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三拜禮 號四甘月七心香 WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1940. ̇日十二月六 SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
$30.00 PER ANNUM
MEAL-TIME FOR THE EVACUEE CHILDREN
Income Tax UP: Surtax UP: Tobacco UP:
Beer
UP: Estate Duty UP: Wines UP
BRITAIN'S
ALL-TIME
HIGH RECORD BUDGET
(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH")
LONDON, JULY 23 (UP)-BRITAIN'S SECOND 1940 BUDGET HAS INCREASED INCOME TAX TO THE ALL-TIME RECORD OF 8s. 6d. IN THE £.
THE INITIAL £165 WILL BE TAXABLE AT THE RATE OF 5s. INSTEAD OF 4s. 3d. SURTAX ON INCOMES EXCEEDING £2,000 WILL BE INCREASED FROM Is. 3d. TO 2s. THE HIGHEST RATE OF 9s. 6d. SURTAX WILL BE APPLICABLE TO ALL IN- COMES OVER £20,000,
TOBACCO WILL COST ANOTHER, 2s. A POUND EXTRA.
Duty on estates over £10,000 will be increased to 10 per cent.
The higher income tax will increase receipts by £60,000,000 this year and £84,000,000 in the next full year. Receipts from income tax and surtax will be £635,000,000 for a full year, which is more than the total revenue from all sources in the years before the 1914-18 war.
GET YOUR MONEY READY.
LONDON, July 23, (Reuter),—Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, began his Budget speech in the House of Commons to-day at 3.20 p.m. G.M.T. to cries from the Opposition benches of "Get Your Money
WELLES
INDICTS RUSSIA
Absorption Of Baltic
States Criticised
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP)-The following statement has been issued by Mr. Sumner Welles, the Under Secretary of State:
Ready."
The Chancellor said that in the! April Budget, the tutal of £2,000,- 000,000 was given with all reserve as a provisional round figure for wor expenditure during the current year. It was then stated that under the present conditions, any estimate made for so long ahead was bound to be largely in the nature of a guess.
The revised estimated war expendi ture for the current year was
£2,000,000,000.
The revised estimated excess of ex- penditure over revenue would be in the region of £2,200,000,000.
£40,000,000 A Wook The figure
of £2,000,000,000, estimated in April for war expendi £10,000,000 a week during the year. Lure, represented an average of The rate of expenditure during recent weeks had been £50,000,000,
"During the past few days, the devious processes under which the
The latest figures showed that for political independence and territorial the four weeks ended July 20, the integrity of three amuli Baltic re-rate wus £57,000,000 a week. publics Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania With an increase of £800,000,000 were to be deliberately annihilated in the estimated war expenditure, the by one of their more powerful total of all expenditure came neighbours has been rapidly drawing £3,407,000,000.
to their conclusion.
The excess
to
of expenditure thus "Since the time the peoples of these estimated over revenue would be in three republle first gained their inde- the region of £2,200,000,000...... -peridence-and-democratic-form-of government, the people of the United
Not So Alarming While the Cup between
revenue
Stales have watched their admirable and expenditure was formidable, it progress in self-government with sym-was not so alanning as at first sight
athelle interest.
might appear
"To meet that part of our expenditure paid overseas, we are able to a considerable extent to draw upon outside resources in three principal ways.
U.S. Opposition The polley of this Government is universally known. The people of the United States are opposed to preda-
"Firstly, we can dispose overseas of
tory activities, no matter whether gold which is the property of the they are carried out by force or by the Government and which other nations Threat of force. They are likewise are opposed to any for
form of intervention
ready to purchase.
on the part of one Stat however securiondly,
We can dispose of Į which the Government has persons in this
powerful, in the domestic concerns of purchased from
any other sovereign State, however countly, the Dominions and India Another Dramatic Evacuation Development
weak. There constitute
rests.
very foundations upon which the are not spending the whole of the existing relationship between the 21 proceeds of our sovereign republies of the new world upon their products but are allowing Jorge expenditure part of them to accumulate in the "The United States continues to form of balances and other shori stand by these principles because of term, investments in this country." Turn to Page 5, Fourth Column,
T. V. Soong's Future Appointment To New Ministry Indicated
Largo Gap To Fill
The Chancellor and there was a farge gap to all which would require further considerations and continued efforts in the form of Increased laxa. tion and additional savings and be- hind this formidable problem there. tay economic
funda ntal importans of
One consequence
uence of the huge ex- penditure, which the Government was Incurring, was that the total money income of the community was
CHUNGKING, July 24 (Reu-on a balance higher than it was. ter)-Although the names
AMAZING ALLEGATION
BY AUSTRALIAN GOVT.
Secret Gibraltar Evacuation Begins
THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS
on this page were received by Clipper ale mnil last night. They were taken at Building No. 140, Fort McKinley, and show the evacuee children receiving their mid-day meal. Above the children line up at the tables with their tin plates, into which the food is Indled from the dixies. LEFT, another meal-time scene.
R.A.F. Carry On The Good Work
DESTROYING
NAZIS
SINEWS OF WAR
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter).—Further details of last night's
| R.A.F. attacks are given by the Air Ministry news service,
At Bremen and Fockewulf, aircraft works already damaged in previous raids, were bombed for the second night in
JOHN BLUNT SAYS→→
Evacuation Complaints Must Be Investigated
There is obviously something more than "a storm in a teacup"
succession.
