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War Taxation
DESPITE the worthy
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Perugial,
Ltd. for 10s. 6d.
Daughter
Last
at
by TOM DARLOW
pass the misery and unhappincas of our home."
"Every abred of évidence re- garding formor domestic din-
INDIVIDUAL Dickons en- widow and children of his friend, agreements, continues Miss thusiasts, as well as the Dickens Douglas Jerrold. Fellowship, have stronuously maintained this complete fa- younger brication. Most of them cer-
1
him."
Storey, "was raked up and used as a weapon of defence and justification to the outside world daughter and third child of
MRS. PERUGINI' described for the coming separation, "by tainly believed what they said. Miss Ternan as "the small fair mutual consent, which Dickens Charles and Catherine Dickens, Others, I am afraid, certainly haired, rather pretty actress" of brought himself to beliove was is speaking.
no special attraction save her right." Her voice comes from the knew the truth.
Georgina Hogarth-Mrs. Dic- grave, for she died on May 9, I have a certain personal in- youth. 1929 at the great age of eighty- terest in this matter. Some. "He had the world at his kens' younger sister, who had nine, but it rings strong, clear years back I spent many months feet," his daughter added, "she lived in the household for years -and his other daughter, and true as it is reported by her helping my friend, Mr. C. E. was a young girl of eighteen, Mamie, "entirely aided with familiar friend of many years Bechofer Roberts with his book, clated and proud to be noticed Dickens." His eldest son and standing, Gladys Storey, In her This Side Idolatry, which, in the by him." "As for Dickens, Mrs. Perugini "acceded to their book, Dickens and Daughter, form of fiction, attempted to tell comments Miss Storey, "a flush father's wishes." Mrs. Perugini published by Frederick Muller the true, tragic story of Charles of youth was rekindled within took her mother's part in so far
Dickens' private life.
as it was possible for her to do It will certainly CAURO a We started our researches "He pursued the realisation of so. tremendous sensation and scan- fully believing the current it," she continues, basing herself "But the situation was a dif- dal. It tells, in Mrs. Perugini's legend of the great and good on Mrs. Perugini's authority, ficult one, since Dickens had own words, the carefully and
genlus. Gradually our eyes with the same energy and sternly impressed upon them long-concealed truth of Charles were opened. In spite of avery thoroughness he applied to that their father's name was Dickens separation from his effort at suppression by the everything he set his heart on their beat possession-which wife, and of his well-established Dickens family-except Mra. doing.
they know to be true-and he 158оciation with
Miss Ellen Perugini and by the Dickens Lawless Ternan, who was his idolators, almost the whole story his wife at this time, that it was y
"His observation regarding expected them to act according mistress for many years and could be pieced together by pa- a pity he ever fell in her way Indeed, this was 50. Had it bore him a son who died in in- tient unbiased work. fancy,
was subsequently to become the become known that the idol of Perhaps the most private And the man who was gradu- retributory thought of this girl mid-Victorian respectability was affairs even of so great and ally revealed looked very like the regarding herself and Dickens "carrying on" with an eighteen-
of Mrs. illustrious a genious as Charles father
Perugini's when (after his death) the year-old actress to his wife's Dickens need not be dragged out memories as Miss Storey reports married a clergyman and be great sorrow, sales would have Into the glaring light of them.
came the mother of his children. slumped, and the who
Dickens' glorious golden career publicity nearly seventy years Naturally, when This Side Ido- "More tragic and far-reaching would have been bust, past re- after his death, were it not for latry came out, the Dickens in its effects was the association pair. the fact that a great campaign worshippers fell on it with a of Charles Dickens and Ellen has continued, ever since he whoop of delight, flayed it, Terpan and their resultant son separated from his wife in 1858, mocked it, and generally played (who died in infancy) than that ONE afternoon, at the start to make him out a model hus old harry with it. Bechofer of Nelson and Lady Hamilton of this affair, reports Miss band and father, the pattern Roberts and I have had to wait and their daughter.
Storey, Mra, Perugini found her embodiment of all the Victorian a long while for our justifica- "My father was like a mad- mother sobbing at her "dressing virtues.
man when my mother left table.
