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BRITISH BUDGET.

STABLISHBD

1845

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928.

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No. 25,853

HIGH TRIBUTE. ·

DOUBLE FORECAST SURPLUS.

To Missionaries. In China.

DEATH DUTIES

WINDFALLS.

Reduction In Sugar Duties.

INCOME TAX NOT TO BE REDUCED.

FROM ARCHBISHOP.

TSINANFU FALLS.

Surprise Capture By The Kuominchun.

DANGER IN SHANTUNG.

Compared With "Martyrology Of "Christian General, Steals March

The Early Church."

On Nationalists.

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THE C.M.S.N.. CO.

Treatment of Their British Officers.

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CANTON'S BANKNOTES.

THEIR STABILISATION.

A BIG TASK.

Sir Robert Ho Tung And A Loan.

FINANCIER INTERVIEWED ON CANTON VISIT.

No Pay Since November: "Borderland Of Starvation."

London, Yesterday --

Landon, Yesterday.. The "extraordinarily high Troops of Feng Yu-halang, the In the House of Commons, character and record of the mis-"Christian General's" Kuomin- Comdr. Kenworthy drew atten- sionaries in China," received a chun, entered Tsinanfu yesterday tion to the position, which he tribute from the Archbishop of afternoon from the south-west described was on the "borderland Mr. Churchill said that last year's Budget had succeeded in spite Canterbury at a meeting of the with practically no resistance by of starvation," of British officers The local morning newspaper representatives, having button- Society for the Propagation of the demoralised Northern troops in the China Merchants' Steam holed Sir Robert Ho Tung before he landed from the "Fatshan" on the Gospel.

who are now expected to break up Navigation Company's service in His Grace said that some of and flood the north of Shantung China, whose wages had not been Monday evening and having obtained a few particulars relative to the incidents and perils faced by province, with tens of thousands paid since November, with refer- his Canton visit, the representative of the "China Mail" men and women in recent years, of deserters streaming across ence to which he declared the Na- had a more leisurely interview with him in his office yesterday were only paralleled in the mar- the country to Chefoo and Wei- tionalist authorities were taking when Sir Robert chatted as freely as he possibly could at the pre- ty.ology of the early church-

hai-wei with resultant lawless- no action. Reuter.

ness and brigandage,

Mr. Locker Lampson said that sent stage of the negotiations on the business part of his visit. Feng Yu-hsiang's forces com- further and more vigorous repre- manded by General Lu Chung-lin sentations were being made to advanced through Cheng-tsing the Nationalist authorities.- hsien. His entry into Tsinanfu Reuter.

of adverse circumstances.

There would have been a deficit for the third year in succession but for the continuance of the Government's economy campaign. Ten and a half million sterling had been saved by Government

departments.

The standard rate of Income Tax is not to be reduced but the statutory allowances for children are raised to £50 for the first child and £50 for the others, compared with £36 and £27 at present, cost- ing £2,100,000 this year.

Mr. Snowden and Mr. Lloyd George (both ex-Chancellors of the Exchequer) formally congratulated Mr. Churchill' on a “very bril- liant achievement" and "extremely fine performance," particularly in the relief of rates.

A tax of id. per gallon on imported motor spirits will he put into operation immediately.

In consequence of this tax British and American oil advanced on Wednesday in price, wholesale and retail, in all the leading brands of motor spirit by 4d. and kerosene 4d. per gallon.

Heavy oils are not to be taxed,

The estimated surplus for 1928-29 is £18,741,000, which includes last year's approprinted surplus and other preliminary provision for rating reform.

Mr. Churchill spoke for three hours.

London, Yesterday. year and a bit for this purpose Mr. Winston Churchill Chancel-would be, introduced at the earliest lor of the Exchequer made his convenient date.

stances.

“TWO VILLAINS.”

CHINESE MERCHANT SUES A LOCAL BANK.

SPECIAL JURY SITS.

"two Foks."

ahead of Chiang Kai-shek, who

is held up in the vicinity of Tai-[' an has caused considerable per- turbation among the Nationalists. YUNNAN GENERAL.

-Reuter.

on

FOUND WITH DRUGS

ON PERSON,

"The villains of the piece."

