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COMMENT OF

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Taxation Bill

Gloucester Arcade

7ITH the Amended Inland

W Revenue Ordinance it

self a complicated piece of legislation, it was hardly surprising the debate on the accond reading of the bill this week produced some complicated arguments. In the result the public had two

points made clear:

(1) that it was not proposed to introduce a new form of taxation; (2) that if Govern- ment's legal interpretation of two disputed clauses was considered by UK advisers to be in error, further con- alderation would be given to those amendments. Opposition to the sections of the bill dealing with tax liability on business profits was principally centred on their fegal interpretation, the argument being that not clauses only

the wero ambiguous, but if made law, created

form of 1 new tuxation. Government's a surance that there was no

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EDEN DISARMAMENT PLAN INFLATION IN AUSTRALIA

Russia Promises A Close Examination

"PILOT SCHEME" FOR EUROPE

New York, Sept. 15.

Sir Anthony Eden's "pilot plan" for disarmament was given warm support by the United States, France and Canada and a promise of study by Russia in the five power United Nations disarmament sub-committee here today.

Mr Anthony Nutting, the British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, gave details of the plan for the first time at today's private meeting of the sub-committee, it was under-

stood.

The plan calls for a ground inspection of conventional arms on each side of the iron curtain" in Europe. It would not include atomic weapons, Eisenhower at the Big Four Mr Nuiling was understood to

conference in Geneva. intention to depart from have said the plan was intended as a "curtain raiser" to disarma-

out

established taxation policy ment and could be tried did not wholly allay the wherever armed forces faced fear expressed by Hom Jench other,

A. Blackwood.

ONE

Mr Nutting told reporters

the session that the other

NE highly important aspect Western delegates "seemed to of the disputed amend- value particularly the simplicity ments

however, of the proposals",

He said: "As to my Soviet emphasised by Hon M. W.

Mr Arkady Sobolev) colleague (Mr

was,

dis-

Mr Nutting

In sald that Mr Sobolev had asked how the Eien proposals were to be inked

with

a general armament plan and took note of the British minister's state- was not a sub- EA disarmament

Lo, namely that the inten- he said he considered the plan tion of the new provisions to be an important contribution was to prevent evasion of which would require careful at- legitimate liability for pro- tention and the Soviet govern- fits tax. Evasion of taxation,ment would study it. either attempted or achieved is deplorable. And, it seems, the Committee which sat to investigate the Inland Ordinance fully Revenug satised itself that evasion

that it ment and

for had stitute could

accur occurred under the existing plan.

sald terms of the Ordinance. Obviously it is in the interests scheme for an

of the general public that Mr Nutting added. taxation evasion should be eradicated and if certain Bections uf the amended Ordinance have that effect, they are desirable. Whether

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ANTHONY NUTTING

reporters Mr Nutting told there was no reason whatso- ever why the Eden plan and the Eisenhower plan should not be in operation at the same time.

President Eisenhower Aug- gested an exchange of milltary blueprints between the Soviet Union and the United! States and mutual

WAR-TIME HEROINE IS

SUED FOR DIVORCE

London, Sept. 15. Odette Churchill, 48-year-old war heroine and secret agent, is being sued for divorce, by Captain Peter Churchill. her wartime commanding offoer whom she married in 1947.

The petition is among undefended cares listed for hear ing at the next law term opening on October 4.

Captain Churchill ciles à co-respondent whose name is fisted as Hallowes.

Mrs Churchill was parachuted Into German-nocoupled France. She was captured and held in Gestapo cells and, concentration camps until her release in 1945.

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For

mutual protection she and Captain Churchill, who laken with her, pretended that they were man and wife. Mrs Churchill was awarded the George Crom ---- one of Britain's highest medals for gallantry — by the late King

She George VL

also a member of the Order of the British Empire, and chovaller of the French Legion of Honour.

She has three daughters by a former marriage.-China Mail Special.

CRIMINAL BECOMES AN "OUTSTANDING

ATOMIC TECHNICIAN"

Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 15.

MENZIES TAKES

ACTION

Election Possible

Canberra, Sept. 15. The Prime Minister, Mr Robert Menzies, today asked leading hire-purchase (instalment plan buy- ing) organisations to tighten their terms, accord- ing to usually reliable sources.

He met representatives of 12, leading hire-purchase firms in the third of his series of economic conferences and asked them voluntarily to restrict operations to help the government "hold the present Australian prosperity,

Federal ministers were con- fident today's talks would lend to agreement to restrict hire- purchase expansion, which the government regard as a serious element in an* inflationary situation.