"Your father has asked me to home" (in 1858 after 22 years Let us see what Mra. Perugini married life in which she bore go and see Ellen Ternan." the average llongkong resident and Misa Storey have to say.
him eleven children, the young- "You shall not go!" exclaimed fightly taxed.
ncome Tax system is bought into force,
When he was forty-six, in est of whom was then six) sald Mrs. Perugini, angrily stamping any statement August, 1857, Dickens met Mrs. Perugini.
hér foot. But she went. regarding the number of taxpayers
"This affair brought out all "In the early stages of their the to whom it will apply can only be Ellen Lawless Ternan, through or
conjectured, since Government, es the some amateur theatricals which that was worst-all that was married life," continues Financial Secretary admits, has no he got up and performed in weakest in him. He did not Perugini-Storey ovidence, "Dic- means of ascertaining the number of most brilliantly, in order to raise care a damn what happened to kens made a compact with his persons who will be directly affected.) But it is safe to assume that the money for the near destitute any of us. Nothing could sur wife that if either of them fell
to
which Government aspires to devote a quarter of our, total inconte—both ordinary and extraordinary--in the twelve months after Income Tax be- | comes operalive and thereafter for the duration of the war, few people in the Colony will rejoice, either ni the, assurance that hitherto we have been among the lowest taxed of the Empire's multitudinous people that Government is taking steps to remove. Us from this allegedly enviable position.
Some form of increased taxation
minority who will bear the brunt of in war-time is inevitable, und no
the new taxation will be Infinitesim- person will fail to
that agree
ally smaller than the minokay who behoves this outpost of Empiro to
beur the brunt of ordinary taxation. contribute to the utmost to the cause and if the sum of ten millori dollars for which our Motherland has staked which has been mentioned is not an exaggeration the contribution which her future. But the burden of taxa-
this Colony is to make towards the tion propounded by Government is imperiul war chest will be, per capita one which must have consequences | of contributors, a stuggering one. inimical to the welfare of a people al-It-has-been-estimated-by-Govern:. ready reduced to straightened cir- cumstances by their proximity to a war that has been in existence on their door-step for more than two
years.
Government has been careful to claim that the extraordinary increase in the Colony's revenue during the past twelve months has been due chiefly to the influx of refugees, many of them self-supporting, and not to any Increase in the wealth of the people of the Colony itself. Few Hongkong people, indeed, have not experienced vicissitudes und terioration in their atandards of living as a result of the neighbouring hostilities and it appears an unfor- tunate fact that Government has been the only gainer as a result of the situation that has confronted this
ment that the Colony's total contribu- tion towards Imperial Defence dur- ing the
first year Income Tax operates will be in the vicinity of || $18,000,000 (or £1,000,000 sterling) of which amount $0.000.000 will be remitted to the Imperial Government as the Colony's annual Delence Lon tribution, $2,000,000 will be expended
tion.
AFTER
A MONTH
Lessons of 1914
of
in love with anybody else, they were to tell one another,
"Such an idea. at that period of their lives appeared ludicrous, but Dickens remembered the compact, and had told his wife lo call upon the girl with whom he had fallen in love."
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SOON the final break came. Mrs, Dickens went to live at 70, Gloucester-crescent, Regent's Park, receiving a settlement of £600 a year. Another settle- ment was made on Ellen Ternan
on local defences measures and the war, the man in the street is ended the first phase of the fighting.ment of her own at Peckham. the end of the first month of The Battle of the Marne, which who was set up in an establish-
ELS
estimated biance of $8,000,000 will be provided as a free contribution to undoubtedly perplexed at the course did not take place until September 6 which was then a charming
-five weeks after the declaration of suburb. the Imperial Government for the of events. prosecution of the war with Ger- For more than a year past he has war.
There is not very much more Mechanical transport has speeded to say. Mrs. Dickens never many. The total represents, in all, anxiously faced the possibility that twenty-five per cent. of the entire the moment war was declared, or up the movement of troops, revenue Government estimates it will even before it, London would be at-Hitler's progress in Poland shows. saw her husband again. Miss delse, in twelve months buth through tucked in raid after raid by expla-But where armies are anything like Ternan satisfied and comforted ordinary channels and by the in- sive incendiary or even gas bombs. equally matched or are holding forti- his restless spirit devotedly un- slitation of income tax.
He is also rather puzzled-particu-hed positions elaborate and careful til he died, so far as his constant Were the Colony in a position to Jarly if he is not old enough clearly preparations must be made for an
and "readings" afford a contribution of this magni- to remember the last war-by what attack. And with the great develop-Journeyings
ment of air reconnaissance it is more would allow him to enjoy her tude there could be no conceivable is happening on land. objection to it. But the majority of Poland has been subjugated by the than ever necessary that they should company and solace.. majority of the European class, are forces the people of this Colony, even the tremendous thrust of the mechanised | be made with the greatest secrecy.
