THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 17, 1939
CONTINUOUS
GUERILLA
WARFARE IN POLAND: NAZIS RETALIATE IN VAIN
London, To-day.
ONCE LOST £100,000 IN
THE DIPLOMATIC Correspondent of the "Man- chester Guardian" reports a continuation of re- volts in Poland, where, he says, the Poles are waging continuous and effective guerilla war- SIX WEEKS
fare.
Fierce attacks are launched against the Germans at night by the hidden Poles, who remain under cover in the daytime. At night, they attack German soldiers and officers.
CORRESPONDENCE
INCOME
TAX ISSUES
Sir, Surely it is significant that the greater part of the outcry against Income Tax has come from the very prosperous of the Colony.
We are told, and we accept, that war demands the conscription of hu- man beings. Men of military age are called to the colours. Those of us with grown sons must send them to the battlefields and, if they are killed, recognise the inevitability of the sacrifice.
If the effort for victory is worth this price, surely there is no room among Englishmen for wails and pro- tests against a little extra taxation. Why should money have "ights above those of life? If life can le conscript- ed, why not capital?
An examination of the arguments against Income Tax shows that they boil down to one thing: "Tax everybody or anybody, but don't, God forbid, tax me." It also reveals the fact that those who shout the loudest
are the ones who have the least right
to do so.
Yours, etc.
M.A.C.
FLIGHT OF CAPITAL ?
Sir, I still have an open mind in this argument about income tax, but it seems to be that the opposition is getting desperate, and over-stating
its case.
The honourable Mr. Li Tse-fong, in the Legislative Counell yesterday, for instance, said that a million dollars in Chinese Notes had been shipped from Hong Kong daily recently, and allowed the impression that this re- presented a flight of capital.
Actually, of course, it is a simple banking operation, speeded up by the rise in the value of Chinese Notes in Shanghai. The notes are not legal tender in Hong Kong and could not be spent here. It is pro- bable, however, that they represent money spent here.
Cou-
At one time, they left the bodies in the streets, where they lay, but the Germans retaliated by taking re- prisals against those in the neighbour- ing houses. To-day, the bodies of the victims are taken away and concealed. In the Carpathians in particular,
for the Poles have a genius spiratorial and revolutionary work. The national spirit of Poland is not broken and the German Army and the Storm Troopers suffer considerable casualties. German soldiers do not dare to go out alone even in
the daytime.- Reuter.
LETTER'S TWO MILES IN 14 DAYS
Despite denials by Post Office spokesmen that there is undue delay in postal services, instances accumu- late of cases where letters and parcels have taken an extraordinary time to travel 'short distances.
An outstanding example is that of a letter delivered at a West End club a fortnight after had been posted in the City of London, two miles away. In another instance a letter took 23 days to get from "somewhere in Sur- rey" to Chelsea. A third case comes from a correspondent whose letter to a friend in the Midlands arrived a month later.
FEWER VANS IN USE
The official reply of the G.P.O. is that the service has been slowed down, and the reasons put forward in- clude:
Owing tu the black-out, and to shortage of staff due to men joining deliveries
collections and
up, mail have been cut down;
Last collections are several hours earlier than formerly;
Rail services have been restricted and trains are slower;
Petrol rationing curtails the use of mail vans.
The G.P.O. accepts no responsibility for delays in the receipt of letters from abroad.
An official pointed out that with the closing of the Mediterranean to our shipping, posts take a roundabout route; that air mails are cut down, and the Incoming letters may be de- layed by the censorship in London.
beneficial to the trade of this Colony?
NOT TOO GULLIBLE.
Exeter, Oct. 31.
John Hugh. Rowan is a gambler in a Big Way. On nearly every race- course in the country he is known as a gambler. A gambler against the Book.
He is not so well known as another sort of gambler. A gambler against the Law.
that story in
But the Law told Exeter to-day.
Silver-haired now Rowan. Seventy-one
is John Hugh years old. Не was young when he first came into money. He was in Australia, where he was born, then.
NEW MINISTRY
IN ASSAM
Shillong, To-day. It is officially announced that Sir Muhammad Saadulla, form- er Premier and leader of the op- position in the Assam Legistative Assembly, has agreed to form a new Ministry.
The Congress Ministry, it will be recalled, resigned owing to opposition to the British plans for India's Constitution.—Reuter.
ORDER THAT ENRAGED GERMAN OFFICERS
A special correspondent of a Copen- hagen newspaper who has returned from Warsaw reports that the Ger- man troops who thought they would be going home after the conquest of Poland were very disappointed to learn that they were being tranferred to the more dangerous Western front.
