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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MR. CHURCHILL'S BUDGET.
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1927.
ACTRESS'S ACTION.
FORMER SECRETARY OF
UNION SUED.
WEIHAIWEI CALLS FOR AID..
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(Continued from Page 1.) latter, he reminded the House that The hearing was resumed in it was confronted with a deficit of the King's Bench, London, in mail and the Soviet Consul-General had between £35,000,000 and 240,000,- week, of the action brought teen informed by the Senior Consul 000, namely the prospective one, against Mr. Alfred Lugg, formerly that the responsibility for the and a substantial part of the old general secretary of the Actors' maintenance of law and order rest- one. He proceeded to outline the Association, by Miss Sylvia Week-cd with the Municipal Council. changes in the Income Tax collec-ley, a young Australian actress of tion methods, which did not affect Telford Court Hotel, Streatham the basis of assessment.
Hill, for the return of £150 which she stated was advanced by her to Mr. Lugg in connection with a repertory touring company.
Circumventing Tax Dodgers. With a view to closing the loopholes which enabled taxpayers to avoid part of the Income Tax, the Government had invited the co- operation of the Government of the Channel Islands in preventing loss in the case of migrants to Jersey and Guernsey. The section of the Finance Act dealing with the avoid ance of super-tax, through the medium of a one-man company, and in cunnexion with the sale of securi- tics, would" be strengthened. Other steps would also be taken in connexion with the avoidance of the payment of Income Tax and estale duty. The improved ma- chinery to be proposed would en- able Income Tax recovery in res pect of copyright payments to non- resident playwrights, authors and
the like.
¿
New Taxation.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, after quoting an account of the incident by the Municipal Council, said the Soviet Consul had evidently been meat apprehensive of a raid on the Consulate, and the Chairman of the Plaintiff's evidenca was that in Council had accordingly Instructed the the Police Commissioner "to in- January and March 1926, money was advanced on the under-crease the guards and to search, all standing that she would be en- those going in and coming out for titled to play in the company at weapons.-Reuter. a salary and receive a share of Unknown to her, she the profits. alleged, the company had started at Tonbridge, and that when she demanded the return of the money, Mr. Lugg sald it had been lost in an unsuccessful run at Tonbridge.
"
THE PEKING RAID.
Right of Protocol Powers.
London, April 11. In the House of Commons, Mr. Lugg, in evidence, gated Enswering questions, Sir Austen Chamberlain read the report that when the company started.re- hearsing, Miss Weekly said she which he had received from the was ill, and her place was taken by British Minister in, Peking regard- Mrs. Lugg. Miss Weckley, he ing the raid on the Soviet build- said, was unable to play in the ings. The raiding party exceeded first tour, and she could only pro-its authority by overflowing into Rassian Guard, but Sir Austen vide £50 of an additional £200 the barracks of the Imperial which she promised.
Chamberlain sald it might be argued that the barracks could not claim diplomatic 'Immunity Intitled to the guard. Becing that Russia was no longer
was
Against Bogus Managers. Asked why he left the Actors' Turning to the now taxation pro- posals, Mr. Churchill said that un- Association, Mr. Lugg replied:-1 Actors' Association to
So far as he knew the report der the safeguarding of industries left the there would be a duty of 28 shill-help to save it. Under my con- that some of the Chinese arrested ings a hundredweight for five years tract with the Association I was had already been executed on tableware or translucent or vit entitled to a salary of £10 a week rified pottery, which was estimated and three months notice. I told untrue. It appeared to him quite to bring in £200,000 a year. the Council that as the Association clear that the Protocol Powers: All imported motor tyres would was in a bad way I would be agree were right in saying that the pro- be brought within the scope of the able, if they thought it proper, tection of the Legation Quarter McKenna duties immediately. Em-to terniinate the contract and fore could not be given to conspirators pire tyres would receive a rebate of go the three months' remuneration against the local authorities.-- one third. One foreign firm had due to me, and the Council agreed Reuter. already become established here, to that. and another was likely.
The customs and excise duty on matches, which last year reached £3,500,000, would be raised appro- ximately 20 per cent., and rates would be imposed in accordance with the contents of the box instead of per 10,000 matches. The new Lax was expected to yield £700,000 a year.
POLICE WORK OVERTIME. Did you not leave the Associn- tion because of complaints that
Soviet Plotting Proved. you were not proceeding against
Shanghai, April 12. bogus managers?-There was only
The Peking Police Headquarters one man in the country who ham- and mered the bogas manager,
staff are working night shifts in that was myself. I hunted thou-order to deal with all the evidence of Kuomintang platting discovered sands of them off the roads.
