"Hongkong Daily Press'
17. 1940
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1940.
TWO DANISH STEAMERS TORPEDOED OFF THE EAST COAST IN
IN EARLY HOURS WILL SPOIL Two Norwegian Vessels Overdue: One Feared Lost
HITLER'S BREAKFAST
CAIRO, Feb 16 (Reuter)-Mr. Anthony Eden Dominions Secre- tary, who flew to Palestine yester- day to inspect the Australian troops now stationed in the Holy Land. returned here today.
He said after his inspection of the troops that he wanted to take some pictures of the men and send them to Hitler. "It will 'cer- tainly spoil his breakfast."
He
added: "The Australian forces wish all Australians in the home country to know that they are feeling on top of the world."
CONVERSION OF
FAMOUS
LONDON, FEB. 16 (REUTER)-TWO DANISH SHIPS, THE RHONE (1,064 TONS) AND THE SLEIPNER. (1,066 TONS). WERE TORPEDOED OFF THE EAST COAST IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING.
Six are believed to have been saved from the Rhone and six passengers and six of the crew of the Sleipner,
THE WRECKAGE OF A NORWEGIAN SHIP HAS BEEN WASHED UP AT A POINT IN SCOTLAND. THERE IS SOME DOUBT AS TO THE IDENTITY OF A VESSEL WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN LOST.
Two Norwegian ships bound from Britain to Norway are overdue, One is the steamer Bisp (1,000 tons), which was reported from Haugesund today as overdue, and fear- ed lost.
Jardine Tug Attacked
BANKING HOUSE In Yangtse
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Reuter)- 'The decision to convert the famous banking house of J. P. Morgan and Company from a partnership Into an incorporated company name from next under the same April was set forth in an official statement. Business would be car.
ried on as hitherto,
The business was founded 80 years ago by the father of the
present head.
The other is the steamer.
Start (1,168 tons) which left
a British port-nine days after
the Eisp and which also has Norwegian circles fear that the
not been seen since.
wreckage 'washed up in Scotland may be that of one or the other
of these vessels.
"
U-BOAT ATTACKED SHANGHAI, Feb. 16 (Reuter)-
PARIS, Feb. 18 (Reuter)---A Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and French warship attacked a Ger- Company's steam tug, Hanwo, is man submarine at sea but the reported to have been attacked by authorities are unable to state pirates this morning off Fushan in positively that the submarine was the Yangtse Estuary.
A fierce, gun battle is said... to" bave taken place between the pirates and the Russian guards in which one of the pirates was kill- The report that incorporation was no casualty among the crew. ed and another arrested. There would be followed by dropping the banking business was described to the pirates succeeded in boarding The report stated that though Reuter's correspondent as "com- pletely false in fact and diame-the ship they were beaten back by
the ship's company. trically opposed to truth”
The move is seen as meaning an
and eventual
more widespread ownership of Morgan stock
LADY HALIFAX SEES POPE
VATICAN CITY, Feb, 16 (Ret- ter)-Lady Halifax, accompanied by the British Minister to the Holy Bee. was received in private audience by His Holiness the Pupe this morning.
The audience lasted for 45 min- utes and afterwards Lady Halifax
This is the second attack on a British ship Ln the Yangtse Estuary in recent months.
WESTERN FRONT
SNOWFALLS
PARIS, Feb. 18 (Reuter)-Snow has been falling on the Western Front almost without a break
been engaged in somewhat heavler Artillery on both sides have
fire than usual in the sector west of the Vosges,
sunk.
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CORPORATION
AND TAX
BUSINESS PROFITS AND PROPERTY RECOMMENDED BY WAR REVENUE COMMITTEE: RESERVATIONS MADE BY THREE MEMBERS
NO NEW TAXES
IN BURMA RANGOON, Feb 16 (Renter) -No new taxation would be Imposed in Burma's wartime budget.
Revenue is estimated to be 6,000,000 rupets higher while expenditure is estimated to have increased by 10,000,000.
