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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1959.
MALENKOVI SO WE ALL WANT PEACE. OK.
HOW MUCH WILL YOU GAMBLE?
SENTIMENT AND BUSINESS
AMERICAN WAY-OF-LIFE
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS
camp
chapters:
The
401 umaceristul attempt in 1941 to escape from In Poland, is nished by the German 10. Colditz, the "Bad Boys' Cainp." Here he tries again-this time disguised as a German N.C.O. in "home-made" uniform and equipment. He gets aately past the guard-house when a volce shouts "Hatt!"
THERE were more
T
shouts from the
guard-house as I turn-
ed round towards the lights. We find a
It was a fatal mistake. I be- came
I
that the #WILTO scenery paint with which had daubed my khaki tunic was glowing under the arc tamps, reflecting a shade of pra-green. The cap was the worst. It' shune like a in the brilliant emerald
glare. I was a figure of the underworld, a
"He slowly assembled
a
large Victorian camera."
FORGOTTEN
PASSAGE
CHAPTER NINE
with
the
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
INCE it was announced speech, and if they hear one on in the Budget speech the radio they probably think it
is part of the Goon Show. that the people of the They get television neck, and Sellly Islea will have to pay go to the pictures twice a income tax for the first week, whatever num is being westcens They prefer time, many have wondered shown.
and gangster flims because thes how Mr Bloodsucker, the are naturally vicious, and whit income tax collector, will not be indignant, like the im get his money.
Walt Disney critics, because Some think it will take the vulgared Peler Pan."
This is because seaborne invasion, An
they have form of a
nover bearl of Sir James Bar- with Admiral Bloodsucker command of the landing erat. If the Intellectuals timong and General Bloodsucker, in the them have heard of Walt Dis- Bloodsucker uniform of Binckney they probably think he is the author of "Alice in Wonder- jacket, siriped trousers and." bowler hat, leading his Froops
holes in the road,
to the benches with a hourse They are the peoplo' who
Dhe are at cry of Forward men" points his umbrella at the foe, queue all night for a seat at a
But I am able to reveal that murder
(although they
·dur- this plan of campaign has been rumbled at food queues abandoned in favour at the fur the war), and, lo moments Trojan horse method.
of exceptional uwurencas; uring
the Blood- up
BBC if anything goes
Mr
П
In other words, sucker will spend his
Summer Wrong with programme.... holidays in the Scilly Isics, In the evenings, with u radilo probably with Mrs Bloodsucker ut full throttle, they read come foutball and the dear little Bicodsuckers. strips and do Wielr
So the Islander who asked a pools At supper they pour reporter "What does an income vinegar aver their food, what- 11 is, They all have tax man look like? will soon ever
entarch and chronic indigest on. And out.
Their dogs bark louder thun Mr B. on holiday, with his other
Their dogs.
chidren open-neck shirt. neut annels
bercani louder than uther and freckled nose. Mrs B.. in her low-cut flowered frock, with half the skin burned off her back, will seem like a nice, normal English couple roasting themselves alive to keep fit, ex- cept that they will be more than the country."
affairs.
children. They are us stupid as they look. And so are their dogs and chlidren.
But, if Ignorance is blitz, they ure the happlert kmbeciles in
normally Interested in local Gentlemen in!
Their seemingly casual ques
tions about profits and made by
farmers and
lot's
Bower
Retirement
guard-house by mysterious rowers will appear to be on
more than the sympathetic it I DON'T care what you say.
of the inner courtyard, building connected
old man. Sixty-five is the Bridge of Sighs. What lay beterest of friends to the gullible wrong age to wear a magenla hind those tiny dusty windows natives, who will eagerly tell shirt, apricot scarf and a phir above the gateway? Was there ali.
of purple trousers.
of the scent of blossom, will soon be full of the curses of the betrayed.
attic
of
passageway leading to the And the lovely islands, full I suppose it doesn't matter if
Порг on the upper the guard house? At cilher end of the bridge the rooms which Jed to It
were locked barred and doors bricked Roaming like inquisitive
and up.
children around some mysterious
mansion in the hours of day- light, we came excitedly upon the secret. There was a passageway. The way to it lay under the floor of the theatre where a 'rough dats was ruixed to, form
a stage.
The prospectors In this new Jerritory were led by Pat Reld, MBE, MC, and "Hank" Wardle, MC, a Canadian In the RAF, who first discovered the mogle entrance,
罰 demon king By Airey Neave, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.
under the spotlights in a
Christmas pantomime. I throng of prisoners under ing me crow with delight, turn- turned und ran panic sentence.
stricken
towards
the
bicycles.
Henvy footsteps us of whole army of
11
jackboots
pursued me."