Photo- In answer to the Judge, Mr. at the Soviet Embassy. Lugg said a bogus manager is a man who fails to pay salaries to graphs of Li Ta-chao and other prominent prisoners arrested at his artists or underpays them to the time, have been taken, and the documents seized are also such an extent that there is an economic inducement to immoral-being photographed, and number- ed. These, with an accompanying ity.
statement on the "Red" campaign published. in North China, will shortly be
The Judge-He is 2 business man running a business for his own advantage, but who will not Under pay his employees well?
of
Wines and Spirits. Although the duties on wines were doubled in 1920, the consump tion of wine was, 50 per cent. above that before the war, or 1921, but all classes had not advanced equally. Port had gained most, at the prob- able expense of whisky.
Mr. Lang-Dr generally no the substantial preference Tel. Kowloon No. B
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. 1925, sweet wines had made re-pay them at all and leave them
success. Sparkling stranded on tour. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout.markable
Mr. Lugg said it was absolutely Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. wine was below the pre-war level, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. He therefore proposed that non-intrue to say that he was spec Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress, Empire wines containing over 25 lating with Miss Weekley's money degrees of proof spirit should pity without telling her anything about
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Tol Addross "PALACE.""
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"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
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THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
"LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE"
the best
MANILA CIGARS
Each box is guaranteed by the signature of
the manufacturer
C. INGENOHL
Proprietor of THE ORIENT
Tobacco Manufactory
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Strest, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
8 instead of 6 shillings a gallon, it. and under 25 degrees should pay 3 shillings instead of half a crown. Corresponding rates for Empire wines nhove or below 27 degrees would be 4 shillings and 2 shillings respectively. He expert- ed these duties would yield £1,500,000 R year. The rates would operate from April 25, and restricted clearances would cease on April 26.
$1,000 CLAIM. -
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pear to be much justification for the action he book.
The part he took in the arrest was small, and the plaintift would
Mr. Churchill created laughter
have been arrested on the warrant on referring to the birth of a new
sooner or later, without any assis. wine industry "where there are no
tance from the defendant. vineyards" in Britain. He ex-
His Lordship held that there plained that science and enter-
was no false imprisonment for prise had enabled the importation of the juice of a crop, and thus which the defendant was liable, avoid duty.
He therefore pro- and he therefore gave judgement posed an excise duty of a shilling for the defendant with costs.
The a gallon on British wines. estimated revenue from this was £90,000 a year.
Small boat shipping in the Gulf of California is demoralized by the Tobacco and The Ladies.
activities of four pirate bands. Turning to tobacco, he attri-Rum-runners, filibusters and out who buted the increased consumption, laws compose the crews which was one third greater than dodge about the obscure anchor-
The police claim that the pre- mises raided were undoubtedly headquarters of Soviet intrigue, affecting Chili, Shansi, Kirin, Stakiang, Jehol and Siuyuan. Nam Chung Pao.
THE CHINA WAR.
Northern "Push" Proceeds.
Shanghai, April, 12.
The fighting between the Nation- alists and the remnants of Sun Chuan-fung's army continues on the north bank of the river at
ter struggle is in progress Chingkiang and Kiangyin. A bit- Se-er-shu, which was reported to be most intense last right.
at
The situation in Chingkiang Ist reported as critical, the Nation. allets preparing to evacuate the place, having requested the rail- way authorities to provide twelve rains for the purpose., Passenger ceased to run, as from yesterday trains to and from Nanking have
afternoon.
Close To Pukow.
the The Shangtung forces on
railway have Tientsin-Pukow advanced further, and the railway administration announce that the Northerners have captured Chu-
in 1918, to smoking by the other ages and prey on commercial ves-chow, and are engaged in a stern
The sels.
sex being on the increase. duly on imported unmanufactured tobacco would be raised from 98
to 106 pence a pound, and would prospective surplus of £16,400,000, yield, it was estimated, £3,400,000 This enabled them to raise the a year. He did not believe the Sinking Fund to £65,000,000, and whole cost of the tax would be so pay off nearly half the arrears passed on to the consumer. The due to the 1926 disaster, and thus restrictions on tobacco clearances balance the Budget for 1927 with would be removed immediately. a revenue of £834,800,000 and an
Summing up, the Chancellor said that it was estimated the increases. in ordinary indirect taxes
an
and yield would
of
revenue increased £5,880,000 in the present year," and £6,500,000 in a full year, leaving £30,000,000 to be found from other sources, which
WAS
xpenditure of 2839,400,000..
