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Masterly Budget
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Is nevertheless a master- pice in compromise. No Chancellor at the Exchequer has demonstrated more dexterity budget pill with blessings and tribulations, Mr Butler has shown ht Jack of courago. 12 vision, Con- Fronted with grim realitles he has clearly striven tu deal with them in a pre- tical manner. He has kept in mind the primary task of ensuring Britain's solvency. This, inevitably. involves new impositions on the living standards of the nation. Those he has conceived arenevere, but not to u point of being crippling. He offers com- pensations for hardships and How rewards for endeavour. It is a budget That goos it long way towards meeting the argent requirements of the
moment. If it makes the housewife shudder, it will. also erente a more solid confidence abroad in Eri- tain's ability to raise her- Melf from
financial morass. This is a time when the Pound Sterling overseas has to be made more important than the Pound Sterling at home.
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4R Butler's proposals will not escape criticism. He may be accused of failing to spread suficiently his demand for sherifices i31 Hving conditions, It is the average household that is chielly going to feel the drustic effects of the slash in subsidies, involving higher prices for essential foodstuffs. And it is not perfectly certain that Additional allowances will wholly compensate for this drain on the family income, Nevertheless The cutting down of subsidies repre- Kent phe of the most effec- tive methods of saving on Government expenditure and mèrits justification on that score. Undoubtedly the Chancellor bus imagination and skill in his
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""NEW HOPE FOR BRITAIN" BUDGET
Mr Butler Calls For
Fresh Efforts To Save Country
London, Mar. 11. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Richard A. Butler, told the nation in a radio broadcast tonight that the new budget should give Britain new hope.
He stated that the budget should encourage the nation to make the great effort necessary to save the country. '.
He added that the budget did not seek to hide realities by letting the people think that things which, were. cheap-had. not to be dearly paid for by the state.
After announcing that the food subsidies had been reduced by almost half, Mr Butler pointed out. that the dis- guise which masked the real cost of imported food had been removed.
Mr Butler stressed that the budget was fair as it provided for excess profit tax which companies would pay under present conditions.
The Chancellor said that the increase in the rate of bank interest should stimulate exports and help to assure maintenance of full employ-
ment.
Earthquake
Cost Japan £10 Million
Tokyo, Mur. 12. Offcial estimates released here kite on Tuesday-placed losses in the earthquake and tidal waves which struck! Hokkaido, Japan's northern- most island, on March 4 ht more than 10,000 million yen (£10,000,000).
complete.
The figure does not Include
estimates of скор damage, which would not 'be- come available until late spring when the snow covering most of Hokkaido now begins to melt.
The latest estimate of quake
wave casualties used and tidal
was
efforts 10 cushion the
555.
The casualties included 28 dead effecla higher Hving and six persons still mising.
The quake and waves destroy-
costs.
New income allow-
Mr Butler concluded by ray- widows will also get more and -ing--that-there--wax-certain the Government will be raising"
pensions for old people.
amount
of unemployment in The Lancashire textile industry. He warned that the aatton would be faced with more un employment if the pound stori- ing were not saved.
The Chancellor said that everyone wished for something better than permanen austerity and to achieve that a national effort was necessary.
11 who also to simulate such had decided to introduce en- the Government an effort that couragement under the form of reductions on income tax France-Presse.
will
Petrol-Motorisis will have to phy 7146. more duty on each Their gallon of petrol for cíl. petrol will now cost 4s. 3d, u gallon. From next year they also have to pay £12. 10. your to license their cars in stead of £10. great
Pee'al Services www.Higher for telephone rentals; charges. parcel p:sts and telegrams,
Sports Soccer and crickel spectators will pay a higher entertainment tax rate-Reuter. CAUSES CONCERN
London. Mar 11, Britain's decision to
cut
her imports from all sources by an- ather £100,000,000 this year, reduction of 10 per een on 1051, announced in the House of Commnens today by the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, Mr
Butler. Ichard
has already In some coun- caused concern tries. have in this was, shown in the follow
Reuter despatches. Copenhagen Some anxiety is repercussions of British import expressed here over the possible uls on Danish exports though the necessity for the cuts is
SALES TAX CHANGES
London, Mar, 11. A big change in Britain's sales tax purchase fax) to remove discrimination against Imports from overseas will be among the results of the new budget.
