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TIE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 818, 1815.
VALUE OF THE ALLIANCE.
HOW NIPPON HAS KEPT HER PLEDGES
The present war, says a writer in the Standard of Empire, must inevitably cause a large number of people to revise their ideas on a good many subjects. T mention only two instances, it may be said that the not inconsiderable school of thought which in pre-war days was opposed to the “local navy !! policy of Australia has been provided with much reason for reflection by the exploits of the Royal Australian Navy, while those people often supporters of the local navy plan-who found themhelves unable to view with favour the Anglo-Japanese Alliance have also to acknowledge that this compact has abundantly justified itself.
What at. Srst sight appears to be paradox disappears, however, when it is looked into closely. Both extremes of view were wrong, and the path of wisdon as indicated by the recent course of events is n cealed as a compromise between the two divorgent policies,
SHOULD JAPAN CO-OPERATE WHAT NEW BRITISH TAXES.
IN EUROPE?
An article appears in the November number of the Partnightly Review, en- titled The Full Value of the Japanese Alliance," by a writer who signs himself. En Vedette. The burden of it is the desirability of shortening the war by the co-operation of the Japanese Army in Europe The Japan Chronicle surmises that the writer is one who has occupied a high position in the diplomatic world in Japan. We make the
tract:
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MEAN.
THE INCOME TAX.
in detail both the amount of tax payable A return issued by the Treasury shows
in the under the Finance Act passed on incomes and the virtual rate charged
last eession, and under the proposals made by the Chancellor to raise money for the conduct of the war. A few examples muy be given.
A person with an income of £101 would, turn the seal ollowing ex- To turn the scale promptly and com- ander the original scheme, pay ed if his pletely in the Western theatre of the war,
income were wholly earned, and 1s, if it what is wanted is the immediate presence wore wholly unearned For this year, of an additional army of 250,000 mea. with an additional rate of 33-1-3rd per By an army fully trained soldiers ready vent, the charges will be is, and is. id. to be sent to the front at once and to fight respectively, and next year, under the on their arrival is meant, and there is double rates, they will be is. Gd. and ge., only one country that can supply in the virtual rate in all cases being That country is our gallant and devoted estimated at id, in the £,On an income ally, Japan The word devoted is used of £180, a man this year would have paid advisedly. We have only to ask and we 188. on earned and £1 on unearned, the can have Japanes co-operation to virtual rates being id. and 13d in the The first doubt that may strike resepetively he would how pay £1 the mind is that Japan is too far off. Let (1.3d. in the ) and £1 G. 8d. (184. in us remove this doubt at once. Japan the E) while next year he will pay £1 by the Pacific Canadian route is only a 10%. (24. in the E) and £2 (2.7d.. in the few days farther away from the English £) respectively. Channel than India Within a mouth
This year's new rate on an income of of the Emperor of Japan issuing his £203 will amount to £2 (2.44. in the £ orders, the Japanese Army would be in and £2.138. 4d. (3.2d, in the £), and text Flanders or Normandy. We cannot year's charge will be 23 (3.0d. in the £) for the sake of the
common and £4 (4.8d. in the £) respectively. On cause refrain from exercising our £1,000 the increased charge will be £50 influence to induce Japan to come to (is. in the E) and £83 0s. 8d. (ls. 8d. in the front. Very little inducement will the £), while next your it will be £76 (1s. respectively. This estimate takes no account of allowances in respect of lifo insurance premiums and children, which in many cases would substantially reduce. the tax payable..
It is unnecessary to recapitulate the arguments in support of the view that the local navy policy has been justified by results, but justico demands that the straightforward part played by our Far Eastern Ally since the outbreak of the war should be generally realised by all the Britannic peoples The Germans have attempted to arouse feeling against Britain in neutral countries on the ground that she incited an Asiatic rac to attack Europeans. The truth is that the Asiatic race" signature to an international contract, the scale not a little army, but a mass and the contrast between its conduct and which the Germans will have to take into that of Germany in regard to the inde account. The Japanesc alliance is pae pendence of Belgium, which was also the of the chief assets of the British Empire; subject of an international agreement to the time has arrived to bring it into the which Prassin a party, places general account for the consummation of Germany in a very inferior moral posi-a task that will confer present relief and tion to that of Japan.
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CHARMING COLOURINGS AND DESIGNS.
THEY ARE OF
BRITISH MANUFACTURE
BOTH
has honoured its be necessary, and Japan will throw into Bd. In the B) and 2155 (2s. 6d. in the 2) DURABLE AND INEXPENSIVE.
