Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-11 | Page 8 | Australia Plans to Force Loans

AUSTRALIA PLANS' TO FORCE LOANS Persons. Failing to Subscribe Sub-scribe May Be Penalized. By United ra. MF.LBOURNK. Australia. Oct. 11. A bill making subscriptions to Australian Aus-tralian war loans compulsory haa passed th first reading In th nous of representatives and ths acting prims minister, W. A. Watt, has moved ths second roadlng. Ths hill calls for making up a short -g of voluntary subscriptions to present pres-ent snd future war loans. Two classes of cltisena ar exempted thoee whoa taxable Income tall below 1160 and Australian soldiers snd sailors serving abroad. Ths amount any Individual may b required to aubscrlb during any year will not sxeeed six times his average Incom tax tor th three preceding years. An appeal hoard will have power pow-er to sxact a penalty from those falling fall-ing to subacrib a sufficient immmt, an amount qual to th yearly lncom of th preceding three years. This penalty, however, will not relieve th Individual from th obligation to aubscrlb.