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Inroads Into Abyssinia

and Everywhere

-FAMOUS EATER'S" MS.

When M. Andre Simon arrived in New York last month, to found an American branch of the Wine and Food Society, he was herald- jed in the Press with the head-

lines:

"Famous Eater Arrives To-1.

NEW U.S. TAXATION PROPOSALS

MENACE OF "SOAKING

THE RICH”

WAR ON HOLDERS OF GREAT FORTUNES

(By W. F. Bullock)

TINE hectic days and nights amounts in cash in the case, for day: British Reformer Hopes to home recently in a instance, of businesses such as

Ford's the question which arose on all sides was: “To It all began with the special what decree will be Government

Show America,How It's Done." 3. Simon is, in fact, not Bri- state of bewilderment, bordering Henry tish but a Frenchman who lives on stupor. in England-and-captains a loest "surprise" Message from Bresi- benefit cricket team-another habby bedent Roosevelt embodying his long- The answer was in the nature of

sides eating.

was: £68,000,- cherished objections to vast conan anticlimax. It Recently at his home near centrations of wealth and calmin-000 in the circumstances a ri East Grinstead, he entertained

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When the President summoned te his chief political Bertenants for us nine days of turmoil end- the first time to a conference, they led with serious impairment of Mr. emerged from the White House Roosevelt's reputation for uncanny

political foresight

his fellow members of the Friends ating in a demand for new drastic diculously inadequate amount Storms Of Expostulation of the National Libraries by taxation of incomes and fortunes

Further, there is the even more- of millionaires, or rather multi- showing them his collection

(vital consideration that

the millionaires. books and mannscripts

The Message reflected the spirit Government might develop the of John Wesley, who said: "If measure not only from the angle leave behind me £10 above moj of taxation adjustment but as a | GULLS FOR WOLSET

debts you and all mankind bear weapon against enterprise.

Amid storms of expostulation Among these are Star Chamber witness against me that I lived a

from business men all over the accounts from the time of Henry thief and robber." VIII onwards showing the hills. Mr. Roosevelt's demand was for country. Mr. Roosevelt then dra- He received signed by varione Chancellors. the breaking up of these vast for-matically reversed. beginning with Wolsey, for the tunes by making them bear their newspaper representatives in meals of the half-dozen members fair share of the burdens of the White House, and with an of the Royal Council when they New Deal and for the further tax-wonted display of anger expressed met two or three times a year- ation of great corporations to cure amazement at the report that he included sea-gulls..erils of "bigness" in America in had urged that the measure should a dist which would appeal to few dustrial life. He also demanded a be rushed through without debate.

Most emphatically he declared, connoisseurs to-day, bot the ac- constitutional amendment which counts show that raw meat was should deprive holders of immense that no recommendation had been allotted for their feeding, and wealth of the bomb-proof shelters made that this new legislation they were no doubt kept and fat- provided for them in the form of should be attached to the "uis- *:State and Federal tax-exempt ance Taxes" B and passed into

law that week.. The China Mail by no means least the days tezed like a Strasburg goose.

when weaker nations might be A spical account signed by Wol- bonds.

His suggestions in this instance, "Brain Trusters" taken over. bag and baggage, ser comes to £158 8s 48-a vast

stronger brethren sum in those days. From the If we are to believe the political he said, had aimed not only at- without so much as a by your frequency with which silver-plate gossips of Washington the Mes raising additional revenue but at leave and with the help of every appears in the bills. it looks as sage was conceived and incubated creating better social order. sort of cynical exploitation, are if the Crown's guests on these oc- solely with the assistance and ad-had not even seen the schedules past, however much some people casions went off with expensive vice of these mysterious "Brain proposed by the Treasury.

Mr. Roosevelt's Bertenmts might like to recall them. souvenirs.

Trusters who have at all times!