DENEATH
5
the Klage
the
ed in surprise. He did not know searchers found space that I had seen a way of free enough to crawl and sawed the dom. If I could cross the moat away the floorboards making a in early October, when leaves began to fall, I was sent bridge and reach the park ea square hole in the ceiling of
cape was possible. to the town gaol in Colditz,
the passage below. Reid climb- ed down into the sealed passage In my ground-floor ccli in Parsing under the gateways
Ing to the gate-bridge. He long the route of my lil-fated the town gaol the twenty-eight and found a locked door lead- white-days passed.agreeably. I had picked the lack-and-came-to-a- "attempt I saw ̄ ̄ ̄n-new
for months further door on the far side of wooden barrier across the road enough cigarettes
The sentry and lay on my bed smoking and the bridge. It opened without grinned at me and said: "They reading save for an hour's cac difficulty, revealing steps into at the final exit. put this here because of you." cise in the courtyard.
the gaol was taken from
1
the
saw
once more the
with peared in my dreams.
When
and
the
one
"Halt or I fire!" cried a voice as 1 reached the arch
an attle above the guard-house. way. It was hopeless, wa's not prepared to be shot
I paid no attention to him.
lic German Officers' Mess. for having failed so dis was concentraling furiously on marched back to the castle In the floor beneath was
I had seen in something mally. I turned again and wall of the most bridge. Down wicket-gate in the wall of the
Pat Reid proposed that teams moat bank moat bridge. At nights it ap- of two, one
British and threw up my hands. In a cach side of the
Dutch offleer should altempt to roughly-paved moment all the inmates of there
As autuma gave way to win- escape as German officers." pathway. Steps led from a gap the guard-room were upon in the wall of the bridge and fer of that monotonous year I selected John me, chattering excitedly and joined this pathway. In the joined in the plans of the Bri- and myself. pointing rifles and revolvers, wall of the moat bridge where sh prisoners to produce The under-officer in charge the steps began a little wicket- variety show in the camp thea-
gale slood half open. had a fit of hysterical rage
The camp theatre was on the of
Teutonic excitement. The sentry, hear- recond floor adjoining the goles particularly
quality.
"This is an insult to the German Army! You will be shot."
The tall figure of the Kom- mandant, Oberst Prawitz, next appeared in the smart- cat of uniforms.
ran
I could hardly contain
tre.
my
He
Hyde-Thomson
Tomorrow: The Perilous Plot of 'Dr Calomol
Bless 'em all.
it makes him happy.
vain But he's
enough to think
it makes the ladies hap-. py. I suppose that's why he
his shirt wears
outside, his rousers, like the young men. pay I can't see how wearing your WHEN asked, "Do you
Income tax?" in p pro- shirt outside your trousers: 10:11 Budget quiz by the Gallup Poll make the ladies happy.
and girls, seven percent Neither can I, particularly boys
of those questioned answered, when you're a grandfather. But "I haven't the faintest idea." of course, there's method in his These are the "Don't knows" madness. Ever seen him with of the Gallup Poll anny. They his bulging shopping bog ogling have no opinions about defence the girl at the fishmonger's? expenditure, food subsidies, I can't say I have, öld, man. education, health services, hous- "Where have you been all my Fing or anything else.
life, beautiful?" he says to this
Sounds They probably don't know ir girl.
funny coming Conservative or a Socialist from a grandaddy with hartly Government is in power. They a hair on his head, doesn't It, have never read a political old man?
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"I wonder if Comrade Tomasov isn't becoming reconciled to Western cultural, values fust a little too quickly."
suppose it docs, old man. And all for the last bit of smoked calmon in the lown,
Well, that sounds cican enough, old man.
Nobody said it wasn't clean. Bu! that's not the right way to You wouldn't catch me
do
making myself cheap for a bit of smoked salmon, or a bit of gorgonzola, either,
“expect it's harmless enough, old man,
Maybo-11-12.. Maybe it isn't. But a man who, neglects his garden, never, does his washing up Liit after tea-time, and
spends
ds his evenings square dancing in a cowboy's shirt. is not entirely, hormless. I suppose next thing It will be sunbath- ing in scantles.
Not with a stomach,«like that, old man?
With 'n stomach like that ind a chert like that. He's quite chocolate shameless. Another eclair, old man?
No thanks, old man. They don't seem to agree with u me today.
-(London Express Service)
BLAME NAPOLEON FOR INCOME TAX!
Britons are fill the
war
DURING this month, ten William Pilt in 1789 to pay for outbreak at the Cista,
War has also
Bonaparte.
Take
"What impertinence," he said In lofty tones. him away to the cells."
In the utter darkness of
my solitary-confinement cell are required to make on this
I undid my cardboard belt and wooden bayonet and the floor in llung them on rage. It was many hours before I slept.
form a true and correct re- turn of all the sources of your income..."with rather less despondency than for some years past.