Mr Menzies also met repre- sentatives of the alock chango, asking them to help the government reduce in- flationary pressures, and cut down the volume of now issues. Bank's Request

British Coal Board's Big Deficit

London, Sept. 15. Britain's National Conf Board had a deficit in the second quarter of this year, estimated at £19,189,054 Earlier this week, following its biggest quarterly deficit since the industry was na-

announced, today.

a meeting between

the

Prime

A Judge and a legislator asked the state Pardons Board today to grant a freedom to self-taught life term prisoner who became an Central Banks Tar trading tionalised in 1946-it was "outstanding atomic technician" behind bars.

Minister and bank managers, the banks, to restrict credits and

Observers bellove the stage is

Judge Paul N. Schaeffer, who sentenced Marion S.revise overdrafts. Kapelski to life imprisonment, asked that the 84-year-old

The deflelt by the first quar- ter of the year

amounted to

quarter of last year, there was a deficit of £264,905.

aerial and ground prisoner be released because he "can be of service to now almost set for an important £4,093,528, and in the second

announcement from Mr Menzies He was joined in the appeal by Senator Israel to be made in Patilament next

Tuesday.

inspection of each other's terri- tory..

Mr Nutting, added that the sub-committee commended the principles and welcorned the purposes of the British plan and "recognised its value."

Inspection Scheme

society."

Stiefel, Kapelski's counsel.

Kapelski has served nearly 10 years in prison,

prisoner's All Set For

Senator Statul told the Board

the the story ΟΙ achievement. *ig the most fascinating case of what a man cast in the worst circumstances

do."

He said several atomic re-

"New Deal"

One other problem remains loj be dealt with-the import re- view. The Cabinet must decide in the next fortnight whether heavier cuts must be made be- fore the start of the next im- port-Import quota period on October 1

In Morocco Pictorial said the Cabinet would

the

Main factors accounting for the deficit were: Introduction of a national day-wage struc- lure in April, estimated to .cost £14 million a yaer; a strike. In

coni felds the Yorkshire May, and the national railway striko in June-Reuter,

IRA HOAX

In

He said he did not mean to say that the plan had been ac- further study. cpted without

The Canberra correspondent He had expressed the hope tha

of the Melbourne Sun-News The scheme as outlined did it would be examined in detall search plants were interested in

make its decision on import cuis a pilot not provide for serial inspec- and that there would be "early hiring Kapelstel if some method was

from the Soviet could be worked out to

obtain ultimate plan," tion, one of the features of the reaction"

next Monday, adding that cus clearance. proposal-made by. President Government.

security.

Paris, Sept. 16. ..." PRACTICAL. THEORIES,..

toms department officials had

London, Sept. 15, been working, overtime this Mr Stiefel said that Kapelski

A government spokesman week preparing for the possibl-

After an anonymous tele- has submitted theories a num

caller anid tonight that last-minute lity of a heavy cut in the phone

had said IRA ber

of times to outstanding

men would raid the Roynt a difficulties had been prac- quotas. atomic scientists and that

artllery Canberra observers Unic the

barracks in Albany overcome in Under the plan, the command have been well received, In- tically It was learned Mr Nutting

Street, The core of the inspection

Regent's Park, London, was of each side would declare thecluded

a French plan to have Sultan government's present "hold pros- police were today drafted was oule outlining Was understood, explained that Europe as at present drafted they scheme,

Thero

was a small supervisory clearly the most logical place full establishment of their mili-method of producing a smaller Ben Arafa retire from his Parity" campaign with talk of works,

and installations in atomic shell which would permit Moroccan throne-a

o snap election this year, vital are legally acceptable can be would be

raid and a police search There is a strong report among the area disclosed not a trace greater atomic The supervi='| an were large the agreed area. left to expert judgment, but commission acting on behalf of in which to put the scheme into tary forces

would then mobility,

part of France's "new deal" federal politicians, that the pre- assuredly there must be the Supreme Allied Commander scale forces there with organised cory commission

of any IRA activity. assign duties to joint inspection

was for the "Only the fact, that he for the 15-nation and integrated commands.

troubled protec-sent budget session villl end on provisions in the Ordinance in Europe

