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BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
OUR ALLIES OPINION OF PROPOSED INCOME TAX IN
THE BRITISH.
A VISIT TO THE FOREIGN LEGION.
[FROM "THE TIME" SECIAL CORRESPONDENT
WITH THE FRENCH ON THE SONME
The other night, after paying a visit to some of the trenches held by the Foreign Legion, I was dining, at a properly respectful distance behind the lines, with the General commanding the division to which the Legion belongs. From him and from the officers of his Staff I learnt mony things about the battle and the frame of mind of the soldiers, Erench and English and German, engaged in it, And with all of them I noticed the same thing that the troops of which they were most disposed to talk were their own Foreign Legion and the British.
THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
The report of the Committee appointed by the Governor of the Straits Settle- nents to advise as to lines and details of a bill to provide for the levying of an income-tax in the Colony has been presented. The Committee state that they have been guided by the following general principles:--
(That whore practicable income should be collected before it
reaches the hands of the person chargeable;
(6)-That the expense of collection
should be kept low; » ()-That as few openings as possible
be left for bribery..
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS
CORPS ORDERS BY LT.-COL. A. CHAPMAN, V.D.
JOINED:
Spr. J. Grimshaw having joined is allot- ted Corps No. 9038 and posted to Engineer Company. Pte. J. G. Dick having joined is allotted Corps No. 2030 and posted to Centre Pte. A. T. Stubbs having joined is allot
Section M. G. Cb,
ted Corps No. 2010 and posted to Scouts Company,
HONGKONG RESERVES.
ORDERS BY MAJOR WAKKMAN, 0.0, BEV.R
DETALL
duty from the morning of Sunday. 19th November, to the morning of Sunday, 28th November-"A" Coy. H. K. V R Orderly. Officer and Lien H. R. B. Next for duty-H. E. V. C
HANCOCK.
PARADES FOR THE WEEK ENDING THE 25TH NOVEMBER, 1913. Monday, 20th instant. No, 1079 Spr. W. A. Howells is permit. Coy. Recruits, Part 1 Practices &
BESIGNED.
ted to resign with effect from 10. 11.
10,
LEAVE.
No.
1381 Pie, J. Dickson is granted 1
month's leave from 31. 11. 16.
No.
1843 Pte. H. E. Muriel is granted i
month's leave from 13. 11. 10.
No.
month's leave from 18. 12. 10.
No.
1291 Pte, S. 8 Moore is granted 1
1731 Pte, D. G. Cheesman is granted
2 weeks leave from 18. 11. 10.
months' leave from 15. 11. 10...
TRANSFERRED
No. 2037 Spr. R. K. Dungan, E.K.V.R.,
and 6 at Blake Pior at 3.30 p.m.. Dress Drill order.
Machine Gun Section at 5.15 pm, at
Wellington Barracks under Instruc tor Sergt. Bowles. Dress: Clean faligines
quarters at 5.10 p.m. under. Signal-. ling Instructor L/Corp G Lloyd. Dreas: Clean fatigue.
Signalling Section at Volunteer Head-
under Instructor Sergt.: Ox- Berry. Dress: Drill order. Tuesday, 21st instant.
Coy:-All Trained Men who have
The General, who has seen service in all parts of the world where the French battle-flag has flown, bad fought along aido our old Regular Army in China, and income is exempt from the tax) and upon No. 1745 Corpl: A. Young is granted Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 5.15 Knows the stuff they were made of. Now he has seen what our new Armies are doing at Thiepval and Pozieres and Ginchy and Combles. Officers and men, infantry and artillery, he has found them, not the bungling amateurs that the Germans expected them to prove, but, as he expressed it, soldiers de curriére, not only brave, but carefully and ther oughly trained and organized as pro- fessional fighting men, and, he added, have precisely the same confidence in them as in our own soldiers."
More than that a French general would hardly have said. But one of his staff officers, who is a gunner, was even more complimentary. He has been especially struck by the excellence of our heavy artillery, and its value as an asset in the combined attack.
of
No.
