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MR. SNOWDEN'S "EQUAL SACRIFICE" BUDGET. "Disagreeable Task:" Sweeping Economies: Taxation Increases.
The Poseidon survivors standing on the deck of the Rawalpindi at Plymouth where they had a clvic
welco me. The Mayor is seen addressing then
GOVERNOR
UPHELD.
Habeas Corpus Judgment.
APPEAL TO PRIVY
COUNCIL.
10
POSEIDON FUND ARMED SOLDIERS
GRATITUDE.
BENEVOLENT TRUST RESOLUTION.
GENEROUS GIFTS.
Warm expressions of gratitule
all
wh ubscribed to the?
Poseidon Disaster Fund inaugurat-
BOARD C.N.S. POYANG.
YANGTSZE RIVER INCIDENT.
eri by the Hongkong branch of the ON A MUDBANK.
Navy League are contained in a resolution passed at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Rayal Naval Benevolent Trust, tu which the Fants were handed for
The Full Court, composed of the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) and the acting Puisneistrination.
The General Secretary of the Judge (Mr. Justice Lindeel)Trust, in a letter to the Hon. this morning gave their deci-Secretary of the local branch of sion against Sung Man-cho, the Navy League, stales:
"I have much pleasure in for alleged Annamite revolution.
the Following ary,
the habras corpus, warding to you application made on his behalf, resolution which was carried un- animously at the 29th Meeting of Mr. F. C. Jenkin, on behalf of the Central Committee (24th July, the fugitive, said he would apply 1931) in connexion with the con-
in
heurd to-morrow.
Merchant Service Pensions.
Shanghai, Sept. 11. The British authorities are investigating an incident in the Yanglaze River on Wednesday , evening, at about 6.20 p.m. when twenty Chinese soldiers, armed with Thompson machine guns, boarded the China Navi- gation Company's 3.3. Poyang, and removed eight piculs of opium.
TH
NATION ASKED TO TRAVEL
A STERN PATH.
ECONOMIES INCLUDE:
Dole Cuts, 10 per cent. Teacher's Pay, 15 per cent. £5,000 salariés, Ministers and Civil Servants, 20 per cent. £2,000 salaries, 10 per cent.
NEW TAXATION:
6d. on Income Tax, Exemption
1d.
- Reduction.
d. per pint on beer.
8d. per pound on tobacco Higher scale of Entertainment
Duty.
MR. GRAHAM'S CRITICISMS.
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EVERY MEMBER of the community in Great Britain will be affected by the supplementary budget, embodying the pro- posals of the National Government for dealing with the financial emergency, introduced in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Philip Snowden,
The Chancellor's speech lasted for an hour and a quarter and it may be taken for granted that never before did a speech of such brevity contain so much of a disagreeable nature. Mr. Snowden asked the nation to face up to the problems before the country.
PROHIBITION OF LUXURY IMPORTS.
of the
hoped will ercouruge ment of old plant.
the replace-
Exemptions Reduced.
A married man's exemption will
New taxation,
Inland Revenue, £29,000,000 Customs & Excise, £11,500,000 leaving an estiamted surplus of £1,500,000.
Next year's estimated deficit of £170,000,000 will be met by the fol-|
on the be reduced from £225 to £156, Chullowing provisions: Others dren's allowances will be reduced for the first child from £60 to £50,
Mr. Snowden keeps on umilang. Our photo shows him outside No.
10.
TWO STEAMERS
SEND OUT · S.O.S. SIGNALS.
ONE ASHORE NR. HONGKONG.
MALAY MARU HIT BY TYPHOON.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Sept. 10. Responding to urgent 5.0.5. signals, the Lloyd Triestino liner, Gange, which left Shang- hai three days ago, is rushing to the aid of an unidentified ship which has gone ashore on an island to the north of Hong- kong.
London, Sept. 10. Never had the House of Commons Budget been more crowded for
"A stugle man's income tax exemp Speech than when the Speaker took tion of £135 will be reduced to the chair this afternoĝin. All the £100. The Poyang, which re-public galleries were full to their turning to Shanghai after spen- utmost capacity.
Some of the members Jing several days aground in the River, near the Fitzroy Mid- Government bloe had to sit
le Chamel, was in the vicinity steps of the gangways. of Kiangyin Point when she was were happy to stand.
A cordial welcome was extended £40. by Ministerialists to the Chancellor stopped and boarded.
of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snow-which will pay half the standard leaving an estimated surplus den, when he entered the House rate will be $176 lustend of 1250, Mr. Snowden referring to the no further details have been re- a repetition of the cordial reception but the deduction hitherto allowed Five Per Cent. War Loan converceived. given him by the crowds assembled of one-sixth of earned income on aion proposals, spoke of the dis- in the streets to watch his arrival.
