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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Tax Collecting

A

NEW financial year for

the Colony is fast ap- proaching and with it,

in

the public's mind, goes the perennial question, does it mean more taxation ?

Almost every year since the war the Financial Becretary has injected into his Bud- get speech a solemn warb-

ing that if public works undertakings, education, social services and medical and health facilities are to be maintained at the level demanded by community,

the

the possibility

can.

And

of increased taxation not be ruled out. double. the annual re- minder will be delivered aga.h next month.

bnancial position

remains

But, in fact, the Colony's outs.andingly buoyent, de- spite trade restrictions and #expected demands

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SPECTACULAR SITE PREPARATION FOR NEW BANK FLATS

Ordeal

TWO AUSSIES & A BULLDOZER MAKES

Formosa Talks GET TO WORK

With Dulles

At Bangkok

London, Feb. 21.

Sir Anthony Eden is carrying to Bangkok, Cabinet instructions ruling out any British com- mitment to the United States on defence of the Chinese off-shore islands, it was learned today.

In Bangkok, where he is due tomorrow for the The Treasury caused by

SEATO conference, Sir Anthony will seek imme- diskstrous squatter fres and unbudgetica-for relief diate talks with the United States Secretary of and we are services, We State, Mr John Foster Dulles, on the crucial see no obvious reason why Formosan problem. there should be any direct taxation burdens in- troduced in the forthcoming Anancial year.

The pay-as-you-euro

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Britain

Aghting around

com-

BRITISH VIEW

By William Smyly ·

Residents of the Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation flats in College Road, Kowloon, are beginning to look sadly out of windows on the top five floors at . their splendid views over Kowloon Bay. Soon, it is hoped in Hongkong, the view will be even more magnificent. But the flats will no longer be there to look out on it.

The view which they will not be able to see will be the new $961⁄4 million extension of Kai Tak Airport.

Out of three blocks of flats comprising 30 floors, only 8 floors will be left standing when the alterations are completed to make room for aircraft passing overhead on their new approach run.

People living in the bottom eight floors which will remain will not be disturbed except by the roar of nir- craft passing overhead.

one

of

One of the first concerns to on this project 19 start work

smalkst Hongkong's

Ally- companics-two young

and a bull- Irailans, a driver,

dozer.

10

price", and Leo kept himself. employed setting it back into. shape.

The thing that finally Anish- ed the charter company was when Dr. Mosadegh cancelled a contract to curry 3,000 Persian

Sir Anthony is expected

In place of the block which is and supple. reiterate to Me Dulles that in being cut in half, the British view the off-shore menting it, Hongkong Govern- pilgrims to the Had). Den 'sald

by inent are levelling commanding isjes should be abandoned nasist

atca | bill-top

Kowloon the Chinese Nationalists

Tong for the erection of three identical ten-storey blocks

not

the off-shore

above

The British Foreign Secretary is to underline the out of any fighting for the British decision to keep Quemoy and Matsu islands, the sources said.

Tar British Foreign Office towards the United States oven THERE is, nevertheless, on today maintained I strict re-

or the defence of Formosa ex- aspect of direct taxation serve on the delicate issue of cept through her membership in which might be worth cou-any possible American entangle the United Natlana. templation both by taxment over Formosa and of Bri- payers and Government. it ain's role in such an event.

It firmly declined to the

Bystem of concerns

ment on Washington reports of payment.

nformal Brilsh demarche In- method forming the United States that

would of tax collection has nevir Amerles if she were involved in been seriously considered

He also carrial along a brief in longkong, although

it isles.

mom the Cabinet ruling out any Was auvoca.ed editorially But officials emphasised that British commitment, to fight for States Governinenty by pulling 100 miles of when taxation on earnings the United

by.. Was reintroduced shortly was "well aware" of the state after tho War. It of British public and Parlla-sit atas perwein the Peking-| try belligi dot children to Ax

on the ques-controlled, mainland and plore and play in anti-wide Rysiem, with slight varia- mentary opinion

Generalistimo Ching Kai-shek's lewis in front, leid on an area now about 60 foot up Fermesan domain could there that is

be hope,

in the British view, in the air.

tion cubic

yards Around a million as a ceaserire in the Formesan

possible subse- of hilltop is being pitched Struits and for

When quent breader arrangement,

into a deep-ravine.

hili taps SIT Acrony is aware

the rough flattened and the ravine is |America's, Important considera-

full, the lawns will be laid. Lona for the morale and prestige of the Chinese Nationalists in alpel, who have already suf- fored

a sovere se back due to the restat cvacuation of the Tachan isies.

uons of Quamoy and Matsu. Lions, which hag been

They also reculled the Govern adopted in many countries, ment statements in recent weeks and has proved successful that Britain had no commitment

both ла a form of con- venience for taxpayers and as an easy way of collecting revenue.

