THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY JANUARY
1935.
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CHINA'S IMMENSE TAX BURDEN
PROMISED REDUCTIONS HAVE NO MEANING
Peking.
"Abolish illegal taxes and miscellaneous levies" has been the watch-word throughout China since early in 1934 when the Finance Conference met and decided to urge this popular means of tax-reduction. "Illegal taxes and miscellaneous levics" are usually the means taken by local militarists to raise emergency funds in times of stress or unusual stringency. Once such a tax is promulgated-and collection started it appears to go on forever of its own momentum, hence the unbelievably large number of them now in existence. Few local or provincial governments are ever rich enough to do away with any possible source of cash revenue.
Thus it is with considerable, tax, cooking oil tax and paper tax. elation that the National Govern-- The joker was the institution of ment announces that during the a five per cent. tax on ali “banquet" year 1934 over 3,000 Ruch illegal dishes served in local restaurants taxes were abolished. Heavy finan- and "readjustments" of the local cial burdens, it is proudly stated, taxes on winos, tobacco and motor. have been lifted from the shoulders cars. Unannounced was the deabi- of the common people throughouting of the house-tax, chief, source The latter is the land. Precise figures published of local revenue. indicate that the Government is assessed according to the number denying itself of $28,000,000 a year of rooms in the house, which are
the result of the campaign. classified as to type of roof and. That figures out at about seven interior finish into first, second und
third class. cents per capita.
That pacans of thanksgiving have not noticeably disturbed the welklo ns the result of all, this is doubt less due to the fact that in a large measure the abolition of the obnoxi- ous taxes has been accompanied by . corresnonding increases in other
more respectable taxes,
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Taxes not abolished include a ten to twenty per cent. tax on all sales and riskslas as well na motor-car of real estate and property, bicycles
tract tax, enterprise tax. slaughter and mule-cart taxes, shop tax, con- tax and a long list of "miscellaneous levien not Included in the recent clean-up.
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The brunt of the difficulties arising out of Yuga-Slavia's decision to deport all unnaturalised Hungarians' was borne by the city of Szeged, Hungary, just across the border of the two countries. The seas portrayed here is not one of milling refugees-it is the market place in Szeged, but the wel. ter of humans and vehicles' must have been re-enacted with tragic notos aå refùgses from Yugo-Slavie flocked into the city.
that the original dialogue has language is banal in these days. been kept too much. The romantic
have some Thus hampered. the two principals |
difficulty in making their characters live. John Loder succeeds the better.
STARVES TO DEATH
FAILS TO FIND FORTUNE
London.
find that the reverse la true."
Medical evidence showed the youth, John Edward Taylor, 20, apprentice chemist, of Victoria Rond, Stoke-on-Trent, had died fron exposure and lack of food. The Tather William Taylor, mechanical engineer, of the same
Such, at least, was Peking's ex- perience. Complying with the re-
Miss Hopper is not well cast as solutions of the National Financo The rent tragedy of taxation In Lorna. But the Alm produced by Conference, the municipal nuthor!- China is that heavily' "burdened Basil Dean has its value DE D ties announced that on November though the people are the Govern-picture production of, the pretty first thirteen "cruel contributions ment absolutely cannot afford told romance. It has several A youth who threw up a good address, said that his son left home and miscellances taxes" would be decrease it income materially stirring scenes, including. the post in the country to seek his to seck work in London on Novem- done away with.
Services on foreign and domestic attack of the Doones
Jan's
There were listed as: . Contriin-¡lowns, together with current mill-Farm, the counter attack on thei tion to the poor, head tax on tary expetes require so much that Donne Stronghold, and the famous: livestock, taxes on bones and 3n-there is but a negligible margin left fight between Jan and Carver testines, one of the four separate which may be spent on education Doone. Several of the smaller Laxes on prostitutes, cereal tax, ur-reconstruction or dispensed with | parts are very well played, notably lime tax, fish tax, egg lax, tax on to relieve the tax burden of the those of Mary Clare, Roger pork and malton, sesamum seed people."-United Press.
Fine Films
Showing In
In the Utle part it. Leslie
Livesty, George Carson, Frank Celler and Margaret Lockwood. Lorna's love song sung by Miss Howard gives the flusst performan-Rutland Boughton and the musical Hopper, has been composed by tee of his film career, particularly in
those passages in which he plays score is by C. Armstrong Gibbs. the elegant fop to conceal his The British war film "Forgotten Identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel Men" has been passed with one!
London Nowa witty passagu-at-arms with scene cut out, by the Board of
AT ADELPHI
LESLIE HOWARD'S
SUCCESS
London.
of
Mr. Raymond Massey, who plays Censors. The decision was made Chauvelin, is one of the high lights known last week following a con- the film. Miss Merle Oberon sultation between the President of the Board, Mr. Edward Shorit, and Sir John Hammerton, the war historian, who appears in the ple- fure in the role of commentator. The film has been granted an "A" certificate which means that it
al!
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except
STRANGE OUTBURST enhances her reputation by her restrained performance of the character of Lady Blakeney and is especially effective in the emotional scene with Sir Andrew Ffoulkes. when Lady Blakeney realises that she has betrayed her husband to [Chauvelin. The Sir Andrew children. An official stated that Proutkes of Mr. Anthony Bushell the only important scene- which With
the production of "The brilliantly natural performance,the Censor objected to was one Scarlet Pimpernel" presented at the fine supporting cast includes in which a mangle corpse is seen Lelcester Square Theatre for the Miss Joan Gardner, Mr. Nigel entwined in barbed wire, and this first time on Christmas Eve, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Gibb Mclaughlin, Mr. Is the scene which has been ent Alexanda Korda has made yet -William Freshman, Mr. Bromley 001. In other respects the picture other British Film which will com-Devenport. Mr. Bramwell Fletcher, will be issued in the form in mand world-wide
which, it was privately shown. It Виссеня. The Walter Rilin
in 10 l presented at the Rialto Cinema, W. For a season.
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An extraordinary jucident mark- ed the second private sereening of this film at the Adelphi Theatre. The audience invited included General Sir lax Hamilton, 14. en: Sir Aylmer Hunter-Werton,. Wilkinson, Major General Patriek Henderson, Major General Bertran Sergison-Brooke, Admiral of the
HEVROLET
World's largest electric sign as it flashed "Chevrolat" in 14-foot letters of light across Grant Park, Chicago, and out into the darkness for miles. The display is 286 feet high and 158 feet long. It is illuminated with 17,240 electric globes and 1,000 fest as neon tubing, It has the largest clock in the world. The minute hand of the clock alons is 27 feet long and weighs 1,200 puonds. It pays to advartire.
story which is already known After six months preparation throughout the world as a novel and four months' filming "Lorna and as a
has been loyall; {Doone" arrived as a talkie fur play adapted to film form, lu' point of Christmas. It was presented ai sheer pletorial enchantment, the Adelphi and Victoria Hopper other film of 1934 has reached the and John Eoder appear as Lorna exquisite quality achieved in this and Jan Rikt. The film which production. These outstanding vir-was partly made on Exmoor is tuos are due to the brilliance of picturesque and very effectively Major General Sir Percival the settings designed by Mr. reconstructs the rurat England of Vincent Korda and the superb the seventeenth century. It photography of the American "see" follow's the main poluts of the booklet Sir Frederick Field, and fortune in London was found dead ber 5, having given up a good situn- cameraman, Mr. Harold Resson. Taithfully, and its chief fault is
other distinguished figures in the under a hedge'in a ̈feld adjoining tion in the town. He had received Services. The film was followed
two letters from his son since then. saying he was not to worry, and
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