WHAT SAPAN'S NAVY HAS DONE.
people.
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pursued the German guaboat Geier to ambition is to gain a prominent place in the 4. A man with an income of LANE, CRAWFORD &
With regard to incomes large enough to pay super-tax the return shows that next year, with the double rates, a man AND with an income of £100,000 will be paying Apart altogether from the capture of or must we forget that Japan is over 5s in the £. His income tax will Kinochau, Japais has rendered splendid she has the right to attack her wherever £12,745 10s. 8d., a total of £25,245. 165. herself at war with Germany, and that amount to £12,500 and his super-tax to service to the Allied cause. Her warships sha deems fit. If she liked to send un sd a virtual rate of 58. 6d. in the £. have been employed in extensive convoy armada of her own to Europe there is no Under the original Finance Act of lust ing operations, and they have taken A
one with any right to stop her, and cer- session he is paying a total of £12,022. 158. part in the hunt for German tainly neither France nor Pelgium wouli 4d, or 2s, 6,3d in the £, and under the prominent It was the warships of the Mikado which cruisers in the Indian and Pacific oceans look askance at any aid, no matter whence additional rates for this year he will pay it As chief desire 11. a virtual rate of 4.4d. Honolulu and, by maintaining a constant among the Great Powers not of Asia, int £75,000 will also have to pay be. in the patrol outside the harbour, forced her of the world, the possibility of military next year, while those with incomes commander to submit to internment. British mail steamers between Aden and action in Europe has been carefully of £30,000 will be paying 48, 9.3d. *
studied by the Headquarters Staff at Australia, in the days when the Eden Tokyo, and there is little doubt that all and Königsberg were still at large, owed their safety in no small measure to the is ready for the execution of a elcar and friendly watchfulness of the Japanese
well-conceived plan, BRITISH FRISONERS OF WAR.
"While Japan would not make and Navy. When the R.M.S. Osterley reached Fremantle some time ago her officers were bargain, offering her co-operation in a surprised to find that she had been con-argo spirit and with the sympathy of a voyed from Colombo by a Japanese true comrade, it would be hurtful to our cruiser, which arrived in port five hours after the liner The wireless-operator of the Osterley had discovered that some one was constantly tapping her wireless signals, but, fearing that the mysterious answer, and it was not until Fremantle was reached that the true explanation was revealed.
vessel was a German cruiser, he did not
feelings and to our Allies also to accept finite reward and share in the spoils of such aid without her receiving some de victory. We could none of us let her re turn empty-handed after so signal a ur vice, and yet there might be some em arrassment in fixing upon a suitable and to fix it beforehand, and the following attainable reward. It would be better Lo the matter of the German islands in suggestion might provide solution that the Pacific also Japan has behaved in a could be assured the reversion to German would be generally acceptable. Japan For some most exemplary fashion. unexplained reason Australia did uct East Africa. That would give her a fine occupy the Marshall, Carolino, and Pelew colony still in the making and a vent for groups when the more southerly German colonies were seized. In order to prevent stray German cruisers from making use of these islands they were occupied by Japanese naval detachments.
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are interned as prisoners of war are The reports about British soldiers who unanimous on one point. The greatest hardship they suffer is the reaction from their tremendous labours. As a rule they duces languor, also a depression of are given little work to do and this pro spirits. Eeveral Dutch journalists who camp at Dcb ritz, where the British have been permitted to visit the German prisoners are kept, independently lay stress on this, the more so, perhaps, that her activities in a scene far removed they were all also immensely impressed from Australian and American suscep by the splendid physique of our men. tibilities. For the Shates holding terri- These observers found the condition of the tory in the Congo basin, which are camp quite satisfactory in other respects. France, Belgium, and Portugal, Japan The soldiers were then still cecupying would be a far preferable neighbour to large tents, but a great range of barracks Germany. Their Governments would was nearly completed, and into these The Japanese Government has just not hesitate to become parties to a con- intimated its willingness to withdraw invention admitting Japan to take her winter quarters the prisoners may pos sibly have been moved already. The favour of Australia as soon as the Complace in Equatorial Africa as her reward Larrocks have been built to house far, monwealth is ready to take over the for supporting the common cause. --
The fundamental objection that many British prisoners returned in the infated larger numbers even than those of the islands. A force is boing got ready for the purpose, and the groups seized by persons will feel to the introduction of German lista. At the end of last montit, Japan will form part of the Melanesian Asiatics in a European quarrel is one of there seem to have been about, 4,000 in the territory to be administered by Comman- the old-fashioned prejudices that will not camp including many of the Naval der Pethebridge, C.M.G.. as Australian hold water in these days. Keep Asia out Brigade from Antwerp. The new. Commissioner in the North-West Pacific, of it, say these narrow-minded persons, barracks, which have been very costly to
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Pethebridge, who succeeded Captain fighting not merely for hegemony in permanent purposes. Dobaritz, which is Muirhead Collins, C.M.G.. as secretary Europe, but for colonies and tropical the well-known maneuring ground of monwealth in 1910, will have authority soon have her own way in the other con-fying ground, Our men appear to get sufficient food, wholesome is quality, but to arrange for the effective occupation of tinents. Asia thus cannot be kept out served sans knife, which is their main of it. India has been brought into it, these islands.
