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THE ̈ HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24rm, 1919.
BRITAIN'S FINANCE. TAXES THAT WILL REMAIN IN PEACE TIME.
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TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF RELEASED PRISONERS. BRUTALITY TO BRITISH.
The German acceptance of the Allied Reuter's correspondent with the French army, Lelegraphing from Nancy on Nov. terms of armistice is the effective fore- 18th, gives an appalling picture of the runner of peace. It will therefore be of terrible condition to which the prisonera intenis interest for us to consider how of-war in Germany have been reduced by Great Britain will stand in itself and TILATAP the inhuman gaolers who, with characte-in its relations to other countries under ristic German effrontery, are appealing peace conditions. The wastage of war has to be made good and national life re- to the Allies for food and for modifica
The established on a firm and durable founds TJIPANAR... tions of the armistice conditions.
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Our expenditure throughout the war has been at the rate of seven millions a day, NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO
which is estimated as being somewhere about the whole national income. But of all this war expenditure we baye paid one arter out of taxation as we went along.
FUTURE TAXATION.
The motor-muscle of a country is its j While the State institutions of Germany
If that is in a healthy condition, are crumbling, to the infinite relief of finance. nine-tenths of mankind, there are several all things are possible for an energetic hundreds of thousands of men in Gerpeople. An unsound financial fabric many whose plight, which before the spells ruin.
become An inquiry into the facts of our own armistice wat bad, has since desperate. These are the prisoners-of-position need cause as no alarm.
British, French, and Roumanian total war debt is 8,000 million pounds. who are now being released from German e:Sowe 1,000 millions of this to tho prison camps. These men have been liy: United States of America. On the other ing and working for months on a diet of band, Italy, France, and Russia also owo 1300 er 100 grammer (10höz, to 1402) of more than 1,000 millions for money
advanced to them. When, then, infamously bad brend a day, supplement accounts are squared, sur total debt will ed by a soup issued at midday,' made of be between 6,000 and 7,000 millions. water in which cabbage or barley has been boiled. They thought their eon dition could not conceivably be worse. Now they know better. They have learn ed, many of them, at the cost of their lives, that any fraction of a loaf is better' than no bread. Thousands of them, near ly all British, are passing into France every day. They are pouring over the obsolete trenches into Lunévillé, Nancy, and other owns at all hours of the day and night. They are in a state of raggedness, hunger, and misery that bales description. i have never seen human beings in such a state. This has been their experience. At Forbach and
Leaving this aside, then, there will be along the Rhine there are many prison camps, where the treatment of prisoners no increase in taxation and no reduction, has been particularly outrageous, and and we shall be able to pay our way. In which were manned almost exclusively by a word, England has been self-suficient British soldiers captured by the enemy in finance, and still remains so. in the March offensive.
These camps, Let us glance at the position of other Rad, perhaps, Diany others, have been countries. It may be said broken up.
The British were told that Austria-Hungary is hopelessly bankrupt. they were free to get out, and must seck The debt incurred by Germany is almost help from their Allies. In droves exactly the same as our own, 8,000 mil several hundreds at a time they started lions; but, it is almost entirely a bome out to walk from Forbuch, or from debt, the money being lent by Germans. Kleinbittersfeld, on the Rhine, distancos of afty or sixty miles, to the French lines. No food was given them, not even a mouthful of bread. All of them were ir. shameful ragu.
now
ALMOST WITHOUT BOOTS.
What about the future. We have to pay interest on the debt, put aside money for a sinking fund to reduce it, and meet all our own current expenditure under To do this comfortably peace conditions.
it will be necessary to keep taxation as it now stands, with one exception--the This last was a purely excets profits tax. war measure, based on the fact that all excess profits were directly due to the nation being at war.
once that
France is hardly in as strong a position as ourselves for the future. It is trun that her total deht is only 6,000 millions; but, on the other hand, she ha, only raived. one-seventh of her war expenditure out of actual revenue every year. To put her new peace expenditure on a pound footing be will have to double her taxes after the war.
