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THE WAR.

OLOSSAL

BUDGET

FIGURES.

ALL NEW TAXES ADOPTED.

OSTLY GERMAN FAILURE AT VERDUN,

ZEPPELIN ATTACKS ON LONDON FRUSTRATED.

TERRIBLE FIRE IN POWDER FACTORY.

ANCO-BELGIAN FRONT. {THROUGH REUTER'S ACENCY.1

MIT VERDUN STRUGGLE.

ENCH MAINTAIN UPPER HAND.

Paris, April 4th.

4.25 p..

NAVAL ACTIVITIES.

[HROUGH BETER'S AGENCY,]

SINKING OF THE “PORTUGAL.”

RUSSIA PROTESTS TO NEUTRALS.

PETROGRAD, April 4th,

Russia bns protested to all the neutral Powers against the torpedoing of the hos he Trench are maintaining the upper pital ship Portugal. Speeches of burning das Verdun. o-day's communiqué reports a violent llory duel from Avocourt to Malan-

indignation at the outrage have been de livered in the Durg and the Council of Empire.

A TURKISH CLAIM.

PETROGRAD, April 4th.

he Germans in the Dousmozi-Vaux on have not attempted any further

A Turkish communiqué claims that a acks but our batteries: strengthened Turkish submarine sank a Russian trans our counter-attacks, became particular-port of 12,000 tons, with soldiers and war bctive against the enemy's positions here, material on board, north-east of Batum

enciny's reply was feeble,

The ship was evidently the hospital ship

asiward of Boisde-Pretre an enemy Portugal. ack was repulsed by rifle fire.

ur batteries in Alsace bomba riled

yoşu,

o euntinued to bombard enemy works Argonne..

FURTHER BIG GERMAN EFFORTS,

NEMY SWEPT BY WAVES OF

FIRE.

Pars, April 5th.

1.50 8.m.

the evening communiqué says:-Enemy anisstions were effectively bombarded th of the Aisne and in Argonne,

TÁM HONGKONG DAILY PRAAK, THURSDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1914,

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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

COLOSSAL FIGURES.

BRITISH BUDGET STATEMENT.

LONDON, April 4th.

The House of Commons was filled for the Badgot statement. Mr McKenna (Chan cellor of the Exchequér) began by assum- ing that the war would last for the whole of the financial year, during which time the setual expenditure would be £1,550,000,000. The total financial assist ance given to Allics and to the Dominions would be £316,000,000. The netual revenue would be £337,000,000. There was thus deficit of £1.222,000.000, which had been made up by the 2600,600,000 War Loan, £154,000,000 from the sale of bonds, £50,000,000 as the result of the Anglo- French loan, and the balance by the sale of Treasury Bills.

Expenditure, must inevitably increase, Ho estimated that the total expenditure for the year would be £1,825,000,000. of which £1,150,000,000 would be directly for the war, and the advances to the Allies and the Dominions would absorb £450,000,000. He hoped for seriQui economies in military adurinistration, MY McKenna also expressed his loyal gratitude for His Majesty's Kingly gift. The Government were awaiting the return of Mr. Asquith to decide as to the disposal of the gift.

Hoestimated the coming year's revenus aj £502,000,000. The deficit would be met by borrowing. He proposed to raise the lowest rate of income-tax to 28. 3d. in the £1 rising an unpred incomes of £2,500 to 54 Unearned incomes would reach the maximum of 59, at £2,000, but the flat rate on uacarned income deductable

【THROUGH BRUYER'S AGENCY.]

(THROUGE "BROTER'S AGENCY.]

The Government had resolved to deal FAMOUS RUSSIAN GENERAL with the importation of luxuries by stop.

RETIRES. ping importation altogether rather than impose a tariff. The shortage of labour and the inadequacy of machinery rendered an extension of tariffy impracticable. At the end of 1916-17 the not debt would he $2,640,000,000.

RECEPTION OF BUDGET. The Budget was well received, and an doubtedly will be easily passed:

PETROGRAD, April 4th. General Ivanoff, commanding the south western Armies. has retired. He is suc- coeded by Gcaoral Brussiloff.

BRITISH ADVANCE ON BAGDAD.

LONDON, April 4th

In the House of Commons Mr. Chamber lain said that General Sir John Nixon advised the advance on Bagdad

OF COTTON YARN.

Labourites assured the Government that the working classes are determined to bear their burden In

securing victory. The Timer, while doubting the wisdom IMPORTATION : of the tax on railway tickets, justified the income-tax incressa, The journal is of opinion that the net rosult of the new pro- poals for facing another year of war can only be regarded with justifiable price by all having the maintenance of British credit at heart.

