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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Britain's Budget
TR Butler's Budget not;
M'only gives a stimulating
and much-needed shot in the arm to the taxation- juded British public, It also clearly reflects the vast improvement during the past twelve months of the nation's economic und #nancial situation. The generous concessions which! the Chuncellor
the Exchequer has made arei denigned as incentives to promote hårder, work and increased production, yet he would not have dared to indulge in such sweeping! rellefn in direct and indirect) taxation unless he
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SUGGESTION
Washington, Apr. 14.
The United Nations Command is ready
and the Treasury's capacity to agree to an early resumption of the to forgo revenue from the Korean armistice negotiations and
sources where Mr Butler
to
hus applied his reliefs. And suggest that anti-Communist-prisoner Allied further striking evidence of
camps be turned over to Swiss control, the soundness ist The
Budget is provided by the reliable sources said today.
fuel that the Chancellor General Mark Clark, United Nations still anticipates a surplus. The popularity of The commander in Korea, was said to have Budget is assured, purti- been authorised to suggest moves that
cularly
taxation and
other concessions are widely would provide for early renewal of the spread and offer benefit to truce talks that broke down last October
in-over the prisoner issue.
General Clark's letter outlining the new United Nations position was expected to be com- municated to the North Korean and Chinese Com- munists very soon, these sources said.
TESTING
SOVIET
nearly every section of the populace. Individual comes enjoy a reduction of sixpence in the pound direct tax; the housewife's weekly expenditure will be cut through the lowering of the sales taxes; aged pensioners ean add another £100 a year to their come without being burdened with taxation; industry is relieved of the discouraging excess profits tax, and is additionally stimulated by the offer of higher depreciation allowances on new plant. All these are genuine and much desired incentives. They, also challenge the goodwill of the public, for it is necessary there should be a generous response by workers and employers to down gear up the country's programme to test the marketable cerity
feelers.
duction exports,
of
SINCERITY
Britain's 5-Point Programme
A
Oficials said General Clark's letter would spike the new Com- munist charges that the United States and Its United Nations allies were
ere "reluctant" to resume lite armistice talks.
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London Underground Smash
A grim, silent column makes Its way out of Stratford Tube station after last week's collision between two underground irnins. A railway man with a lamp guides the party. A nurse administers blood-plasma to one of the injured recover- ed from the wreckage of the smash as four policemen carry the stretcher away.
London Express Photo.
Mr
Butler's Gesture To Amateur Sport
London, Apr. 14.-
*
Mau Mau Terrorism Expected To Affect S. African Elections
Johannesburg, Apr. 14.
Kenya's Mau Mau terror may have won the South African general election for Premier Daniel Malan's Nationalist Party, many independent ob servers believed today.
They are predicting a Nationalist victory in to- morrow's polling with a majority of at least 19 seats-an": increase of seven over the majority in the last Union Parliament dissolved on March 4.
cori-
Nationalist heelders at meet- country believe that the No- ings of the opposition United tionalists will win agalo. Party have raised the chant The Nationalists have "Mau Mau" at speakers plend-dueled an all-out campaign on ing for a more liberal approach slogans of "white supremacy" to racial зsues and pledging and apartheid-segregation of the Party to the summoning of South Africa's native popula a National Congress to consider tion--and each fresh murder in South Africa's explosive racial Kenya had aided them-Called problems.
Press,
Mau Mau taunts become zo serious that the United Party leader, Mr. J. G. Strauss, was forced to reply to them'in al- most the last major speech be fore voters go to the polls,
Addressing a meeting of 10,000 Johannesburg Zoo Lake suburb
on Saturday, M Strauss Bald, "It is a terrible
reflection that, because
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Miraculous
Survival
Seattle, Apr. 14.
political obsessions of the A crippled airliner load- Nationalist Party at
time ed with soldiers smashed. when Our whlic
-brothers in into a snow-covered moun- such
mortel
Kenya
дре
In
peril, there has not come from miraculously, 19 of the 25, rta tainside on Tuesday and, any message
our Government
of understanding nor even of aboard apparently EUT- 1oken sympathy but only eager vived the pro- dawn exploitation of the danger for Party poiltical ends.
