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X7HATEVER tho Budget
W proposals which Mr. R.
more
A. Butler Intends to place before the House of Com- mens today, it is hardly likely they will be sensa- tional in character. While the nation's finances are buoyant than two years ago, its international economic position has im- proved only relatively. Two weaknessca stand out in the British economy and it can be expected that the 1964 Budget will endeavour to Cilro them. Ono is that productive investments have fallen off considerably, and the other is created by the rupidly developing foreign
published last week and
CHINA
No. 35784
Established 1845
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1954.
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STORS
and
Jockey
Club's New Grandstand
Project In Exclusive Story
Full Details Of New Project
SELF-CONTAINED
GALLERY
FLOORS DESIGN
By the end of 1955 the Happy Valley
competition to British ex- Race Course should have a new eight-storey porta. Both shortcomings were emphasised by Treu- grandstand building—the most modern in aury experts in a report the Far East-which will give Hongkong their existence and the need race-goers more space, more convenient and for correction lend credence easily accessible betting facilities, less stair- Chancellor of the Exchequer climbing and a much more enjoyable day at will include in the Budget the races.
to the expectation that the
dustry. Two measures tu this end
proposals for alding In- The Hongkong jockey Club has com- are concolvable-a missioned the firm of architects, Leigh reduction concerning the and Orange of Hongkong, to draw up plans liquidation of capital and the abolition of tax on non- for the new building which will replace the distributed profits. The first present central portion of the grandstand. The two adjoining wings which comprise mainly private boxes will remain.
of these Меанитен
would
favour investments and the
ex-
second would assiat portera to meet foreign competition.
THE Federation of
it
lleves
British
Industries recently made very clear what it be
to be Mr Butler's most effective way of hand ling the new Budget- concentrate un repeating the 1963 formula. What the FBI wants, is the form of a further cut in the standard
Some features of the new building: there will be no clock tower, but probably a main central And the archi- clock on the face of the building.
tects claim that for the first time in the Colony, there will be escalators to the three gallery floors to supplement the lifts and stair-cases.
These
escalators are reversible so that their direction can be changed at any time to carry large crowds into or out of the galleries. The new building will' probably be cream coloured.
Another virtue is that each floor has been designed
in such a way that it will be "self-contained". For in- stance, if you are sitting on the second floor guliery there is no need to go traipsing up and down stairs either to place your bet or to buy a drink. There is on each of the first three floors a long centrally situated betting and paying out counter and a bar. There are also lavatories on each of these floors.
known: "The
The
DIEN BIEN PHU BATTLE. -Picture above, shows French Union reinforcements being parachuited at Dien Bien Phu, and opposite, wounded ато given treatment in a first ald post at the besieged fortress, -London Express,
At Dien Bien Phu
rate of income tax and over- all reduction in purchase tax rates, is the mixture os before. But this is by no Having means all it secks. persuaded the Chancellor to get rid of his worst fiscal abomination, the excess profits levy, last year. it inalsts that the profits tax, which ranks next in order The reasons for building the
new plans are unique: of harmfulness, must follow new grandstand are well-enough the architects pointed out it was Impossible to design the grand- present conges- it as quickly as possible.
Lion and inconvenience at race stand building on the lines of Nevertheless, it appears un-meetings due to the volume of any other in the world because likely, at any rute on the attendance have rendered
rendered the of the comparatively small size basis of relevant data, that existing premises out
of date of the Hongkong course. Mr Butler's scope for tux and are entailing great dimeul- The height of the new, build-
in administration and dis- reliefs in this year's Budget ties
dising will be 100 ft, or just under comfort will be
The
to the members," very
the the level of the present Itoen told architects
the Federation by suggesting Authority in a letter
Building Course clock tower
and when detailing completed it will occupy un that the Chancellor con- its plans.
consider (this) ares of 15,000 square feet. centrutes on the atandard scheme will undoubtedly solve Above the three gallery floors,
Hanol, Apr. 5. rate of income tax and on the prevailing serious problems.
With, Vietminh casualties and the Jockey "Members' accommodation will the architects
Club are considering bystalling 15 the Dien Bien Phu battle now boxes on the fourth floor. Be-estimated at the equivalent of
Vietminh hind these
division, will
the betting full movement facilities,
General ап air-conditioned Commander-in-Chief,
wide.
the purchase tax is, in fact, be greatly increased and a con- proposing that other
Improvement siderable reforms leat and horizontal necessarily costly be left in abeyance.
in ver-
Blair-
be
Giap Calls Up More Troops
in
montrig reinforcements from
of crowds effected by the pro- ticket-issuing machine, store Vo Nyugen Glap, is now sum- vision of escalators and cases and lifts at suitable points rooms and a paper store office.