The Daily News says: The war has dis- covered a financial strength beyonit out most extravagant dreams. Mr. McKenna le faced the problem with bo'dnes, und prudence

The Daily Chronicle:-It is a bold War Budget, and is entirely business-like.

The Daily Mail:-Mr. McKenna's mea antres are heroic, but the public will re- spund cheerfully.

LONDON, April 5th,

All the new taxes have been adopted by the House of Commons.

“AUSTR»LIA'S · METAL INDUSTRY.

PREVENTING GERMAN TRADE.

MELBOURNE, April 5th,

Mr. Mahon, the acting Federal Attorney. Generat, statos that, the combination of the Brokenhill Mines and the Associated

AUSTRIA AND THE

TUBANTIA.”

at the scarce would be 5s. LONDON, April 4th.

The income-tax on naval and military Smelters, for the smelting, refining and The Austrian Minister has assured the salaries would be unchanged. These in-realisation of all their concentrates for half Dutch Government that there was no Aus-creases would produce £43,500,000, Ana century, has a capital of one million ater-

trian submarine in the neighbourhood when the Tubantia was surk,

SHORTAGE OF TONNAGE.

(DUE TO NAVAL AND MILITARY

REQUIREMENTS.;

LONDON, April 4th, Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge emphasises that the shortage of tonnago is not due to

sa anomy attack on Haucourt, west of submarines, but owing to naval and mili.

Mouse, failed utterly, Cast of the Meuse, the bombardment was ced with the greatest violence. The mans launched a very strong attack

tary requirements. He says that during tho war only four per cent, of Allied ship. ping has been destroyed, and that the logs has been more than made up.

inst the first French lines south of Dou- |TALIAN FRONT, mont. Successive waveg of attackers

e swipe by waves of fire and the enemy ired in disorder to Chauffeur Wood, ere the French artillery concentration ficked heavy losses.

The French contintied to progress In illetto Wood,

A French dirigible dropped 34 bombs on dan-le-Roman station.

BRITISH OPERATIONS,

LONDON, April 4th,

1 British communiqué says:-Yesterday: Beruso machine was shot down by one our machines behind our lines south of

ncher. The pilot and observer were

Jed

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

SMALL AUSTRIAN ATTACKS

FAIL

ROME, April 4th.

ling, and all dividends over ten per cent. will be allocated to the Reserve Fund of the various producing Companies if the

would join the com bination. He added that Mr. Hughes, in the forthcoming negotiations on the Aus-

Burma Corporation

amusement tax, including theatres, cinemas, horse-ranging and football, would produce £6,000,000. There would also bo'a tax on railway tickets producing £5,000,000, an sdditional half-penny on a pound of sugar, producing £7,000,000, and the duties on cocoa, coffee and chicory would be-increaslian metal industry, will be able to speak for a combination of companies which is ed to six-pence, producing £2,000,000.

probably producing 85 per cent of the There will be a tax on watches of 4d, porine of the Empire. There is now every thousand, yielding £2,000,000; a tax on mineral waters of from 4d, to 8d a gallon, yielding £2,000,000; Licenses on motorcars are to be doubled or trebled, according to horse-power, yielding £800,000,

prospect of the metal industry being placed on such a footing that it will be free from any possibility of coming under German control in the future, as the problem of the

The Excess War Profits Tax is to be output of the Brokenhill Mines is Dow

settled for all time increased to 80 per cent,

The taxes on ten and tobacco for the present would not be changed. A second Budget would be necessary in July, when the question of further taxation of thes

A communiqué says:-There have been commodities might arise,

intense artillery duels between Lagaripa and Sugana valleys, and to the north-west of Gorizia. Small Austrian attasks at | Monte Cristallo and Montenero were re.

pulses.

A number of attempted air raids were also repulsed. An Italian seroplane bomb od Gorizia, causing a fire. GENERAL

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGEKOS:] ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID,

Mr. McKenna concluded that we were making ample provision for the war. When poate came we would have an ample margin for remission of taxation, were raising upwards of £300,000,000 yearly by post-bellum taxation. We could justly claim that we were not found want ing in civil and military courage,

MR. ASQUITH IN ITALY.

ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTIONS.

Bows, April 4th.

LONDON, April 4th.

In the House of Commons Mr. Runciman said that licenses for the importation of cotton yarn are generally given in respect only of goods en route or paid for before the 25th March.

WOMEN'S WAR WORK.

LONDON, April 4th.

In the House of Commons Dr. Addison stated thug there were 195,000 women in the-munition factories,"

FRENCH DOCTOR'S

DISCOVERY,

PARIS, April 4th. A seran against eruptive typhus has been discovered by Dr. Nicole, Director of the Pastour Institute at Tunis, Nineteen cases have been successfully treated.

SEQUEL TO WEST RIVER COLLISION.