Cricket England's traditional summer game, and amateur sport poster and pamphlet were today exempted from entertainments tax by Mr R. A. Butler, Chan-National cellor of the Exchequer.
other
wreckage.
In the late afternoon Coast- "HEAVEN-SENT" "To them the terror of Mau guard Code... Robert T. Norris Mau outroges
gave this report to search head- and deflances in our land are not flls that have the wreck scene, four known
quarters: 17 "stretcher cases" at ́ io be solved. Instead, they
dead, two rescued, two un ard heaven-sent. opportunities accounted for. to be shown
to the
people on Rescuers rushed doctors with as the blood plasma and morphine to regular stock in trade. vi
wilch the isolated scene to aid the in- political
jured. doctors. To stay in power they "It's possible we will be drag- would divide brother agulust brother, white against white ging these people out all night,
Norris said. and to unite · black against
Twenty-two of those aboard But despite the United Party's the 3 were soldiers--Asso-
ciated Press. attempts to focus
attention domestic issues such as the housing problem and the cost of
white."
on
BIIDAIR COLLISION
Paris, Apr. 14. Three men were killed when
in midair at about
of Paris to-
The way was opened for re- sumption of the truce talks when the Communists agreed to an exchange of wounded and sick prisoners and indicated willingness to compromise on the proper Issue of an overall pri- soner exchange. United Press. Pow "RENEGADES”
In his Budget speech this afternoon, Mr Butler said that he had Washington, Apr. 14. New York, Apr. 14. Observers belleve that the now found a way of helping amateur sport in general. He was not con-
Allied Britain on Tuesday laid number
POW "renegades"
cerned with the status of the individuals but with clubs and organisations. as they five-point pro-
ore to be beginning
called here,
The exemption will apply to games, races and other sports provided by a sin- does not exceed a hundred and
club or a similar organisation established and conducted for the promotion and of Russian peace it was thought that this figure
furtherance of amateur sport and not conducted or established for profit. would be confirmed by sick
living, tomorrow's election will two French military planes "It will, of course,_be_a_con- MR.
R Butler has emphasised. The chief British delegate, Sir and wounded prisoners shortly
Last year, cricket clubs were
Me Butler estimates the total almost certainly, be decide on collided that his taxation
returned by the Comdition that con-Gladwyn Jeob, told the Unked to be
no remuneration excused extra tax paymeat on reduction in tuxation at £160, the overwhelming racial issue 1,000 feet near Meudon on the ehould be
facing the pald
whites in western outskirts 000,000.
2,500,000 to cessions are linked with a Notions Political Committee it is munisis.
anyone gates after strong protests had The Pentagon was awalting actually taking part" Mr But-been made in the House of Comm-
Among and certainly not difficult to pick out prisoners' information
concessions the
the country and the more than day.-Router. long-term financial
on this ler said. the issue on which agreement
mons. It was then declared that announced by the Chancellor 8,000,000 coloured people. economic policy that should, might be reached if the will and particular polut with great Mr Butler went on:
are: if the extra tax had been in-
Cries of "Mau Mau" have been
Shah's Relatives given the fullest co-operation the desire to do so really existed." interest,
'Authors
most "In most sports the amateur posed, duty on test match profits
are permitted lo one of the Nationalista Military circles here recalled definition which I have deviced would have risen from £20,000 spread their of the nation, permanently
royalties from powerful He listed these as:
of election
Arrested restore Britain's economy.
that the Pentagon's attention to will I think First-Korcan armistice.
work reasonably to £57,000.
books and plays over more than weapons.
