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INCOME NAZIS CLOSE

TAX

STRAW VOTE

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FOREIGN

JOURNALISTS

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London, To-day.

The amusing

Various Nazi broadcasts the pastime in world is to play around with have been alleging a strict suggestions for new forms of censorship of neutral jour- taxation or for increasing the nalists in England and con- |levels of existing taxes, with trasting this with the claim- a neat and natural tendency jed liberal treatment of for- to choose those least likely to eign correspondents in Ger- affect the selector's own poc-many.

ket.

Government has proposed Income Tax In Hong Kong as a special war

contribution, in the bellof that its. In-

cidence will be more equitable than

any alternative tax or taxon.

A vote which provides a cross- section of public opinion on the straight issue is likely to prove more valuable than vague wanderings round the fiscal field, and the fol- lowing questionnaire is offered to our readers:

INCOME TAX STRAW

VOTE

Do you approve of Income Tax In

principle? .

YES .

NO

Do you approve the Government's

tentative proposals?

YES

Would you be affected by them?..

YES.

NO

NO

Actually, there has been a remark- able change in the Nazi treatment of foreign journalists.

A message from its Brussels cor- respondent appearing in "The Times"

says that a strict censorship has been clamped down on neutral journalists in Berlin.

Only scanty news is allowed to reach correspondents In the Nazl capital, and they are finding It difficult to perform their duties.

They learn nothing from official sources, und the twice daily press conferences at the Wilhelmstrasse have been discontinued.

Neutral journalists, says "The Times," are wondering what the real cause is of this change of polley. Reuter.

QUEEN'S BROADCAST

London, To-day. The Queen will broadcast to the women of the Empire on the evening If you, feel the burden to be too of Remembrance Day November

heavy, would your objection be❘ 11. met (a) by an extension of the allowances

YEB..

NO

Her Majesty will start speaking at 8 pm. (G.M.T.) (4 a.m. the next day in Hong Kong) and the broadcast is expected to last five minutes.

Recordings of the address will be

(b) by extension of the initial five per cent. basis to cover, say, the first $6,000 of taxable income, | broadcast at 5.45 a.m., 8.30 am., against the first $3,000 as now noon, 5 p.m., 7.30 p.m. and midnight now proposed? ́... YES

NO on

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The questions- are posed on the basis that the purpose of Govern- ment's desire to raise additional re- venue is endorsed.

Additional comment by readers will, of course, be welcomed.

READERS WHO HAVE NOT SUB.

MITTED FORMS ARE INVITED TO DO SO BY THURSDAY MORNING AT LATEST.

Time).

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Reuter.

CHRISTMAS LEAVE

London, To-day.

It is officially stated that, Christmas leave will be granted to British troops in France, sometime early in Decem-

ber.

Provisional dates have been ar- ranged but they will depend on the situation at the time.

The first men to come back' will be those who were not able to obtain leave before they embarked for France.-Reuter.

CLEANING UP A NUISANCE

A fine of $20 or six weeks' hard labour was this morning imposed on Wong Kit,' 25, by Mr. E. Hinisworth for behaving in a disorderly manner. Inspector A. S. Johnson, who pro- secuted, said defendant snatched two trunks from a European, who was sitting in a taxi near the Star Ferry yesterday....

Wong was not asked to carry the trunks.

CHINESE AT WUNING

„Blushut, To-day, Chinese troops reached the north gate of Wuning, northwest of - Nan- yesterday Bitter fighting for a considerable time. Part

Japanese troops at idrawing-Central New

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