The "Christian General". has This was how counsel referred to probably stolen a march two Chinese brothers, concerned in Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. an Original Jurisdiction case this, The former's advance is easier as

-A REMAND. morning and in referring to their he is facing Sun Chuan-fang

Yeong Chung-ching, a respect- surname, counsel called them the whose army is scattering. Chiang

Kai-shek has been held up on the able looking Chinese who was stat Railway by ed to bo a Yunnanese General who Plaintiff is a Chinese merchant, Tientsin-Pukow 68 years of age and very deaf. De- Chang Tsung-chang's men. Fur- had been on a mission to Canton, ther news and earlier reports and was passing through Hong fendants are Thos. W. Simmons & which lead up to the fall of Tsi- Kong on his way to Nanking, was Co., Ltd., a California firm former-manfu will be found below. ly with an office at York-building,

this morning charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis- Chater-rond, Hong Kong, and the

tracy with the unlawful importa- Bank of Canton, Ltd., Hong Kong,

tion and possession of 15 grains of Counsel had advised plaintiff to

morphia and 50 grains of heroin use an ear trumpet in Court but

on the waterfront yesterday. He plaintiff had replied that he had one and it only made a rumbling

was arrested after he had come off

naise!

Four, Barristers Engaged. Mr. Fok Kom-chuen, principal of Fook Lee, a hardware firm in Hillier Street, asked for a de- claration that no interest had passed to Thos. W. Simmons & Co., Ltd. in an assignment dated Feb. 22, 1921; and that no in-: terest had passed to the Bank of Canton in an assignment dated May 21, 1921.

STUBBORN FIGHTING.

Northerners Holding Out At Tai-an.

the Canton boat.

Northern spokesmen claim that Tai-an, the last city before the

Mr. H. A. Taylor, Government Yellow River, is still holding out. Monopolist and Analyst, prosecut- Cables from a Shanghai source ed, whilst the defendant was re- refer to assults on three conso-presented by Mr. L. D. Turner.

"OVERCAST, RAIN."

Mr. Turner said that as Mr. G. R. Sayer, Superintendent of Im- ports and Experts would like to see the defendant, and he (Mr. Turner) would have to get wit- nesses from Canton, he would ask off-for a remand.

:

Budget statement in the House of The total expenditure for 1928 Commons this afternoon. He said was estimated at £806,195,000. the Budget of last year had auc-The Expenditure on the consolidat- | ceeded in spite of adverse circum-ed fund services was placed at | £395,000,000 and of the total supply There would have been a deficit services at £407,000,000. The total for the third year running but for timate of £833,390,000 last year and expenditure, compared with the es- the continuance of the Govern-of 838,585,000 actually spent. ment's economy campaign. Ten Proceeding to the estimate of the and half million sterling had been revenue on the existing busis_of saved by government departments. taxation, the Chancellor of

Encouraged by the success of chequer said the customs and ex- Inst year he proposed to repeat the cise revenue moved forward by two ed by Mr. E. Davidson of Messrs.

or three millions yearly in accord-Hastings, Dennys & Bowley) led ened and is now central to the ance with the growth of population for the plaintiff, for whom Mr.. south of Tokyo. It still domin and the general maintenance of H. G. Sheldon also appeared. Mr. ates the map. consuming power.

Ex-

Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. (instruct-

East winds, fresh moderate; overcast; some rain, is the elal weather forecast until noon to-morrow.

The anticyclone has strength-

Sir Robert Ho Tung.

Replying to the Magistrate, Mr. Turner said that he was not deny- ing physical possession of the druga, but the defence was that the defendant did not have guilty knowledge. The defendant was carrying the drugs in a small par- cel in the streets when he was ar-

Sir Robert Ho Tung met the was hopeful of a more stable state rested. The parcel was given to "China Mail's" cutive days by the Nationalists on him by a

representative of affairs for Canton and Kwang- Special Jury Hitch.

friend, and he did not with characteristic courtesy in tung and with that in mind as Tai-an. But while Nationalist know its contents. A special jury was empannelled, reports show traces of exaggera-

his private office, and it was soon with the sincere wish that his Hearing of the case this being one of the few occasions tion, it appears that if Tai-an has for 11:30 am, on Saturday: Bail to impart as much of the import Canton and Hong Kong he would was fixed evident that he was quite willing action might benefit the people of The revenue from spirits, on the on which a special jury sits. The not fallen, ita capture by the Na- in the sum of $2,500 was extend- other hand, must be expected to jury comprised Messrs. P. Tester tionalists is imminent.

|C. G. Alabaster, K.C. and Mr. F. C. Beer, Spirits and Betting Taxes. Jenkin represented the defendants

He saw a chance of recovery in jointly. revenue from beer, which had em- boldened him to repeat his estim- ate of last year.

resume its continuous deficit.

(foreman), Wong Kam-fuk, Wong

The increased duty upon Kwong-tin, J. H. Taggart, R. tobacco under Industries Safe-Rodgers, P. W. Parker and J. Oram guarding Act showed an increase. Sheppard. Ho expected a yield of £3,750,000 this year from the betting, tax

against £2,700,000 last year.