A sliding-scale of taxation has been adopted. The duty of collecting the tax on rents and on salaries is thrown upon Municipalities and Rural Boards (whose employers, without remuneration. Fur ther it is proposed that every person who enjoys taxable income should be bound to inform the collector. We propose that the tax, except in specified instances, should be collected on the income of the previous year and not on the average the past three years. We think it neces sary to collect the tax on interest on mortgages from the mortgagee, and we A have provided for the case of the mortgagor. In not giving power to the collector to call for the production of books of account, we are at once following the law as it is in England and meeting the objections which have been publicly expressed by members of the Asiatic com- munity.
be appointed under section 30 (4) should "Our intention is that the assessors to
assessors of one nationality should advise the collector in fixing and revising assess- ments of persons of that nationality."
is transferred to Engineer Company 1357 Pte. A Morris, Civil Service H. K. V. C. from 27th October, 1916. Company H.K.V.C., is transferred to
H. K. V. R. from this date.
BELCHERS ČIN. SECTION.
sub-calibre practice will take place on Sunday, 21st January, and a half charge practice on Sunday, 28th January, 1917,
DRESS.
Unless otherwise ordered, caps may be
worn between the hours of 7 am. and 5 pm, from this date. Waist- belts will be worn in walking-out dress from this date.
ENGINEER COMPANY.
Lyeemnun from 17th to 30th Nov., 1016, has been posted at Headquar- ters,
PARADES,
In this respect (he said) you had the be of different nationalities, and that the Detail of Engineer Company duties at advantage over us that at first you had no heavy guns at all to speak of, and consequently no inferior weapons which had to be used till they could be replaced by better and scrapped. Practically all that you have are modern, and therefors of the best. As for training in the use of them, the steady work which your men have put in day after day for months behind the trenches, with the result of every shot accurately noted, has been worth years of ordinary practice in time of peace.
THE LEGION'S PERSONNEL,
"We venture to suggest that it is of the highest importance that the assess- ment and collection of income-tax should be started on right lines and that there- fore no law which imposes an income-tax should be brought into operation until the services of at least one officer, who is an expert in income-tax matters, have been secured; and, further, that an income-tax department will require to have its own solicitor (who, we think, should have a thorough knowledge of Stamp Law, so that he may advise the Collector of Stamp-duties), CA
Any agreement made by a tenant with his landlord to pay the tax on the annual value of the property leased should be illegal.
Rate per cont.
Monday, 20th inst.. 8.10 p.m. Centre Section M. G Co..!
3. G. drill at Kowloon Dock. Hongkong residente proceed
by launch from Statue. Wharf at 4.30 DAM
5.15
p.m. Left Bection M. G. Co, and Civil Service Company, section drill at Headquarters.
5.15 p.m. Right Section M. G. Co,
Inspection in marching order, 150 rounds ball, on Murray Parade ground,
5.15 p.m. Scouts Company, platoon drill
on Cricket Ground. 5.15 p.m. Recruits of all units on Murray Parade ground under Corpl, Grimes.
5.15 p.m. Stretcher Bearer Section. at
Headquarters,
5.15 p.m. Mounted Section at Jockey
Club Stables." -
When earlier in the day, we reached the pleasant beech-woods in which the cantonments of the Foreign Legion are hidden (I believe we were the first civi lians to visit the Legion during the war only an hour or two of daylight was left Income-tax shall be paid at the ratesTuesday, 21st inst. by which to see them. But that was set out in the following scale, viz.:- cnough to judge of the temper and dis-Amount of total income cipline of the men and the brotherly cor- diality of their relations with their officers and especially with their French colonel. Short, strong, and active, with five palms or bara on the ribbon of his Crois de Guerre, and the network of criss-cross wrinkles about his eyes that are the hall-mark of a man who can
The Colonial Secretary, in a letter to Always the humorous as well ha the unofficial members of the Legislative serious side of life, he looked exactly the ching the report, says: right type of commanding officer for the Legion..
per annum.
