London, May 30.
All parties welcomed the of still heavièr taxation given in the House of Commons by Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The finance bill was read a second time without division.
Mr. Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Labour member for the East Division of Edinburgh, declared the new Government was showing drive and a sense of gravity. He saíd the Labour Party would support heavy calls on the workers except the very poorest.
"We want the Chancellor to impose upon us burdens worthy of the heroism and courage of the BEF. he stated.
Other members spoke in a similar vein. Mr. Maurice Holy-Hutchinson, Conservative member for Hastings, said the present burdens did not sufhciently restrict individual spending. He feared a 100 per cent. excess profits tax would lead to extravagant capital expenditure as in the last war.
Captain H. F. C: Crookshank, Financial Secretary of the Treasury, said in reply it was surely rare for heavy taxation to be welcomed so wholeheartedly.
Unnecessary capital expenditure would be difficult under the powers which the Government now had to prohibit the use of materials or men. Moreover people were now opposed to the sort of thing that happened in the last war and it was on the people's patriotism that the Government Baroness Sentenced to Death by French Paris, May 30.
A court martial yesterday sentenced to death the Baroness Von Eimen, after she had been tried in absentia on charges of attempting to organize a "fifth column" in France.
Gaston Amourelle, former stenographer in the Senate, who typed secret military documents for the Government, was also sentenced to death as accomplice of the Baroness. The Baroness fled to Germany.—United Press.
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