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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER '14, 1947.
LUXURIES TO COST MORE Dalton Introduces His Interim Budget Taxes On Pools
And The Dogs
London, Nov. 12. Luxuries rather than necessities are hit by the emergency anti-inflation budget announced in Parliament tonight by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, when he intro- duced big new taxes on gambling on football matches and dog races, raised the taxes on goods bought in shops-in some cases by as much as 50 per cent.
All this is interpreted by trade unionists as a move to make it easier for them voluntarily to stop demands for high wages during the present crisis.
KING MICHAEL Tung Taken
PILOT
Geneva, Nov. 12. Piloting bu
plane, OWN King Michael of Kummanila, landed at Genova Airport this evening on his way to the Royal wedding In Zon- dun.
The 20-year-old King Was secompanied by mother, Queen Helen. They expected to continue their Journey, to London on Friday-Reuter.
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the new betting duty in the same way me dog totes-10 per cent.
Beer
At His Word
STOKE-ON-TRENT,
+
British Policy On Germany
London, Nov. 12. Lord Pakenham, the Minister responsible for the administration of the British Zone of Ger-
many, declared in the NOV. 18, House of Lords, today WHEN YOUNG TUNG that Britain would never LEFT CHINA TEN YEARS abandon the principle of AGO HE TOLD HIS SCHOOL-
GIRL SWEETHEART, LAN- German unity even if NER CHIN, THAT HE the Council of Foreign WOULD MARRY HER SOME Ministers failed, because DAY. THEY WROTE ΤΟ
it would mean a division EACH OTHER TILL THE OUTBREAK OF WAR WHEN of Europe for all time. THEN YOUNG TUNG WAS 18, AND Lord Pakenham said that the
THERE The Chancellor of the Ex-a nood to fortify the revenue and
SIL refusal of Russia to allow Ger. WAS ENCE. chequer estimated an additional prevent misuse of resources.
many, to be administered as a That silence was broken only two single economic unit had wreck- yield of new taxes of £208,000,- There had been a great in-
Mr. Dalton added: "Not only weeks ago by a message to Tunged the whole conception of 000 in a full year, while cuts crease in the tote turnover, es- will the taxes bring in addition from Lanner saying that she was on
the of £200,000,000 in capital expecially dog totes, representing al
Postdam Agreement. financial rovent, and so her way to England to marry him., penditure have already been an-Ja large proportion of total
No one could blame the Brl-; ex-diminish inflationary pressure, She has now arrived
by air, and tish Government for the regret nounced, but, in some financial | penditure.
but they
will curtail various Tung was waiting for her
Lon- table state of disagreement be! forms of expenditure which we ."WE
tween the Allies. cannot afford in this time
will be married 1001 in of Chinese traditios and dress," be ex
"We stand for the economic emergency"..
plained as he hurried her off to a
unity of Germany, but it must On the duties on British wines, Chinese restaurant. Lanner was hun-be a real unity with a common Mr. Dalton stated that the gry, he said, because she did not duties would rise corresponding. enjoy the English food served on the ly by 10/-on the heavy varieties| trip-Reuter, and on the lighter types,
| quarters, the new menauren were
being openly described as hope-placca on all money wagered on A tax of 10 per cent would be lessly inadequate.
dog totes and would be deduct This special crisis budget, ided and paid over by the pro- prevent inflationary pressure prietors, but there would be no which might follow the Govern-jevy of this kind on horse totes ment's efforts to raise exports for racecourses were not for at the expense of the home mar private profit and an improve-|
featured. however, noment of horsebreeding resulted
in income tax. Mr.in export, Dalton said that during the win-
Ket change
He also promised, as from to- morrow to raise the duty on beer | by the equivalent of one penny, Football pools, he declared, a pint on beer of "average lat- ter months he would examine had grown to most formidable ter day" strength, which evoked the niternatives to the present dimensions, absorbing far too laughter, system of collection to rendjust much labour,
and proportionately am hten the axpayers' bur
more on stronger brew "if there They would be brought under 'be any still". Reuter, den.
Fox sulfidies, estimate In the last budget in April to total: £392,000,000, wont be found, but further increnses would not be possible,
Profits Tax
announced the
Mr. Dalton
Bite
Taking Big
Into Spending
London, Nov. 12.
doubling of the profita tax on Reuters financial editor writes: The autumn all profits as from Jan. 1-ani increase from 12-1/2 per cent to 26 per cent on distributed profita and five to 10 per cent
anticipated profits,
There would be no increase in the tobacco duty. In the last budget, the Chancellor of ̃ the Exchequer raised the price of cigarettes to it for 20, and there had been apprehension that he might raise the duty further.
