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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY,

JANUARY 24, 1935.

CHINA'S IMMENSE TAX BURDEN

PROMISED REDUCTIONS: HAVE NO MEANING

Peking.

"Abolish illegal taxes and miscellaneous levies" has been the watch-word throughout China since early in 1934 when the Finance Conference mét and decided to urge this popular means of tax-reduction. "Illegal taxes and miscellaneous levies" are usually the means taken by local militarists to raise emergency funds in times of stress or unusual stringency. Once such a tax is promulgated and collection started it appears to go on forever of its own momentum, hence the unbelievably large number of them now in existence. Few local or provincial governmenta are ever rich enough to do away with any possible source of cash revenue.

Thus it in with considerable tax, cooking oil tax and paper tax. elation that the National Govern- The Joker was the institution of ment announcer that during the a five per cent tax on all "banquet" year 1934 over 3,000 such Illegal dishes sorved in local restaurants taxes were abolished. Heavy finan- and "readjustments" of the local cial burdens, it is proudly stated, taxes on wines, tobacco and motor- have been lifted from the shoulders cars. Unannounced was the doubl of the common people throughouting of the house-tax, chief source

The latter Is') the land. Precine Agares published of local revenue. fndicate that the Government is assessed according to the number denying itself of $28,000,000 a year of rooms in the home, which are the result of the campaign. classified as to type of roof and That figures out at about Meven Interior finish into first, second and

third clous. cents per capita.

ILM

That pacans of thanksgiving have not noticeably disturbed the Walkin

that the

The brunt of the difficulties arising out of Yugo-Slavia's decision to depart all unnaturalised | Hungarians was borne by the city of Szeged, Hungary, just across the border of the two countries. The scene portrayed bere is not one of milling refugeei-It is ̈ihe market place in Szeged, but the wal- ter of humans and vehicles must have been re-enacted with tragic notes as refugees from Yugo-Slavin flocked into the city.

has.

Taxes not abolished include a ten to iwenty per cent. tax on all sales as the result of all this is doubt of real estate and property, bicycles been kept too much. The romantic

original dialogue less due to the fact that in a large measure the abolition of the obnoxi. and, riskshas as well as motor-car language is banul in these days.

corresponding increases In other more respectable taxes.

mule-cart tax, tract lax, enterprise inx, slaughter have some difficulty in making tax and a long list of "miscellaneous their characters live. John Loder. levies not included in the recent succeeds the better. clean-up.

has several

STARVES TO DEATH

FAILS TO FIND FORTUNE

London.

Such, at least, was Peking's ex- perience. Complying with the re-

Miss Hopper is not well cast as solutions of the National Finance The real tragedy of taxation in Lorna. But the film prodilced by Conference, the municipal nuthori-Chin is that heavily burdened | Basil Dean has Its value tles announced that on November, though the people are, the Govern-picture production of the pretty first thirteen "cruel contributions rent absolutely cannot afford to old romance.

A youth who threw up a good and miscellanes taxes" would be decrease its inconte materially. stirring scenes, including the pest in the country to seek his

away with.

¡Services on foreign and domestic attack of the Doone's en Jan's There were listed as: Contribuloans, together with current mill-Farm, the engnter attack on the flon to the phor, head tax onltary expenses require so much that | Doone Stronghold, and the famous livestock, taxes on bones and in-there is but a negligible margin left | fight between Jan and Carver testines, one of the four separate which may be spent education noone. Several of the smaller taxes on prostitutes, cereal tax, or reconstruction or dispensed with i parts are very well played, notably lime tax, fish tax, egg tax, tax on to relieve the tax burden of the those of Mary Clare, pork and multon, sesainu seed 1people.--United Press,

done

Fine Films

Showing In London Now

Roger Livesey, George, Curson, Frank Collier and Margaret Lockwood, Lorna's love song

sung by Ming

In the title part Mr. Leslie Howard gives the thest performan-Hopper, has been composed by ce of his film career, particularly in Rutland Houghton and the musical

score is by C. Armstrong Gibbs, those passages in which he plays the elegant fup to conceal his The British war film "Forgotten identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Men" has been passed

with one His wilty passage-at-arms with scene ent out, by the Beard of Mr. Raymond Massey, who plays Censors. The decision was made Chauvelin, is one of the high lights known last week following a con- of the film; Miss Merle Oberonsultation between the President of

STRANGE OUTBURST her reputation by her the Board, Mr. Edward Shortt,

AT ADELPHI

LESLIE HOWARD'S

SUCCESS

London.

restrained performance of the and Sir John Hammerton, the war character of Lady Blakeney and a historian, who appears in the ple- especially effective in the emotional ture in the role of commentator. scene with Sir Andrew. Ffoulkes, The film has been granted an "A" when Lady Blakeney realises that certificate which means that it she has betrayed her husband to can be shown to all except Chauvelin. The Sir Andrew children. An official stated that Foulkes of Mr. Anthony Bushell the only important scene which With the production of "The brilliantly natural performance, the Censor objected to was one includes in which_n-mangled corpse is seen Scarlet Pimpernel" presented at the ne, supporting cast Leicester Square Theatre for the Miss Joan Gardner, Mr. Nigel entwined in barbed wire, and this first time on Christmas Eve, Mr. Bruce. Mr. Gibb MeLaughlin, Mr. Is the scene which has been cut In other respects the pieture Alexanda Korda has made yet an-William Freshman. Mr. Bromley out. uther British Film which will com-Devenport, Mr. Bramwell Fletoher, will be issued in the form in mand world-wide

which it was privately shown.. It success: The and Walter Rilla, story which is alrendy known i After six months preparation is to be presented at the Rialto throughout the world as a novel and four months' filming "Lorna Cinema. W. for a season.

play has been loyally | Dione", arrived ha talkie for An extraordinary, incident mark- adapted to film form. In point of Christmas. It was presented' at

ed the second private screening of sheer pictorial enchantment, the Adelphi and Victoria Hopper this film at the Adelphi Theatre. other Aim of 1934 has reached the and John Luder appear as Lorna The audience invited included exquisite quality achieved in this and Jan Ridd. The film which General Sir Ian Hamilton, L. production. These outstanding vie-was partly made on Exmoor isen. Si Aylmer Hunter-Weston, tues are due to the brilliance of pleturesque and very effectively. Major General Sir Percival the settings designed by Mr.reconstructs the rural England of Wilkinson, Major-General Patrick, Vincent Korda and the superb the Seventeenth century. IL photography of the American "are" follows the main poings of the book cameraman. Mr. Harold Rosson. faithfully, and its chief fault is

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