Calls for "Sacrifices Throughout Nation"
London, Nov. 30, "Our expenditure on war and other services is now at a tate equivalent to £2,400,000,000 a year, an increase of about two-thirds on the rate at which we were previously spending," stated John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the House of Commons yesterday.
He emphasized that taxation of nearly £1,000000000 in a single year still left them to raise another £1,000,000,000 by borrowing, in order to meet expenditure this "year, In a full year, if the struggle developed in expenditure of shells and lives, their requirements would be considerably greater, The present annual rate of expenditure "was about half the total income of the community, though, of course, it was spread in very different "proportions, Sir John Simon continued, There were about 10,000 people in the country with incomes of £10,000 a year or more, whose aggregate income was about £180,000,000—a sum which would keep the country going only a week ten days, Taxation of estates took £160,- 000,0000 out of this total, so the answer to those who thought the problems of war finance could be solved by "soaking the rich" was that they rich were very "soaked" already, and there were not enough of them to find the money, Therefore it followed that the only way democracy could meet the terrible burdens of a great war was by willing sacrifices throughout the whole. nation,—Reuter, French Communist Gives Himself Up Paris, Nov. 29.
The noted deputy Communist leader Gitton, one-time member of ihe Central Committee of the French Communist Party, gave himself up to the police authorities today.
"I am no longer attached to any party and am ready to make a public statement to this effect," he said.—
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