The defeit of, 4,600,000 is expected to be offset by the Increased revenue.
Exeter, Ajax Heroes March
To Guildhall LONDON, Feb. 16 (Reuter)-4ll hour in Flymouth today when 350
Details Of Proposed Rates In Report
TAXES ON SALARIES, CORPORATION AND BUSINESS PROFITS AND A PRO- PERTY TAX "ARE THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WAR REVENUE COMMITTEE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE INCOME TAX COMMITTEÈ) APPOINTED BY HIS EX- CELLENCY THE GOVERNOR to inquire into the best methods of raising additional re venue for the purpose of a war contribution to the Imperial Government.
The report, issued yesterday, recommends the imposition of the following taxes: 1. A CORPORATION PROFITS TAX on profits in the Colony of companies regis- tered in Hongkong whether incorporated here or elsewhere. Exemption for corpora- tions the whole of whose profits are liable to United Kingdom Income Tax and for cor- porations which are allowed to dispense with the word "Limited," e.g. clubs, chambers of commerce, etc. Rate proposed: ten per cent, 2. A BUSINESS PROFITS
Tax on profits made in the
and of professions, the tax
Colony of other businesses APPOINTMENT OF A ROYAL being levied on the business COMMISSION TO EXAMINE
and not on, individual part- ners, without an enquiry as to
the ownership of the business ORGANISATION OF COLONY and without any deduction GOVERNMENT IS SUGGESTED
family
work was suspended for nearly an and division of the profits
officers and men from EMS for personal and Exeter and HMS Ajaz marched allowances. through the port behind the Royal Marine band to the Guildhall where they were entertained to lunch.
Crowds cheered wildly and many spectators were so carried away with enthusiasm that they joined In the procession.
Rate proposed:- Up to $10,000 per an-
..exempt On excess over $10,000
up to $100,000
5% On excess over $100,000. 10% 3. A SALARIES TAX on nearly all salaries and pensions derived from employment in the colony (other than salaries liable to Unit-
ON ed Kingdom Income Tax):
CHINESE CONVERGING NANNING: JAPANESE FORCED
A
Rate proposed:-The arst $5,000 of the taxable income after deduction of personal and family allowances the chargeable at 4 per cent..
BACK IN SEVERE BATTLE thereafter a 10 per cent, rate
to apply."
4. A PROPERTY TAX on the net
THE APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSION (PREFER- ABLY A ROYAL COMMISSION) TO INVESTIGATE THE "WHOLE ORGANISATION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN HONGKONG with a view to ascertaining whether it is possible to effect economies which would permit of a sub- stantial increase in the programme of social services is recommended by the Committee, which, in its Report, says, inter alia
WAR REVENUE COMMITTEE
The following sat as the War Revenue. Committee:-
Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster (Chairman), Hon. Mr. H. R. Butters, Hon: Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell, Hon. Mr, M. K. Lo. Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Cas- tro, Jnr.. Hon. Mr. LA Tse-tong,
Vandeleur Grayburn, Mr. D. J. Sloss, Mr. David F. Landale; Prof. R Robertson, Mr. Law- rence Kadoorie, Mr. E. M. Bry-. den, Mr. Ng Chak-wa, and Mr. T. Black.
CHUNGKING, Feb. 16 (Reuter)-The Chinese claim that they are converging on Nanning," in Kwangsi Pro- vince, after defeating the Japanese and forcing them to annual value of all land and build-Hon. Mr. W. N. T. Tam, Bir
retreat through the narrow foothills after a battle in whichngs in the Colony, at the rate of
the Japanese casualties were 20,000, while the Chinese losses were also considerable.
The Chinese also claim that artillery units shelled Japanese transports, and warships on the Yangtse River, scoring a number of hits.
