THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 11, 1939
INCOME TAX DISCUSSION
Sir,In the course of the Income | tion which I would like to raise is
Tax debate at the Legislative Council meeting yesterday the Governor was good enough to declare that "there is no question of calling up the official majority to support a measure which would extract a gift to the Imperial Government." This declaration makes it abundantly clear that the revenue expected to be raised from Income Tax will be used as a gift to the Im- perial Government presumably for the duration of the war.
Whether such a provision has been, or will be, embodied in the draft Bill under consideration of the Special Committee is not yet known to the man in the street.
now
Assuming that revenue from Income Tax will also be applied, in part, to meet the general expenditure of the Colony, a fine point arises. The ques-
THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE
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field." Such was the view of the former German Ambassador at Rome, a man with a military training and in the opinion fo many people the future Chancellor of the Reich.
A BLOW TO THE HIGH
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The event was apparently far less lightly at G.H.Q. This was evident from. a letter which I re- ceived, at about the same time Count Monts's optimistic prophecy, from a high official of the Foreign Ministry, whose name I will not give as he is still
living. He was in attendance on the Kaiser, with Chan- cellor van Bethmann-Hollweg, as re- presentative of the Foreign
Minis-
one having to do with the personal emoluments and pensions of Govern- ment employees directly provided for out of revenue raised by virtue of of the Appropriation the authority Bill each year.
One of the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council (Clause 24 (7), provides specifically that "a member. shall not võte on any subject in which he has a direct personal pecuniary in- terest.
In deciding whether a motion for the disallowance of a member's vote shall be proposed from the chair, the President, or, in any committee, the Chairman shall have regard to the character of the ques- tion upon
which the division was taken and to the consideration whe- ther the interest therein of the mem- ber whose vote is challenged is direct and pecuniary and not an interest in common with the rest jesty's subjects and whether his vote was given on a matter of State policy."
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The question herein raised calls for advice from the Law Officers of the Crown and for exercise of some searching in the minds of the legal Juminaries among the unofficial mem- bers of the Council.
Might not the Colony hope for an- other act of grace from His Excel- lency, following the declaration he made at yesterday's meeting, to de- clare further the disallowance of the official members' votes on the ground of their personal interest which may be directly affected by reason of the revenue raised under the Income Tax Bill forming part and parcel of the money for the Colony's expenditure under the powers of the Appropria- tion Bill?
There is real danger that once In- come Tax is raised its appropriation for general expenditure might be per- petuated.
Your faithfully,
J. P. BRAGA.
[We, fail to see the distinction as to pecuniary interest in the matter of Income Tux, between an Official and an Unofficial.-Ed.]
try. His letter also showed that might cultivate the art of the lan- G.H.Q. were discussing a war policy guage that conceals thought, but the of a radically different nature from Army, was expected to speak candid- It was that which had so far been declared.ly, clearly, courageously. "Under the impression of the events painful to note how the Army bul- between the Aisne and Marne," he letins were glossing over every set- wrote, rather dejectedly, it would be back or writing of it in such a way necessary when victory came ("but that the reader could make nothing out of them. "The wing" had been. we have not got so far as that yet") to impose on France conditions which "withdrawn," or the front "rectified," and the troops "regrouped" for should make her harmless
For it would strategic reasons. For
years long time to come. scarcely be likely to be possible "to unpleasant news was strenuously kept get at Russia decisively."
people; gradually I could from the
stopped, have reminded my correspondent that loophole for its entry was
and Germany walled off from the at the end of July he had said to me that the Russians had "no guns outer world. The Battle of the Marne Now, "under had had no existence, and news of and no munitions." the impression of events," the idea other things that happened beyond was similarly had emerged of letting the Russians the encircling wall
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off lightly, since there was no get-suppressed. In January, 1916, Prince ting at them, seeking an early re-Bulow, returning from a journey to conciliation with the Tsar, and forc- Switzerland, voiced his disgust ing a decision only in the west. This this suppression, which was giving the German people a completely false was clearly the idea of General von
situation, concealing Falkenhayn, the new Chief of Staff. idea of their It had no chance, however, of being from them the temper and the opin- and in thelons of the rest of the world carried out, either then or years that followed, because Hinden- allowing no suspicion to arise of the burg and Ludendorff, Falkenhayn's nation's immense peril. The inevit- truth greater and more popular rivals, able final awakening to the
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