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DEBATE ON BUDGET

A FEW BRICKS TO FILL UP A WALL--SAYS

THE

CRITIC

ON THE RESUMPTION of the debate on the budget in the House of Commons yester- day, Sir George Broadbridge said that the City of London would approve the Chancellor's proposals and give them support.

Mr. Clement Davies (Independent), dis-

cussing the problem of filling the gap between

revenue and expenditure, said that the budget was not enough; it was not more than a few bricks when a whole wall was wanted to fill the gap.

The main solution must come through control of production. All

labour and capital, equipment,

stocks and materials, not requir-

dard of living necessary for health|

THE KING OF ALCATRAZ HAS A NEW RACKET!ed for the maintenance of a stan-

Gangsters aid gangsters to escape after crimes in special con- structed cars and trucks which baffled crime detectives for years.

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U.S. TO RESCUE STRANDED AMERICANS

The State

Department in

and morale, must be used for de- Washington announced yesterday

that the United States

DUTCH MEN

AND WOMEN ARRESTED

Published in Berlin' yesterday was a mes- sage from The Hague stating that several hundred Dutch coloni- al officials on leave, both men and women, have been sent to a concentration camp because of alleged ill- treatment of German subjects in the Dutch colonies. Reuter.

10000000000

was

fence purposes.

army Alleged to have been stabbed in The production of non-essen-transport, "American Legion," is the back, Lau Shiu-yeung, tial goods should be prohibited leaving New York immediately admitted to the Kowloon Hospital and the expenditure on essen-| for Petsamo to remove stranded yesterday afternoon. The alleged

tials rationed, and the tremen- dous surplus of capacity thus created must be employed by the State in war production or exports.

Mr. A. P. Herbert, in charac- teristically humorous speech, pro-| tested against the tax on books.

Outsiders Impressed

Mr. Crookshank, Financial Se- cretary of the Treasury, replying| said that comments from the Unit-

Americans.

Reuter.

lassailaint has not yet been traced.

CUBAN IDEA FOR BELLIGERENT POSSESSIONS

AGAINST THE UNITED STATES plan for a ed States and Dominions showed collective mandate over foreign possessions in the

that outsiders were impressed

the House to approve but also by

the British people to defend the country,

front

not only by the size of the bur-Western Hemisphere the Cuban delegation at the den the Chancellor 'was asking Pan-American Conference is urging that where ac- the way his speech was received, tion is necessary, the colonies of European belliger- as showing the determination ents in the New World should be temporarily en- trusted to the care of a neighbouring nation to be Mr. Crookshank pointed out agreed on by the Conference. that while a year ago half a sin- gle man's income was taken from him if his taxable income was £17,000, now half would be tak- en at approximately £5,500, while in ranges of taxable income jover £25,000 what was left to the taxpayer now was in practi- cally every case half of what was left last July.

For example in the case of

HOLLAND

& HAVANA

MEETING

an Income of £25,000, what was Dutch circles in London stated: left last July, after deduction yesterday that Netherlands diplo of all taxation, was just under matic representatives in £12,000. Now the amount left American countries had been in-1 was just under £6,000-Reuter.structed to explain the attitude

ITALY FEELING SHORTAGE

From the beginning of August, Tuesday will be meatless

day in Italy, accord- ing to the German

News Agency, quoted

the

of their Government towards the proposal to establish a joint pro- tectorate over possessions in the Western Hemisphere.

-Under

the proposal, colonies would be absolutely free to de- cide whether they wished to set themselves up as new republics or be annexed by another, Amer- ican nation.

The various plans for check- ing attempts inspired from abroad to establlah "unaccept- able" systems of governmentTM In the Americas do not include military measures, but one proposal calla for the curtail- '. ment of privileges enjoyed by diplomatic and consular repre- sentatives. *

They are of opinion that the the proposal does not apply to Netherlands since the Nether- Formulation of economic mea- lands Government, far from be-sures to curb foreign influence in ing under German influence, are the New World will, it is be- exercising full and independent|lieved, be postponed until the authority over non-occupied parts delegates meet in Washington, of the kingdom.-Reuter.

Reuter.

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It may be noted that Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fri- days are already meatless days.

Another order, says the D.N.B. Rome mes- sage, provides that bread in restaurants will be restricted to five, and a

a quarter ounces per person: Reuter.

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