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Budget Hits All Classes In Most Tender Spots

JAPANESE

SEIZE

JARDINE

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"Times" Claims The CZECH

Virtue Of Courage

London, To-day.

The general reaction to the Budget is one of depres-

sion, particularly at the income tax increase.

Shanghai, To-day. The "Financial News" states: "The Budget is logi-

cal, frigid, orthodox and unimaginative. Seizure of a British

MINISTER AT

QUAI D'ORSAY

DR.

PARIS, TO-DAY, STEPHAN OSUSKY, CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN MINIS

TER IN PARIS, IS REPORTED IN WELL-INFORMED CIRCLES TO HAVE CALLED ON THE

steamer by the Japanese "Sir John Simon has taken the three most unpopu-FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER,

lar taxes and has subjected them to flat in-M GEORGES BONNET, creases to hit all classes of the population in the TERDAY. most tender and taxable spots the Budget is a psychological mistake.”

army at the mouth of the Yangtsze last night was revealed this morning.

The vessel concerned was the Jardine-owned Tangwo,. a Yang-

He handed to him a memorandum by the Czech Government on the measures it has adopted, and intends

tsze River steamer of 1,337 tons, Chancellor of favouring the large and unpacified world.

The "Daily Herald" accuses the tical security in an apprehensive to adopt, on behalf of the German

minority groups.. which is now held at Tsungming taxpayers, and says the Budget is

made Island, release of the ship hav-the work of a man "clever in small valuation

The Budget puts a practical Furthermore, reference is

on the Government's to the demands made of the Czech ing been refused.

Henlein, things and tacking a statesman's efforts to find, if it can honourably Government by Konrad A British gunboat is now pro-vision."

be found, a way to reconciliation, the Sudeten leader..

These demands are described as ceeding to the spot.

The "News .Chronicle" declares: a policy which can only be pursued S.S."Better to face the grim realities effectively by a country strong unacceptable, as they "jecpardise Tungwo was proceeding upriver of our position than to seek tran-enough to command respect-Beuthe integrity and independence of when she was stopped and board-sient devices and delude ourselves ter. ed by officers and soldiers from that we can devote an increasing Japanese military launches.

It is learned that the

The ship was searched from top to bottom.

The owners declared that no- thing except ordinary cargo was found in the Tungwo, and there

were no arms.

ALLEGE SHOT

proportion of the national TE- sources to armaments without feeling the pinch."

The Daily Mail". finds in the Budget no cause for complaint and declares that it indicates the na- tion's ability to pay for armaments.

LAST MINUTE DECISION

The Japanese allege that action was taken as the result of the According to the "Daily Ex- firing of a shot from the Tung-press," the increase in the income wo, and announce detention of tax was a last-minute decision and

the ship indefinitely.

Under orders of the C.-in-C.- a gunboat is preparing to leave for

Reuter, Tsungming Island.

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it suggests that it could, and should be revoked...

The "Daily Telegraph" Says "The Budget as a whole is some- what unimaginative inits austerity" Possibly erring on the side of "sound finance," the journal says that Sir John Simon's Budget is not only a financial scheme but

PLANES FOR CHINA declaration of national policy

Shanghai, To-day.

a

addressed not only to the House and to the electors, but intended

The Japanese army spokesman also as a measure of international

this morning told foreign journ-significance..

alists that large additional sup- phies of Soviet aircraft are arriv- ing at Hankow daily.

THE PRICE

Meeting the increases in the He stated that 400 bombers current estimates will not, says and fighters had now been con-The Times," be a "popular solu tracted for by the Chinese aviation," but at least it may claim the tion commission and that some virtue of courage. The taxpayers* 300 Soviet experts were accom-burdens are the price of extensive panying the machines, Our social services and the guarantee Own Correspondent,

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