, 1915-09-25

claIest snys that the agitation against the
p.o-Gelmau policy Of the Bui&atlan Cabinet
Is eAteudiug throughout bulgaria.. Name
louo le egrams have been addressed 70 the
Premier asking for the immediate couVOcH-
ton Of the Drputie All the opposition
groups which favour au arrangement wi h
the Entente PoWels will now he reinforced
by the grenter part Of the Stamboloyist Party
aud will constitute the majority IN the So
bran Z; the q eminent !, therefore uatu-
IuiIy reluctant to convene the Chamber, feuI-
my IL hostile vote. The county is under
mmtinI law, public meeting are forbidden
and newspapers are frequently contiscated,
and as The sentiment OF the bulk Of the ma
ton finds Inadequate expressions discomfort
i Increasing.
The correspondent Of the Associated Press
al Berlin says that official reports from the
Austrian and German headquarters aud des-
patches from the b lilon capitals show that
The long expected leu oojc campaign against
Serbia Las now begun. Austrian and GEL
mau artillery are bombardiug the Serbian
positions, south Of the river frontier, at yari-
Gus points on Il hundred mile front between
the mouths of the DruN and the Morava.
In the House Of Commons, Mr., Mac Ken
ia, Introducing HE Budget, sud he must
ask the sanction of the House for grent and
unprecedented burdens, The revenue for the
cum eDt en- being 272,0 600, 900 pounds, aud
the expenuitnIe 1890, 0O0. 600 pounds.
"Our national parts be sand, ARE great, md
Tins dtbt will not cripple our resources, but
we must not overlook the strain that such
expenditure Will impose upon our sources
Of supply and il viii be necessary to borrow
again The cost OF the Navy WINS 8 10000
DDn tbut nf t1. A,pN. : = HGH nnn u,l Y
ternal advances reached 423, coo, 900 puunds.
The total daily expenditure - upward
of $500 e0 pounds and may be five
million III the latter part Of the year.
He proposed to add forty per cent TO the
income tax rate, reducing the exemption
limit from one hundred and sixty pounds to
to one huudred aud thirty aud permitting
payments by half-ye0rly instruments. On
employees Of all descriptions the assessments
and collections will be quarterly. The sup
ert-ax on incomes Of eight thousand pounds
aud over will be Increased to torty-two pence
per pound, and a speclub@taX of fifty per cent
Will be put on all concerns dealing in war
supplies on profits above one hundred pounds.
simultaneously with au increase in the sugar
duty to uine shilling6 and tour pence per hun.
dled-Weight, the Royal Commission on sugar
supplies will reduce the prices to the Ietineries
by thirty 10 tblrty-slx pence, making a nett
increase Of five shllliugs per hundred-Weight.
1t provides tor an all round increase of fifty
pen cent. in the duty on tea, coffee, chicory,
tobacco and dried fruits, and one hundred
per crut on pptent medicines, also, Tiny
three aud one third ger cent. ud valotem on
automobiles, films. clocks, watches, musical
instruments, hats and pIutegIa>s. The esti-
mated revenue for next year IS put ut 387,
100000 pounds.
Letters aud documents written by Count
yoM Bernstortf, d Dumbn and Captain Won
Papen, recently siez,d from Captain Archi-
bald at Falmouth, were read IN the House
Of Commons. DR.. Dumbu called President
Wilson "srlfwilled", aud Captain Won Pupan
spoke Of he 'idiotjc Yankees"
Dominica, 23rd.-Washington reports
some indications centre OF disturbance in
lnttule fifteen longitude sixty-seven.
London, Sept. 23rd-Sugar in stock on
the l8,h. INST. was A goo tons. Last year
$1,000 tons.