October 21, followed by an from torate. tearns, not mention Mr Nutting d to safeguard against wilful North Atlantic Treaty Organis-

in prison prevented him

election on December 10.--Reu- tion (General Alfred Gruenther) Germany specifically, but ob- The plan did not necessarily becoming an outstanding atomit

ter. evasion of taxation dues,

The spokesman would not OTHER parts of the new and the Soviet Commander-in-cervers commented that Ger-

scientist, Mir Stiefel said. "I it was learned, but an agreed would call him an outstanding give detalls, but a source close Ordinance produced from Chief of the rival cight-nation many was the only place where

Pact Western and Soviet forces con- limit for armaments and equip atomic technician."

to Prime Minister Edgar Foure fronted each other.

ment might be established.

four Kapelski, with

other said objections raised by Spain Sultan taking up re- companions, was sentenced to life to the imprisonment for the slaying sidence in Tangiers, the Inter- of a petrol station attendant in national port which borders on Reading in 1940,-United Press. Spanish Morocco, have virtually

been surmounted.

East European Security Marshal Ivan Koniev).

effect since there

imply any limitation of forces,

Major Objectives Remain

Mr Nutting told the delegates, out the general reaction to the

cannon

Demonstrators Clubbed

Hone of the Unofficials not so much criticism as expres- slons of regret. There is a feeling that hardship is being caused individual taxpayers who cannot obtain allowances for certain types the Eden plan indicated no plen in the sub-committee and of dependants, such as a son

change in the major political the Assembly, who has fully to support objectives of the British govern→ Mr Nulling 'said: "If we could his mother. Another class ment in Europe-the reunifica- put this scheme into effect, I which, it is feared, will be tion of Germany as a nation feel we should be able to re- lot of jeopardised by the leading to the reunification of assure ourselves and a

new

doubtful opinion in the world provisions are the pen-Europe as one continent.

The scheme would give the with the possibilities of working sioners whose incomes are

Comununist armies an international control system solely derived from invest. NATO and

un opportunity to work together. for disarmament."

question, minister reinarked The British Pros and cons exist in abun- that soldiers often found

it wering

sald it was too early to dance, and certainly it is easier to work together than say which of the proposed dis- RD not diflicult to prove relative

tament schemes would

effect first "because we are discrimination. Much of the Mr Nutting said the British still awaiting reactions from the professed hardship is, Government considered that Russians." nevertholens,

u should cover

France-Pressť. (The sub-committee has con- Not all, probably only a few. specified area of equal depthsidered disarmament plans pro- who have dependants other irom some selected position or posed by, each of the Big Four than a wife and family, positions in Europe where the powers at Geneva). taxable forces of the Soviet Union ani the

ments.

politicians.

theoretical.the

scheme

come into

the Western powers were ut category. It is not an eany taak for any of the Un-present in close proximity to

officials to produce hard and

each other.

Mr Nutting told reporters

Mr

WELL RECEIVED It was learned that the American delegate, Mr Harold

the saidi Stassen,

plan sub-

Saarbrucken, Sept. 15. Three policemen and several other persons were in- Jured in last night's clash at Voelklingen, when pro-German demonstrators threw stones, Iron bars and broken gines at the police, the Interior Ministry reported tonight.

Some 1,000 pro-German opponents of the Saar's projected "European" riotas demonstrated outside the ball where Fremier Johannes Hoffmann had just spoken in favour of the new status, up for a referendum vole on October 23.

The police had to use clube when demonstrators broke security barriers, the Interior Ministry said. Several persons in the front line of the demonstrators were lajure: ----

Girl Stowaways Cause Trouble

Police sald

was

Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay

Spanish saw tho Ambassador here lato last night on this matter, the source

said.

THREE POINTS

The French government now trying hard to reach a three-point settlement by Sabur- day. It will probably;

(1) Transfor the Sultan to Tangiers.

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(2) Publish a French do- claration on the principles on which future Franco-Moroccan relations will be based,

(3) Appoint A three-man Regency Council which will safeguard the vacated throne and appoint the first represen- tative Moroccan government---

Man Walks

Sydney, Sept. 15.

