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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 May 31, 1939
Encirclement
THE story of encirclementi
was assiduously worked up by German propagandists be- fore, during and after the Great War of 1914-18.
To-day, with all the greater power given him by an absolute control of propaganda, Herr Hitler is trying to revive it. There is reason to believe That the German people are swallow- ing it.
Great Britain has no desire to encircle Germany or to prevent her being a great world Power |=the greatest Power on the continent of Europe. If Gor- many is content to live at peace with her neighbours, there need never be war with Britain.
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Mr. ROOSEVELT: "Hi! Can't you guys read?”
What the
O-MORROW they send me away. They only tell me Some- where on the Sieg- fried Line. While I am away who will look after my family?
Hitler?"
The speaker, a crane-driver from a Hamburg shipyard, spoke in the low tones used by practically
everyone in Nazi Germany.
Indeed, to one used to the cheer- ful buzz of conversation in London this subdued conversation is one of the most striking things about modern Germany, for it is such a direct contrast to the hearty, noisy Germany of other days.
There were seven of us round the
table of the little water-front restaurant. A crano-driver, two stevedores, a taxi-driver, an un- employed youth in Storm Trooper's uniform, A foreman from builder's yard, and myself. Out- wardly just a sober little party of German workers entertalaing a friend.
A
_WHAT... [L _voices were..........
subdued and the table set in an alcovo? Did not tend an air of Nazi respectability to the presence of the Storm Trooper
the party and raise it above ALA- picion?
Faced by a programme of taxi-driver introduced me to his So I thought when my friend the
discreet Englishman, aggression proclaimed in "Mein party as
and I resolved to say little and in- Kampf-and-ruthlessly carried dulge in no criticisms of the Party,
of which Τ
out step by step, Britain has adherent Judged them to be firm
been obliged, as a precautionary measure, to enter into certain arrangements with other States. But these arrangements are purely defensive and could not be called into play save in event of aggression.
the
In his speech recently Herr Hitler boasted: "We Germans do not feel in the least inferior to the British nation." No one supposes that they do, or would wish them to have such a feel- ing.
There is plenty of room in the world for Great Britain and Germany to exist side by side. as equal partners, along with other countries, In a society of free nations. The only condi- tion is that Germany's rulers give up their dreams of world dominion and agree to abide by the laws that must govern ternational relations.
by my arrival had worn off they After the slight restraint caused
plunged once more into their dis- cussion and it was not long before I realised that they were not the
firm followers of Hitler that the
presence of the Storm Trooper had led me to believe.
"Yesterday
I received the order telling me to report for duty to- morrow," went on the cranO- driver sullenly," and while I work on the Rhine my pay is to be twenty-five marks a week.. less Party fund deductions. The good Ged knows that with the price of things as they are in our happy Germany It is hard to support my family on the forty-five marks I earn as a crane-driver. We thank
our Fuehrer," he concluded sar-
cantically.
"JA, that is 80," nodded Karl the elderly, sickly- looking factory foreman, then glanced over his shoulder before he spoke again. That quick, auspicious glance with which one soon becomes familiar and
Don't Tax
German Incomes
worker thinks
The author of this article is an English- man, whose business- _takes_him_regularly
to the German ports.. The conversation re- ported here took place very recently in Hamburg. The names and occupations of "the participants have, of course, been dis-
guised.
what little one can obtain, costs three times as much as it did before our Fuehrer brought us peace, prosperity, and plenty.
"Can του wonder that We workers of Germany are not as red-cheeked and well nourished na you English?" he concluded.
“If what you have been telling me is correct," I argued, "How is it that Hitler is so popular with. many millions? Everywhere in Germany one witnesses this adoration of the Fuchrer."
Karl nodded.
"Yes, that is so," he admitted. "And oven wo who have na love for him know that he has done much good for Germany. He lifted us from the depths and made us a great country again... a country with self-respect. But why could he not stop then? Why not hold out the hand of friendship and which is so common in this spy-co-operation to the rest of the ridden Nazi paradise.
world? Why must we for ever arm?
"My pay is sixty-five marks a week, and of that I pay twenty-five to the Party," he continued, ad- dressing himself to me." THEY say that it is a 'voluntary' contribu tion in order that we may have extra pay. luxury, food, doctors,
and medical comforts when we are in-sick. But listen to this. I am an
Until they do so, it would be madness to relax any of our precautions, but this is a very different matter from encircle- ment; and the charge ill be comes men who first encircled Czecho-Slovakda and are now attempting to encircle Poland."
old man, and my boots, my only pair, they are not so good, eh? -and he lifted. one foot that I might inspect his patched, worn
footwear.
I fought in the last war and I do not wish to fight again. I do not believe that the workers of Germany will fght. Many young folk are now realising the
emptiness of golden Nazi promises
Says
JOHN BLUNT
THE suggestion that an income
tax might in future be ap- plied in this Colony has caused considerable perturbation amongst tho foreign com- munity.