Tea Duties.

Mr. Winston Churchill.

process and to save money wher- ever possible in administration.

power,

Customs and Excise. Mr. Churchill proposed

a few

000. He had found $28,000,000

for

An important factor in oper- ations is the rapid shortening

of the front this week.

Front of 50 Miles.

led.

ant business that had occupied be prepared soon to enter upon

his attention in Canton as he the negotiations and all the possibly could at present. Ob more readily because he. had im- viously details could not be men-plicit faith in Marshal Li. tioned but sufficient was said to

Canton's Stability.

When the Nationalists renewed GOLD MINE ATTACK. indicate conclusively that in this

The War Zone.

BRITISH SUPERINTENDENT

DODGES SANDINO.

REACHES COAST SAFELY.

Clearly, Canton seems to be as stabilisation of Canton's note issue, soundly stable as it could possibly Sir Robert felt assured that he be and given financial assistance, would be doing something that such as Sir Robert Ho Tung would be good for Canton. hopes to give, it should soon be It is, of course, indubitable that launched on a wave of prosperity with Canton's currency problem beneficial to Canton and Hong satisfactorily settled, business Kong alike.

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The name of Mr. J. Hennessey Seth

their offensive this month-call- was called

Mr. but Potter pointed out that Mr.ing it their Second Northern Ex- Seth had

pedition-they struck on a hun- The yield of duties on tea, and

been appointed by the sugar in the coming year might be

Court the first liquidator dred miles' front along the south- expected to respond to

Simmons & Co. Mr. Wong ern frontier of Shantung pro- the slow forward movement of consuming Kwong-tin apologised because he vince. On their immediate west,

New York, Yesterday. · Feng Yu-hsiang's (i.e... the was two minutes late through miss Christian General'a") Kuomin Mr. Amphlett, mentioned in a generally will improve and the Sir Robert courteously inform- ing a ferry.

chun operated on a line running previous telegram as superintend- commercial relations of the two ed our representative that as $280,000 Involved. They had done well during the minor changes in customs and ex-

from the north-west to the south-ent of the American gold mine at ports assume something more soon as he could do so he would Mr. Potter said that the case in-east, about 40 miles long.

Laluz, escaped from Sanding and like their old normal appearance. impart details of his loan to the year in the repayment of debt. cise duties. He proposed to raise volved every piece of leasehold The new sinking fund had been the excise duty on British wines, property which plaintiff held in the

Now the Nationalist front is has arrived safely

"China Mail.” at Puerto

Satisfied. raised to the unprecedented figure instituted last year from one shil- Colony, worth about $280,000. This

less than 40 miles long. The Cabezas on the coast of Nicaragua.

Asked by the "China Mail's"

Round Table Conference. Kuominchun column in Shan--Reuter's American Service

representative if he was satisfied of £65,000,000.

ling to 1/6d. per gallon, yielding property had been assigned to

Asked whether his "Round tung has a front only 10 miles

with the appearance of affairs in Table Conference" was still in his In addition, the Budget had £65,000 this year and £70,000 in a Messrs. Simmons in the first in-

wide.

Canton generally at present,. Sir borne the payment of more than full year.

atance and then by Messrs. Sim-

Robert answered that he believed mind, Sir Robert answered that £15,000,000 for the accrued inter- As from April 29, he proposed mons to the Bank of Canton.

Army corps from the National- miles east of Taian. Sun Chuan- that he would feel justified in ening it. Evidently Sir Robertis air he was as ever optimistic regard- eat upon saving certificates. to levy a customs duty on mechani- Plaintiff maintained that his signa- ist right and left wing have been fang tried to hold the Kuomin- tering upon the business which he idealist as well as an acute finan

The nominal deadweight of debt cal lightera and

excise duty on ture on the first document was a transferred to the centre to re- chun at Felching.

had been asked to conduct... His on April 1, 1925, was £7,527,000 yield £40,000 this year but its ob-second document was null and homemade lighters. This would

cier. To the layman. it is, of forgery and, accordingly, that the inforce the drive on Tal-an. The Northerners' line was both visit to Canton had been primarily

The war area is now in Lat. 36 thin and short, mainly astride the personal, in response to Marshal course, difficult to say which is more for the redemption of debt Ject was to preserve revenue on void.

