CARPETS
HONGKONG BRANCH
OPENING SALE
From 1st OCTOBER
PEKING ART RUG CO
14, Wyndham Street,
Tel. 56981. Kowloon: 32, Nathan Road.
CAMEL BRAND
PAINTS, ENAMELS, VARNISHES
and CELLULOSE
have
LACQUERS
proved their superiority Hongkong's Climatic Conditions.
under
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Cables: "Camelpaint.
THE
Tel. 31601.
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel dos Wagons Lits, Poking
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD. PENANG
THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE."
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
CRAG HOTEL, Penang Ittitu (1,400 feet above sealevel),
Refreshment Rooms. thear sommit station) FI} [Talwar, Private Cora for Excursions Anywhere.
Caterers etc, to Imperlai Airways. Meals are interchangeable, no extra cost whoever you have year breakfast, luncheon,
tea, ez dinner.
Itoms of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Rannymede each mam has its own pubilo telephone.
The tunnymede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among hotela of the East with its coleine, and justly clatina by its associations to offer the traveller och not to be found elsewhere.
THE・・ HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER
ITALY MOST TAXED
COUNTRY IN WHOLE WORLD
Even Love Is Taxed Rome, Sept. 26. THERE is always a big, hue and cry in Britain when an increase in taxes is con- templated.
As a matter of fact the citizen doesn't know what taxation is, if he were an Italian subject, now, he'd find out soon enough. It is estimated that an Italian citizen pays nearly half his income, either directly or indirectly, to the government in the form of
taxes.
He pays a tax on everything he wears and eats, on every cheque he cashes or writes, every bill that he pays and every official letter or con- tract must be written on official stationery bearing the government seal.
Hero, for instance, are just a few of the taxes which must be paid by an Italian family:
1. An income tax of 8 per cent
of his salary,
2. Building tax, furniture 10x
and land tax.
4,
1935.
HEADS OWN - AIR DERBY
Ruth Chatterton, actress and more recently on aviatriz, stepped into her own acroplane at Los Angeles and kended her esen air derby toward Cleveland, for the National Air Races. Six planer competed for purses ofcored by Miss Chatterton. Accuracy and safety determined the winners.
3. In addition to tax on furniture, NEW DIRECTORSHIP Nudes Bore
a supplemental tax on
A-Plano.
B-Radio.
C-Bewing machine.
4. Tax for every servant employ- ed. In addition to this he must nny half the premium on his ser- vants' old-age pension, accident and health insurance and is res ponsible for the moral conduct of servant girls in his employ if they are under legal age.
5. Tax on telephone,
6. Tax on use of gas and elec tric light.
7. Tax on every grown son who is unmarried.
Just A Start
When he has paid those he has really just started, however, for in the price of everything he buys contains a good percentage for the government. Government tax on food runs as high as 600 per cent on some items-and if it happens | that he owns a business of his own, there are many more that must be pald.
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Supposing, for example, he owns a small coffee shop. Coffee in Italy is not made in pots or the uris familiar to Britons. It comes from large machine in which steam is generated by electricity and forced through little spigots so that each cup is made of fresh grounds. The proprietor not only pays a tax on his coffee machine, he paga
In addition for each spigot.
He pays an ice cream tax if he sells lee cream, and another for the privilege of selling sand- wiches, cakes and pastry and still another if he serves cooked food. He pays a tax for the light out- side his doorway, so much for each letter in the, sign
on his window and other taxes for an operating licence, a liquor licence if he sells drinks, a tax on the Income of the place in addition to his personal income, a tax on his fixtures and every contrivan- ce in the place.
Collect 'Em All
Besides these taxes he
pays regular yearly assessments to the national medical aid Institute, the Fuselst syndicate, the govern ment's old-age pension system and contributes another assessment to the federation fund for unemploy- ment relief, and still another con- tribution to his share for the night policing of the district. When he has paid all these taxes.
SALESMAN SAM
FOR ALEXANDER
KORDA.
Hollywood, Sept. 30, Mr. Alexander Korda, who formed the London Film Company in 1942, has been elected a mem ber of the board of the United Artists Distribution Corporation.