Officers were furious at having to retire before the Russians and were unable to believe the orders they re-
Thirty-nine years ago he arrived in ceived from headquarters. One officer England and began to gamble.
AGAINST THE BOOK he had suc- cesses and failures.
He bet 10s. at a time, to begin with. But within a few years he was betting in thousands.
Once he lost £20,000 on one bet; once he made £12,000 on one bet.
He won the £12,000 in April 1937 at Newmarket, a week or so before he paid £15,000 losses on one day at Epsom. That
total £15,000 brought his losses for six weeks to £100,000.
John Hugh Rowan paid-with notes. AGAINST THE LAW he had suc- cesses and failures.
Assizes.
So it was alleged to-day at Devon
There he was accused of obtaining £10,000 by false pretences from Ho- ward Watson Symington at Torquay last March
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said the Polish campaign was "not a war, but a 'strafe' expedition."
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as an expert confidence trickster. number of complaints had been made about him, but people had declined to prosecute because they feared publicity.
He had been twice convicted, in 1903 and in 1926. He once lived in luxury in the West End of London, and was known as a gambler who al- ways paid.
The defence handed to the judge a photograph, of a "Daily Express" cut- ting telling how he lost that £100,000 in six weeks and paid.
After hearing details of the £10,000 fraud the judge said: "But for young age I should have sent you to penal servitude for the maximum which the law allows."
term
again--
And it was said that he had been John Hugh Rowan pays under police notice for many years with eighteen months' imprisonment.
WAR OBJECTIVES OF THE ALLIES: RESTATEMENT PLEA IN
U.S.
VOICES CONTINUE to be raised in the American Press and in Congress urging a restatement of the Allies war ob- jectives. Many of these expressions of opinion come from persons friendly to the Allied cause.
Three main reasons are advanced to | Roosevelt might usefully intervene at The first is that this stage. Few people in this coun- support this view. such a step would demonstrate the try believe that terms can as yet be close identity of the Allied war aims obtained from Germany which would
United satisfy any of the Allies' demands. with the peace aims of the States. The statement, it is suggested, Many Americans are undoubtedly could be phrased in words almost ❘ puzzled by the quiet on the Western identical with those used by Mr. Cor- Front.
"New
dell Hull, Secretary of State, and Pre- As Mr. Arthur Krock, chief Wash- sident Roosevelt on various occasionsington correspondent of the during the past year.
The second reason is that it would shift the onus for continued hostilities on to Hitler's shoulders; the third that it would prevent arguments being used by Anglophobe Congressmen that the war is being fought for imperi- allstic purposes or because of power politics,
Assuming 200.000 refugees came here from Shanghai bringing an average of $200 apiece in Shanghai money, the banks would in process o time exchange this for H.K. currency and would have in their vaults as u
STREET SLEEPERS result some $40,000,000 in Shanghai currency. What more favourable op-
Sir, I shall be grateful if you will portunity than now for the banks to allow me to advise those interested in send
the Notes back where they
our work that our Annual General belong.
meeting on Tuesday will take place at St. John's Cathedral Hall at 6.30 p.m. instead of 5.80 p.m. and that the
The President, while being urgad to Chairman and members of the Execu- tive Committee will be "At Home" to keep an open mind as to the possi- Volunteers and helpers at 5.30 p.m.bility of playing the part of mediator, is also being cautioned not to fali instead of 4.45 p.m.
into a trap or agree to pull Hitler's chestnuts out of the fire.
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So, too, in Mr. Li Tse-fong's pass- ing reference to the appreciation of the Shanghai dollar, which he spoke of as a depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar, and tried to urge as an un- favourable development. Is it not the truth that the Shanghai dollar has These changes in time have been appreciated in relation to all other necessary because of the tea party in foreign currencies and can it be sug-honour of the Right Rev. Bishop R. O. gested, for one moment, that a rise | Hali, which is taking place the same in the external value of the Chinese | day.
HON. SECRETARY. National Currency can be other, than
INTERVENTION IMPOSSIBLE Outside certain political circles in Washington there is practically no support for the suggestion that Mr.
York Times," wrote: "There is a feel- ing here, which will persist until Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier wholly
dispel it, that the suspended state of the hostilities means that something is working in a direction opposite to that taken by the Allies' oratory,'
On the other hand it is widely re- cognised that the Alllos have every» thing to gain by exercising extreme caution. Official circles upprove the wisdom of exerting a slow unexciting economic pressure on Germany.
Mr. Walter Lipmann, in the “Her- ald-Tribune," maintains that a de- finite possibility for the Allles is in- action, with Hitler "blockaded, be- sieged, politically encircled and more ally isolated."