Anita squeezed out a citywide naked through a porthole of the Reuter. Police carried fast proof that under the after the meeting he had nu mitted today was a construc- {hunt today for a Dutch sallar locked cabin today, alosely tol-

by L. Lil later existing form of allowances immediate intention of intro-tive elaboration of the presenta- and his Tahitian girl stowaway lowed

您 believed to have found in the crew's quarters, considerable hardship is ducing a resolution on the Eden tion of the plan by Sir Anthony who

stripped to her sdn and wiggled but Anita was believed to have being suffered by a substan-plan to the General Assembly. Eden in Geneva.

man's shirt and slacks He sold the United States to freedom through a porthole donned tial proportion of taxpayers. He wanted Arst of all to find

Its underlying in a Dutch freighter.

and escaped with a 20-year-old shared both of

Dutch scoman. purposes (1) to make a practi- ++cal beginning towards regula- The gli, Anita Williams, 18,

Police said fierce brawls had tion and control of armaments had been locked aboard, the

(2) to make progress in Dutch freighter Zonnewilk with occurred among the crew over of Inspec- 17-year-old Willams, the girls, and in court today the particular field

one of the brew members was tion and control.

Tahitian

stowaway and 10 for having assaulted being discovered by

Paria, Sept. 10. The Canadian delegate, Health after

members another. Other crow

Laurent Ader, a 30-year-old Who said religion and politics do not mix? The fiery Minister Paul Martin sold his customs authorities on Monday. sald today they would be glad blacksmith who lives at Saint bearded prelate of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus, first reaction to the plan was

to see the end of the two gu Dode in the Gers Department of why "have spilt the crew and Archbishop Makarios mixes them every day of his life as one of warm support. the champion of Enosis.

Makarios and Enosis-Why?

Why? Read Les Armour's answer in tomorrow's China Mail, the big feature-packed week-end family newspaper.

This is only one of many special highlights in tomorrow's Mall, Watchout also for these:

Amanda Marshall has a word of comfort for girls who think beauty is the best guarantee of success in life. Her tip: "You needn't be good looking to get to the top".

and

It was earned that M. Moch said he apreciated the Eden plan

was a military and not a politi

col plan. He was happy to note

it did not prejudice the reuni fication of Germany and would

another

الله

DOG DOES WORK OF SIX MEN

Utrecht, Sept. 16.

many old friendships United

Frege.

560 Miles To Collect £1

bought national lottery tickets France, and seven of his friends and made a pact that if anyone should win a prize he should go to Paris to collect his winnings. Pleads Innocent Ader's ticket won a prize of £1 and a good as his word, he Fort Meade, Maryland, set off for Paris. He did not Sept. 15. take the train, however, but sat Maj. Ronald E. Alley pleaded out on foot accompanied by innocent today to charges that his little white ass.- he collaborated with the Com- It took him 35 days to walkk munisie while he was prison de 500 miles from his native Three of the wiformnew wild village to Paris, where he col

his prize money, the Alley saked them for military Lecte information In December 1950, smallest of the lottery prizem, "She does the work of six while he was accompandach by a He will make his return telp

Chirumus - Correntinistar odtour in by "krało, however—-STEDCO

Richard Findlater writes on the magnificent obsession of ask the French government Officials of the gas company Mr Hofman, the man who believes Shakespeare toas to study it with the assistance of Utrecht (Holland) are to Marlowe;

of its milltary experts.-Reuter, organise teams of dogs to anim out gaa leske as a result of the an Alsatian exploits of Herto,

Heria, on trial at miffing out

loaks for two weeks, in Korea Many places in Britain last produced results described as night had temperatures 40 de "sensational." grees and underwent for sonda time, y. London had its coldest, night for three months, zen,

China Mali Special,

What did happen to the Princes in the Tower? Maurice Warm Spell Ends bich

Williams probes this mystery of history is one of the worlik's strangest stories.

There sky all your favourite features as well including Jae Roberts Shm reviews, three pares of local and overseas pictures, cartoons, comio strips, nows for women, children and sportsinen „4 i sit in the China Mail,

London, Sept. 18.

Cabinet Shake-Up

Istanbul, Sept. 15.

Turkey's Defence Minister, Mr Elhém Menderes, is switch- ed to another job in a Cabinet reshuffle announced tonight,

He becomes a Minister of State

while Fund Koprulu, Deputy Premier. is appointed seling Defence Minister.

Another member of the goy- ernment, Osman Kapani, Minis- ter of State, has resigned, --- Router.

British

Forces

|

WO

*

to no

It is believed that the call

hoax, Liter anonymous werning that IRA men had planned "to carry out on operation" led to special precautions being taken In North

London by Scotland Yard. The warning that IRA men might be active was sent to the Yard from RAF police

Oxbridge.

A War Office spokesman said today the warning concerned Regent's Park barracks occupied.

by the RASC.

"No extra guard was posted and no additional precautions taken but ordinary security precautions were checked over to ensure they were operating correctly," he said.—Chice Mail Special

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