The master of the Poyang.
Two Hours Search. He was signalled to stop and did
and other children, from £50 to
Income Lax
The
proportion
Economies, £70,000,000. Debt Savings. £20,000,090. New taxation, £81,500,000,
of £1,600,000.
The vessel apparently got in-
to difficulties and grounded yes-
vessel is a Chinese coaster, but terday. It seem likely that the
Later.
a maximum of £260, will be altered turbing conditions hitherto pre- The Gange is on her way to to one-fifth on a maximum of £300. vailing since 1920 to prevent his Singapore from Hongkong.
The surtax yield will be in-plans from going forward. creased by ten per cent.
The total income tax and surtax increases will be £29,000,000 thin year, and £37,500,000 in a full year. This comprises all the direct taxa- tion.
Another, steamer is also TO- ported in distress this morning, the .. Malay Maru, which seems to have run into the typhoon which passed between Formosa and the Loochoo Islands yesterday.
for leave to appeal to the Privy tribution of £2,651 s. 3d. raised Council. The motion is to be by the Hongkong Branch of the
andi the Navy League! Crown has given an undertaking |
That the Central Committee of that Sung Man-cho will not be the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust, on behalf of the Petty Offers. deported until after the hearing Non-Commissioned Officers and Captain J. Beck, had barely got his Points From Judgment. Men of His Majesty's Navy, ex-ship under way when he noticed a all launch crowded with soldiers In the course of a lengthy wris, presses heartfelt gratitude to heading nerosa his bows and that
who contributed towards the ten judgment, the Chief Justice following generous gifts entrusted
sted they were armed with machine-
It is said:One ground on which the to it for the benefit of the widows guns which were trained on the The Chancellor, at the outset of
presumed that the information his speech, said he was about to second deportation order was al-and dependents of ratings who lost hip. tacked was that, with certain im-their lives when H.M.S. Poseidon
discharge one of the most disagree
Parliament would be asked to say received in Shanghai wrongly material exceptions, the Gover-was sank on the 9th June, 1931-
able tasks that had ever fallen to
that if the holders of the banda did identifies her as the vessel answer- nor in Council has power to make Subscribed
his lot. Regrettable 'cuts in ex-
not dissent from conversion at the ing the S.0.8. signal. by the Hongkong 80. only one deportation order against branch of
end of three months' notles of the penditure would have to be made in the League, £2,054 The soldiers were aboard the many directions. Taxation would
intended conversion, they would any person and is funetas oficios, sd.: subscription: raised by vensel for about two hours, search-have to be increased. The situa
be taken as accepting the offer. when he has minde one, and an-North China Daily News, Shanghai,ing high and low, and were about clon was such that the Government Beer and Cigarettes to Cast More. other ground was that there can£3,448 86, Bd.
.. Previous Warnings. not be two deportation orders
set and act swiftly, to um requested by my Com-to go when a man yelled in the
forecastle, denoting success. against the same person in exis-mittee to ask that, if possible, you
As regards indirect taxation, the balance the budget if Britain's in-
In giving the figures of the tence at the same time.
Eight pituls of opium were ternational credit was to be pre-duty on beer is increased by one threatened defeit on the current I do not will convey this resolution and
sincere thanks of the Royal Navall from Hankow or Kinklang. The served.
penny per pint. This is expected year, Mr. Snowden reminded the found, apparently crew-smuggled agree. My reasons are:-
to produce £4,600,000 this year and rouse of the grave warnings ho (a) No authority was cited for Benevolent Trust, As far R
had troops
evidently received The Government's Programme. the propositions.
£10,000,000 next Imported leaf had given in February last, and possible. to the individunt, sub-1
information.
tobacco
Brief messages received in the dutics aro increased from [Continued on Page 7.) seribora."
Unfolding the programme of the 106d. The Poyang went aground at 3
again on the eve of the adjourn Colony state that the Malay Maru per pound 1144. per
to
July, regarding ment in
the is giving out distress signals from A.M. August 26, off Fitzroy Government, he said that the deftelt Island, near Klangyin Forts, the on this year's budget was estimat-pound, producing £2,600,000 this budgetary position.
Lat. 24.5 N. Long. 127. The year und £4,000,000 next.
The trade depression had reduc- Gozan Maru and, Total Maru Dre enlahap being due to the fact that ed at £74,000,000. The deficit on Other forms of tobacco besides the flood waters had concealed all next year's budget was estimated, leaf have their duties increnseded the yield of taxes and at the rushing, to her assistance.
time same
increased national at £170,000,000.
in the same proportion.
