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BUDGET DAY IN LONDON No Surprises Expected From Cripps

In

Possible Cut

Tobacco Duty

London, Apr. 4.

Britons, who usually love to try to guess the surprises in the annual National Budget, don't seem to care much this year.”

The budget, to be opened in Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, seems to hold no prospect of any sizeable tax cut. Neither is it likely that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, will try to run his fingers much deeper in the taxpayers' pockets.

That takes the stakes out of the guessing game.

For good or ill, the taxpayers' fate already has been written and packed away in the Chan- cellor's red leather despatch box. Slr Stafford retreated to a study over the garage at his farm in a wooded West Country valley to finish his job. His bud- get is one of the biggest secrets In the United Kingdom yet no Scotland Yard special agent nor

Bir Stafford could afford to cut taxes. The Treasury piled up a surplus of £630,000,000 in the. nancial year which ended last Wednesday.

Inflation Problem

But one of his biggest prob- leme is to combat inflation, and

MYSTERY SUB Italian

OFF CALIFORNIA Border

San Francleco, Apr. 4. The United States Navy sald today that no trace could be found of an Lift- Identified submarine reported South Californian

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the

const inst Friday.

A search was ordered after A man from Orcuit, Call- fornia, had reported sueing a submarine submerging about 300 yards off the coast near Plemo Beach, midway · ba- tween Ban Francisco and Los Angelos-Reuter.

Sit-Down In Club

Cairo, Apr. 5.

Incident

Rome, Apr. 5.

An angry crowd of 4,000 Itn- lfans attempted to storm peross the border into Yugoslavia on Sunday after breaking up á Communist rally in Gorizia, telephoned despatches from that northern city said.

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The crowd, singing patriotic songs and shouting "down with Communism," was halted at the Italo-Yugoslav border by border guards and two

companies Italian infantry.

Gorizia, an Italian city or 50,000 Inhabitants, Is just within the border from what now is Yugo- slav territory.

Earlier, the crowd blocked off One hundred police cadets, pro- a square in Gorizia where Com- testing against transfer of their munists had arranged a meeting.

Aur-

even the local constable guard rate of income tax...45 percentounding the police college dor- were available.-Associated Press.

ed the door.

hint of what's in store.

workmen from income taxes.

the cadets

B.C.O.F. Useless?

the Government figures ONG good way to do it is to soak Instructors, occupied the Cairo An estimated 50 Communists who the square оп up a lot of purchasing power Police. Ofcera' Club as a novel tried to enter In taxes.

sit-down 'demonstration on Bun-blcycles were thrown out.

First reports said there, were The guessers believe the basic day.

"gomo injuries," but no details walls Jumping over the ...will stay unchanged. Thero Neither Sir Stafford nor any is some

that mitory, at 3 a.m., speculation member of the Government exemptions may be broadened a marched to the club and virtually dares to drop even the slightest little to free more lower paid took it over.

They demanded the retention The only persistent report Sir Stafford may alter purchase of the college commandant and among the budget guessers in taxes. They were raised drastical-faculty members who have been newspaper and financial circlesly last November.

by the Government 总踱| Since thenishment for Is that Sir Stafford will likely spending has dried

participating in and up whittle a bit from the price of shelves are fuller. Financial cir-the Cairo police agliation for

Sydney, Apr. 4. tobacco.

cles are not worried. The market higher salaries, They refused to

The role of the British Com- has been advancing slowly

Lut meet + representative of the steadily for about a month.-As- Prosecutor General. Associated monwealth Occupation Force in so ineffective that it selated Press.

Japan was should be recalled, Mr. E. J.. Thwaites, war crimes prosecutor with the Australian forces in Japan, said today on his return to Australia.

Ilgher duties imposed a year

ago added 1/- to a packet of 20 cigarettes bringing the price to 3/4d, packet.

up

The object was to get the citizenry to trim it smoking and thus cut down on dollar-costing Imports of U.S. tobacco which Britons preter.

Now the guessers belleve tobacco will be coming in under the Marshall Plan and the Chan- cellor

can afford to cheapen

"smokes" a little.

Isotopes For Czechs

Prague, Apr. 4.

Russia has agreed to deliver Isotopes - products of

Press

GANDHI'S CREED ONLY WAY TO PEACE

New Delhi, Apr. 4.