CLAIM OF $100,000 AGAINST STANDARD OIL COMPANY,

An important Admiralty, action opened at the Supreme Court yesterday before the Chief Justice, and Commander Beckwith, R.N.. sitting as nautical asesor; when the Shui Hing Steamship Company sued the Standard Oil Company, claiming $100,000 damages ay the result of a collision in the West River, on the night of January 18th, 1015, between the Shui On, belonging, to the plaintiff Company, and the Standard Oil lighter Buth, which was aground at the time. The Standard Oil Company hayo entered a counter-claim for damages to bo uscogeed.

Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C.. (instrusted by Mr. C. AH, Russ, from Mr. Gardiner's office) appears for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Eldon Potter and Mr. E. C. Jenkiu (instructed by Mr. C. D. Wilkinson, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) aro defend- ing

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Mr. Sharp addressed the Court on the facte set out in the statement of olan, This states, inter alta that the Shui On, when coming down the West River, at the entrance to Wongmoon Creek, and be tween six and seven cables from the Swashway light. at about 2,15 am,, collid- od with the oil lighter Ruth. They allega that the lighter could not be seen before the collision n no lights were oxhibited.. The Shui On at the time was being caro- fully navigated on the east channel of the fairway course, and was keeping a good lock-out, but no special measures were. taken to avoid the collision ng thə Ruth. could not be seen. The port of the Shui On struck the port side forward of the Ruth. The plaintiffs state, also, that they, did not know whether the Ruth was aground, on at anchor, or adrift at the tamo of collision, but she was lying water-logged In the House of Commons Sir Edward in the course of vessels passing between Grey said that the sincerest, sympathy of and was not exhibiting the lights required Wongmoon Creek and the Canton River,

Government had been conveyed to by the regulations for preventing collisions. Zilles Sultan on the death of Princo Baha son, or any other light; neither did tho ram, who was one of the victing of the Ruth make any signal, nor was her position Sussex outrage.

marked or indicated in any way. A pro. per look-out was not kept on the Ruck, and The introduction of the rupes in Egypt none of the precautions required by the is merely temporary,

the

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, April 4th.

INDIA'S NEW VICEROY. ARRIVAL AT BOMBAY.

BOMBAY, April 5th Lord Chelmsford, the new Viceroy, arrived, He was welcomed with rousing seclamations by the multitudes

has

There was a most brilliant gathering. Native Prinos, the Governor of Bombay

and the Noval and Military forces went

bangsame in procession, with grens carmonial, accom- by British and Indian suralry, to Govern man House, whers Lord Hardinge receiv ed the new Vloerey

ANTAROTIC TERRORS. EXPERIENCES OF THE “ AURORA,"

LONDON, April 4th.

Mr. Asquith lunched yesterday with the

Mr. Stenhouse Chief Engineer of the King, who afterwards conducted the Pro-

Aurora in a further message to the Daily

mer to various points of the front. The

Chronicle says the vessel was carried about in drit loo and was in a most. precarious We

tour was contiuned in the morning, still

position till July 22nd, 1915, when the under the guidance of the King. Mr.

terrific pressure raised the ship on to the Aquath was everywhere given enthusiasti,

ion. On the previous day, heavy flows. receptions. He left in the afternoon,

inclosed the ship, and the steel-bound B-ton General Cadorng and Forro accompany rudder was bent and twisted like a cork. ing him to the station.

screw, and was rendered useless,

Mr. McKenra said the assistance to the Dominions amounted to £52.000.000. There BRITISH MUNITION FACTORY had been a saving owing to the public spirit of Canada, which had

loans in her

territory

To-day there has been mutual artillery ivity abans Souchez, Angres, St: Eloi, d Ypres. There has been some mining tivity about Neuville St. Vaast, Hul-Anglian coast at two o'clock in the morning.

Several explosions were heard, but up to.

prosent no fragments of bomba havo been discovered, neither the casualties, nor damage,

raised

·LONDON, April 4th. The War Office announces that a Zeppe in is reported to have crossed the East

, and the Hobenzollern Redoubt,

USSIAN FRONT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

FLOODS IN NORTHERN SECTOR.

PETROGRAD, April 5th,

A communiqué says:-The Germans con-

CAUCASUS CAMPAIGN.

the

LONDON ANTI-AIRCRAFT.

DEFENCES

UNDER-SECRETARY'S

REVELATION.

