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EIGHTY - EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932.
REAL RELIEF FOR THE NEW SILK DUTIES
BRITISH TAXPAYER
BIG REDUCTIONS NEEDED SAYS MR. CHAMBERLAIN
GOVERNMENT WISH TO RAISE STERLING PRICES
London, Yesterday.
APPROVED.
Addition of 10 Per Cent. Over Existing Tariff.
ENFORCED YESTERDAY.
London, Yesterday, The House of Commons to-day approved by 275 votes to 88 the new silk duties, a resolution, in re- gard to which was moved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, yesterday. Reuter.
London, Yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's
· “After a careful examination of the National expenditure I have come to the conclusion that to make the substantial reductions necessary in order financial resolution in the House of to give the taxpayer røs and effective relief would Commons to-night to give effect to involve changes of national policy far exceeding the new duties on silk and artificial silk, which takes effect from mid- anything yet contemplated," stated Mr. Neville night and remains in force pending Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a au inquiry by the Tarif Advisory
dinner of the British Bankers' Association in Lon- tional duty to 10 per cent.
Committee, provides for an addi-
don this evening.
over
existing customa duty on. yarns and
or
He would not say this moment might be necessary to inflict fabrics other than apparel, and ón further trials of this kind upon the Nation, but if the Government apparel a duty of 10 per cent. were forced by the pressure of circumstances to carry out these new duty based on weight ranging from and more drastic reductions of expenditure, he trusted that they ninepence per pound to twelve would have the support of all clear thinking, responsible citizens. shillings per pound, according to Referring to the fall in price of primary commodities, Mr. the amount of silk or artificişl silk Chamberlain said that it might be one of the Government's objec-in the garment. Of the alterna-} tives to raise sterling prices to a level which would enable trading tive duties, whichever is the higher to be carried on remuneratively.
will be applied.-British Wireless
The full development of policy could not take place without inService. ternational co-operatich. — Reuter.
POLICE & SANITARY CHINA'S POLICY TO
AT LOGGERHEADS ?
Assumption by Local Solicitor.
CHINESE DAILY SUMMONED,
When appearing for the defence of Lo Kit, manager of the Tien Nam Daily News, 58, Hollywood Road, who was summoned for hav- ing used the premises as a habita- tion and workshop without permis- sion from the Sanitary Board, Mr. F. C. E. Rendall, in the Central Police Court before Mr. W. Scho-i feld this morning, said it seemed to him that the Police and the Sanitary Department were at log-
END CIVIL WAR
TO CONSERVE THE NATIONAL RESOURCES
LEADING POLITICIAN'S
INTENTIONS
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, To-day.
The North China Daily News, in the course
gerheads, or at cross purposes in a candid interview with a leading member of the
connection with the summons.
Mr. Rendall peduced a permit signed by Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P.
which sanctioned the keeping of
Chinese Government ascertained that the latter intends to adopt a conciliation policy for the pur-
printing presses on the premises, pose of ending civil war.
and he was new summoned for He will seek to avoid the occurrence of any fur- using the premises as a workshop. ther expensive military campaigns and thus help He did not know where he really to conserve National resources both in materials
stood.
Sanitary Inspector T. S. Clark, in reply to the Magistrate, said that although Lo Kit did not live there, his fokis did, and they also work
ed' there.
and in man power.
The Government so far has and conceivably create a position been compelled to adhere to a of impressing upon the recalci policy of strict centralisation, trant areas the value of closer co After further delferation, his but henceforth if any province is operation with the Government, Worship decided to amend the inclined to adopt a particularist which is convinced that political summons to read, that defendant policy, Nanking will abstain from consolidation would be best unlawfully did suffer or permit coercing it, sen
achieved by an abandonment of to be used, the basement of 58,
the idea of using force to over- Hollywood Road," for habitation The reorganisation of internal come opposition. and occupation as a workshop and machinery within the areas in It is believed in informed cir factory." He adjourned the case which the Government exercises cles that the avowed policy of for a week, to let the "onfict of undisputed away would enable the the Government foreshadows de- furisdiction between the Police administration to rid itself of the centralization as an experiment and Sanitary Department" be dis- distraction caused by friction for the first time since the re- solved!
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