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Wednesday,
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH:
June 26, 1940.
PROMPT ISSUE OF WAR LOAN ADVOCATED Singapore Councillors Suggest Immediate Action
and urgency
and to eschew
1 FILM. 5 MONTHS, £4,250,000
IN less than five months the film veralon of "Gone With The Wind" has earned £4,250,000 in the United States.
MR. J. I. DAWSON, the Chamber of Commerce representativt on the Singapore Legislative Council, giving his personal views at a recent meeting, said he favoured the prompt issue of a war loan. He thought an issue at par, currency 19 years, rate of interest three per cent., were adequate terms. The Colony could subscribe at least $30,000,000, he said. Mr. E. C. H. Charlwood and Mr. E. N. C. Wool- lerton also advocated immediate action regarding a loan and suggested war taxation in incomes. Mr. Dawson said the ser-drive
This beats all previous box-office vicing of the loan would re-
records there, suys the British United quire extra taxation, and he
Fresh Taxation
Press. personally felt that income tax The service of the loans would un-
And the Bim is still going strong, require fresh taxation. was "the fairest and most doubtedly
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer expect that With others, he had devoted con more than £7.500,000 will have gone equitable" means of servicing it siderable time and study to ways into box-offices before the film has and meeting other steeply rising and means on taxation, and quite finished its run in America. burdens of wartime..
of potentially important Then there will be the receipts This was conditional, however, on sources of revenue had presented the tax applying to the whole of themselves, but, as the report of the from the British Empire,
M.G.M. is trying to gross £1,000,- conducting 000 in Britain alone. Malaya and to it being in force for body which had been a delnite time after the end of the that investigation was not yet com- Bu!, P L. Mannock. "Dolly plete, he could say no more on that Herald" Film Critic, announcedt aspect.
the suggested minimum of 3% od, to see the film is causing a storm of protest in Britain.
war.
He had hoped that the report of the committee which was appointed to luvestigate the question of a war Ioan would have been tabled that; and that they should learn day, that it was favourable to such' ai measure-the
of which purpose would be to make available to the the Government with Imperial Irant delay possible a large, sumi for the prosecution of the war, It was unfortunate that thet had not been possible, but in its absence he took the liberty of making a few remarks on the subject of a war toan and the means to service R.
Prompt. Issua
meticulously.
number
Nevertheless, he felt he could ray that his personal opinion, which had never been hostile to the principle of a tax on incomes and profis, was confirmed that almost all alternatives to such a tax had serious objections and it was that form of impost which was likely to provide. In the fair- tat and most equitable fashion, the means to service loans and to meet the other steeply, rising burdens of war-time.
But to that conclusion he attached the conditions that it had to apply to the whole of Malaya, had to be in force only for definite time after Mr. Dawson said he had all along the end of the war, and be in that contended that the prompt issue of respect under control of the legisla war loan was an essential step, and tive bodies. that opinion was also held by a con- Above all, I had to be administered
of representative firmly and effectively, siderable number
and even institutions and men.
ruthlessly where there was reason The arguments against its issue, or to suspect attempts to evade or to for its indefinite delay until all mea-corrupt, added Mr. Dawson, sures of taxation necessary to ensure
its service and liquidation were cut
and dried, had seemed to him over-
cautious, for there had never been BRITAIN'S
uny
doubt t The Colony" cvuit
Binance such a loan, although the method might be open to differences of opinion.
The suggestion had been made by a responsible local association that the terms of a war loan should be—Lasued at par. rency 19 years, rate of interest three per centwhich seemed to him to be adequate terms.
If Issued ments.
cur-
EFFORT
Crystal Palaco Towers
For Demolition
London, June 25. Two of London's most prominent He was of opinion, however, that landmarks are to be demolished-the
war toan should be sued jointly by all Melayan Governs, But if that meant delay while lengthy arguments and cor- respondence were conducted with the different administrations in order to
Miss Margaret Mitchell, so for a "one-bok" author, hos refused to write a sequel to "Gone With the Wind."
She received £12,500 for the film rights to her book, but this has now been doubled.
AMERICAN
OPINION
One Hundred Per. Cent. Behind Great Britain
That the citizens of the United States of America are 100 per cent. behind Great Britain in her present struggle tor freedom, was the view. expressed by Dr. R. E. Beddoe, mem- urr of the American College of Hospital Administrators and Superin- teideal of the Clout Memorial Hospital at Wuchow, at the weekly luncheon of the Hongkong leary: Club yesterday.
Dr. Berdoc said he had just re- from the United Statos, where he had the privilege of speak- Ing over, 250 times in 12 inonths on Far Eastern affairs.
"You may be interested to know," he said, "what the consensus of American opinion is, to-days of tu say to you that the United States 100 per cent. behind England in ti.is terrible situation. (Applause). The trustees made this announce-I want you
steel, towers of the Crystal Palace The Iron in them is to be given to the Government.
settle beforehand what share of the ment to-day, stating they felt the are many know also that there)
and destructive
over the rost and charges each should bear, time had came for them to give what forces, but having gone all ove he would rather say let us get on they could towards the Government's country and spoken to thousands of people, I am quite confident that with Colonial loan at once and let request for all, the scrap iron that when the crisis develops you will the Malay States make their own coul: be spared.
And your cousing on the right side." decisions as soon as they could.
(Applause).
The towers were the only struc-j He did not overlook that there) were aerlous objections to such a tures of the Crystal Palace which re- course, and undoubtedly a Malayan malned after the disastrous fire on loon was by far the best.
November 39, 1036. They are 230 Therefore he hoped that the ex-ft. high and contain several thousand trene grisvity of the situation would spur all concerned to negotiate with tons of iron-Renter.
After saying he was proud of lus Beddoo Anglo-Saxon heritage, Dr. concluded: "I want you to know that recognise, together with millions of American people, that there is some- thing fine and clean about an Englishman, and that you have some cousins across the sea who are proud of their relationship." (Applause).
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