1940-06-28 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1940

HITLER'S "DER TAG"--NOW SET FOR AUGUST FIRST Britain To Be Smashed In Month From Monday BUDGET DAY Victory Parade JAPANESE

IN. N.Z.: TAX INCREASES

WELLINGTON, TO-DAY.

MR. WALTER NASH, THE FIN. 'ANCE

THE NEW ZEALAND BUDGET YES- TERDAY, SAID IN ORDER TO MEET WAR EXPENDITURE

Stands Being Prepared!

Zurich, To-day.

MINISTER, PRESENTING THE BERLIN CORRESPONDENT of the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung" says Hitler is planning a triumphant entry into Berlin on August 1 “after the victory over Britain.”

ESTIMATED

ΤΟ TOTAL £30,000,000, THERE WOULD DE A NEW NATIONAL

SECURITY TAX OF 1/- IN THE Sappers are clearing a space for the victory parade and orders have been given for the erection of stands.

POUND ON ALL INCOMES IN AD- DITION TO THE PRESENT SHIL- LING SOCIAL SECURITY TAX AND AN INCREASE FROM FIVE TO 10 PER CENT. ON THE SALES TAX.

Mr. Nash announced savings scheme for small and interest free loans for investments.

a

national investors larger

in the Company

Income tax is now 2/6d pound, an increase of 6d. taxation is also increased,

Mr. Nash forecast proposals of a 100 per cent. excess war profits tax.- Reuter.

ROOSEVELT SIGNS DEFENCE BILL

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.

PRESIDENT

ROOSEVELT YES-

TERDAY SIGNED THE SUPPLE-

AND

The correspondent says preparations for the offen- sive against Britain are proceeding at tremen- dous speed.

Meanwhile the German press is full against British raiders of protests

bombs at who are alleged to drop random on villages.

The Franco-German armistice is re- garded as merely the framework of the German demands giving the Ger- man armistice commission a big leeway to decide how severely France will be treated.

The Creusot factory will in future work for Germany.

French Germany is insisting that civilian refugees return home to re- the start industries and bring in harvest.

German Movements German troops have begun the MENTARY DEFENCE BILL GIVING evacuation of Lyons, the Rhone Valley THE UNITED STATES WAR AND and Savoy but will not fully retire NAVY DEPARTMENTS $1,480,000,000 to the armistice line until the west IN CASH APPROPRIATIONS THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE ADDI- TIONAL CONTRACTS TOTALLING $289,000,000. $200,000,000 appropriations which Con- gress voted for the Army and Navy for the coming fiscal year.

coast strip of France is occupied.

The importance of this strip is em- phasised in the "Berliner Boersen Zei-

SEVERE FINE FOR

'NIGHT OUT'

KEEP UP RAIDS ON CHUNGLING

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

CHUNGKING, TO-DAY. FOR THE SECOND TIME IN 24 HOURS JAPANESE PLANES RAID- ED THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF

CHUNGKING YESTERDAY MORN-

ING, LIGHTING SEVERAL LARGE FIRES ALONG THE BANKS OF THE

CHIALING RIVER.

in

The raiders, which appeared

did not bomb Chungking

batches,

proper.

A number of heavy missiles fell

dangerously near Chialing House, the

only hotel for foreigners since the destruction of Chungking Hostel,

HOUSES DESTROYED

houses on Several private

the

Chengtu Road were destroyed as well number of straw as a considerable huts.

Although the casualty figures were relatively low, the recent days' bomb- ing have made several thousand per-

among sons homeless, mainly

the A PAINT SALESMAN, LI MAN- | poverty stricken class.

From a military point of view the TUNG, WAS CHARGED BEFORE MR. H. G. SHELDON, K.C., THIS result of the raids appears to be nil from the psychological MORNING, WITH BEING DRUNK as it is also AND DISORDERLY IN LEE TUNG standpoint, as the bombings do not WITH affect the morale of the people who STREET ON JUNE 13; AND ASSAULTING POLICE SERGEANT | now take the daily raid as a matter V. MORRISON.

of course.--Havas.

Defendant said he was so drunk at the time that he did not know what he was doing.

Sergeant Morrison testified he re- ceived a telephone message and went to Lee Tung Street where he found defendant lying in a lane between Lee Tung Street and Spring Garden Lane, being helped by two of his friends. His mouth was bleeding and there on his head. Witness was a wound

JUST CAN'T HELP IT?

After his arrest for theft and while waiting to be charged in Mongkok Po- lice Station yesterday, Lau Ming, 42,

brass knobs from the dock bars and putting them into his pocket.

This is in addition to the regular tung" which says it gives Germany the tried to help defendant into a taxi, took another chance, unscrewing two

The supplementary Bill will enable the beginning of construction of 22 new warships and speeding up of the construction of over 100.

It will enable the Army to build thousands of new aeroplanes, ter.

VICEROY'S CONVERSATIONS

Reu-

London, To-day.

on

Mr. Amery declined at Commons question time to make a statement on the the Viceroy's conversations political situation in India with Mr. Jinnah yesterday and Mr. Gandhi on Saturday.

and bit witness on the right thumb. possibility of obtaining imports from but he adopted an aggressive attitude

"creates a

Witness with the assistance of de- Spain and Portugal and path to North Africa which can quick-

fendant's friends, tied defendant's ly be enlarged in the course of the forthcoming action against Britain."— hands and legs together, and then

Reuter.

CONTROL OF

ALIENS

London, To-day.

aliens Since September last, 340 have been released from internment, Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary, revealed yesterday.

summoned an ambulance.

As defendant was being placed on the stretcher, he tried to jump off and he was then tied to the stretcher and taken to the Queen Mary Hospital.

Defendant told the Court that he is very sorry for what he had done. He did not know anything about the alleged incident until the following day, when he was informed.

Mr. Sheldon remarked that it is a

to very serious offence assault a police officer, and fined defendant $200, or two months' hard labour.

FOUND HANGING

These were mostly young people of

The body of an unknown Chinese from 16 to 17 years of age, nuns (who have been allowed to return to their was found hanging from a drainpipe convents) and technicians needed for at No. 122, Hollywood Road yester-

day. work of national importance.

The press generally has welcomed

be the news of further discussions tween Lord Linlithgow and the Hindu About 750 British citizens are at and Moslem leaders.-British Wire-present being detained in this coun- less.

try. Reuter.

SATURDAY NIGHT.

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Performance

The Officer-on-Duty searched him before ordering him into detention

his pocket. cells, discovering the brass knobs in

Before Mr E. Himsworth this morn- ing, he was charged with theft of two house in pieces of clothing from a Reclamation Street and with theft of the brass knobs from the prisoners* dock at the police station.

Fining him $10 or two weeks' hard labour, the Magistrate said: "I hope we shall not find you have taken something from this Court."

PICKPOCKET GETS -SIX-MONTHS-

Six months' hard labour was im- posed by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., on Tang Yiu-cheung, 23, this morning, for theft of a purse containing $3.38 in Gloucester Road from a Chinese yesterday.

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