It is probable

the principal!

objecun in Hongkong tu pay-as-you-earn would

be

that it involves a compul- Bory system of weekly monthry

deductions

pay envelopes,

or from

and thal

those liable for salaries tax

Britain Under Snow Drifts

would have to wait a full Appalling Weather

year for remissions Од personal and family allow Bures, insurance premiums, etc. This, in a great num- bur of cases, could involve financial month to month

hardship. The popularity of

ard lines, therefore, would be questionable,

AN

to

Continues

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at

The ny-buldings will have' a wide drive sweeping up truen;- Waterloo Roak open fully-cotin

HILLSIDE. OPERATION

And at the moment the thing doing most of the pitching is the Australians bulldozer

Higher

he Wus expected 10 up the hill, pick and shovel men sibe, cook aning on the

search for sou

formula with

Mr Dulles which would avert and plenle there, and encourage

u lead-on clogh between the the hillside to slip down into Reds and the United States 7th Flect and air forces,

CENTRE SHIFTS

Officials said today that the centre of the Formosan cease- has now shifted to are talks

the Secretaries WILL consider Bangkok where the two Foreign next steps.

No

news

has come

STC

Some of the present Hongkong Bank staff flats

in College Road, a substantial part of which are to be demolished-Staff Photographer.“

The bulldozer at work on the site for the new flats

Staff Photographer,

a plane dropped pointernational ceasefire meeting paid maintenance engineer and and think, comwerk.

Socialists Repudiate M. Faure

Paris, Feb. 21.

The Socialists tonight de-

MEDICAL HISTORY

London, Feb. 21.'.

A, 28-year-old London woman has astonished doc- tors by going through the orden of giving birth to her baby twice, writes Chapman Pincher 'in the Daily Express. Nothing like it has been recorded in medical history before.

THO Woman, « an intelligent housewife, was extremely happy until the birth of her son to which she bad looked forward, but while the baby, was being in bom,

her mind

changed her

When she recounBLAYS.

from the anaesthetic she found she no longer loved her husband and she had no affection for her.

her relatives, DEPERSONALISATION

Treatment at a mental hospital falled to help her and the entered Guys Hospital, London, where Dr. Edward Rolls and Dr the Stafford Clark diagnosed trouble as a case, of "deper- sonalisation" state in which she had lost normal contact with reality

The doctors were sure the, Louro her was to

only way to curo "*

Lake her mind back to the moment

during the birth whet

had chengod ter: standard treatments, had

her personality

After failed the woman was given a cost cl. hssbian ». Which affects

events may be

and cause

-which- pasf

relived

While the doctors were study- ing her reactions, she suddenly announced she was going to give birth to her baby again, FEM

"ALL BIGHT NOW? For the next three hours sho

cided not to support, M. reenacted condnement in perfect detail. She was convinced the Edgar Faure in his efforts doctors were those who attended

to form a new government her originally.

and end France's 16-day political crisis...

After the phantom baby had been "born"

born" she turned to one The Socialists, largest single of the doctors whom she im- party in the Nirtland Assembly, agined was her husband and said they would neither parti said triumphantly, "I'vo" shan-

ve the

baby at last, cipate In

a Faure Government aged to have

am ali right now. nor support it.

The next morning her, forme Faure will decide whether to

had

nimost.com. pursue his efforts after the personality

hillsides, for agriculture, reply tomorrow."-Reuler..

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Smoke all you want,

the valley with as much speed and as little manual labour as

meeting of his Radical Party pletely retumed; Within a few. days she went home-in love possible. But it would take 300

tomorrow morning. of them to keep up with the

He told reporters that if he again with her husband, and of laterest for the baby who cides

to go ahead, he will bulldoze

then eight months old, the The men behind the bulldozer, rather bitterly-"He cancelled inspite of the normal Hong-resent himself to the National

who say she- bas The doctors, who London, Feb. 21.

Dan Beard and Leo Callaghan the contract because of some keng practice of provis Assembly with a Cabinet list on

since remained well, think the the Wedded The President Inte #notional Like two characters who thing to do with plague, Then ployment by using coolles, is

of Much of Europe had bliz

strain Faure have stepped out of a rather the Americans came in and that the ground level of the new flats must be lowered at far-fetched yarn by Mr Nevil

took there all free." zarda today and no prospects

the brain and the ten feet to reduce the of the Republic urged me to childbirth upset some chemical exa Shute. a PAYE system on stand of relief from the icy spell

continue my efforts despite the balance in A 7-DAY WEEK risk to aircraft passing over Socialista refusal to participate, hashlah had somehow restored just yet.

os yet Dan ended the war by step-

As planes were still fetching head." Avalanches have blocked the

Loo from Moscow, despite Britain's ping out of the RAAF into a

Dan has dreams for dozer In consequence I am carrying the balance and reconnected her Nalburg Pass and other moun-

work in Hongkong-terrading on and will give my definitive mind with reality, London

Express Service. on the till there was enough money to sold off the old DC3 to the N alternative suggests itain routes in Northern Austria. request some 10 days ago for charter plane which he piloted to prices then, Dan and