Under his will she received of Germany which poured] On this occasion France began to nol in the position pay additional cross her frontiers and conquered a mobilise much later than Germany: £2,000 from his estate of just To state that the people of the Laxation of any substantial nature nation in three weeks. It was not but three million French soldiers over £90,000; though, of course, to be under arms the capital sum he had earlier Colony have been lightly taxed und the same time maintain their unnatural to assume that the moment were believed
To the France and England definitely ranged within a week and the levy of an-settled on her remained her own... in the past seems a somewhat rather existing economic level.
single man, earning $250 a month, themselves by her side, some drama- other three million was ordered, unjustified assertion when oppiled to
and probable support of parents and tie step would immediately be taken! This vast number of men have all to Later she married a most res
Anglican clergyman the very small percentage of the relatives not covered by the proposed on the Western Front to relieve the be conveyed over very congested rail-pected
Iways to their depots, pleke up their whose name is not given in this total population who are the chief exemptions (as many middle-class pressure in the East.
war equipment and when the units book, but which is already well taxpayers and who will be the Portuguese, Eurasian and Chinese
are ready proceed to their persons mulet of the
employees ceriinly are) the pro-
war known to Dickens scholars. ten million
stallons. Such an army cannot be pased tax of $00 a year may mean dollars extra revenue Government disaster. To the married man with expects to raise by the imposition of a ten per cent, tax on income. The
Colony since 1037, ·
dollars and will pay, nothing what- ever towards the war chest to which this Colony's Government propose so liberally to pour wealth that can be so ill-spared at this critical time in our history. That ordinary taxa- tion falls so hoavily upon
and so lightly
upon
war began in 1014:
It is also not surprising that Ger-
air forces for the luxury of frighten-
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Two questions, remain. How much was Mrs. Dickens to blame? Can we believe Mrs. Perugini's evidence?
To the first I think we can
.
Clearly the Allied Milltary Author-brought into action in a few hours. one child, earning $500 a month and Ities cannot publicly explain what is already harassed by swollen rents,
But it may help bulk of Hongkong's 1,500,000 people cost of living that has increased from going on or give any indication of
their intentions. 20 to 50 per cent. In the last twelve pay but a fraction of the existing months, and increased school fear, the folk to get a better perspective) annual taxation of forty million į the additional burden of $62 a year of what can be done by recalling how many, should be unable to spare her only say this: Charles and which will be his lot may prove France ordered a general mobilien-ing an enemy population. The first Catherine Dickens were certain- intolerable.
Mr. The principle of income tax must tion on August 1; the British ukima-alm of each side is to obtain com-ly not well-mated, though we
tum to Germany expired at midnight, mond of the air in the zone of mill- may sympathise more as flud support from every conscien- on
Bernard Shaw" has said, 'with tious person, and this Colony would plans had long been made for send-
4. Although dotalled, lary, operations. August
It must be a matter of gratifica-"the woman who was sacrificed be falling in its loyalty and duty to ing an expeditionary force to France, tion to every Englishman to learn to the genius uxoriousness to the Motherland if I did not con- it took from August 8 to August 10 offelally that many British squad-
of the rons are in France and that, accord- the appalling extent of having tribute to the fullest extent towards to ship the four divisions the
bridges had to bear eleven children in the successful prosecution of the war. Eritish Expeditionary Force actossing to reports the Rhine the But the scheme propounded in Legis- the Channel. Bases had to be pre- have been cut and the passage of sixteen years, than with 11 great barrier rendered ex-grievance which, after all, unfair to the medium-palu salaried arranged for their progress through tremely difficult.
Jilller must Immediately, try to amounted only to the fact that worker and unfairly generous to the northern France, and all the appara- highly paid. The minimum salaries tus for maintaining an army in a remedy this situation or accept a sho was not a femalo Charles to which taxation will be appiled foreign country to
bo established major military setback for a glance Dickens," $105 a month for single men or The concentration of the British at the map shows that the Rhine She seems to have had no women, $270 for married men, $378 Army at Mons was not completed runs right across for married men with one child, until August 21.
which the Siegfried line must be re sense of humour, and she was $440 for married men with two The British public were not allowed inforced and fed.
not tidy, or a good household children and $475 for married men to know of the sending of the B.E.F standards of the west, cannot object with three, children--appear extra-until August 18. Indeed, the. Annual 1014 is worth recalling.
One other fact about the war of manager-yet her husband was to carrying the burden thrust upon ordinarily low. The concessions to Register states that owing to the suc
the most meticulous and exigent That fact is that after the Enstern them under ordinary circumstances salaried men with familles do not hester the various measures taken front collapsed in 1017 through the of hosts and householders.
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our
and just, since the bulk of population, unhappily,
the on verge of destitution and is existing on a standard that admits no excess wealth for purposes other than the bare. sustenance. The minority, whose standards of living ore the
by the destitution and poverty of the majority. The fact that this burden is, however, borne by the minority and it in a small minority would sdem to dispose of the suggestion that
appear generous enough. In effect,
the under-$1,000-a-month employes
the routes by
is, asked to contribute for too gen- by the Inteligence Departure fought on for 18 months and won crously in comparison with those of German generals on August 21 were to war.
to pay more thart is being demanded. the B.E.. the upper class who can well afford still in ignorance of the dispatch of
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