Congress, accepted his astonishing I would be easy to read into

private access to the President. There appears to be a great the above the hyprocritical

Their dominant idea was appar-change of front with remarkable They promptly passed deal of force in Japan's conten-jamugness of a player who alters!

ently to create a popular diversion loyalty? tion that the Italian press the rules of the game after he

"Yes, the boy who is taking me to from the devastating effects on the "Nuisance Taxes" Bill without indulging in a "clear and sys has derived all the advantages the dance tomorrow night is an es. the President's prestige of the reincorporating into it any of the tematic plot to develop the from them. But that would be tremely intellectual person. cent Supreme Court ruling nullify-share-the-wealth taxes. and an-

andy by friend isn't very Italo-Ethiopian dispute into an injustice to Britain

ing the National Recovery Admin-nounced that these would be ini- general conflict between the France, who, after all, can hard-looking, either ***

istration. They also hoped to steal tiated in accordance with the usual coloured and white races, and isly be taken to account at this

In a Word

thunder from Huey Long's "share Procedure in the House of Repre

sentatives instead of in the Sen- in this manner endeavouring to time of the day for following Mother: "A 20-page letter from our wealth" campaign. force Britain and France to pro-the rules of the game as they James! What does he say?" tect the Italian policy" but were generally understood at Daughter: "He says he loves me there are few enough grounds, the time. Some of the tactics in all conscience, for assuming

-and worse-resorted to at the that the plot is likely to succeed time of the colonial expansion boarding house?"

"Do ou have much variety at your The attitude of the British of the great Powers will not) "Well we have, three different that the President had decided to Government has been consistent bear careful looking into these names for the meals.”

give body and form to his propos

SHOP-LIFTERS this all through

deplorable days: but at the time they con-

als. He wonid enact them into business; there has been not formed to the general practices)

GAOLED Eloping Brides. "Here's a telegram law that very week by tacking|

them on to a Bill for 3 year's ex- the slightest official encourage of the times, extraordinary as ment of Italy's designs in they seem to us in these more from father.”

Eloping Groom: "What does he tension of the "Nuisance Taxes" Three Unemployed Mem Abyssinia Every single effort enlightened days. The real say of the British Government has point is that out of the great

Concerned Eloping Bride: "Don't come home on petrol' costmetics, and

articles of mass consumption. been directed towards effecting Powers only Japan, and then and all will be forgiven la settlement of the matters in Italy, have seen fit to ignore

"Soaking The Rich"

Three shop-lifters, Ng Sau dispute through the machinery both their solemn promises to

Distracted senators and repre-aged· 27, Tâm Po, aged, 23, and The straightforward young woman cf the League of Nations. This the contrary and the general believed in telling the truth.

She sentatives were immediately. Ng Tees aged 27. all unemployed, was inevitable, since the League verdict of the civilised world by married, a very sentimental young xious to know how the British had were this morning sentenced to is now, and has always been recourse to methods and prac-man

labour by Mr since its inception, the cornertices which the rest of the

“My darling,” he said, "surely gone to work for the purpose of six weeks hard

soaking the rich" and figures Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central stone of British foreign policy. civilised world has abandoned. cannot be worthy of you."

"03, of course not," she answered, they gathered convinced them that Police Court for the theft of (a) A great deal of cant is talked by solemn treaty and Covenant. But when a girl's been 23 for six they had already carried the soak-a pair of stockings from the in Italy-and elsewhere-about freely entered into. And it is years, she would be mile to be zoning process markedly beyond the China Emporium, (b) a singlet the proverbial. Machiavellianism a significant fact that neither particular, wouldn't she?”! of British policy, and as usual Japan zor Italy, in this much- the basest motives have been vaurted desire for expansion at read into it where possible the expense of some other When Britain made the almost nation, has thought of exploit-

defendants and that it was the middle classes behaviour, while near the Ho unprecedented offer of the ces- ing anybody as powerful as her- sion of a corridor to Abyssinia, self. but in each case has

of America rather than million-Tang Building in Queen's Road. she was accused of doing so to attacked a weaker people and

aires who, by comparison, escaped Central yesterday, aroused the further ber own nefarious ends; one -equipped to combat ex-

their fair share of death duties. suspicions of a district watchman, when she decides not to place ploitation by force of

Bear-Admiral William H. Allen. Whereas in the British Isles taxes and he followed them. The first jan embargo on the export of Japan made gross, inroads into of the United States Navy has begin with estates of a hundred two accused entered the China arms to either of the two parti- her politically and militarily been appointed to relieve Rear pounds, American estates under Emporium while the third waited cipators in the dispute, the weak neighbour China, Italy Admiral J. D. Wainwright as £2,000 enjoy complete immunity, outside. After a while the two Italian press immediately gives has chosen the one independent Commandant of Yangtze but in the larger categories the re-appeared and handed the vent to a lot of nonsense about people in the continent of Patrol.