Teheran, Apr. 14. "renegades" was first well Free convertibility of Ster-
but it will not do for
Although United Party Bup- one year; Second-Aa Austrian peace drawn by letters from prisoners cricket. In this country cricket
Mr Butler also announced
Two cousins of Queen Suraly... porters, particularly in Johan- ling remains an ultimate treaty.
to their families,
these tax rellets:
depreciation allow nesburg, are confident that toy, wife of the Shah, have been objective, but ng the Chan thousands of German, Japanese from "converted" prisoners or
Third-The relente of
occupies a special class among the These letters came elther sports, not only as forming
Purchase tax reduced by one onces to firms buying new plant.morrow's election will reverse taken into custody with two cellor hing warned, this
part of the
Tho. £4,250,000,000 English tradition quarter;
budget the late 1948 result, when the Army officers, evening news- their comrades who had com- but as a common interest help-
provides for an Increase in the Party under the late Field- papers reported here today. the ол
Income tax rates all reduced government's expenditure converts.ing to bind together the various by six pence in the pound;
The two men were said to of Marchal Jan Christian Smuts through her own efforts Fourth-The release of the Franco-Presse.
£108,000,000. But
involved in
the Mr Butler was swept from offico after 30 have been Common- the Britain carns more foreign Greek children and soldiers held ARRIVE AT PUSAN
The excess profitslevy, estimates Income for the year years in power. Independent Bakhtiari revolt in southern currency through, exports, by the Soviet satellites,
Tokyo, Apr, 15.
designed to skim the cream from | at £4,538,000,000 providing for observers who have toured the Fersio-Reuter. and at home keeps a tight| FIAh the institution of racial
The first group of Communists "With all this in mind, and as profits arising out Di rearma- a surplus of £278,000,000— control on inflation. This and religious tolerance and free-going home under the Korean the total receipts of entertainment, will end from January 1, Reuter, was the fundamental gospel, Asociated Presa.
demn of speech and thought prisoners exchange agreement ments duty from cricket are so 1954;
reached Pusan Southmall, I propose to exempt it Keres, from Cheju island, the from duty altogether." Allied Navy announced today.
cannot be realised unless Russia.
and Italian prisoners still held in
of Mr Butler's predecessors -tho. late Sir Stafford
Cripps and Mr Hugh Gait-Mau Mau Slay
4 Soldiers
the
meniod
hove
men
countries wealth.
of
An increase of £100 to £800 in the tax-free income Umit-for The concession will take effect those aged 65 and over gives old The 770 sick and wounded from April 27 next.
travelled aboard
people special relief. lending ship. They will go on to Panmunjom, where the change will be started on April 20.-Router.
...skell, but the present
Government believes that it! can be fulfilled by methods! vastly different from these) advocated and applied by the
Nairobi, Apr. 14. Socialists, Mr Butler is pur-1 Four British soldiers in the suing an experiment of In- Kenya Regiment were killed teresting possibilities. Inst night when a gang of about Whether it aucceeds or fails 100 terrorists ambushed a patrol its depends very largely on how in the Fort Hall district.
a tank
ex-
CHARGES REPEATED
London, Apr. 14. Red China today returned to campaign about the bacteriological warfare allegedly the United They were the first casualties belog waged by
the people of Britain react among European soldiers in States in Asla
HOW THE TAXPAYER WILL BENEFIT
Leudon, Apr. 14.
This is how the British taxpayer will benefit from the zew Budrel:
to the incentives which. aro; the campaign against Mau Maus. A New China News Agency
· being offered to them. His The troops had surrounded a dispatch from Pyongyang. Budget le bold, imaginative, but which a suspect had entered, monitored here, said: "Germ- Single Personn
They called on the occupants laden Insects were again spread and in many respects unique, His skill in providing tax of the but to come out and then by the Americans against the
fired
into the hut and hand peaceful people of Korea in reliefs without in any way grenades were also thrown into Sinsang, South Hemkyong pro- demanding sacrifices in the hut-
vince, on March 17," social services is one of the The sergeant of the patrol The agency sold American air- Married, no children outstanding features of his tried to force an entrance into craft flew over the area that day altitude, and dropped inside. The remainder of the "germ-carrying flies, spiders and
budgetting. Hla policy and the hut but was shot at from the at low
Annual Income Tax Under
his faith in the people of patrol rushed to his ald and white insects on populated areas Britain to respond readily to were fired by mipers hidden in and along the railway lines and Its Implications deserve to the vicinity of the hut-France-ses coasts of that country." Married, with one chlid be fully rewarded.
