GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 149, 19 November 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

: M ■ INCREASING TAXATION. A SPY COURT-MARTIALLED. SPLENDID RESPONSE TO LOAN APPLICATION. London, November 17. It is stated' that the prohibition of Jhe export of tin-plates to Holland, Denmark, and Sweden will-close down $6 nulla at Swansea, rendering idle 1700 men. It is believed that Germany restores immediately 80 milljon tins for tood-packing. -"Mr. McKeniia stated that 145,000 |diena are interned) in concentration camps, and 28,000 are still at large. {Die. prospectus has been issued of jthe 280 million. 3% per cent, loan issued fet 05, and redeemable in 1982. Applications close on November 24. One hunjpred million has already been placed. Mr. Lloyd-George has announced that Ms Budget, proposals include a double income tax, but this year he win collect only one-third of the income. !*(A double income tax will be 2s '4d in the ,£, with certain deductions on small incomes.) A court-martial has opened at Wooliwich on Harold Fochtenberger, charged with possessing a wireless apparatus. He admitted owning the apparatus found •t his residence, Thorpe Bay (north of Harwich). The police found a powerful electric Hone lamp at a house overlooking the Ha at Southend, which (prisoner's aunt . gecopied.

ERJNCE'OF WALES AT THE FRONT. , JANOTHER AJjqiO-mDIAN } IOONTMGENT. *M (London, November 17. *'Jlto flPrince .of Wales has joined Sir John French's staff. He went to France yesterday. LAn important Anglo-Indian contingent las arrived at Marseilles. Sir Douglas Haig has been promoted ■to general for distinguished service in ithe field. . SERIOUS (INDUSTRIAL SITUATION. HEED FOR CRUSHING GERMANY. Received 18, 5.30 p.m. London, November 17. Mr. Lloyd-George said that during the vns industries would be enormously oc- • copied, and the country would then have to face the most serious industrial situation it was ever confronted with, as it will have exhausted an enormous funount of the world's capital, and our purchases at Home and abroad will be •crippled. It was, therefore, desirable to raise as much taxation as possible during the time of trade inflation, but the Government would not levy any taxation nrhich would interfere with any productive industry. "We are," said the Chan--tellor of the Exchequer, "fighting an enemy which, unless subjected to a smashing defeat, will not submit to terms which we would prudently ac'cept." He hoped the chief result of the war would be an all-round reduction of knnamentSr ■'. tPBESS APPROVE BUDGET.

"Received 19, 1.40 ajn. 'A.-- ■• . November 18, ' '•if^j JOTw «ewßp£per» generally approve of lo3ge£'&& burden being well ' . ,i&Br%z!tex.i *- ■ —■

BRITAIN'S WAR BUDGET. ENORMOUS DEFl#i\ ADDITIONAL TAXATION. ARMY OF THREE 'MUTTON MEN. Received 18, 3.15 p.m. London, November 17. Mr. Lloyd-George estimated the year's expenditure at £206,924,000, in addition to £328,443,000 for war expenditure, the probable deficiency being £339,571,000., The first year of the war would cost at least £500,000,000. The largest sum Britain had previously spent on war in a single year was ''£71,000,000. The beer duty would be increased a half-penny per half-pint, the tea duty would be increased by 3d per lb., but there would be no extra whisky tar. The British expenditure was higher in proportion than that of any other country. Already they had at least two million men under arms, and he confidently anticipated that, there would be three millions in a few months. The separation allowances alone would then cost £65,000,000 annually. V.C. HEROES. MR. O'BRIEN'S REPLY.

HELP ENGLAND OR,LOSE HOME j RULE. ] A RECORD WAR BILL. Received 18, 9.5 p.m. London, November 17. Amongst the recipients of Victoria Crosses are: Captains Grenfell and Reynolds, for saving guns; Captain Wright, who was mortally wounded while rescuing a comrade; and Surgeon Rankin, for attending wounded under fire. Mr. William O'Brien, replying to his constituents' protest against the suggested conscription, wrote: "We have either got to bid good-bye to Home Rule or help England honestly in the war. Irishmen are being cruelly led astray, their attitude towards the Government being inexplicable, and it is furnishing certain English politicians with their only ex-1 cuse for deserting the Home Rule cause." Major Richardson, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has been appointed Lieut-enant-Colonel of the Royal Marines. The British war cost last week was £12,755,000. •London, November 17. Five officers and four non-commis-sioned officers, including two sergeants of L Battery, have been awarded the Victoria Cross. Two officers who received the Cross have died of their wounds.

INCOME FROM NEW DUTIES. COMPARISON WITH NAPOLEONIC DAYS. I RESOLUTIONS CARRIED. Received 17, 10.35 pjn. London, November 17. In the House of Commons Mr. LloydGeorge said the tea duty would produce £32,000,000 next year, and beer £17,000,000. The country's income at present was £2,300,000,000, whereas in Napoleonic times it was only £250,000,000. If we rose to the heroic level of our ancestors now, we should be raising £700,000,000 annually. Mr. LloydGeorge was generally cheered in his speech, and the resolution imposing the duties was carried. . ,