Not because of the method it- self, but because of the insur- mountable difficulties which would be experienced in the uni- my brother speaks to a sallor on versal collection of the tax.
an English ship that is unloading
There is no doubt that large sec-
in this port. Some little criticism tion of the community would not find of Hitler he makes, and it is over-it dimeult to evade paying income heard by another stevedore, who is tax, which evasion would be attribut- a Party member.
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able to the peculiar methods of Chi- neso Bccountancy-the nominal. "AB my brother leaves Partnership system, and the case the docks that evening a with which the source of individual
Guard trooper Chinese wealth can be camouflaged. taps him on the shoulder. The Unless every Chinese business were next three months he spends in a compelled to keep books under direc- concentration camp, and we of his thods of accountancy, it would be im- tion and supervision of western me-
possible to discover the incomes of proprietors.
family have to contribute two) marks a day for his food."
"I have heard it said," I ra- marked dimdently, "that the 88. -Black-Guard)-is-being-trained-to- take over the duties of the police in the event of war. It is said that they are even receiving instruc- tion in street fighting."
Johann the Storm Trooper) precisely why the very suggestion of
income tax la distasteful. looked round before replying.
"That is correct. During the It must also be remembered that Sudeten Crials of September foreigners exist here on many and 50,000 SS. men, fully armed, stood Yurled Bnancial bases. Civil Ser- ready to dash into Hamburg vants are paid in
in sterling (with the should war be declared. Of course, exception of those locally engaged). housing and other They enjoy special housi Hamburg is held to be full of privileges, and are pensionable. This sedition and Communists, because is as it should be, but they form no of its old traditions as a Free City, inconsiderable section of the foreign But they were ready everywhere." community, and while income tax But why?" I asked. "What would not be ideal even In their need for
Cuses, would not prove such
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that the follows, therefore, foreigner would be the only cer- and this is tain source of revenue,
a
It was Hans the foreman who hardship as when applied to the mon answered me.
living here on a dollar basis, whose Hitler, whom we love so much; alm it is to be able to retire that he has to shelter behind one day, if he con manage to armed guards and bullet-proof sumcient. screens to escape our affection.
The soaring cost of living makes.
fears that the workers may try to rise should the Army and Storm Troops be engaged against foreign Power. Therefore the 88.1 being trained—just in case........
eve
him wonder when that day will be, specially when he thinks in terms of converting his savings into sterling therefore have the unpleasant feeling at the present low rate. He would
of being unfairly penalised if called. upon to pay Income tax, knowing LATER that night I full well that many of the main part walked back through the of the population were evading pay- swastika-decked streets, ment.
past groups of Awaggering, unl- formed youths and Nazi maldens,
all keyed up to hysteria pitch by TAXATION, to be effective, must Hitler's latest victory" in Czecho-be easily and generally applied, Slovakia and Memol.
and there must bo no loop-holes it But I felt that despite the every citizen is to pay his fair share. flaunting
brown swastikas and alruiting.This is no perfectly obvious as far os heroes" the heart Hongkong is concerned, that it ap-
of the German worker is still un pears almost absurd to make such an conquered and that there are many assertion.
who, despite threats and terrorism A tax on tea, for example, exempt- still keep elight the flame of nm-ling what may be called the coolie: gross and democracy.
brands, would not be amiss, and | every ... nationality would bear its
share.
Washington Bootjack Owned
and realise that we ate heading for disaster, Johann here," and he Indicated the sullen-faced young Storm Trooper, "Is one of the many who is a Party member only because he does not think it prudent to be otherwise." This winter has been wet and
Johann lo
looked at m cold, and for two whole weeks I"But what can I do?" he asked was in my bed with chills and in- shamefacedly. I have a wife and nuenza. But the Doctor would not young baby; and what would they give me a certificate saying that I do if I was in trouble? My two Was 111.
young brothers are keen Party T. Milton Booker, 70, owns u'carf- "For those weeks my wife and I members and I must not appear from bootfack engraved "Property of lived on thirty marks that I had lças keen than they,
George Washington" which he has to taken over a year to save... To exist Ah,...those Gestapo fellows, fused to sell to historical societies, on thirty marks for two weeks is they are everywhere, broke in the jack was found by a glavo dealer not easy in Germany; where food, one of the stevedores. "Last year at Point Pleasant W. Va.
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The present practice of charging |reccipt stamp duty of ten cents irro- spective of the amount, involved. offers another perfectly reasonable + and equitable field for revenue
The person who receives $20 pays the same tax as the person receiving $10,000. Surely no great · hardship. would be imposed In
applying a graduated scale, deep end
Royalties might well be imposed on transport companies according to SEAT PLEASE Turn To Page 7.
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