Above this floor will be the available units in the north of and the re-siting of the betting and paying-out locations."
large Members' restaurant with Vietnam. PROTECTION FROM RAIN
HE whole question of tax THE
relief is one of priorities, but since the main weight
A verandah overlooking the Obsessed with gaining a vic- of argument relates to the
cost before need for more savings and Under the plans drawn up the course and on the next floor the tory at whatever
Genova Conference on with It the incentive to first two galleries have almost Members' bar, the ladies' lounge the
and kitchens, On the seventh | Asia on April 20, General Giap investment in industry, a complete protection from the floor will be the staff quarters. in reducing his strength in cut in the rate of direct tax rain. The third gallery, how-
The total estimated cost of the areas of secondary importance
be known to throw his full
power into on earnings and investment ever, it oughtly mise exposed to
the Income
clements. The protruding new building will is presumably
root
about three-quarters until the plans have been finalis-the battle for the war-blasted covers
bowl, which consists of nothing regarded as the biost urgent to seven-eighths of the area ofed,
but trenches. task of all. That income this
In each gallery the are tax and purchase tax con- there cessions would be widely benches for seating. popular there is no doubt, but it is recollected that a
The fifth floor,
will!
Conventional Churchill Turns
Down Proposal Viotminh assaults will come.
where there be the Members' res- floor touran, and the sixth
The general feeling here is that following on the respite in the battle, new and vinient
General Glap appears to need London, Apr. 5. time to reorganise his slocks
aare brought up
to by trucks "No sir" today to
the within a fow miles of the French Premier, M. Joseph stronghold. Thousands of coolles a Lanie, to London to discuss carry them from there to the an and to the Indo- Vietminh positions.
year ago Mr Butler firmly where there will be the Mem- rejected the proposition of berg bar and the ladies' lounge, Sir Winston Churchill an of food and ammunition. These
tax reductions will purchase
have
spacious swered largely on the grounds that verandahs looking out on to the suggestion that he invite the Exchequer could not course.
wide
Mr Woodrow Wyatt, Labour on the member
of Parliament, In suggested Sir Winston
10
afford to lose the substantial This modern building is revenue which the tax pro- for cry from the brick and putting
General Glop's chief need at duces, and it 1s highly maling club built in 1893 at a China war.
the mament, however, is the conceivable that he will cost of $28,000 and it will be a
improvement Past
also early replacement of the losses find it necessary to repeat existing grandstand built
which his forces have suffered in discuss the Bri- that objection today.
Arst two phases of the 1930,
the US Secretary of State, Mr battle. Reinforcements ordered tain's prime problem re- Under the plans the existing John Foster Dulles
proposals mains higher production and central portion of the grandstand to increase United Nalone up from other areas have
come by foot along the many increased exports. This is will be completely demolished, to Indo-China.
miles of jungle paths and will the basis for the nation's It is expected work will start in The Prime Minister said he not be available to fight for fall economic recovery and May next year and the architects was already in touch with the several days. the important task there- say they hope to complete the French and US governments on
whole scheme during the sum- the Indo-Chincoo fore which confronts Mr mer recess. This means the France-Presse. Butler, is to provide Incen; builders will have to work night | tiyos for the realisation of and day to finish the job in those two objectives. It is time.
somewhat sobering to have
to recognise that evidence Bo for does not suggest that
the general taxation relief
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The demolition of the central
will acclion
mean, that the
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Chelsea, Mars, Apr. 5. For the second time in three weeks. * Allor's wife gave birth to a baby today. The babies, a boy and a giel, are not
Mrs Thelma Chapman. 32, bure the second chil at Chelsea Naval Hospital, The boy welshed. four poutils and six and a half ounces. The mother and baby and the four-ponad and four-ounco ziri born on March 15 are all doing nicely. the Hospital said.
Captain L. T Dorgan, the Ilospital's chief obsic- trician, said that It was not determined whether both babies were concekvod at the samo time.
Doctora sald that Mrs Chapman
has dual pro- creative organs, a medical rarity.-United Press.
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Socialist Motion
On
H-Bomb Talks Approved
TIMING OF APPROACH IS
LEFT TO GOVERNMENT
London, Apr. 6.
The British Government last night agreed there should be top-level talks with the United States and Russia on the hydrogen bomb.
Mr Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, winding up a full-scale debate in the House of Commons, accepted immediate a Labour Opposition motion calling for an British Initiative to bring about a meeting between Sir Winston Churchill, President Eisenhower and the Soviet Prime Minister, Mr Georgi Malenkov disarmament and strengthening collective security through the United Nations.
erminent
on
But he insisted that the Gove, Mr Herbert Morrison, former must have the Anal | Labour Foreign Secretary, sug- word on the timing of an ap- gested a meeting among the proach on the highest level. heads of sale to reach a general After his speech the motion agreement on how the latest Was unanimously agreed to bombs could be restricted or without a vote.
abolished and if
Earlier the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, told the House that with the Geneva Far
be
a more
11}
an
agreement on the ent
as well.
of conventional weapona as
They might then refer the matter to their officials to malce
Johannesburg, Apr. 6. An African in the Woi- maransstad district has been steadily losing his pigmentation over a period East conference pending, there the draft of a possible agreement
could hardly
and then meet again to consider chosen
moment for a meeting the result. Eventually the matter heads the
states and would go before the "proper and final authority the United or two dark spots, is com-governments."
