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SHOWING TO-DAY

KING'S

ON

AT 2.30, 5.10,

7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

Music & Wear

New hit songsl Laughs galoret Radio's golden- voiced sensation in a grand

romance l

TONY MARTIN RITA HAYWORTH

with EDITH FELLOWS and ANDRE KOSTELANETZ AND HIS MUSIC

Directed by Joseph Santley • Produced by Irving Store • A CÓLUMBIA PICTURE

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1940

WHERE THE NEW BUDGET WILL FALL

London, To-day. THE LONDON PRESS is concerning with the new budget, which most of them feel will make further demands on the classes carning from £5 to £12 a week.

If the budget is to be raised properly by loans and taxes a very large sum will have to be raised from the middle stratum of the people.

Also “POOR LITTLE BUTTERFLY" A Colour Rhapsody. EGYPTIAN

This exquisite cartoon in technicolour is a free adoption of, Puc cini's famous

"Madame Butterfly" and was banned In

Shanghai.

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WAFDIST MANIFESTO

Cairo, To-day.

Other sections are already taxed, the papers point out, and further taxation of these would not go very far towards meeting the bill.

A man earning £30,000 a year now in pays 17 shillings in the Pound taxes.

can be taken Not much more from the very poor classes, and the war, therefore, cannot be paid for of the without further taxation large and growing section earning from 25 to £12 a week, The papers also feel that "If every- one could save 10 per cent of their

After a two-day meeting of the Wafd (Egyptian Nation- alist) Party, Nahas Pasha, food consumption, it would be a great the party leader, handed a help providing exchange and shipping manifesto to Sir Miles Lamp-space and, therefore, a most valuable son, the British Ambassador. Reuter.

The manifesto emphasised the

addition to

our fighting power.

CHINA SOCIETY

unanimity with which Egypt extend- NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE ed the hand of friendship to Britain and her eagerness to offer all possible help to avoid any possibility of Egypt being stabbed in the back.

At the same time, however, the manifesto asked for tangible proof of Britain's willingness to respect Egypt's interests once the war is successfully concluded..

SUDAN RIGHTS

The manifesto also asks that Britain and Egypt shall enter into negotia- tions for the recognition of Egypt's rights regarding the Sudan.

Sir Miles Lampson forwarded the manifesto to London yesterday...

Nahas Pasha reiterated Egypt's de- sire to co-operate in all spheres with Britain in the present conflict-Reu- ter,

FLIGHTS OVER NAZI GERMANY

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") Paris; To-day.

On Monday night, the... Allles "divided Germany" between them, the Royal Air Force making recon- naissance flights over north-western Germany and the French Air Force over southern Germany...

Havas.

London, To-day.

of Dr. Perceval Yetts, Professor Chinese Art and Archaeology at Lon- elected don University, has been

of the China Society in Chairman succession to Sir Denison Ross.

He is an expert on Chinese bronzes.

Reuter.

INTERNMENT OF THE GRAF SPEE CREW

Buenos Aires, To-day. Fifty more German sailors from the Graf Spee have left Buenos Aires for internment in the interior of the Argentine. Reuter.

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TO-MORROW – FRIDAY - SATURDAYAA

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"SECOND FIDDLE”.

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