Not exceeding
Do.
Do.
Do.
Exceeding
.93,590 5,900
7,109
8.399
9.599
9,609.
Vil.
I
2.
3.
4
The Government does not propuse at the time to consider in any derail the various clauses of the bill, but is of opinion that Most people in England have a fixed the bill if it becomes. In should be an idea that it is a kind of military asylum annual one as is the case in the United For men with a shady past, desperate mes Kingdom, and also consider that the who come to it as a living grave in which minumum taxable income is placed at a to bury their broken lives, utterly care sunewhat high figure and the rate speel- less as to whether they threw them away fied in the schedule is in some instances or not, and positive gluttons for danger. | low,
years.
SINGAPORE RUBBER SHARES.
In the old days that may to some extent The Government has doubts as in whe have been true. Some men of that kind ther at its inception it is necessary to the Legion has always contained, and provide the class of staff suggested in there are perhaps still a fow left who the report and considers that in the first have survived the fighting of the last two instance the declarations of income from But the war, amongst the other individuals might be pccepted without marvels that it has wrought, has changed too exhaustive examination all that. It has filled and refilled the | Foreign Legion with a steady flow of volunteers of many nationalities (there is even a Rabbi, besides several Catholi and Protestant priests, amongst it aumoniers), who have engaged themselve in its ranks for the duration of the wa not merely because they are horn fighter but because they have a deeply route love of liberty and justice. (The mans certainly have no such recruit from outside their own country.) The Are, as the General put it, fighters for idea. The Legion has become a legi of idealists, but, fore the less, or perha all the more, its men are tigers for fighTapahs
ing.
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On the evening of our visit we saw thị in a very peaceful mouent.
As Per lb. Colonel led the way through the wid ings of the long boynu leading to te trenches, incongruensly eat through legy of the front. Nowhere do they use more cottage gardens and orchards, the ammunition than they are obliged to in men that we passed sprang to attentin self-defence. On the part of the French as punctiliously as Guardsmen and -- I have a shrewd iden that the full was swered the short questions which he it due to a friendly regard for the safety to them with looks of real affectif of their visitors. They did not want the “C'est une adoration," the General td Germans to fire at that particular me. He has such tact and is so bre moment. But in any case, in the dead and so calm in action that they wold calm and failing light of the evening, lit follow him anywhere. As far as only by the glow of an occasional Ger- could judge that is true of all thrman flare, in its contrast to what we had officers. One of them, a Dundee un, seen and heard elsewhere the silence of educated in New Zealand, who went ar the trenches and batteries facing each rounds with us, seemed to me to be me other across the bare desert of No-Man's. of just the same staff as his colo Land was uncanny and eerie. From the look of him, if he had pt When we got back to the men's billets lived in New Zealand he would have pt it was quite dark, and it was only by the his international cap for Scoblarul a light of a lamp, which somebody held Bugby forward, After the attack sdh aloft, that we could distinguish the faces of the Somme he was the only oneof of a small squad of some of the dare».
back alive, and though the losses inno of 17 years' service), who had been hastily three battalion commanders who can devils of the Corps (one of them a veteran ranks were not proportionately see, paraded for our inspection. Just exactly they were necessarily heavy. Yet all at why these particular men were chosen he and the colonel and the other off I did not grasp For the whole Legion, and men are pining for, whatever tir happy and careless and boyish as they language and the colour of their skits, look, are of the game kidney, and it seems the time when they can strike at to to me that the dare devil who also hap enemy again. Just now they are ha pens to be an idealist is a ant that the an off time, though one and all belo Boche will find it extremely hard to that they could at any moment i strafe, through the trenches opposite to the that was the order of the Généralis
For more than half an hour aste peered through the gathering as she enemy's position (some of them had and a British flag on a telegraph way between the lines) not a single it was fired by either side. With the mans that is a common habit on this ^ [Continual us foot of seat Volume
-
That is our great advantage in this war We are all idealists, not only the Swiss and Americans and Tonkinese and volunteers of five and twenty other nationalities represented in the Foreign Legion, but also we othern of the Alle whose humes and existence are directly threatened. And because we are idealian the materiadists who bound to go under
5.30 p.m. Signalling_Section “A” and
B classes at R. A. Theatre. -- Friday, 24th inst.