N., between the Grand Canal and Tientsin-Pukow Rallway and aLi Chai-sum's invitation; and the uppermost in Sir Robert's mind. than had Mr. Snowden, the Labour duty from matches from which we

business part of it had come at Be (the mere layman) is inclined Reference was made by Mr. the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and little to the west of it. got several millions yearly by cur-

to believe that Sir Robert is Chancellor of the Exchequer had tailing the use of mechanical light-/Potter to the various paragraphe also slightly to the east of the

Two Other Fronts. the request of Marshal Li.

both. If so, he is, of course, pre- The "Christian Gen- According to a series of Chin- The nature of the business re- in the statement by the defence. railway, Cinema Films.

The first was, that the defence did eral's men are on the west, ese cables, the Northerners have ferred to a loan from Sir Robert, cisely what many other notable businessmen have been and are future conversions had been great- He also proposed a very small not admit that the signature was nearer the Grand Canal, and the been doing well on the other two to the Canton Government, and namely, Mr. John Rockefeller and

Nationalists under Chiang Kai- fronts.

knowing this, our representative other well-known financiers of adjustment in the customs duty on forged.

shek in the railway' zone. ̧,

At the boundary between inquired whether Sir Robert felt the present, Mr. Andrew Carnegie cinema films, in order to place Bri- "So many cases of fraud had Stubborn fighting on three Chihli and Honan provinces, the disposed to mention the sum in- and others of the past, not to men- tish Empire films on the same been alleged by one party against Dealing with the general treat- by British companies.

footing as those produced abroad the ether in recent cases," sald days is reported on a line Northern army is still sald to be involved.

tion others perhaps better (south to north) from Kufow attacking Changte and talk of This was Mr. Potter, "that it is a pleasure and Szeshui (near Yenchow) dissension in the Nationalist Kuo- ment of the problem of the national estimated to yield about £850,000. to find that no such allegation was

Sir Robert thought that at known locally to us, debt, Mr. Churchill said he propos-

to Tai-an, with heavy casualties, minchun's ranks is still rife, present he would not care to men-

Kwangel's Roads The Committee, appointed under being made in this case."

on both sides, states the (Other reports to this effect in the tion figures. He added, however: "China Mail" representative that Sir Robert also informed the. Very Gross Fraud. ed in Disraoll's Government by Siriprocedure had recommended a cus-

Kung Sheung Yat Po." nast have not been confirmed). in answer to another query, that he had had an exceedingly inter Certainly there had been very Stafford Northcote and to estab-toms duty on buttons. Therefore gross fraud, said Mr. Potter, but Taf-an has been entered by the asking the Wu-Han Nationalists would be one in which he was eral Wong Shao-hung, Kwangel's Tawenkow, 10 miles south of The Kuominchun is quoted as if the loan were negotiated it eating conversation with Gen lish a fixed debt charge. He pro- buttons used for fastening or de- there was no charge against the Nationalist centre column. for early assistance on the Pek personally interested and in no Governor, regarding Kwangsl's posed to put the figure at corating apparel would be subject plaintiff at all.

Kuominchun Column. £895,000,000 yearly. Payment of to duty of 88 1/8 per cent. ad

ing-Hankow Railway,

way BBBociated with any of the Mr. Potter submitted to His this sum every year would extin- valorem from April 28 but that Lordship, the Chlor Justice (Bir south of the Yellow River, the troops on the west of Chihll are he was identified:

Following the course of but Further north, the Manchurian commercial concerns with which progress in motor-road building

debt, including our debt to the ready on imported garments would 4 and 5 in the statement of de operating with the Nationalists in against the Nationalist province express: his views on the political admitted that he himself was sur- external and internal would not mean that buttons al- Henry Gollan), that paragraphs 8, Kuominchuri column which is co- said to be making progress Sir Robert was not inclined to learn, as Sir Robert himself. United States without any addition be charged. The duty was estim-fence even if true were no Shantung, was marching north- of Shansi, the object of the North- aspect of either. Cantón part prised to be informed, that at the- to the present taxation, in a period ated to yield £100,000 this answer, to the case. He reserved eastward with the Tientsin erners here being to penetrate cularly or of China, generally por province of Kwangsi has 4,000 I present moment the neighbouring of fifty years,

Pukow Railway (at Tainaniu) as outside the Great Wall into did he appear to have any "setaan asend

Canton, was likely to witness and that by the end of next year

done in 1924.

•

The position for dealing with

ly improved by what had been accomplished in the past.. Į

National Debt.

jera.

ed to return to the policy institut-the Safeguarding of Industries

guish the

PARK year and £200,000 in a full year,

notes with the Bank of England

Income tax, which

note issue, would take place this

would (Continued on Page 7)

this respect.

Felching is in approximately

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the same latitude as Tai-an and 18

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Personal Loan.

recurrence of Communism, He

Most people will be surprised

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