Mr. Dalton stated that there would be an inercase of or penay per pint on beer "average latter day" strength and proportionately on stronger
brew,
of
budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, might be described as a minimum budget a minimum anti-inflation- ary effect on a situation which could possibly be regarded as requiring minimum fiscal changes that would justify solemnity on a British budget day, Within his self-imposed limits, the Chancellor get out only to absorb the "additonal" inflation- ary pressure created by import cuts and Intensified exports.
Any further increase in food prices will thus be passed on to consumera Instead of belog absorbed by a further increase in subaldies. And subsidies
on
From that standpoint, the leather, cotton and wool, costing budget is not a light measure, A£33,000,000 a year, will disap- sum of £208,000,000 of addition-pear.
al taxes in a full year, added to £200,000,000 of already all- nounced cuta in capital expendi ture, takes a big bite into spend. inx.
But Mr.
he
Exchange
don.
import and export programme, freedom of speech, freedom of travel everywhere.
reached B.O.A.C. Air Drama
"If. agreement ennnot bo on this basis,
other political and economie expedients will have to be introduced, and introduced as rapidly as por- sible", Lord Pakenham declared Foote, Nov. 12.
Lord Pakenham
announce:] A British Overseas Airways that 7,500 of 18,000 non.com. flying boat, bucking 70-mph missioned ranks of S.S. and head winds sent distrem signals officer Internees not regarded as today after one engine failed dangerous, would be released bub a crash was averted and the from internment camp on parole ship reached Poole safely.
The plane was flying in torren.| until their trial-Reuter, tlal rain and heavy winds which swept Wales and Yorkshire and others parts of England during Inst night and today.
At 11.37 a.m. the flying boat radioed Poole, "Starboard inner engine has failed." Five minuica later, she radioed again, "Port Inner engine has failed."
Messages were immediately sent out to Bсa resque eroft on the South Coast but the plane reach ed Poole in safety under its own power United Press.
"Now It Can Be Told"
་
Ethiopia Demands
Eritrea
London, Nov. 12. A demand for the former Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland was made today by the Ethiopian Vico-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Aklilou Abte Wold, when he presented his country's case for the first time to the Foreign Ministers" deputies here.
Parle, Nov. 13. Pierre Courtade, French Com- allowed Into munist correspondent, who was to cover the UN Assembly only the United States
Italy has officially claimed under a string of conditions set trusteeship over Eritrea, and by the State Department, today Egypt is understood to want advised young Frenchmen who Massawa. hope to emigrate
Members to America
of that they are "kidding them four-power Commission
now in Eritren on the first "The good times there have stage of their inquiry. gane," Courtade wrote in the Mr. Wold stressed the econo- Paris weekly "Action"
Ordered by the State Depart-lian Somaliland with Ethiopia mic unity of Eritrea and Ita- ment to confine his writing
relves".
while in
tho
are
Since the additional taxes are The articles already placed on
reckoned to raise only £48,000,- Dalton detected 000 for the remainder of the free list would not be plac same signs" that inflationary fiscal year (up to the end
thia ed on the purchase' tax list, buti
of those on the purchase tax list Pressure has been relaxed in re- March) and since the cuts in
cent weeks. Accordingly rates of taxes would be a foreshadowed that, unlike recent ing applied only gradually, the steinbly, Courtade is taking his subsist without basic products capital expenditure are also be as follows: 16-2/3 tax to 33-1/3
America to the UN and said that they could not and 33-1/3 to 50 per cent, 66-2/3 years, un increase would be re immediate anti-inflationary ef.
revenge by a series of articles from Ethiopia. The Red Sca Lax-to-75-per-cent,-and-100-taxquired in the "fiduciary issue" fect is clearly small,
(authorised maximum circulation
on the United States now that ports of Massawa and Assab to 125 per cent,
for Christmas, of banknotes)
as he is back-United Press,
both depended economically on Ethiopia. and after Christmas he hoped to
A corridor to them reduce it for the first time since
would be "indefensible both economically and from a mili- the outbreak of the war.
tary point of view," and Mr. Wold threatened "maximum ro-
be "for the purpose of aggres- Armament" if Italy's claim were upheld, which could only
alon."--Reuter.
