Widely spread raids stretching from London to Scotland took place during, the night, There was an attack for the first time over Northern Ireland, Five German bombers are known 10 heve been shot down, Areas where raids have been ported included the Bast. South-east, Central "and Western districts of Scotland. a North-east coast town and a West Midlands town, Oficial ro-ports indicate that casualties "were hot heavy considering the extent of the raids, The attacks tasted several hour Though some districts experienced sharp attacks no heavy raid was made of any one area, A number of people were killed ina South-west Scotland town and a few were killed and many injured in South-east Shortly before midnight, waves of German planes passed over south> west Scotland, heading north, London had a short alert—the rst since Friday—which ended before midnight—Reuter Wounded Pilot's Heroic Act London, Apr, An heroic act of a wounded pilot 1s reported by an observer of the RAF, released from an Talien prison camp when British troops one fou) [tered Adis Ababa, say's the Air Ministry News Service, Total Revenue The total estimate of Inland Revyentte Duties on the existing basis of taxation is £992,000,000, customs ex-£878,000.000 and Purchase Tax £70,000,000.
Total estimated revenue for 1940/41 fon the "existing basis of taxation amounts to £1,636,000,000, The Hops Tax will be renewed for a further four years, the medicine and Stamp duties will be repealed from September 2 and new fegisiation will bbe introduced. The Finance BIN includes a clause providing for the pur poses of Income Tax and national defence contributions of similar allowance t0 that provided for the purpose of the Excess Profits Tax in respect of losses incurred in. providing adai-Yana) buildings of plant a'et inschin~ ery. for the war effort, The Chancellor foreshadowed 3 modification of the Excess Profs Tax, but could not now afford any The Exchequer, Sir Kingly continued, would Lear a consti-ably creased burden to prevent an incrers2 fin the cest of living, Including an Increase in shipping rates and snsur= ance. The policy of stabilizing prices would be continued and extended The scheme would -include coal, gas and electricity: charges. The aim was to hold wages about where they were now.—Reuter.
"We were engaged on a raid over Burye when an Italian fighter got foch ind us and put in a burst which, put our intercommunication out of forder and sent our aircraft, into a spin," he said, was, astounded sharily afterwards to see the head of Jour pilot suddenly appearing in the rear gunner's cockpit, "He shouted to jus" {0 Jump and disappeared, We jumped and landed unhurt. X found four that the Talians' bullets had hit Jour pilot in the back paralysing both trot is tens and causing hi (0 Jost con-"His rst thought was for our safety, Badly injured as he was and helpless below the waist he managed to pull himself out of the cockpit of the violently spinning machine and Jelimb along the fuselage to the tail io wive us warning, "He also succeeded, in pulling his own sip cord and was picked up by the Italians and taken a hospital at Addis Ababa, say him some days later, He iwas quite cheerful in spite wounds but two days later ho died. 1 cannot yet understand how he per~ ronned that awful journey in mid~ Jair to give us the warning that un-Hdoubtediy saved our lives."—Reuter, Tue staff of the Bank of. England, subscribing £5,000 for a Spitire, wrote: "We make but one request—that our aeroplane be named The Old Lady."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.