Though imports are to be cut ranny foreign goods which are now too denr for British pur- chuses because of this sales tax
be made cheaper.
Some foreign imports cost over twice as much as there is neither duty nor pur- identical British goods on which
chase tax.
Now imported goods will only
bests as honie-produced goods,
ances for single and married.) ed or damaged more than 22,000 pay purchase tax on the same fully understood.
Increased me,
Govern- ment contributions to the maintenance of children, and an upward revision of old age pensions will mean assistance for those who principally need it." These are concessions that will
meet with general approval. THIS is a "save the Pound"
budget, and few of its features have come as a big The decision to surprise. raise the bank rate to 4 per cent is drastic, but equally realistic. Further cuts in importa are unavoidable. The immediate necessity is
homes, schools, hospitals and other buildings for a total loss estimated at "more than 4.500 rallion yen.
Damage to mining, maine products and agricultur BC- counted for the loss of nearly 3,300 million yen.
Overseas traders have often objected to the utility scheme
Rome; Italian financial sources are critten of the new British
DEMONSTRATION
Un
CLEARING ISMAILIA OF VERMIN
are
Clouds of DDT fog, which spreads into every nook and cranny, pumped into the streets and buildings of Ismallia, as the British Army start a big drive to clear the vermin. The job was carried out by aTM Field Hygiene unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps to safeguard the health of British troops stationed in the town. - London Express.
Taft Takes The Lead
Pinay Wins Vote In Assembly
Paris, Mar. 11.
America Has New Guided Missile
Washington, Mar. 11. Rear-Admiral John B. Moss said today that the Navy had developed a guided missile which could seek out and destroy an enemy plane three to four miles away.
He described the weapon at 4 Congressiena! Lub-committee heuring ぐ machine icol
thortages.
ተ missile, called the Sparrow, was tired in its pre- sent form from a plane
and "we are working on a grund
to air version," he said.
He told of is he had sech of the perfecte in action,
"It is not a question pf inflict- ing damage on an enemy plane, There just is not any altplane left after it once hits," he said.
A Scouter asked, "You mean [eur airmen will be able to des
troy enemy planes they cannot sče?"
"That is our ultimate objec... tive
the Admiral replied,
The Committee's chairman the
of porsibliity
the "enemy"
France's "Save the Franc" Premier, 60-year-ked the Admiral about old Moderate Conservative Antoine Pinay, tonight developing similar guided won by 293 votes to 101 a virtual vote of con- missiles. fidence in his Cabinet and policy.
Voting was on a 'Communist motion. calling for a debate on the composition and policy of the Government which M Pinay, had explained briefly to the Assembly, during a noisy session.
The
The Speaker: M. Edouard Hendes had had to suspend the session for half an hour to re- sture cider
ten minutes of shouting and bench banging,
Only
Communists unsi one Gaullist voted against he Gavermout. The Gaullists and Secialists had announced they Manchester, New Hamp-wor'd abstain.
shire, Mar. 11. Senator Robert A. Taft of vole Ohio took the lead over
With 10 of 287 precincts report ing in the preferential (popular- Ity) contesi, Taft swung into the lead with 520 votes of Eisen-
Former Governor Harold E. of Minnesota has 91 and General Douglas Mac-
had
scattered
TANKER IN DISTRESS
Norfolk, Mar. 11. The 8,964-ton tanker Saxon whipped by hurricane- force winds in the Atlantic, radived
M. Pinay said before the Star.
Voles
would that he
regard In favour of a debate as
Ile
to be taken within a
on
Z A but to be tabled Thursday on measures to assure that the Stato financial, commit- ments are met when due.
Its
"I have heard of the enemy using guided missiles in Koren," Admirel Moss replied.
But he added that he was rut familiar with what other na tions were doing th missile re-
searcli.
Later he told n reporter that the missile he had been talking about
was. "about half way" between the experimental and the mass manufacturing stage.
Admiral Moss, is Assistant Chief for Material and Services iri the Navy's Bureau Aeronautics. Reuter,
Дз
Police Break
Up Meeting
guarantees.---
late today that General Dwight D. Eisen met ainst his new Govern- situation was critical, with its
asked for the Com-hull cracked and leaking.