NEW BULGARIAN
CABINET
and the British Minister were real but the French made recon- Air activity has been almost
SOFTA, Feb. 16 (Reuter) A new ceived by the Papal Secretary of naissance of some depth over the Bulgarian Cabinet has been form- State, Cardinal Maglione
German lines.
ed under Professor Philoff, form- PARIS, Feb 16 (Reuter)-The er Minister of Education, with "According to a Havas message | communique issued today states the Bulgarian Minister in Bei- from Naples, Crown Princess Pled that there was artillery action on grade as Foreign Minister. -mont it expecting a third child both sides in the region of the Bulgaria's foreign policy. It is -shortly.
Biles.
stated. will remain unchanged.
Ambasador to China, Mr. Nelson E. Johnsen (fourth from left) pho Me Bydney Lafoon, American Vice-Consal and the Envoy
The United States with, from left to retary, Mr. Whitney
Ambassadors
Major JM McHugh, Ass
American Nayal
Judg. Milton J. Helmick, of the United States Court!!
hoto 9.
KWEILIN, Feb 16 (Central) The Japanese troops, at Ssutang, on the Nänning- Pinyang highway, are with- drawing to Nanning. Strag- glers north of Wutang are be- ing mopped up'
by the Chinese.
11
5 per cent.
Spearhead Of Next Blitzkreig
Appendix To Report
The conclusion to
to which we came was that the best alter- native means of imposing taxation of approximately the same degree of severity and having approximately the same Incidence as the proposed Income Tax appear- ed to be a combination of taxes on property, on salaries and analogous. Incomes and on corporation and -pro- fessional and business profits made in the Colony assessed on bases and at rates cal culated to impose very broad- ly the same degree of sacrifice on the several classes of per- sons affected.
Such a combination of taxes would constitute a partial income tax, freed of many complications owing to its being limited in scope and only approximately adjusted The appendix. to the report of particula! much of the enquiry to individual ability to pay. In Special to the HE, Daily Press the War Revenue Committee is a into personal circumstances which LONDON, Feb. 10
Bill Entituled an Ordinance to was apprehended from the (Havas)
| impose, war taxes and to regulate miriistration of a full income Major-General Bir Ernest Winton, the collection thereof. The Or- would be avoided. More than 2,000 Chinese able well-known military, writer, in & dinance may be cited as the War bodied men were commandeered by and heavily armoured tanks, carry-
broadcast today stated that huge Revenue Ordinance, 1940
REVISED BILL the Japanese at Liaoping and
We have prepared a revised B other villages east
The Bill deals with a Board of providing-for the imposition, as- ing flame throwers as well as guns, Inland Revenue composed of the sesament and collection of these of Pinyang upon their retreat. Some of them are at present being produced by Financial Secretary and four other taxes, entitled: a.War..
the Germans and will form the spearhead of their blitzkreig.
2,000 COMMANDEERED
have escaped back.
BRIDGES DAMAGED MILO, Feb. 16 (Central)-Bix
stated that special tank' bridges on the Canton-Hankow divisions are at present being Rafiway between Yoyang (Tochow) formed, simlar to those which and Yanglowtung, in North Hu- participated in the advances in nan, were blown up by Chinese Austria and Czechoslovakia. guerillas on the night of Feb. 13. Traffic on the railway has been disrupted.
REVERSES IN HUPER FANCHENG, HUTEH, Feb. 16 (Central)—A Japanese drive from Maping, southeast of Suthalen in North Hupeh, has been thrown back. During their retreat, the who is suffering from cerebral Japanese were attacked on the haemorrhage, is now unconscious. way, suffering further losses
TETRAZZINI.. UNCONSCIOUS
MILAN, Feb 16 (Reuter)-_The Famous prima donna, Tetrazzini,
SPECIAL BRITISH
RELIEF UNIT
LONDON Feb 16 Reuter)- Bix University men are forming a special British relief unit under the auspices of the British Fund for the Relief of Distress in China, and are leaving for China to work In Kwelyan
hoger The unit is organised by Evert Barget, lecturer at the Bristol Uni versity and Llewellyn Evans, the well-known rugby, footballer.
A steamship company is giving passages to China: and : Dr. Methodist Mission doc- will join the
in Hong-
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