THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER
CAPITAL LEVY TO BALANCE ROME BUDGET
Rome, To-day
The recently decreed levy on capital will provide sufficient re- venne to balance the Italian bud- get this year and next year, de- clared the Finance Minister, Senatore Paolo Thaon Revel, in an interview yesterday.
This, the Minister added, was the more remarkable since expen- diture for opening up Abyssinia included in the budgets in ques- tion.
No deficit, moreover, need be feared at later date, since the financial reforms already begun would, by that time, produce its effects and enable 2,000,000,000 lire to be saved annually.
The Minister concluded by say ing that from the financial point of view Italy could envisage the future with serenity. Trans- Ocean
LITERATURE AND CAUSE OF PEACE
:
Berlin, To-day |
The Vice-President of the Ger
man Chamber of Literature yester- day addressed an appeal to all for- eign publishing firms to contribute to the cause of peace..
Work is proceeding on the huge dam in the Denny Hills, near Fintry, Scotland, which will provide a new reservoir for the Stirling and Falkirk Water Board. The scheme, costing £250,000 will take 3 years to com- plete, giving employment to many men. A number of farms in the valley will be submerged. Masonry of the dam is now appearing well above the ground, and this picture gives some idea of the shape and size the dam
will be. (Fox Copyright).
PREMIER'S HEALTH
CAUSES CONCERN
London, To-day.
The health of the Prime Minis-
DOOMED HAMLET OF MISS VALERIE
265 PEOPLE
Order To Be Fought
» The doom of North
2.
BROOKE AND
hamlet of 265 people near Sunder NOTED ALL-IN German Publisters and Booksellers causing more than usual concern in population will be rehoused at WRESTLER
He recalled the resolution passed ter, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, is land, is pronounced in a Ministry last year by the Association of
of Health communication The
calling for publishers in all conn-political circles, says the "Sunday Castletown, a mile away, under tries to refuse to accept books which Referee." "maliciously distort historical truth."
London, To-day.
slum clearance orders. The paper declares that although When the Ministry's inquiry was He stated that a number of for- Mr Chamberlain has practically held a month ago, Ald. Es Thomp- recovered from the acute attack of son, himself a native of North resolution, and he appealed to the gout and will probably be able to Hylton, gave these testimonials to Sarawak, is reported to be engag
eign publishers had adhered to the
others to follow their example, as a further step towards consolidation of world peace.""
appear in the House of Commons to-day, he will have to guard his health carefully in order to remain on his feet at the end of the pre-
sent session of Parliament.
The paper states that the Home
FINE TO CLOUDY Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, will
assist Mr Chamberlain to an in- The Royal Observatory reported creasing extent in the future. this morning that the anticyclone Trans-Ocean.
has moved into the Pacific to the east of Japan, and there are
in-
dications that another is developing over N Chin
moving eastward y
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the place of his birth: North Hylton—!
Miss Valerie Brooke, the 21- year-old daughter of the Rajah of
ed to 25-year-old Robert Gregory, Where it is impossible to live the well-known "all-in wrestler, unless under the influence to drink; reputedly earning £70 a week.
Where the first place you see is the mortuary,
Both Valerie and Gregory admit Where it gets worse as you go parental difficulties.
Asked to confirm or deny the
The Ministry's Inspector made a tour of the district after this evidenzagement, the Ranee of Sarawak said: "Neither the Rajah nor myself has anything to say upon the subject”.
ence.
Mr. John French, landlord of an inn at North Hylton, commenting on the decision said, "It will need a squadron of bombers to blow us out of here
The eldest daughter of the White Rajah, "Princess Pearl it will be recalled, married, appar ently against her parents
shes,
Mr. Thomas Smith, a parish councillor, said that a parish meet the dance-band leader, Harry Boy.
ing would be held to discuss whether it would be possible to secure a reversal of the Ministry's decision
BRITAIN A LAND OF CAPITALISTS
"Bolshevism Is Dead":
Reuter.
The
AVIATION CITY NEAR ROME
Rome, To-day. newly-completed Italian
Lord Iliffe, speaking at the an-Aviation City at Guidonia, about nual conference of British Junior 20 kilometres out of Rome, was de Chambers of Commerce at Coventry dicated by Signor Mussolin said that young business men to-day during an extensive day were better equipped to suc
ceed than was ever the case in the In the course of his past
during which he sta
We are, indeed, curing the ills would be the centre of capitalism as well as of Com military-aviation, II munism by creating capitalists as the audience that quickly as we possibly can, he donia” had been selected said
of the air force The result of this spread of Guidonia, who fell in prosperity is that Bolshevism is War after having playe really dead and dictatorship in this ing role in development country has never been born.” air forceTrans-Ocean,
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