The fact that Japan has fought at our Japan is the other great representative complaint about messing. The corres side in the fiercest struggle that the world of Asia that possesses an army which pondents' reports speak as if the prisoners. has ever known cannot be without might, without fear of the result, te had plenty of cigarettes also. In fact, it was their listless lounging, cigarette in influence on the future-relations between placed opposite Prussian regiments. the Asiatic Power and the British Empire. 13 pure folly to neglect availing ourselves mouth, which roused their visitors Those who have hitherto locked askance of such a valuable source of strength as sympathy. nt the Anglo-Japanese Alliance will
The to pass the time doing nothing, and yet longer be able to entertain the old rond our disposal through the loyalty and soldiers were so evidently hard put to it
goodwill of our Japanese allies. suspicion that too much reliance must not Japanese have more than fulalled the employment could be found for them only be placed in the good faith of cur Ally, bold prediction of Sir Stamford Raffles on one day out of three. Too many and any difficulties that may arise in 100 years ago that of all Asiatics the Germans out of work are clamouring for future from the economic friction Japanese were the most likely to attain a job to permit of the British competing. A LING & CO.. between the different standards of living equality with Europeans in character and with them, even in hewing and drawing
of the two peoples will be settled more capacity. They have attained it, but for the camp. easily as the result of the sympathy what they want is universal recognition engendered by our comradeship in arms of the fact, and there is no better way against the Germanic conspiracy to to accomplish this object than by taking a glorious part in the tremendous strug dominate the world.
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The special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, et Amsterdam, Mr. C. E. Tripp, writes:- Of all the citie: that have come within the influence of the war there is probably none which has been so com
In connection with the re-opening of the London Stock Exchange the main restric pletely changed as Hamburg. The port is stagnant, silent, dead In its vast tive conditions contemplated were first water spaces lie hundreds of ships that that naturalised Germans and Austrians just over three months ago were steaming shall be precluded, unless deuaturalized to and fro on the seven sERS. Now they in their country of origin; secondly, that lie still, deserted, ander guard. In sharp preventive measures be taken to prevent contrast is the feverish rush of work Germans from unloading their securities, going on in that part of the city's water and raising money by roundabout means wave devoted to shipbuilding. Exactly thirdly, that dealings be in cash only; and what the nature of this work is it ism-fourthly, that options and new account possible to say. The echoes of this bargains and arbitrage transactions be dustrial excitement sound strange indeed. prohibited. to one who finds himself in the midst of the stillness and silence of the commercial
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KRUPP'S DIVIDEND. position since Germany took possession of Antwerp.: The townspeople are torm be- The firm of Friedrich Krupp tween admiration for a German feat of (Limited) proposes to pay a 12 per cent. arms and fear for the future of their dividend as compared with 14 last year own property. They do not disguise their The share capital is to be raised from fear that, with Antwerp a German port, three and a half millions sterling to Hamburg's wealth would largely dis twelve and a half millions sterling.
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Exactly the same story comes from Holland about the British interned at Groningen. The Dutch have endeavoured to keep up a supply of newspapers and magazines, and 80 many of these are now being sent in from among themselves as well as from home that there is at present no need of more... Books are always wel- come. But more active entertainment is, what is most wanted, and a small com- mittee in Amsterdam are making an
doubt they will be glad to have published, for all the materials of gymnastic and fencing exercises. It is difficult to get a supply of these in Holland at present for there has been a run on them for the Dutch troops, which have been mobilised for months, and require them ne muca as the prisoners. So the rormities are collecting from where they can foils, maska, glover, rings, vaulting horses, "opes, spring-board aitresse even parallel bars for the varius exercises hat will help to keep the prisoners fit during their enforced inactivity in war-
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