Damage Unknown. H.M.S. Aphis, arrived on the The total amount secured by The petrol tax is increased by expenditure. following day to prevent possible savings that year would be £22,000,-
National income had been falling twopence per gallon, giving
The message was relayed by the Big Scheme Drawn Up by Council of piracy and to render assistancs, 000 and the rose savings next $4,000,000 and £7,500,000 in a full and while seven years ago the Chicago Maru, of the O.S.K. line.
while the B.. Wonchow conveyed would be £70,000,000.
unemployment fund was paying its The Mainy Maru's agents, the [year. | her forty European passengers and The sinking fund provision would! The entertainments duty is in-way, and paying off deht, this year Yamashita Kishen Kaisha, have no 400 Chinese passengers to Shang- be reduced from £30,000,000 to crossed on a new scale, including was costing the Exechequer information regarding the extent
£32,500,000, which would be suficient for the first time the cheaper about a hundred million pounds. of the damage. Through the courtesy of Capt. per cent. of Officers' (deck and The Poyang was lying on a-bed to meet the Government's obliga-seats, but not children's tickets
Borrowing to Ceaze
The Malay Maru is a 4,557-tón T. T. Laurenson, D.S.C., branch engine room) wages to a Central of mud and the tugs of the New
which do not exceed twopence. Additional taxation was requir-The alterations are expected to
vessel belonging to the Ishihara secretary of the China Const Body, and the Officers should Engineering Works who refloated
Mr. Snowden explained that the Shosen Kalehs, and operates be Officers' Guild, we are able to similarly contribute 6 per cent. of her have wirelessed indicating ed this year to produce a aum of provide
of Government had decided that tween Singapore and Japan. She give the outline of a contributory their wages. It is suggested that that she has suffered very little, £30,000,000. Next year, the addi-£1,000,000 this year and £2,500,000 borrowing for unemployment and was built in 1905, and has a length
tional eum required by new taxa-next...
the road funds must censo, though of 879.8 feet, a breadth of 50.1 and pensions scheme for officers of the deduction should be made at if any damage.
tion would be £80,000,000, of which There will be no further new this involved an addition
20.0ft. She is a cargo of depth of the greater part in both cases, must taxation,
£34,000,000 to the vote for
and the vessel,
doos not carry be borno by direct taxation.
passengers. He put the fall in revenue at She is under the command of The Finance Bill will provide £29,000,000-$25,000,000 of Inland Capt. F. Tabata and carries facilities for the conversion of the Revenue and 4,000,000 of Cus- crew of 42. She was on her way Rollet For Industry.
from Singapore to Yawata in Five Per Cont. War Loan (amount-toms and Excise.
debt Japan, carrying a cargo of Iron The suspension of war ing to $2,000,000,000) to a lower Industry would receive some com-rate of interest.
President ore.
for The new proposals to cover the
plan accounted An Oller having Joined the of the English Lengue to-day, pensation for this Income tax in-
Queen's Park Rangers again failed cronse by relief of roughly the estimated deficit for this year of £80,000,000. Supplementary estim-
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Mackintosh, wha probably one of the chlef causes scheme would continue in it so long before their own supporters, Swin same amount by a special. Increase 74,700,000 provide as follow: ates of one million brought the of the discontent which unfortun- as he wae employed by any one of
of the existing allowance for de-
total deficit to 04 millions, but have been on holiday in Manchuriar ately existe in many sections of the Shipowners who are a party to do winning by two goals to one preciation of plant, The bulk of Economies, £22,000,000,
with $19,500,000 saved on interest returned by the P. and OreA OLEN Saving on Debt Redempilon, and the fund of the Americans were passen, da de back
this morning, Mr and Mrs M. BET It. The benefits would pass within the Northern section, Carlisle this relief would go to the basic The basis of the scheme is that the Omsar as he left one employ to and Wroxham draw, sachalde industries of the country, and Vale--*1*
300-$13,700,000
nued on Page 4) hoste
Officers' Federation.
Government Omeials source by
landmarks in the vicinity.
hai.
or
sending the "pay-
HOME FOOTBALL.
of
the Merchant Navy, which has (ghini Superintendents been drawn up after exhaustive enquiry by the Representative! Council of the Officers'. Federa- It is suggested that, having tion in London as a basis of adopted the scheme, owners would ultimate discussion with the make participation in it'a condition shipowners representatives.
It is aloted in the booklet giving
details of the plan that the absence
of a general Pension Schema is
the Service. ***
of future entry into their service.
Benefits to Pass.
Q. P. RANGERS LOSE AT HOME.
London, Sept. 10.
In the Third Division (South)-|
tiona
The standard rate of income tax would be increased by sixpence to five shillings in the pound.
23 now revenue
War Loan Conversion.
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year.
under
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