourage
League, the United States he used his in the construction of 16,000,000 fluence to facilitate the Labour new farm and city homes by |Government obtaining a loan, Mr. | 1958--United Press,
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Comparison With Canada
Lord Strabolgi was replying to
letter received from Mr.
1.
| Greenberg, in which the latter tendered his resignation from the Leaguo because he considered |there' was no further possiblilty of a partnership on a Dominion basis between the Jews in Pales- tine and Britain,
"There
"was' much; bitterness In Canada during the rebellion," Lord Strabolg) said. "Yet the French and the British Canadians silving togther power is
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bound to attempt to restore order In the country," - the. Labour.
| Peer"""" statement continued, "find
[though: 1- personally regrat," "the" the-principle that "Ihe battlos
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