He has also become one of the owners of the production com pany.
Mr. Korda arrived in Hollywood Inst Sunday and has been confer ring with. Mr. Samuel Goldwyn. teho controls United Artista. Several of his productions have been released to the United States through United Artists-United Preas.
SCARBOROUGH
IS PROUD
Charles Laughton recently visited native town, Scarborough. The north eastern centro is very proud of its great man. The picture shows Laugh-
ton with his mother,
This Farmer To Death
"NAKED WOMEN ARE NOT PRETTY"
Long Valley, N.Y. Sept. 30.
William Farmer
Scarles snapped his fingers at a charge of trespassing recently and announced he was going to build a 60 foot observation tower for curious folk 'intent on seeing what persons cavort- ing in the nude look like. Farmer Searles was served with a warrant obtained by a nudist camp adjoining his pro- perty. The allegation was that he trespassed visually by focus- ing his eyes on the unclad forma of his neighbours and made no protest when 150 strangers join- Jed him.
"I didn't charge any admission fee," Baid Searles. "Anyone's free to come on my land and look at the nudists. I want to break up these indecent goings-on."
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The Queen's Hall Orchestra.
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HUMORESKE, Op. 101, No. 7. (Dvorak)
The Queen's Hall Orchestra.
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F5529. FIRE DANCE.
B'WANGA.. Quick Stop,
1922. ONE NIGHT OF LOVÉ. ·
CIRIBIRIBIN
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in despair.
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He said one of his mules begant acting up." thus drawing his attention-to-his-new-neighbours.-8-Advice-to the over-optimistic is From then on he took frequent peeks and finally went on record as convinced "there is nothing pretty about a naked woman."
Contrary to appearances it is not this insect's head that is to be feared.
KONIC
10 One of the U.S.A. 12 No, not a rodent, but a groove. 15 English town that has
unattractive women in it. Frait.
"The minute she takes off her clothes, she loses her beauty," Farmer Searles expounded. "One of them weighs at least 300 10, pounds. She had no right running around without a stitch on.
"Why, there's only two goad looking girls that were naked and lot they would have looked a better if they had their clothes Dn."
EARTHQUAKES
21 This beast obviously has a dull
yellow head.
22 Sad description of many unem-
ployed.
23 This boy naturally could estab a connection with your home
lish a
for you in a fog.
24 It must be terrible to live in one
part of these Indian Ocean islands.
27 Mysterious kind of sleve. 30 This kind of committee probably
has special knowledge.
32 Not an interesting occupation
for a miner.
AND U.S. CLIMATE
TIDAL CURRENTS NOT AFFECTED BY SHOCKS 33 A quality not possessed by the
he can start counting his profits earthquaken hava
if any.
The government's tax collection It has system is simple and sure, ita own tax asscasmont experts who calculate the total amount of taxes due. This amount is then demanded of and paid by the banks to the government.
never any back laxes the government!
are
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Seattle, Oct. 1. Frequent claims that Japanese diverted the course of the Japanese current that tempers the northwest climate are false, the U.S. Wenther bureau here hus reported.
Observer T. E. Jermin, who has concluded an extensive survey of current movements, said it has not changed in the least.
"It checks identically with the first charts, made more than 100 year ago," he said.--United Press.
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2 Put a nasty fellow in a river for
A time.
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ini.
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dry. Wine.
0 Not brightly coloured. 7 Junt n stretch of water
mother abroad. 11 The one man
xober.
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who makes
for
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YA GAVE DUNK'S GONNA COST YOU JUST TEN BUCKS!
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la
_not_so
simple.
16 Pure and excellent in a Red
Rurrounding.
17 Early British decoration.
this
18 A Pasclat leader here in
colour is naturally weakened. 20 Colour.
24 Vehicle' that gives sound advice
kill.
to attention for this apparent
25 Give
mis-statement about the value of Roman nunieral.
26 Mistakes to be remedied. 28 Mutal.
29 An old coin that urges action. 30 Heights to which pals may furn
for a change. 31 An ancient instrument which has
a following to-day,
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