5.15 p.m. Recruits of all units at Head
quarters, C. 8. M. Witchell and Carpl. Grimes will attend. 6.20 p.m. Signalling Section "A" and
"B" classes at R. A. Theatre, 20 gm Artillery Battery 10 pr. B. L. gan drill at Gun Club Hill Sergt. Bradley will attend. Hongkong residents parade at Star Ferry Wharf, H.E., 5 p.. Saturday, 25th inst.
2.30 p.m. Trained Men of all units (who have not already fired), Musketry Part 1 on King's Park Range (Each man to bring 30 rounds). Range Officer, Lieut. Hall. The Com pany Bergt. Major of each unit re- presented must be present to asist in keeping the registers. Sunday, 28th inst.
am Trained Men of all units (who have not already fired) Musketry Standard Test on King's Park Range (Each man to bring 23 rounds). Range Officer, 2nd Lieut. Templeton; Officer i/e Burts, Captain Preston. The C. 8. M. of each unit represented must be present to assist in keeping the registers.
DETAIL.
Un duty 26th inst. Centre Section M. G.
Co.
On duty 27th inst. Right Section M. G.
Col
On duty 28th inst. Scouts Company, On duty 29th inst. Artillery Battery. On duty 30th inat. Scouts Company. On duty 1st Dec. Belchers Section. On duty nd Dec. Belchers Section: Orderly Officer from, 26th Nov, to 2nd
Dee. Captain Preston
A. F. CHURCHILL, Captain,
Adjutant, H. K. V. Corps.. Hongkong, November 17th, 1910.
NOTICE
LEAGUE RIFLE TEAM HK.V.C.
Will members of the Corps desirous of taking part in a practice stoot on King's Park Range on Sunday, 19th inst, at 2.30 p.m., send in
their names to the Hon. Secretary, Rifle Team, at Headquarters. HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
· PARADES.
G.
fired Practices 7, 8 and » will parade at Blake Pier at 3.30 p.m. to fire Practice 10. Dress: Drill order. Mounted Section at Jockey Clubs Stables at 5.1.. under Instructor Q, M. Semaphore Class at Volunteer Headquar Sergt. Talbot. Dress: Drill order. ters at 5.15 p.m. under Signaling Instructor L/Corpl,
Lloyd. Dress: Clean fatigue. Wednesday, 22nd instant.
"B" Coy. Retraits:-The following men will parade at Blake Pier at
Drill order: 3.30 p.m.-Dress: Ptes. A. D. Macdonald, H. Coombs, R. Wood, E. J. Beth, J. Waldron, , G, Browell, J. E. Ramecy. A. Millar, R. D, Harvey, E. E. Grey,
J.
J. 8. C Morrison, C. Crispin, R. J. Dixon, J. MacLachlan, R. F. Ma tingley, K. E. Greig, C. H. P. Hay Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 5.15 p.m. under Instructor Sergt. Ox- berry. Dress: Drill order. Thursday, 23rd instant,
B Coy. Trained Men :--The follow- ing members will parade at Blake Drill Pier at 3.30p.m.-Dresu order-Ptes, W.- Anderson, J. H. Mead, H. Watkins, R. L. Atkinson, F. Graham, J. H. C. Goodban, Ritchie, F. A. Mackintosh, T. Oliph ant, S. Jones, W. Wotherspoon, E. Howard, K. McLennan, H. Elson, K. R Mackoskill, W. Mookay, J. Goard, Bergt, Mitchelmore, Ptes. J. W. Graham, C. J. Higginbotham, C. D. Melbourne, J. A, Plummer, P. H. Rolfe
Machine Gun. Section at 5.16 p.m. at-
Wellington Barracks under Instruc tor Sergt. Bowles. Dress. Clean fatigue.
Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 5,15
pim. under Instructor Sergt. Ox- berry, Dress: Drill order.
Signalling Section at Volunteer Head
quarters at 5.15 p.a. under Signal- ling Instructor L/Corpl G. Lloyd. Dress: Clean fatigue. Friday, 24th instant
COSA
Recruits:The following
men will parade at Blake Pier st 3.30 p.m.Uress: Drill order: Ptes. A. D. Macdonald, H. Coonibs, J. H. Wood, E. J. Beth, J. Waldron, WG Browell, J. E. Hamsey A. Millar, R. D. Harvey, H. E. Grey, J. S. C. Morrison, C. Crispin.. Dixon, J. MacLachlan, R. F. Mat- tingley K. E, Greig, C. H. P. Hay N. G. Nolan, W. Sinclair, A. F Goldfinch.
"A" Coy, on the road outside the Law Courts at 4.45 pm. Dress: Drill order.
Semaphore Class at Volunteer Headquar
tors at 5.15 p.m. under Signalling Instructor L/Corpi, G. Lloyd. Dress: Clean fatigue.
TRANSFER.
No. 324 Pte. J. McCubbin is transferred
to "D" Coy
STRENGTH.
Pte, M. Hall having joined is allotted
Corps No. 628 and is posted to "B Coy. Platoon No. VIII. Section 15.
DHESH
Caps may be worn during the daytime and will be worn at all parades until further notice unless topees aro specially ordered.
Waist-belte must be worn with walking-
out dress.
Boru
CRATE.. Long Leave-Applications for leave of
absence from the Colony for. than one month must be sent to the Adjutant at least 14 days before the intended day of departure, stating Regimental Number, Rank, Company, Platoon, and Section, length of leave desired and destination.. Short Leave.-Leave of absence from the Colony even for one day must be obtained from the Adjutat.
BIGNALLING SECTION.
Fte. R. F. Mattingley will parade with.
the Signalling Section.
(Sgd.) G. K. H. BEUTTON. Captain,
Adjutant, H. K V. E Hongkong, 17th November, 1916. F ·
ANOTHER MAN RETRIEVES HIS; PAST BY HEROISM,
Tuesday, Nov, 21st-No. 2 Company, Maxin Gunners No. 2 Section at Water Police Station, Wednesday, Nov. 22nd.-No. a Company. The Canadian communiqué for the under Company Commander, No. 4 week ended October 16th cuntains the Company (except Recruits) under the following Sergeant Major. Recruits of No. 2 Platoon under Company Sergeanted with sympathy and delight of the rein- The whole Canadian Army has learn- Major,
Company under Company Bergeant Court-martial of his commission, Lieute Thursday Nov. 23rd-Recruits of No. statement of Lieutenant U. B. Jones to.
is commissioned rank Deprived by Friday, Nov. 24th-Nos. 1, 3 and 4 Sec-private in a well-known Montreal bat
Major
nant Jones immédiately enlisted as a tions of No. 1 Company under Seetalion. He showed not only strict devo
The
The
tion Commanders.
Committee will meet at the Head
ATHLETTO MEETIKA,
quarters Club at 5.30 p.m. on Man
Nov. 20th M
MEDICAL EXEMPTION
upon several occasions. He became a tion to duty, but conspicuous gallantry corporal, then won his sergeant's stripes. He was awarded a D.C.M. for his reckless. following is to be included in Stand-On September 15th he was in the thick courage and again a bar for his medal. ing Orders and numbered 89 (x). — Medical Exemption for a period covering he was perpetually out killing Ger- of the fighting. It was said of him that Patrol Duty dates must be notified to mans. His conduct was such a to Warning officers by the person recommend him for further reward. xempted without delay otherwise Ester, he was so severely wounded that it. falter will be held liable for any is improbable that be will be again able -provision of a patrolmen.
to serve his country as a soldier. But he 18 How reinstated se an officer, and he ho won beck his honour
(Sgd.) F. C JENKIN,
D. 6. P. (E)