Other Points.
buttle with the Nationalist troops only fifteen miles north of Pukow. Marshal Chang Tsung-chang has arrived at Mingkwang, where he is directing operations.
The Nationalists claim the re- capture of Yanchow, but this lacks confirmation.--Nam Chung Pao.
Anti-Red Commander Dismissed.
Entertainments.
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY, at 2.30. 5.10.7.15 and 9.20
BEBE DANIELS
in
"WILD WILD SUSAN"
STAR
2.30 till 11.15
FLORENCE VIDOR TOM MOORE ETTHER RALSTON & FORD STERLING
in
"THE TROUBLE WITH WIVES"
WORLD
2.30. 5.15. 7.15 & 9.15
·RICHARD 'DIX"
in
"THE CALL of the CANYON"
CAFE
WATCH
THE
RESTAURANT PARISIEN
"Where you lose that lonesome feeling"
AND
YOU WILL BE AGREEABLY SURPRISED WITH EVERYTHING
J
SERVED OUT TO YOU
Your Judgment
will be favourable
whether it concerus
MEALS or WINE, or MUSIC or DANCING.
WELCOME
Described as a soldier or can- against the British Naval expedi-
vaseur, prisoner pleaded guilty to tion to Blas Bay.
bigamously marrying a woman at On Saturday next the postponed Halifax and later another woman celebration of the victories of the as York. His lawful wife had had
amous wives had one child. Nationalist armies in capturing two children and each of the big- Shanghai and Nanking will be
held.
The prisoner first enlisted in July 1918 in the R.A.F., and on de- The Bureau of Public Safety has mobilisation he went to his home" received orders from the Govern in Maryport, Cumberland, and, ment to provide extra patrols to later married. In June 1923 he guard the city and maintain peace left his wife, and the same year and order on the pccasion of these was sent to prison for three terms public gatheringo.
of two months' imprisonment for larceny and house-breaking.
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SHANGHAI LABOUR. Welconies Wang Ching-Wei, In conclusion, Mr. Churchill
Shanghai, April 12. declared that unless the expendi- ture could be reduced; further
The Labour unions and other taxation would be necessary. bodies held a mass meeting here The House agreed to all the re-to-day to welcome. Mr. Wang solutions.-Router
Ching-wei.
The Hankow Labour leaders. held a joint conference on April accounted for by administrative In the course of a British Wirc-7 at which they decided to support arrangements. He said in this
less message summarising M. the foreign policy of the local connexing that the £12,000,000 ve- serve of the Road Fund would be Churchill's introduction of the Government. transferred to the State. He Budget, It is stated that the Chan-
Later that year he enlisted in. General Chen Ming-shiu, an estimated to save £5,000,000 an- cellor of the Exchequer mention-
the Argyll and Sutherland High- nually by again reducing the sd that there would be no change
in the duty on sugar.
anti-Red Nationalist commander, credit allowed to period of
landers, but deserted a few months On certain cinematograph films who was dismissed by the Hankow
later. Then he enlisted in the brewers, from two months to a
Government recently, arived in
Seaforth Highlanders, but soon. mouth. By collecting the Land- there was to be a rebate.
Dealing with the way in which Shanghad yesterday from Klangal.
got into trouble and was sentenced lords' Property Tax on January 1
to 60 days' imprisonment for lar instead of bi-annually, and another the country had weathered the fu-Nam Chung Pao.
year, Mr.
cony, and discharged from the adjustment, he estimated to make dustrial disaster last
Churchill pointed out that the
Army. £14,800,000. He also reckoned to
Early in 1926 he enlisted again wards the deftoit £300,000 from immense number of miscellaneris and secondary manufactures and
This Week's "Celebrations."
The story of a bigamist's extra- rectification of the estate duly businessen, and the processes of
To-day an anti-Imperialist do-ordinary career in the Inst: few this time in the Duke of Welling- anomaly.
banking, broking, and Insurance, and the vast sum brought into the monstration and mass-meeting is years was related at Leeds Assizes ton's West Riding Regiment, sta Balancing. The Budget.
country as a result of British in- due to be held at the East Parade recently, when William Donald tioned at Halifax. There he wa
Fraser was nontenced to eight employed as a clerk, and prior to. The items enumerated totalled vertiments abroad, had enabled the ground, Canton, to protest against
Jauthorities every satisfaction, £38,000,000, and the prospective country almost to keep to the oven the British and American bo months imprisonment with hard his desertion in June he gave the deficit of £21,500,000 became a tenor of its way.
bardment of Nanking, as well as
CANTON PARADES.
JOINED ARMY FOUR TIMES.
REMARKABLE CAREER OF
labour.
BIGAMIST.