For
of 1751.
a long, history. In a farthing in the pound of their 1806, allowance Napoleon sent the rate up to 4d, but by
was given for wages. In 1885, there way hot That first tax was 1859 it was down to fivepence, incomes derived from "trade, only a tax on marriages, but in and adventure, pro- the rame financial measure ing up those pale green of only twopence in the Pound, and in 1875, when Sir Stafford Industry cial forms which start with and It was repeated in 1802, Northcote was bold enough to fessional employment, vocatione, there was also one of bachelors. offices Or public Any commoner still unmarried the ominous words "You only to reappear in the next admit that it would be a per-public
manent feature of our tax annullies Even the principle over the age of twenty-five bid again a mere of stoppage at source is no to pay a shilling a year,.d-duke system, I was
modern reinement.
and an archbishop 26, an Budget at is in the Found.
Victory of Waterloo was up, twopence.
a "genite- esquire £2. Bs, and 'propriately celebrated by tho
Right to the turn of The Why does the firiancial year man" five shillings, abolition of Income tax. Many
end on April 5? The explana- people both in and out of century it remained under a
These are not the oddest Parliament at the ume felt that milling. In 1888, when it had tion goes back to the Calendar
the Briton had had to Q Laxes a low income tax would be pre become ad, opposition reached (New Style) Act ferable to the confusion of such a pitch that large moetings year which, continuing old us bear. Births were once taxed on a scale of £30 for a duke of customs and excise duties then held in Trafalgar Squaro de- age, began on Lady Day, March the standard rate
calendar year to two shillings for a income tax, that much disliked in force, and should become a veloped into full-blooded riots. 25. The new imposition which John Stuart permanency. But this view was which were not suppressed ended on December 31, and the moner, and deaths were taxed
at four shillingssy, defeated Mili
Arst day of 1752 was then termed "gradunted. rob-
majority until the police were called in. by a small
Introduced a hat... January 1, but as there was a NEXT day I stood under bery" a century ago, has come who found the tax "detestable,
The Boer War took it to 15. discrepancy between the calen- 30 years: sixpence to
shameful B shillings
and immoral," and guard for most of down
In the Pound and all graduated Parliament ordered all oficial 3d, and World War One to 6s, dar date of the spring equinox required to etlake revenue In their headgear. In and the actual equinox which, stamp the morning in a long scales of abatement have also popers relating to it to bo de- this rate remaining until 1922.
the been lowered by
Then it lightched to 45. by through centuries, had grown to the 17th Century there was n same stroyed. panelled gallery in
1920, bert World War Two sent eleven days, this was adjusted chimney tax, and householders Kommandant's headquar-amount.
ONLY TEMPORARY it goaring to its optimum point of in the September of that year, had to pay separately aman- ters, closely examined by
10s. In the Pound. Between 1940 September 2 being followed by mual sum for each fireplace in Even so, it is still at a level
and 1951 it fell back to Bs, but September 14, the outbreak of the Korean War and rearmament added another sixpence.
蛋
骟
the
PENNY A WEEK
com
for
their homes. Then, for, 150 all the officers at the camp. undreamed of even half a cen- For the next 20 years all in
years, there was a tax on win An elderly, servile photo-tury ago. It is within the life comes remained the property
dows, the amounts varying ne a deflated time of many of us that a total of those who earned them, but
cording to the width proch grapher like
However, as might be expect window, Because of it thousands Hindenburg arrived from levy of Bd in the Pound pro- in 1843 Sir Robert Poel, faced
voked full-blooded riots in with a poria of deficits, TO- Many of the present features ed, the Treasury still clung to of windows, wero blocked Up-- the town, slowly assembled Contion, and when it 'soared" to introduced it at 7d in the Pound have existed for a long time.
can all be seen up and the old day for beginning the a a large, Victorian camera on is 3d during the Boer War In exchange for a reduction in Personel allowances were
Inland Revenue Year. Yet, not down the country to this day. a tripod and photographed rising young politician describe customs and excise duties. cluded from the first, and Pitt intending to lose its eleven days
"When I pay my Laxch? said. graduated scato of It was still only regarded as allowed a
of revenue in 1753, it pushed įta one mug, self-righteous?<ln» me in my "German" uniformed it as the extreme limit of practicable taxation." His name
between
the own abatement a temporary measure, and
New Year's Day from alvidual, buy civilisation £00 and March 23 eleven from all angles. I had to was Winston Churchill.
1859 Mr Gladstone, referring to minimum Hmit of
days on to. And the long-suffering, 200
together with a children's April 3. walt several weeks to serve
"In this world" nothing is this 74. "colossal engine of slow, ice or we wercent on
foreshadowed my term of twenty-eight certain but death and taxes," inance,"
incomes between 200 and Although income tax as such that, by now, they days solitary confinement, once said Benjamin Franklin, abel dog with propereta for- & 400, and four percent be- 18, 154 years old. s. century civilised prople in the world.
proved that USA) There were never enough but income tax was long pre- Yet Opposition
earlier William' -III "compelled sented by successive govern cast that year that the country, tween. £100 and £1,000. cells in the castle or thements as a temporary measure would not be able to survive The differential allowance in his subjects to pay him a penny town guol to hold the It was originally imposst by such a crushing burden. The favour of income from earnings a week, servants being rated at
in
Ita
tax-payer Carehol
Peter Lovegrove
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