But while ubjecting to the
Notions," pletely European in appear- word "Immediate" in the Labour
that the motion, the Prime Minister de Mr Morrison said
seck "We shall
by word "immediate" in the opposi- meant that the open to us an tion's motion
of years, and today has a skin which, apart from one
ance.
of
means
of
According to the local districtclared: surgeon who has examined him, every his skin is lighter than that of casement of international ten-Government should take "m- mediate diplomatie action in the many Europeans and his short ion"
sto. curly hair is the only thing that Air Herbert Morrison, Deputy best and most effective way to sets him apart from a European Loader of the Opposition, ex- get a meeting." when seen at close rong. At plained that by "Immediate" the long range there is almost do Opposition difference.
meant
"to
Mr Anthony Eden, the Foreign start Secretary, began his reply by Immediate diplomatic action in saying the Government accepted the best and most effective was the Labour motion.
"I have never seen anything like it," said the doctor. "He is to not an albind I have known.
(Conta, on Back Page, Col. 1)
Soldiers Shoot
At And Wound Woman
Vienna, Apr. 5.
H
Russian soldiers wounded a 54-year-old woman and shot at a Viennese policeman in one of the most violent Austrian weekends since the war, the police said today.
Tho wounded woman, Maria Franco-Vietnam losses in the Issue battle are admitted to be heavy Schrald, said a Russian trooper but comparably less than those shot her in the upper log on sustained by General Glap's Saturday night when she re- fused his command to halt in
!
• Vienna suburb, In the second lacident, an
sald Austrian policeman Soviet officer fired at him with
Fire On Warship forcer France Presse.
Egyptian Press To Be Purged
Portsmouth, April. 5. Fire broke out aboard the HMB Vanguard, flagship of the but wan
weighing room, saddle room home fleet, today
went
jockeys'
year has induced a higher
the ground floor of the North the
Calro, Apr. 6.
24-Hour Strike
Ordered
Paris, Apr., 5. The Communist-led* General Confederation of Labour today called for a 24-hour general a pistol from the sidecar of a strike throughout France
'28 to back wage claims.
on
for business introduced last | lovatories, office and' Stewards", quickly extingui aboard a Major Salah Salem, Minister afternoon.
apeoding motorcycle on Sunday call war made by thei room will have to be moved to Hey, who the Vanguard of National Guldance, last night last 10 Austrions died National Committee of the CQT level of industrial develop-
Wing and that will be their new la anchored said a ventilating announced the purging of the violently over the weekend. The stoppaga' is „kimed at ment. But this, perhaps, ix.
Enyptian press and removal of | omcials, counted four stayings, forcing an 3 increase in the due to the fact that the home. The architects may this fan had become overheated,
will be a handy position. for The Admiralty said, there was "corrupted elements' in a series four suicides, three flood minimam salary from the pre- relief is not yet sufficiently.test rooms because of their nog ovidence of sabotage of measures to protect” -the | drownings and Dve accidental | sent 28,000 Teknes (£23_98) to
revolution--Reuter, United Press,
gue 'deaths---United Press, embracing.
25,100 frames (#98 12s),—Route proximity tô the paddocks.
De
Rot
meeting
Mr Eden said: "What I can
Some of Sir Winston Chur- chlil's own supporters were up-say is this: the moment we think set tonight that a debate which there is the least opportunity of a meeting at high level being started on a high, non-partisan plane should have degenerated fruitful we shall not hesitate to into a row over the Quebec go for it.
ter and the opposition.
members Labour
pact between the Erime Minis- "We will use every power,
he had "completely
every Influence and ‘every initla-
declared tive to which we lay our hands
thrown to try and promote progress on
together with
issue
1
away" a unique opportunity to this speak for Britain to the anxious relaxation of International ¡ten- world on the hydrogen. bombaion which bedevils everything
problem.
else."Reuter.
"SHOOTING ARROWS"
NOT IN EFFECT Mr Clement Davies, leader of the Liberals, sald so far as he
Washington, Apr... had knew hydrogen bombs
The White House said today been made in Russia and the United States and nowhere
that a 1943 agreement between Winston Churchill and NATO else. Other
countries Str
President Roosevelt, banning the should take no part in their manufacture and this Blows use of atom bombs except with
condemnation of these
each other's consent, was "not in effect at the present time,"
Sir Winston Churchill dis- of the secret
thel
bombe.
He criticised the Prime Minis-
ter for "shooting arrows" at Mr closed the terms Attice over the Quebec agree-greement in the House of Com-
mons today.
Eisenhower's press President
ment.
"He belter than anyone ought
to know there are Occasions Becretary, Mr James Hagerty, when he should avoid this and said it was true that Sir Winston march on the great paths be set Churchill spoke with Mr Elsen- himself," he sold.
hower's assent.—Bruter.
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