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THE BAN REMO CONFERENCE.

LONDON, April 20,

The conference to-day discussed and approved the financial clauses of the Turkish treaty. They afterwards discussed the Amenian territorial question, especially the frontler and lastly the question of Batur's,

LONDON, April 20.

(Router's Boxice to the Chino Mail.) ·

BRITISH BUDGET.

LONDON, April 19th. In the course of his Budget speech, in the House of Commons, Mr. Chamberlain [said this Budget was critical because the time had come to lay the deep foundations for 1920 was, approximately. £144,000,000 of future prosperity. The expenditure

fia excom of laat year's estimate, bat £69,000,000 below the Revised Estimates The League of Natious letter was read at the conference, declining the of October 1819. Armenian madate on the ground that the covenant does not provide the merely more favourable than anticipated regards revenue the result was not powers necessary therefor. Also the mandats implies a heavy financial and bus it greatly exceeded the original Budget military burden. The conference decided to send a note to President estimates by £1,201,000,000. The actual Wilson recommending Americs to support. Armenia teancially. The £138,000,000.

Exchequer

receipts

nearly borders of Armenia were roughly defined. They are understood to be The Custom and Excise revenue exceed favourable to Armenia but do not include Trebizond. All decisions regarded the extirpate by £15,500,000, mainly due ing Cilicia were suspended. The present tendency is to assign the port of

to the increased yield in spirits, beer, Batum to Georgia, with special facilities for all nations seeding an outlet and tea. The increase in the con sumption of tobacco was unprecedented, due, inter alia to greater smoking among Women. Tea showed a surplus of £3,000,000, the increase in consumption being unique. The Entertainments Durg yielded £10,500,000, or £2,500,000 taan "acticipated.

to the Black Sea.

LONDON, April, 21.

The conference decided to appoint a commission to control Turkish finances. Military and naval experts pointed out the difficulty of execur ing the proposed treaty, especially regarding Erzerum, with a whole Turkish army corps still entrenched, and regarding Anatolia, where numerous bands are still operating. They considered that allied coercive military measures. would probably be necessary. The British views were accepted without dissension.

LABOUR WANTS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ENQUIRY.

LONDON, April” 20.

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He proposed that the increase in the Excess Froûts Tax operate from January 1st, but in the event of Parliament adopt- mittee of Enquiry was investigating, he ing the War Wealth Levy, which the Com- would be able to reverse the decision: as

ards the regards increase.

Asuming

the latter to be 80 per cent. it was estimated that the revenue from it would be £9:20,000,000 Although this tax was a temporary one, a permanent tax was necessary. The Government had sent Mission to Canada and the United

The executive of the labour party has issued a manifesto calling attentates to investigate about the possibility tion to the economic paralysis creeping over Europe in consequence of the of a permanent tax, on the lines of the war, and appealing to the British government, in order to avoid a world- jlavy in those countries, but the methods wide economic breakdown, to press for the establishment of an interna-

there were found to be unsuitable to Great Hional body representing allied, neutral, and enemy states, charged with the

Britaia. taak of reviewing the whole international economic situation, and making proposals for meeting the immediate difficulties.

THE BUDGET DEBATE.

LONDON, April 20. When the debate on the budget was resumed, Mr. Asquith emphasised that since the outbreak of war, Britain had devoted 36 per cent. of its | revenue, and only 63 per cent, of its borrowings, to meeting the cost of the war. This was a unique record among the belligerents, and exemplified the willingness of the British to make great sacrifices for great purposes. Ha objected to the proceeds from sales of warstores being regarded as revenue. He declared that the wine duty was not worth the candle in view of the relatively small return and the ill-feeling it would cause in France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. He emphasised the need of greater public economy. He criticised the relative smallness of the provision for reduction of the floating debt; but otherwise he warmly approved the budget proposals.

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With a view to preventing the Corpora tion Tax, mentioned earlier, being too severe a burden on the Ordinary share- holder, Mr. Chamberlain proposed that the duty should not exceed is in £1 on the

pronts remaining after the payment of interest and dividends on 'DebenturES and Preference shares.

The yield from the new tax was esti mated to be £50,000,000 for the full year, in addition to

to the Bices Profits Duty, and Bas,000,000 in the current year.

The changes mentioned would produce while in the current year they would give an yield in the full year of $198,000,000,

Det. additional revenue of £76,000,060, and a toul revenue of £1,116,000,000.