Havana, Mar. 11. hower in scattered small-munist motion to be rejected The Coast Guard
In. He first. demonstration of cutler town returns from today's "to allow the Government to atendota, racing to the aid of force since the new regime tookt Primary. vital Republican Presidential get ahead with work."
the_lanker, relayed a mesingeover, the police tonight brake Moderate Conservatives, to Fifth Coast Guard Head-up a meeting of about 20 Radicals and Popular Republi-quarters here from the Saxon leaders of the Opposition People's cans voted for M. Fines, while Star shortly after 30 p.m. Party in the home of Roberto Socialists . and Gaullists ab- | GMT which said, "The stained.
vessel Agramonte, in critical condition due to n Agramonte was the Party's The 27 Caulist "rebels", who southerly gate. Shipping water presidential candidate for the import restrictions. They view hower's 805.
assured M. Pinay's investiture in various places. Cargo over- June 1 election which General which has been operating in them, as a departure from the
last week against a directive towing. Pumping but cargo to Fulge
Fulgencio Bailsta Britain since the early war days. general
cancelled. principle of trade
from their party, abstained ex- remedy. Will advise."
Agramonte and all attending This scherne was designed to Eberalisation.
cepting one, ton. Import cuts
who voted for The Mendota, off Cape Hat the meeting were taken to keep down living costs by pro-those cheeses not
Pinay.
teras, North Carolina, reported Secret Follee Headquarters, for on the food Arthuf had 40, ducing simple clothes, footwear ration in Britain will be severe- Previously Eisenhower
PLANS OUTLINED
that
It was Reads, railroads, bridges, har- and furniture, exempt from pur-ly felt. Trade sources say the held
battling 60-mph questioning, then released. A small lead over Taft in
This swing of the "rebels" gales and rough seas.
Agramonte quoted the bours, communications, water chose tax levied on a wide range
police Italian
textile industry,
from reports
the and the absznes of n works and other pubile utilities of goods,
few In already
B message earlier, the anying where the Ohia Radicals and Popular Republi- Liberian tanker reported that
that meetings of more struggling with severe competi- rural areas, suffered total damage estimated
were than four people II was
pro- never extended to tion from France and from the Senator had been figured 10 can Deputies meant that M. Inurricane - fores winds at nearly 2,000 million yen,
had libited under the suspension Imports which came
Pinay had into the revived German and Japanese make his strongest race.
31 votes fewer than cracked Its bull. United of consiliutional Prelectures in the Sanriku bracket
of non-utility goods mills, will be badly hit. Some
There
was по larger-city his investiture figure.
Press.
Calter Press. district, in the northern part of subject to purchase tax.
In the 19 pre- M. Pinay outlined his Govern- the Japanese mainland, suffered
DEFENCE EXPENDITURE
Itellan firms are working three vote included days A week only because of cincts, since counts there would ment's immediate plac ast additional damage estimated at
By far the biggest slice of luck, of orders. Reuter
not be completed for several 350,000,000 yen.--Fleuter,
Measures to stabilise prices Britain's 1952-53 budget expendi-
hours.-Associated Press.
week. ture will be on defence prepara- tions totalling £1
£1,348,000,000, This takes more than third of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr R. A. Butler's Mr Winston Churchill, and the government's new Budget, out- from
om side the House of Commons. amending his original estimate A group distributed leaflets nt £4,240,000,000 in the light attacking the Budget, then of his cuts in food subsidies formed a column and marched and changes in the health and pensions service,
national through the square shouting
"Churchill Resign" and "Down. next biggest item is with the Torica" in £.005,000,000
"other
Cleveland, Mar. 11. The regular polico summoned Vices" which covered food reinforcements
A Federal Judge today order and firmer confidence in Browning, aged 78, in her home subsidies at £260,000,000
prevent the ed three railway unions to end and column from turching into the their strike of 6,000 engineers, ment will defend the franc and
M. Pinay said, "The Govin Britain's
dozen yard outside the House. They
it aged the
}ncy
prevent Liggest single
from
After he had finished. Cum- of tors back into 75, at their home at Balleney,
Whitehall and
spreading to other lines.
munist £03,000,000 on "Commonwealth dispersed them.
unlat speakers called for a County Londonderry: Miss Mary and
The strikers are diable to fines general debate and blamed the foreign services" to the Harvey aged 85,
The In her base mallest£8,000,000 on "civil ended.