Whisky Up Duties on heavy wines would be raised by 10/-a gullon and on light wines by fén gallon. There would be a corresponding rise on British wines,
Strong Budget
Within the limits of the A tax of 10 per cent would be this in, of course, an extremely Treasury's own accountancy, imposed on greyhound betting strong budget, Even without ad- by the totaliator, but none on ditional taxes, the Chancellor of
at all.
NORFOLK” HERO ENGAGED
This might be criticised inadequate.
Contrary to prediction, the Chancellor of the very confident Exchequer did not take the op- portunity to deny the recent: rumours about exchange rates.
London, Nov. 12. He did not mention the subjectmanded the cruiser Norfolk during Captain D. K. Baits, who com-
foreign exchange difficulties was unk, is engaged to Mrs. Iris Gray,
the action Almost his saly reference to German battleship Scharnhorst was in 1943 in which the
when he said that the shortage widow of Mr. Donald Stuart Gray,
more it the Exchequer disclosed that the of dollars le now much
announced today. Football pools would be sub budgetary surplus is already un when he raised the tobacco tax to sight the enemy vessel, the first
serious than it was Inst April, Captain Bains ship was the first ject to a tax of 10 per cent. precedented for the time of the
Duties on whisky, rum
and year.
to save dollars, and that nobody to fire and the first to be hit lo other spirits would be ralsed by
Controversy has all along
can tell how long it will be bereturn. Although on fire, the Norfolk £1.13.4 a proof gallon.
This raged and will continue to rage: American tobacco.
was "in at the death."-Reuter. fore Britain can restart buying meant that the price of a bottle not on that point, but on whether
horse racing.
of whisky of standard brand it is adequate for the country's asked whether he would "unpeg" Yesterday however, When bought outside the blackmarket general economic situation. would go up to about 30/-com- Many serious economists and exchange rates and let sterling. pared with 25/-.
financial writers. were tonight"No"-Reuter.
find its own level, he answered openly describing the budget as "hopelessly inadequate".
The betting tax will come in to force on Jan. 4 next and was expected to yield £15,000,000 in a full year.
The
The Dogs
new
The absence of any cuts in expenditure, other than those at ready announced, drew
CEYLON'S FIRST par- ticularly adverso comment. The
SENATE crux of these was food subsidies, taxes generally which have reached the crushing should bring in £48,000,000 this level of £392,000,000 a year.
Colombo, Nov. 12. financial year, which enda in
Ceylon's first Senate elected Since it was economically im-Sir Gerard Wijeyekoon sa Senate April, and £208,000,000 in a full perative to reduce these, and President by a 14 to 13 vote to financial year,
politically impossible to do so, day, Amid Labour cheers, Mr. the Chancellor of the Exchequer status within the British Com- The laland is seeking Dominion Dalton god that he had had took the obvious and expected monwealth under a new Govern second thoughts about betting course of "binding" them since his last budget. There was their present level.
atment aworn in September-AS
sociated Press,
YOU MUIST" TAKE A
CLASS OF MY OLD
GOOD HEAVENS!“ HAVE YOU BEEN
MALADA BEFORE WE LOOTING THE CONTO THE BULLFIGHT!-}| PLACE, ERICY
EXCUSE!
NO-1 JUST ADMIRED THIS THING IN A
THOUGHTLESS
MOMENT-
I MUST SHOW YOU MY PEDIGREE) BULLS ON OUR WAY OUT-
·FOR GOODNESS' SAKE "DON'T, PRAZER ‘EM, JAHE- OR WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE.
A WHOLE HERD BACK
TO ENGLAND!
JUST THINKING OUT LOUD
оп
Lake Success, Nav, 13. Philippine delegate Tomas Cabili offered this thought Nations General Assembly-"We all want to know what's going on in Rusala. Why not hold the Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 12.
next meeting thore, then?" snowstorm forced down the man of the Budgetary Committee Justice Fazli All of Irudia, chair. the World pilots George which was considering the pos Truman and Clifford Evans. They sible cost of a session in Europe, lauded at Northway Field near the Canadian border, about two hours after taking off a their Cub planes from Big Delta, 100 miles southeast of Fairbanks Anociated Press.
FORCED DOWN BY the 1948 meeting of the United
SNOWSTORM
A
round
remarked, "You are at liberty, to make that proposal formally."
"Oh no. Not that," Cabill ans wered quickly. "I was just think. Ing out loud."--Assspeläted Press.
Step
Anglo-French
On Germany
London, Nov. 12..
Great Britain and France today demanded that the American proposal for a 40-year treaty on