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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 September 1915, Page 3

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Chronicle Otlicc ,3 u.iu LABOUR AND Till*: BUDGET. London, Sept. 23. During the Budget debate, Mr J. Barnes, on behalf of the Labour Party, approved the Rt. Hon. R. McKoima's proposals, and in view of the special circumstances assumed Unit the tax on imported goods was merely a financial expedient, devoid ol political significance. The party was prepared to support the Government in any Bud get helping to prosecute the war to a successful issue. He regretted the lower exemption limit; the increased revenue therefrom would not be proportionate to the hardship inflicted on the earners of £200 per year. Tin l par'y welcomed tho taxation on war profits. The Government should have assumed control of spine of these industries long" ago. Tt was now compounding a felony by sharing the swag. EXCITEMENT IN GREECE. Athens, Sept. 23. The decree issued by the Bulgarian Government mobilising twenty-so'en clauses of the army Una canned consider-abl-j excitement in Greece. THE GERMAN REPOKT. Amsterdam, Sept. 23. A German couiiiiunine states that in an i",v battle above Ponlaiuousson a German airmail engaged two French aviators .and shot down one machine, which was burned between the lines General von Hiudenburg's fighting south-west .of Lennewaderi is not concluded. We penetrated the Russian advanced position west o» Dvinsk, cap turing two thousand. We havfl broken the Russian resistance from northward of O.schmijiana to eastward of Subotieki. Our pursuing troops captured one thousand men. SCULLING, Wanganui. This Day. Wflil) dofcated Hannan easily.