LANDON, April 4th.

ued to bombard the IEskull bridgehead; herwise there is no change to report on Mr. H. J. Tennant (Under Secretary for Northern sector, where the floods are War) stated that it is imposible to be ger. ising

tsin who were responsible for the felling of the L15. Several him are believed to bave been made by different batteries, The new Landon defences were most success The Russians made prisoners two Turful. More than one attack had been driven al Companies in the Caucasus. The Bus off in the Metropolia without the inhabit lang are advancing in a south-westerly ants being aware of it. (Cheers.) irection from Mush and Bitlis,

PETROGRAD, April 5th

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ordinary practice of the roast to avoid collisions were taken by the Ruth. Also, the Ruth neglected to observe Articles. Ty 4, 11, and 29 of the regulations for pre- verting collisions at sea,

Capt. T. Arthur, of Messia. Goddard

hert witness called. He said that he visited and. Douglas, marine kurveyors, was the

the scene of the collision three days after it took place, with the object of making a survey report, The lighter was lying across the channel, and the steamer was heading in the direction of Hongkong, and had over- run the lighter for about 50 feet; sha was projecting over the fighter to this extent. He took woundings round" ther steamer. At stern and bow the water, was 14 and 18 feet deep respectively, the lowest depth on the starboard side was 0 feet 6 in, and the lowest on the port side was 12 feet. When he took soundings 600 feet away from the steamer he found desper water than this on both sides. The Shui On was lying very little to the starboard side of the deep water channel; and ghe was a total loss. The stem was broken, na a result of the impact with the lighter, 3ft, 10in. below the water,

Cross-examined by Mr. Potter, Capt. Arthur said that he had had no experience, as a navigator, of the West River,

Then when you use the word "channel" you mêạn thấy little patch of water in There is a dramat o pasage in Mr. Sten-which the ship was? You do not profess house's diary, dated midnight. July 22nd, chronicling the final safety of the ship, It says Lanes opened in every

DIS ASTER-

TWO HUNDRED CASUALTIES.

London, April 4th. The Ministry of Munitions reports that

the week-end in a powdog factory in Kent, mare,

serious accidental fire broke out during

leading to a series of explosions.

The

direction, and the ship is 10 miles south east of Coulman Island. Thank God we have been spered through a fearful night

and în the United Staten. He emphasised the expansive power of British We had a pre-war debt of £651,000,000, trade as shown by the revenue returns,

and on the 31st March the total was

The first thing the Aurora's crew asked £2,140,000,000, but £389,000,000 would be casualties are approximately two hand for on their arrival at Dunedin was an returned by our Allies. We had also to rel. The fire was discovered at mid-day. door to an increased yield from new tax- and the last explosion occurred shortly ation. We never borrowed in advance after two o'clock, without provision for interest and allibera) Sinking Fund,

Expenditure had amounted to £5,000,000

daily..

EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF DUTCH CABINET,

THE HAGUE, April Th

The question of the double income-tax There was another exitsordinary meet- would be dealt with when the proposed re-ing of the Cabinet Council this afternoon, consideration of the income tax laws took

H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF place,

WALES.

London, April 4th. H.E.H. the Fringe of Wales has been gazched a Captain in the Grenadier

Ho painted out that rich men paying a super-tax would pay in taxation no lese than 77 per cent, out of their exom pro fits. He anticipated a reduction in revenue from beer of £3,000,000 and from spirits Guards, and Staff Captain on Hestquarter of £2,000.000.

English breakfast of perridge, bacon and eggs, to which they had looked forward after a month on a seal and penguin diet,

LUCKY TO REACH PORT.

WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), April 4th The opinion is expressed that the duron was fortunate to reach porti, is latterly she had been making seven lees of water daily.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, April 4th. Thu death has occurred of Mr. J. N.

Campbell, formerly a member of the Legis lative Council of Ceylon.

to know if it was the proper channel to be followed by West River boats or not? I know it is the usual track for boats on

the West River, let

But you say you have no experience of the West River Looking at the chart as a navigator that is the channel I should tako.

Questioned with regard to the depth of water, Capt. Arthur said that the wreck" of the uth was lying in 21 fathoms of water at low-tids; she was covered.

Then, the Ruth sank in 1) fathoms of fathong of water by the Shui On; the water 1-She was pressed down into 21

stern pressed down and the bow pressed up

Shown photographs of the Ruth standing. two fost out of the water, Capt, Arthur asid that silting would be responsible for this, Bilting would push both vessels up. Pressed with regard to this, Capt Arthur said he could not explain the photograph shewing the Ruth, with the Shur On on top of her, unoreret at low tide twenty- four hours after the nocident It must

must

have been a very low tide,

Mr. Potter And Mr. Jenkin says that sccording to your figures there was silting at this particular spot at the rate of 21 feet a week; rather extraordinary don't you think i Do you say the Ruth was foating at the time of the collision It is quite possible that she was just alive;"

Or just touching,

Then if people come here and swear The death in also announced of Sir John he was ground will you be prepared to

swear she was not 1-1 cannot cRT.

The hearing was adjourned until today.

Gorst.