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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934.

GAMBLING TAX TO GO

KWANGTUNG'S LATE DECREE.

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NOW ACCEPTED AT 97 CENTS.

1:4

STABILISATION PLAN

(From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, Saturday.

NATIVE POLICY ATTACKED

Bitter Address In South Africa.

EX-CHIEF JUSTICE'S TIRADE

Cape Town.

A bitter attack on the Govern- ment's native polley was made by Sir James Rose-Innes, former Chief

LOSS TO GOVERNMENT

[From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, Saturday. miscellaneous gambling taxes collected in the counties will

After depreciation of eight Justice of the Union, in an address be abolished after August 1, ac- cording to a notification circulated months, the notes of the Canton at the annual meeting of the Cape to-day by Mr. Au Fong-po, Pro-Municipal Bank are on the way branch of the Joint Council of vincial Commissioner of Finance, to full recovery, being accepted Europeans and Bantua.

"The keynote of that policy, it is to-day at 97 cents to the dollar.

to the various county magistrates Recently, the Canton Municipal insisted, must be not liberty, but and tax collecting syndicates. Bank has received $700,000 in repression" he declared. "The ne Syndicates which collect the notes as payments for various tives are under no circumstances to faxes on behalf of the government municipal charges and rates, and form part of our policy. They are pay a cash guarantee for this.

a further sum of $500,000, also to be a people apart to whom pri- undertaking, and they will be rein municipal notes, as payment vileges of citizenship are to be for- funded by income from the sugar for land, tax and cash security ever denied. They are to be monopoly. At the

for electricity metres. This big segregated territorially, politically, jabolition of this tax means loss of amount is withdrawn from fur economically, from the remainder of government revenue, but the profit ther circulation with "the result the population whom they outnum from the sugar menopoly will that the notes are rising in ber by three to one. cover the deficit.

same time

value.

"That this policy can be put into The Provincial Department of

full operation is very doubtful: that $1,200,000 COLLECTED BACK Finance intended to cancel these

Altogether, about $1,200,000 the result would be disastrous to taxes sooner, but the uprising in Fukien last November adversely worth of municipal notes was our country is absolutely certain. affected the revenues of Kwang-collected back by the Canton Yet we are told by the energetic and tung, because it was mistakenly Municipal Government. Further-forceful Minister that it is the hall believed that the short-lived more, the Kwangtung Provincial mark of the new South African cul- Govern-Government and its subsidiary ture. He regards it as necessary to People's Revolutionary

Foochow ment in

Was Com-offices have consented to hold up the preservation of white civilisa- munistic in nature. Then the de- for three months all municipal tion.

"We are all agreed that, in the preciation of provincial bank notes in their possession.

It was announced some time interests of black and white alike, notes followed and Government

ago that the total amount of the civilisation introduced by the income shrank further.-

must prevail in this In abolishing the gambling these notes on the market was white man taxes, the financial authorities only about $1.080,000, but the country, but we think that it would count on the levy of a special pro-amount received back so far has best be preserved by including in tection tax and other legitimate exceeded those figures and the its privileges, and enlisting in its actual sum still in circulation is defence, every class of inhabitant, rates in the near future.

about $900,000.

irrespective of race, colour The Canton Government is fot-creed.

"The Minister's policy is the ne- lowing the same principles as the

AMERICA

or

THIRD DEGREE IN Finance Department in stabilis- gation of that ideal. He aims at ing the provincial notes which the dominance of the white man, have now achieved par value.

PEKING SHOOTING INCIDENT.

Judge's Reprimand

For Agents.

Miami, Florida.

That third-degree methods. reminiscent of the Spanish In- quisition in their inhumanity and brutality, are still flourish- ing here was evidenced when a

Woman Killed Outside

Theatre.

A shooting brawl outside the

Federal Judge discharged Jerry Central Cinema Theatre, Peking. Williams, a negro accused of during the yesterday morning show, resulted in the death of e having made а kidnapping threat, and reprimanded a gov-woman, and five men being wound- ernment agent and a town Mar-ed. shal for treatment "inhuman, and contrary to law."

It was stated that three men fir- ed several shots, the motive for One of those against whom which remains a mystery to the the negre was accused of having Peking police. The victims were made a kidnapping threat testl-rushed to the Peking Hospital fied that a "burial party" was where the woman died.

The Chinese film picture shown arranged at which Williams was stripped naked, placed in an open at the time was entitled "Life." grave and threatened with burial

if he did not "tell the truth."

The same witness also testified that during another examination, Williams was placed on a chair equipped to give an electric shock and again was threatened with death.

STARHEMBERG PASSED OVER

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Prince Starhemberg, leader of the Heimwehr (Fascista), is. Vice

because he is white and the subser- vlence of the black man because he is black. That is the policy of the top dog. It is at full blast in Mr. Pirow's ancestral home. What re- sults there will be we do not yet know, but we cannot risk it here where the diversity of race le com-i plicated by the clash of colour."- Reuter.

BORDERER UNFIT TO ATTEND COURT.

Repulse Bay Case Adjourned.

Private

of the

Robert Booth, South Wales Borderers, who was charged together with Privates John Roberts and Roy Horley with highway robbery on the Repulse Bay Road on June 15, was report- fed to be still ill in Victoria Gaol by Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attorney-General, at the Criminal Sessions. Supreme Court, this morning.

Addressing the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor, Mr. The judge interrupted the testi-Chancellor, and Major Emil Fey Fraser said that the medical officer in charge of Victoria Gaol had mony of the witness and imme-former Vice-Chancellor, becomes diately dismissed Williams and Minister of Interior. Herr Berger considered that Booth was still un- another man arrested with him. Waldenegg becomes Foreign Min-

He then delivered a reprimand ister a portfolio which Dr. Doll-t to attend Court.

to the government agents. Reuter.

His Lordship adjourned the case Cabinet; fuas held in his own while Dr. Karl Burcach continues until the next Criminal Sessions.

Privates John Roberts and Roy as Finance Ministër...

Dr. Schuschnigg is additionally Horley pleaded guilty last Tuce- A fiue of 350, in default one Minister of Defence and Minister day and were each sentenced to! month's hard labour, was impos- of Education, while Prince Star-three months' hard labour.

ed on Li Sim, a shop fokl, by Mr. hemberg is additionality Minister

The R.M.S. Empress of Japan loft

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