1 talked yesterday to thirty of them, all British soldiers captured in March or
Great Britain has, in addition, lent April, and all told me that they had never had any clothing from the Germane. money to the Dominions, and this will They started on their long march in boots be repaid in the future. So long, then, with the soles dropping off, or cla in na we are prepared to pay our present: wooden clogs. None had socks; their feet taxes and to work hard there is no cause were bound up, with cotton rags. Some for anxiety. Express. had overcoats, some had one. Many of them had sold their overcoats and stout
British ammunition boots, even their or even an enemy to help, there was no- solitary shirts to their guards for pot thing to do but to wait until the exhaust- toes and extra bread. Apparently theyed men was dead and then go on alone. started from the prison camps in droves
:
SPITE TOWARDS OUR MEN.
of several hundreds in charge of an officer and a couple of soldiers who were to guide
It would be diffeurt to overstate the deserted then. Invariably these guides
misery of these poor countrymen of ours, them after a few hours, alleging as whose fault was that they were British excuse that they had lost the way, and soldiers. I have as yet met only one must go back to inquire it. The men Roumanian and heard of few Italian
fend for themselves were only who have been treated in this way, but they left to
off than sailors one degree better abandoned in open boats two days from here is no doubt that it has happened to
thousands of British soldiers. Jand. The weather is bitterly cold, write this in Nancy, and 1 read in: Lately there has been a hard frost every the local newspaper thig morning night These men were all physically re-joyous paragraph announcing that 30,000 duced by hunger before they started. British prisoners are marching through They had no food, and were tramping Germany singing. I can only hope that through country in which they could not inquire their way because they could not they have at least been given some dry speak either French or German, and in bread and provided with guides who will find them reasonably warm shelter at which people have literally nothing tonight. Very probably this will be done. xive to anyone after their own bare needs The Germans will say that they have no' have been satisfied. They had no money food to give to our prisoners, and so re- at any rate, the British soldiers had
leased them. It is true that they have none. Their wage of 3d a day was paid little enough, themselves, but they aro to them in the form of little squares of quite able to supply a three days' broad cardboard which were only accepted a ration for their prisoners. The
the money at the prison camp canteens. What who are being made to suffer are happened to theru, as I gather their British, and it is done intentionally. story, was this. They tramped westward Ail the prisoners I have spoken to since after their guides had left them until the armistice was concluded, of whatever nightfall. Most of them slept twin nationality;le all are starved, the British agree upon one thing-that three hours in the fields, and awoke stiff
is, that and cold, and, realising that it might are hungrier and far worse treated than
"Swine" mean death to fall asleep again, got up the others. and continued the journey under the bitter sky. In the morning there was be the current manner of address where Britishers are concerned in German thick ice on the pools. They walked all the next day and the next night, with prison camps. Kicks and blows with the batt-end of a rifle were their daily por occasional rests in the open, but without tion. Now is not the moment to go into food or sleep.
appalling stories. Our men tell of com- On the second morning, after another rades dropping on the way to work from icy night march, they met French soldiers, hunger-dysentery, and being beaten with were given food, put into motor lorries, rifles until they got up and went on and taken to the nearest town. They are died over their work, of men who were in seeb a state that French officers, who refused admission to hospital being are well need to the eights of war, were carried out dend from the hute while horrified to see men in such a case. Some Gorman sentinels stood by laughing, of of them certainly died by the roadside
And
MAN
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and
of cold and oxhanation only a few miles men with acute dymontery crawling out at night for relief and dying on the from their friends. How many died
there is no means of knowing. Some men ground under the eyes of an indifferent I talked with told me positively that in sentry their party five had died, Others told ma
The Imperative need of the moment is of two deaths or three among their to bring home to Herr Ebert and Herr Schiedemann and the other Kalson- partics. The big droves, by natural pro ora, split up into groups which olurg Borialisten that the British Government has the power to exact retribution for together for company as long as possible, the devilty Yesterday, while I was One lad told me of a comrade in talking in the High-street of Chateau regiment captured with him in April with when be and shared the hanger and Saling to two British soldiers who had been eight months in the hands of the brutalities of prison camp life for over Germans, and who looked nearer death seven months, who dropped like Being than any human beings I ever saw, samo grenadier on reaching the abandoned Int, brute-faced German railway station. German front trenches and died within a few miles of help. Neither of them know in their blue uniforms were in the inn drinking beer and look- where they were, and at two o'clock on ing interestedly at us, These Gormans Sunday morning, when the los was form looked exactly as their like did, and ro ng on the nuddies in the shell-holes and mined in of the dead Turki, mummifs- there was not a light in sight or a friend,
ing in the sun, on our wire at this Dardanellos. (Continued at frat of next column:),
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