Several explosions occurred and many fires were started.
Its were iso-obtained-on-docks. In a raid on an aircraft store at Paderborn, a large explosion was re- ported between the hangars from witch columns of smoke were seen rising.
Oil Plant Hit ···
In an attack on an oil plant at Gelsinkirchen un observer reported large explosion two minutes after bombs had been released, but a drifting cloud obscured the full result of the attack.
Another raider later reported that a large buliding was in flames and
were seen.
in the many expressions of dis-at columns of thick black smolic satisfaction concerning the lot of many of the evacuees.
While this raid was in progress, other aircraft were attacking an oil
QC-
The complaints from Manila are of plant and Krupps munitions works too corroborative a nature to be at Essen, but clouds rendered brushed aside as exaggerations, and curate observation of the results Im- Independent investigation appears to possible:
be necessary. It is not a question of disputing the
necessity for the cvacuation of women and children.
been accustomed to comfortable
accordance
case.
their with
Widespread Damago
LATEST
a
Another report says that an alr- Government must be assumed to craft factory at Bremen, an aircraft know what is advisable.
turk at Paderborn and military ob- It does
not take a great
jectives In the Ruhr, including deal of vnthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen Imagination to visualise the plight of Turn to Paga 5, Fifth Column mothers who have found themselves THE AMAZING allegation that the Hongkong Government has not kept the more sepecially when it must be re- strangers in a strange country, the Australian Government informed of the evacuees situation, and that cables from possessed of scant means. They have membered that many of them are Canberra, the Australian capital, have remained unanswered is contained in a "United homes. Now, dicy auffer from the
¡Press"
message received sense that they are outcasts. from Canberra this morn«!
Somcano Is Responsible, ing.
Such, is of course, not the Even although certain exemptions The message states that the have the effect of creating the sus Commonwealth Government has (n-suspicion that should never have picion that very little danger exists been unable to proceed with Its been created) women played plans for the reception of the part in
ucting in Hongkong evacuees because of instructions issued. If every reason- lack of information.
able care has not been taken to as- aure, as far as possible, their The Australian Guthorities are still fort and peace of mind, somebody awaiting Information from Hongkong must beur the responsibility. regarding the number and classifica-
Whether the complaints are based tion of evacuees, and the date of their upen official inefficiency, or just departure from return shortly to China to assume the
Hongkong and pluin muddling, is beside the point. post of President of the Academia cannot expect to raise by taxation at "It is also equally plain that we
The captains, it is learned, hava
From Australia comes news that, ecclved sealed orders which they
"It is stated in Canberra that cables avan at this late juncture, the Com- Sinica, which has been vacant since once and with one Budget so quickly Gibraltar.
will open only after the vessels leave the death of Dr. Tsul Yunn-pel at following another all the sums that
seeking Information from Hongkong monwealth Government is not as yet have remained unanswered," SPECIAL TO THE."TELEGRAPH"
the in possession of necessary particuines Hongkong some months ago.
will have to come still further from other British colonies. About 2,000 leading hotels here are full of British
It is believed their destination 16 Following the abolition
"United Press" correspondent re-concerning Hongkong refugees whom of the this source. There are severe limits evacuees are leaving.
BELFAST, July 23 (UP). The ported. Chinese Embassies und Legations in at any rate on
they are willing to take and care fort Netherlands, Denmark, Norway obtaining new revenue,
certain means ΟΙ
officers of all services, and the streets
Why Not Send An Official? and Belgium as the result of the
In the meantime, many Gibraltar are. full dr British soldiers from the
It is also difficult to understand latest European developments, several at the standard rate of 18. 6d and takers at any price,
"Income tax five years ago was their businesses, but there are no
The Colonial Secretary, Hon. Mr. why the Government is not sending merchants are attempting to liquidate augmented garrisons.
R. A C. North, was informed of the to Australia one of its officials with prominent Chinese diplomats are re-yielded roughly £200,000,000, To-
RA.F. planes are often seen on contents of the United Press" whom the evacuees will be able to turning to Chungking to join the day the estimate yield is 2623,000,- Gibraltar
The only cargo
training fights Defence precautions message. Foreign Office.
vessels how. In almiliar to those employed in England, Turn to Page 5, Second Columns French and Italian ships.
consult from time to time, as pro- harbour
Mr. North Bald: "There appears to blems arise. It is true that the Dean interned are in force on the railways and be some mistake. If it is meant that of Hongkong bus, as far as I under
highways..
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Continuing, Sir Kingsley Wood of says it was the Government's inten- Mr. T. V. Soong and Mr. Chen tien to extend restrictions on normal Kwan-pu are being widely men-supplies to traders. By this action tioned as possible candidates for they would enable manufacturers to the new post of Minister of extend the export trade which must maintain, and where possible, to Economic Warfare, it is still un-be regarded as a vital part of the certain whether the new Minis-war effort. try. will be established in the "There must be Increased direct and Indirect taxation. It is evident Meanwhile reports are current that scale possible and covering as wide that further taxation on the largest Mr. Soong may remain in Washington, a field as possible is Imperative. as China's Ambassador in succession
'near future.
to Dr. Hu Hsih, who is expected to Ready Responsa Anticipated
the
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Gibraltar to-day when the first official evacuation of the Rock GIBRALTAR, July 23 (UP):-The greatest secrecy shrouded began.
Ships taking evacuees from Gibraltar are proceeding to an unknown destination.
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