So long as nations did not recognise the supremacy of moral law in national and international re- lations, they would have no enduring peace, Pandit Nehru, tho Indian Prime Minister, broadcasting to the United States, declared to- day.

atomic "So long as we do not adhere to the right means, the end will not be right, and fresh evil will flow from it," he said.

reaction to Czechoslakia for use in medical treatment and experi- ment, according to the Commun- 1st Youth Movement paper, Mlada Fronta. ronta.

choslovakia, last year

from

America

the on

"That was the essence offrid of this fear and base our iso-Gandhi's message, and manklad thoughts and actions on what is topes

will have to appreciate it in or-essentially right and moral, and then gradually the crisis of the grounds that the conditions in-der to see and act clearly.""

spirit will be resolved, the dark fringed Czechoslovak sovereignty, The broadcast was linked with clouds that surround us may lift, The Americans had asked that the Chicago University's round-world order based on freedom the way to the evolution of selentists of any nationality should be permitted to attend Czech in- table radio programme.

be clear."-Reuter. stitutes where the isotopes were "Gandhi's teachings," Pandit Nehru said, "may seem fantastic being used).

The paper also reported that and impractical in the modern Czechoslovakia was building its world, used as it is to thinking frat factory for the manufacture in set grooves. Yet we have seen

be

The Real

of penicillin at Roztoky, near repeatedly the failure of other Guarantor

methods which have failed Of Peace?

Prague, using Canadian equip-]methods, and nothing can ment delivered by UNRRA less practical than to pursue Reuter.

SWEDES WANT ALLIANCE

Stockholm, Apr. 4. Newspapers in the Swedish capital-said-today that an alliance is necessary with the Western powers to make defence, more! effective.

jagain and again.”

Ignoble Emotion

which faced mankind, the

Budapest, Apr. 4.

Dr. Matyas Rakosi, the Com- munist Deputy, Prime Minister of Hungary, addressing 100,000 peasants at Sarossbatak, today, said the real guarantor of peace is the Soviet Union, "even with the atom bomb in her possÉN- sion."

In the multitude of crises greatest was that of the human spirit, Pandit Nehru said. "Today, fear consumes us all One paper sald Sweden must fear of the future, fear of war, enter some sort of military agree-fear of a people or nation whom ment with the West to assure we djalike and who dalike us. Ho claimed that Hungarianı speedy assistance in case of war. "That fear may be justifled to It referred to the Western nations some extent, but fear La an

peasants were moving towards the Communist Party even in the | anti-Russian powers.--United Ignoble emotion and leads to predominantly agricultural parts

"Blind strife. Let us try to get of the country,

Preps.

Plebiscite Plan For Colonies

Bogota, Apr. 4.

The Hungarian Government, be said, had invited 100 Austrian workers to Hungary to give them a chance to "look behind the fron curtain," but the Austrians had, refused the invitation.

A Russian military, delegation, headed by Colonel - General Vladimir Kurasov, commander of the Russian forces in Austria, took part today in celebrations marking the third anniversary of Hungary's liberation-Reuter.

Senor Romulo Betancourt, Venezuelan delegate to the Inter-American Conference, suggested here today that plebiscites should be held in all dis-e. puted territories in the Westen Hemisphere to allow the people to determine their own future, He said all 'colonies in the overwhelming.vote to stay Inside Hemisphere should' be done the British Empire. away with the spirit of the Ath In a speech to the Conference lantic Charter.""

on Tuesday, Senor Betancourt in axpected to give Venezuela's full Senor Betancourt has récalved support to the Guatemalan re

ILOILO. ROCKED

Manila, Apr. 4.. The southern Philippine city of Noile was rocked by an earth- quake, at about 9:14 am 00 54- turday morning, according to re- ports reaching Manila today.

casualties was reported.

a message from the "couples solution calling for an end of The tremors lasted 15 seconde. forial directorate of the European colonies in Latin-America Reu-No Gulanas" asking him to press for ❘ter. their independence,

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the

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Most Australians belleved the BCOF commanded a big area of Japan, Mr. Thwaites said. Ac tually the area was administered by an American Military Gov- ernment team from the United States Eighth Army Headquar- Сега.

The

Govern- BCOF had no mental responsibility and there was no poliucal reason for the force to stay in Japan at an estimated cost of between £20,- 000,000 and £90,000,000, 1 ho

said.

Mr. Thwaites, a Melbourne barrister, alleged that many Jap- anese war criminals were escap- ing through lack of coordination Australian and American legal terms Reuter.........

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BEATIFICATION AT ST. PETER'S

Vatican City, Apr. 4. took place today at the basilica

The first bealification in 1948)

of St. Peter before thousands of pilgrims who convened in Rome to witness the first step towards the sanctification of Fr. Pierre Romancon of the Christian Bro- thers-a French father known to Catholice-throughout the world as Brother Belhild.--United Press.

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