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THE CHINA MAIL MARCH 29, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE COST OF WAR
Without anticipating
his Budget statement, which expected be-
fore Easter, the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer re- cently indicated to the House of Commons the size of his problem and the general nature of its solution for solution there will be. The total national expenditure in the week ended March 22
reached £14,671,000 day, of which £12,500,000| a day was spent on the fighting Services or other purely war Services. Ex- penditure this financial year is likely to reach £4,000,000,000. Of this total £3,300,000,000 is at-! tributable to the
a
war.
which is therefore al- ready costing about £870,- 000,000 more than spent in the peak year of the last War.
was
It cannot yet be said how much will be met by revenue and by borrow- ing, but the gap between total expenditure and total income may well be on paper some £1,600,000,- 000. The exact figure de- pends upon how far the revenue, now coming in extremely well, fulfils or exceeds the estimates, and how far subscriptions to loans keep up to or exceed the present weekly total of about £26,000,000.
So
SORRY!
BRITISH
ISSUES
ŵum m
SHANGHAI-NANKING
TIENTSIN PUKOW RAILW
MR. MATSUOKA (in Berlin). "The ideal which is dear to Japanese above all things is embodied in makho ichio, that harmonious world community with room for all nations, in which they can realise their wishes and fulfil their missions."
Axis Is
Strategy Upset
Mussolini is now Hitler's lieu- Eritrea because I had something permanent monument at Kassala
tenant.
The Italian war machine to
do with U former
of Kassala some
Italian in memory of the Italian officers is entirely under German control.evacuation
43 and men who had captured and Mussolini has had no alternative. years ago. In 1894 Italian troops held it against the Mahdi. I won- last in Eritrea captured Kassala fromder whether that monument still When he struck at Greece
Mahdi. October a few hours before he the Dervishes under the
stands, and what the retreating Dervishes then held the mel Hitler at Florence he believed The
Italians now think of it. There are, after all, new he could gain the initiative in the Egypt. An Anglo-Egyptian army Sudan and were threatening resources to be tapped Axis campaign against Britain in under Kitchener took the offensive both by taxation and by the Mediterranean and North against them in 1896 and was pre- borrowing. Mr. Pethick-Africa. He expected no opposition Lawrence has estimated from the Greeks. Now he has to that the national income pay the price of his error. Whe- had risen by £2,000,000,-ther the Italian people relish Ger- 000 since the outbreak of man tutelage is another question,
present they have
bor-
For the
no
Hitler is in a hurry. He needs
war, and that the nom- voice in the matter. inal value of what was left after taxation and rowing had altered little, to smash Britain before help from though of course the total the United States shows, in Pre- is differently distributed.
By
Wickham Nothing that Hitler
Steed
to paring
attack them near sident Roosevelt's words, that de-Khartum where the Mahdi's mocracy is unconquerable. He troops had killed General Gordon It is clear indeed that will do his utmost to hit Britain some years before. Just then the Italians were routed by the Abys- the State must get back hard in the air and by sen, and sinians at Adowa and were hold- Ing Eritrea precariously. Though as much as it can of the perhaps on land by invasion.
it was important that they should new. income created by Meanwhile we are hitting Mus-hold Kassala until Kitchener could expenditure within Brit-solini hard. I take a personal in- take it over. ain's own borders, and terest in the Italian defeat This threat astonished Lord |
that the limit of what can
be got back has probably
in
From headquarters near Khar- tum the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, is now organising the revolt of his people against the Italians. British and South African forces are helping him. can do will save Italy's hold on Abyssinia and perhaps Eritrea. German aircraft may play a part in the Mediter- ranean and North Africa, as they played it when we lost the cruiser "Southampton" and the aircraft carrier "Illustrious" was damaged. Since then more than 50 German aircraft have been dostroyed by our forces. Fighting may be severe but we do not fear the result.
So the war moves towards its climax. Mussolini's surrender to
Hitler may be the first phase of the climax, The climax itself may bring the downfall of Hitler with in sight. Britain will not surret- der..
Salisbury, the British Prime: Can Hitler invade. Britain? We Minister, who exclaimed: "I have think he cannot, though we are often been annoyed by people ready, for Invasion should it come. who wanted to get something, but German preparations are never before have I seen people stantly going on from Norway to
con-
are
not been reached. Sir sources" now in use are Kingsley Wood does not not replaced by something
in such a hurry to give up some- Bordeaux, and our aircraft deny that the gap is, as- else. That is why the thing." As correspondent of the constantly upsetting them. Earlier "London Times" in Rome I help-| preparations cost Hitler dear. But suming serious propor- Chancellor is certain to ed to persuade the Italian Gov-as he must now torce the issue he tions, but he strongly de- ask the direct taxpayers omment to hold Kassala until an may try again, regardless of cost. force, coming From across the Atlantic comes precates
the Anglo-Egyptian unnecessary as a body to follow
from the Red Sea, could. take it President Roosevelt's warning alarm, because it can be example of prompt pay-over at the end of 1897,
voice. Hitler will, heed it. He will understand that he must win filled by drafts on outside ment already set by some,
In 1898 Kitchener crushed the quickly if he is to win at all. resources. Nevertheless why he inveighs in gen-Mahdi at the battle of Omdurman Usually he has struck his success- these resources are large-eral terms against waste, and took Khartum. At Omdur ful blows after lung and careful Mr. Winston Churchill preparation with the help of tral-. ly non-recurrent; and, why he roundly declares ma
charged through the Dervishtors in the countries he meant to though the danger of the that the present rate of ranks at the head of a squadron crush. There are no traitors in Bri gap may easily be exag-subscriptions to loans of Lancers. He came through tain, It remains to be seen whe gerated to-day, it is a must be exceeded, and hand fighting. His book on that ficiently as he can prepare. Im danger that is likely to why he warns the public campaign has long been a mill-provise he must because. Musso-
tary classic,"
ini's error in attacking Greece. increase in the future if that new taxation will be re-
has upset the whole strategy, of the gap be not narrowed imposed in the forthcom Later that year I was instru- the Axis. Before the spring is over mental in perunding, the Anglo- we may know the worst and, as and if the "outside re-ling Budget..
Egyptian authorities to put up n wa
unscathed after fierce hand-to- ther Hitler com improvise as el-
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