.' Presse
United Press.
Youth "Obsessed" With Masterpiece
11. 3. 43. 63, 6. 8d. £234.18.104, £419.13. 4d.
Old Bate
L 230 £
£ 500
£1,000
£1,300
£2,000 £3,000
£ 250
£ 500
£1,000
21.500.
£604. 7. 9. £1189. 5. Od. nik
£ 36.13.10d. £ 192,,3,100. £ 370.18. 4d.. £561.12. Od. £116.10, ed.
£14, 1. 80. £151.10. 4.
£2,000 £3,000
€ 250
£ 500
£1,000
£1,000
£2,000 £3,000
£ 336,10.10d. € 521. 6. 33.
1106. 2. GA.
Paris, Apr. 14. all, worth about Francs 100,000, intellectura virility" Dr │[A] Ay-ninetten – year-old youth | 000 (£100,000).
Nicud said
His plea saved the two from charged with trying to steal the
·Married, with two
children
£ 100
£ 1. 6. 8d.
£1,000, £1,500
court
· £ 450,17, 90, £1005.16. 0.
fumous bude mnstorplece, of “A Woman Bathing" told a
here today ho was "obsessed" with th
She looked, like my mother" no, whic
A French psychiatrist told the long prison terms. The Magis Court he had found the accused trate cavo Freint a four-year Frelat "a little, unbalanced and suspended sentence for break- Married, with three that the attempted theft had ing into the Paris Museum of "freed his personality."
Modern Art Just Jung and cut-
It thus prevented a serious ting the four works from their
The traumatic chinngo which might; frames,
other youth, tragic, con- Michael Fangeres, 18, got a
Pirko wildanz Porro Frelat was have had more
chargon with another youth with sequencer inter on, and led to three-year suspended sentence. trying to sloël four paintings disk tha - útfær 'sterfilsations of his | Neutar."
children
Tax
New Rale
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9. G16. 50.12.28.
£ 218.10.0d. £ 393.10.04. £ 508.10.04. £1128.10.0d.
178. 0.0d.
Higher
MOSCOW COMMENT
London, Apr, 14. Moscow Radio in a brief re- port of Britain's budget tonight made, no mention of cuts in in- come tax and purchase · tax or other rellets.
The broadcast said defence spending would rise By £120,- 000,000 compared with last year, "the total figure being the highest ever in peacetime."
"In addition civilian depart- ments are to spend £139,000,000 on military, requirements under the new budget,” the radio salu, It added that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr R. A. Butler, "said expenditure civilian needs would be cut by £10,000,000 compared with Inst year." Reuter,
HMS Conway
353 0.0d Goes Aground
£ 528.. 0.04.
€1088. 0.04.
nil
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Caernarvon, Apr. 14. £11,1481 HMS Conway, 114-year-old £190.15.04. wooden battleship now in uso as
3
£310.16.04. schoolship in Menai Strails £489.15.0d went aground, on the Caernar £1040,15.04. | vanshite shore
near
Menal suspension bridge today. 1. 2.24.
Hundreds of people who had £ 111,12, 48. .*£* 101,14,58. been crowding the bridge lo
200, 3, 44,
£1270.10.04.
ace the veteran vessel pass under 451.10.0d. | it on the Arst stage of her £ 1011.10.04. Journey to Birkenhead to reft, saw her run aground. Efforts being made were
(lowess taxible)
£1,000
£1,500
£2,000
5. Od.£0.4.20. to refloat her
£79.15,103,
(£- 285.15,104,.
· £ 440.10, -34.- (£3,000,5 £1096 7, 60.
Later today.
£71.19.08. HMS Conway was formerly 218. 5.00 HMS Niopa 92-gun shilp of the £°41348,00, Line "Which served in, the naval | 2-015, 5.40. campaign of the Crimean War ---Reuter, S. Reuter,
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