Four people died in avalanches he Kremlin's views

Brilish demand that In any get one of his own. Leo, a well new Kereon National Airways, started Life as an

flattening hills; and 2. filling self. The offer by Govern-

In the Italian Alps.

valleys. They with an earth

guill be ment for taxpayers

Today

But cooles will But purchase, voluntarily, cou- pounds of food in canisters to the Nationals Chinese authori- supervisor working

would have to be Eastern airline, joined. him in work seven days a

Their

Chinese driver Chan necessary because much of the pons during any part of shepherd and his family tie

the venture. The two of them, the financial year which living in a highland lodge in represented

their DCS, an office and office Fok-hot, for whom they both ground contains heavy boulders

keep

high praise works on which, seed men, and possibly would be registered as Sutherlandshire, who had been

Moscow last week had given boy to

as heavy day and does an explosive, as well contributions towards isolated for 14 days.

run or two after Leo machines. A helicopter landed at John Indication to British and Indian "Air Asia'

Then the bottom dropped out extra currently assessed salaries.

decomposed granite site o'Groats, the northernmost tip officials that they might con-

alder Generalissimo

work and contract waves to tell him, he can pack Chiang's of charter

he is working now. of Britain, to rescue an elderly

the proposed 10-Power con-hurt, Northolt, and Paris,be- Then Leo geta, to work for pronounced perfect, dozer coun Encouragement for taxpayers woman with a broken leg. She presentation in some form at fights frundi Kal Tak to Frank- up at the end of it,

came affairs that cropped up his maintenance shift

try! And when Dan uses the ference. to embrace this offer could was Bown to a hospital in Wick.

'mooth in- Three times The BBC was asked today to

Dan still has a light plane for word "country" his definition But rumblings from Peking in two cr be given by making the broadcast a message to marooned

private charter work, but will goes deeper than most people's. coupons - reasonable. In do- homesteada telling them to make the past few days have given sad of twice a week.

While things were slack, probably sell that, too, it, the To get a good look at the country

sack, roller,

and around Kowloon Tong, he had to nomination, such as five or code signs in the snow, Indicat rise to new pessimism over the

the company bought up some baklozer,

climb 50 yards into the hillside inter-

earth = moving cny-all carn their keep.

·· worn ou ten dollars, and even great-ing their most urgent needs to Communist Chinesa attitude,

for cattle The indications

what Dan equipment: E

One reason why the bulldozer, through tunnels, dug by prison- would rescue pilote"

fodder, for doctor, and preted as a further stiffening of

reckoned the Peking regime on the entire

"crapwap is being used for this contract, ers during the war, to protect ammmition dumps Japanese Formosan question. United

from Allied bombing. Press,

tax.

er encouragement

bo derived if the coupons for human food.

were intereat-bearing.

HAY FOR SHEEP Intense cold mado it difficult aircraft at Kinloss

Government would have 3

continuous and ready source to service

of revenue, and the, interest Royal Air Force station in the thereby saved from avoid-north of Scotlant, herdquirters As a of the rescue operation.

ing extending credit to result, fewer fights were ma 10 taxpayers, could, at least in that had been planned, some mesaura, be returned But planes managed to drop to a public willing to take bales of hay to stranded ttocks advantage of the scheme.

Many whose carnings fall

of sheep in the county of Caith-

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STOP PRESS

Keen Cricket

Light aircraft were flown to

·Brdner, Feb. 22. within the middlb and Kinloss today from other stations manage

The MCU-NSW; match was moderately high brackets to help in difficult sortles in.

Jeft inun extremely interestin take advantage of the pre- mountainous areas,

All Britain was today all in position ation, when" ihn MCC sent "easy payments" con- cession which extends over the grip of mow and lee with were 236 for 5′′ 90 Fund Lines of three months, but even this Air Ministry weather exporty vloery; with fire winkele minna

warning that the cold spell GAM can become a serious burdan would continue, pela SAE every year af de special In Kant,pdens of isolated "Hamlets – were provision has been made in | village" the personal budget.!! anowod Jup net deltts Ave trietárs An interest-bearing voucher and nowplough Tor

system would almost cor-day to clear the main roada.sk tainly win a wide publla: 24 Rall'und" road transport? Was response, and it would badly hit in the South of Eng land, with traine (délayed" and appear at first sight to bu tind, forries ⠀ zególiá quite, as practicablu na 35 Kippers, roach; at

and

it tidy, became have HOUT

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When the flats are

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де

up and

filled, there caves should provide

an

amusing additional play-

ground for the children.

Vote For Tax

Rednction

Washington, Feb.

The Ways and Means Com- mittee of the House of Repre

epipfives today -approved

6 Derriccratic, 'plan for 820

cut next January and the vote in

tho

600.000

margine Fresident

about $3,000,"

Thank

filter

enjoy all

you smoke

du MAURIER