American estate duties are already third a pair of stockings. There this being proof of Anglo-Africa the least likely to be He will be relieved as com- markedly higher than in Great Bri- upon the district watchman went Ethiopian solidarity, when in able to withstand her force of mandant of the Sixteenth Navaltain. They reach their maximum up and arrested all three At fact it is the merest attempt to arms. Briefly, the action in District and Navy Zard, Cavite, of 60 per cent at $2,000,000, to the station a pawn ticket relating keep a fair balance between the both instances is that of a bully, to-morrow by Captain Edward J. which in many cases must be add-to one of the singlets was found. two contestants; and so on. Injand in neither case can the Marquart Admizal. Allen is jed further sums in the form of and the other singlet was found on Ishort. Italy is using every pos- methods or the intention be sailing for Shanghai to day by State taxation.

sible means to bolster up her looked upon by the rest of the the ss President Wilson to take These taxes the Treasury ex- case, which is as weak as water, world but with disgust Italy over his new duties. He began perts, inspired by President Roose- in the Abyssinian dispute will lose the respect of the whole his naval activities in the Philip velt, proposed to supplement by

It is not enough to point to of the civilised world if she per-pines about 15 months ago. the methods adopted years ago,ists in her present course of

Dosens.

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Frankness

YANGTZE PATROL

Rear-Admiral Allen As Commandant

the

when Britain and France were refusing to accept arbitration LINCOLNS PRIVATE ROBBED building up their colonial except on such premises as make

with the pained announcement

other

stage reached in Merrie England from the. Cheung Ming Store, and They learned that incidence of (c) a singlet from the Wing On lestate and legacy duties was on a Company.

ar broader basis in the British Detective Sergeant 1. Cashman

Isles than in the United States; said that the

heavy additional inheritance or le gacy duties aimed exclusively at the "ity rich,” and" beginning only with Inheritances of £60,000. Progressive Rise

one of the defendants.

CHINESE WIDOW IN TROUBLE

Quarrel Over Rent

From 4 per cent at that sum A quarrel over rent which re- ogressively to sulted in a fight led to both the

empires for a precedent There arbitration impossible, of re- in a report to the Police, Pri- are many vital differences bejecting out of hand any comprovate. A. Cooper of the Läncolnshire tween those times and these ise proposals unless they are Regiment, living at No. 95 Taipoo they were to rise which must be taken into con-accompanied by conditions Road, top floor, states that between 70 per cent. L sideration. In those days nowhich no self-respecting nation the hours of 1 am and 1p of £1,400.000 body had sigried, sealed and de-could possibly consider. There yesterday, somebody gained ad- livered solemn commitments to is no machinery except that ofmittance to his house by removing respect the territorial integrity a superior force of arms which pane of glass from the verandar of other nations, as Italy has would induce Abyssinia to agree door and stole $120. dore in signing the League to military supervision by Italy Covenant, of which Abyssinia is neither the League or anyh also a signatory no Kello else can force"a" Mandate Pact or Locarno Agreement

Abyssinia, even if

betrayed the

Hence, renouncing

source to war as an instrument 80 terms of national policy and last but it

ssinia or Italy

The proposed

ase of legacies defendant and the complainant

cent being bound over in perso 000,000 bonds of $50 each to be of

come taxes were equal

in in behaviour for 12 months ar vere on Central Magistracy this the rich they raised the amónnt when a Chinese widow, Ip Po to be collected on 200,000 to 60 was charged before MT. per cent on £1,000,000 to 75 per field with assaulting Chan San, a married woman - Defendant was on anything in excess

also ordered to pay complaina fher from the dif- a sum of $1 as compensation,

ting these vay default four days imprisortment

80 per cen