In the current year, Mr. Chamberlain estimated to have £231,000,000 for the will be available for the reduction of the redemption of debt, of which £30,000,000 Floating Debt. Moreover, as a result of the changes, it was acticipated that for the reduction of the debt, balf of £300,000,000 would Be Available next year

which would be available to reduce the Floating Debt. They were told, Mr.

might destroy the Empire. He retorted Empire's debt that twenty such would redeem the whole

Mr. Clynes lamented that the undue wartime borrowing had main-Chamberlain said, that two such Budgets tained none of Mr. Chamberlain's proposals to diminish the cast of living. On the contrary, it was more likely to intensify the situation. Mr. Clynes congratulated Mr. Chamberlain on his excess profits proposal, but rejected. the prolonged scheme for redemption of the debt, which could be wiped out in the fewest years by the continuance of a little self-sacrifice. The removal of the debt would give contentment not only to the poor but many who were not classed as poor.

Mr. Marriott opined that the budget would have the admirable effect of demonstrating to the whole world the country's confidence in the national finances. It would therefore react- most favourably on British credit.

WINSTON STILL HAS ANTI-BOLSHEVIK FORCE IN RUSSIA.

LONDON, April 20. In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Kenworthy, Mr. Churchill atated that a small British military mission is retained in the Crimea with the object of assisting the reorganisation of the anti-Bolshevist army and keeping the new commander-in-chief, General Wrangel, informed of the progress of the negotiations between the British Foreign Office, and the Bolshevists, with a view to securing the lives of Russian soldiers, women children, and refugees la the Crimea. Meanwhile the government would do all it could through the mission to prevent the Bolshevists overrunning the Crimea and massacring these people.

SHIP'S MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.

LONDON, April 19.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD. gallons of petrol aboard, caught fire south of Durban. It arrived at Lourenzo

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In Bags of 250 lbs. net.

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WINE MERCHANTS.

The ship "Speedonia" from the Dutch Indies to Capetown, with a million Marques with the afterpart completely burned out but the cargo was saved by the steel deck.

OLD BUILDING DOLLAPSE.

LONDON, April 19,

Mr. Chamberlain estimated that the Revenue next year on the present basis of taxation would be £1.341,850,000; the Expenditure, 1,177,132,000, leaving £161,000,000 for the reduction of the debt. This was insufficient, and he was going efforts to improve British credit and to appeal to the country to make generous

the future burden.

Replying to Sir Samuel Robozta, Hr. Chamberlain explained that, although hreaty contributions as at present pro- posed would

Wipe

out the debt, he did not contemplate, after the first great reduction of the debt,

that

they

abould continue to pay off at that rate, meaning the extinc tion of the debt in twenty years. When the first great reduction bad taken place, it would be for the country to consider how far it might relax to efforts.

THE SITUATION IN GERMANY.

BERLIN, April 9th. Hoelz, the Communist, who had been ter rorising Saxony for weeks past at the head of a band of brigandi in motor cars was frontier, and fed disguised as a woman to gradually pinned in on the Czecho-Slovak Bohemis, where he is reported to have been arrested: A hundred of his Red Guards have been captured by Bavarian troops,

LATER. Holz was arrested at Marienbad and is being taken to Berlin.

BRESLAU, April 19th. The miners and iron' and atcel-workers

are joining the general strike in Bilseis, owing to the action of the French authori ties, who threaten that if the, strike, is effective they will permit Polish troops to cross the, frontier. Tvenna

April 19th. Tho

Fonisch Zeitun

French are grade- Main, owing to the removal of the unsane- ally evacuating the new bridgehead of the

tioned Reichswehr from the Huhr area. The French have already left the occupa tión zono cast of Frankfort. There are po foreign troops in Offenbach and Mul- heim.

At the adjourned. inquest in connection with the collapse of the creasing signs that tay there are in-

Wolverhampton billiard hall, the coroner marvelled that only two were killed. The ball was built in 1858.

DANGEROUS TIRE IN NEW TOBE HARBOUR.⠀

NEW YORK, April 19.

A fire starting on the steamer "Halfried,” loaded with nitrate, has threatened the destruction of the Busch terminal and two plera. Several explosions have occurred. Harbour tugs are hurrying to remove endangered shipping.

TEXTILE MISSION.TO FAR HÄST.

East

LONDON, Apr 2

LONDONDERRY RIOTS,

LONDON, April 19th

In the rioting at Londonderry, 2 o'clock in the morning the crowd attacked the soldiers with sticks and crowbars and there were fifteen polica batou charges) Bulsequently, there was fighting between Unionista and Bian Feinera.

MUSTAPHA KEMAL

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Clough, Mr. Kellaway stated that the department of Overseas trade bad been

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 15th. The Nationalistä hava attacked Ortakaní endeavouring to arrange for

textile missions to an Anatolin and are attempting to over- whereon ladustrial, Commercial, and when the Greek population in severe but i

indecisive fighting. Mustapha Kemal has labour Interests could be represented. He was not yer able to supply decided to defy the Sultan and declare more precise information, us Important questions with regard to the war against Constitutiona¡lata. The posi- provision of the necessary funda were still being discussed.

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