House session had already and imprisonment for contempt Government for various things, ment home at Notting Hi,
of court if the strike is The leaflets charged that the called off.
not including "wormongering" and London.
amallpox In Marsellies, health insurance and Budget meant poverty, war and Two men were killed and an-
The Judge granted a Govern- The Gaullisi lender, Jacques service
cast domination by the United States. ment will other was critically injured when Palons
sult to and immediately Soustelle, accused the 2709,000,000 and helping local lorries, one laden
They Also protested against the strike, which was started on munists of desiring to make with
authorities. with bricks and the other with gravel, housing, Police,
education, rearmament and culled for a March 9, against the New York France a Soviet satellite. collided at Market Harborougit,
fire- new government.-United Press. Central Lines west of Buffalo Ten minutes of pandemonium brigades and so on '£501,000,-
and the St. Louis Terminal followed.—Router. The olher
Linie. major item £575,000,000
hearing for March 18
adverse
10
A
DAY OF
one-
total of 24,150,000,000 — the
TRAGEDIES gure
to correct the balance of payments and the Chancellor has not shied from adopting direct men- aures best calculated
London, Mar. 11. bring about the nation's
Tragle deaths were reported financial recovery. At home from several parts of England he has offered incentives today.
Four elderly people died for willing sacrifices and abroad he has invited a new | three fires. They were Mrs Allee
London:
The
two tho
which results
OFF
rest cn- nearly
SCT-
London, Mar,, 11. The police tonight broke up a Communist
Min Minister,
aimed at the pemonstration
to
End Strike Order To
Unions
3. A new Budget 1 to be presented within a week.
4. Vice-Premier Queuille to preside over Jent Senate and Assembly committee to rovise the Constitution,
5. The Senate to discurs and improve the sliding wago scate
6. A. committee of experts to. study fiscal reform.
resourcefulness.ters, Jumes Kennedy, aged other headings varying from eventually forced the demonstra firemen and conductors en iwa the state,"
01
Mr Butler has, in fact.
budget produced considerable distinction.
14
4 Communists Hanged
Singapore, Mar. 11.
Four Chinese members of the Malayan Communist Party who had been convicted and son- tenced to death for the murder of another Chineso who refused
work
of cause fur the Communism
hanged at wera
to
Penang Prison today,
The four men,
•
two
Flumstead,
and Daniel Kennedy,
Tation".
The two killed were the driver 1000.
ilem
Toods,
goes on pur-
and
WAFDISTS DECIDE on the Government's request for
set
College, an exclusive school, menent charge on the national TO OPPOSE. GOVT a permanent injunction, today's ELEVEN KILLED
debt,
EFFECTS
of the brick lorry and his mate.
A master at Winchester
found 19 15-year-old sph hanging from bell rope in
SOME the College Chapel Tower.
Here are some of the tax The boy, who
was reported
changes effects on the British m'avint Inst 'night. had cilmbed with
the 200 slept in the citizen:
Allowances others, waylaid the victim and 300-foot high tower,
Family kicked him to death.
Six passengers in the Exeter State will pay eight shillings The Police.
exhumed The fo Waterloo express were, in a week instead of five shillings body on receipt of information tured by flyleg glers when, for cach child in family after trem one of the six men, in- open doar of a. train from the first. velved in the murder, and sub-Wetzelco to Bairgsoka strunk Feequent Investigation; led to the fle express in plasing near
of the four. United Clapham Junction, London,
Restor
arrest
ON
The
Com-
Injunction being only prov IN DISTURBANCES
·Calro, Mar, 11, slonal, The Waldist Party today an As a result of the strike, more nounced its decision to oppose than 30,000 non-striking Now
Capetown, Mar. fi. Eleven people were killed the general polley of the present York Central employees were and 98 were injured in dis- Government led by Neguib el laid off, and five railroada serving turbances in the African town- Hilaly Pasha,.
Chicago, the nation's railroad ship of Newelore, near Johan- The decision was made known centre, were crippled: when results of deliberations of Freight and passenger service day, the Minister of Justice, nesburg, on Sunday and yester- the Waldist Party Steering Com-has been halted by the refusal Me Charles Swart, told Parlin Pensions Totally disabled mittee under former. Priole of other railwayinen to cross the ment here today. people will get ib shillings a Minister, Mustapha el Naher picket line where Now York
The diaturbances were week more, raising their pen Pasho were announced-France Central tracks
were used by yet over but the police had sions to 556. chillings. ://War | Presse.
other lines-Router.
[matters well in hand.-Router,
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