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were opened. In spite of every 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 best possession which wife, and of his well-established Dickens family-except Mrs. doing.
they knew to be true-and he association 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 i
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tremendous sensation and scan fully
We started our researches "He pursued the realisation of NO.
which Government aspires to devole a quarter of our total income-both ordinary and extraordinary-In the twelve monilus after Income Tax be- | virtuen, comes operative and thereafter for
the
the duration of the war, few people the averago Hengkong resident and Miss Storey have to say. In the Colony will rejoice, either at light taxed. the assurance that hitherto we have
Empire's multitudinous people or that Government is liking -steps 10 remove U8 from thia allegedly enviable position.
Some form of increased taxation
in war-time la inevitable, and no Derson will fall 10 agree that It behoves this outpost of Empire to contribute to the utmost to the cause for which our Motherland has staked her future. But the burden of, taxa- tion propounded by Government is, one, which must....bava...consequences inimical to the welfare of a propie al- 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 усата.
will un Income Tax system is
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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 to call upon the girl with whom he had fallen in love."
你
bore him a son who died in in- tient unblased work, fancy.
was subsequently to become the become known that the idol of - Perhaps
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- illustrious a genious as Charles father of Mrs. Perugini's when (after his death) she year-old actress to his wife's Dickens need not be dragged out memories as Mias Storey reports married a clergyman and be great sorrow, sales would have into the gloring light of them.
came the mother of his children. slumped, and the whole of Dickens glorious golden carcer 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, Terman and their resultant son
ONE afternoon, at. the start separated from his wife in 1858, mocked it, and generally played (who died in infancy) than that to make him out n model hus- old harry with it. Bechofer of Nelson and Lady Hamilton of this affair, roports Miss band and father, the pattern Roberts and I have had to wait and their daughter.
Storey, Mrs. Perugini found her embodiment of all the Victorian a long whlic for our justifica- "My father was like a mad- mother sobbing at her dressing
tion.
man when my mother left table.
"Your father, has asked me to home" (in 1858 after 22 years Let us see what Mrs. Perugini married life in which she bore go and see Ellen Ternan."
him eleven children, the young. "You shall not go!" exclaimed brought into force, any statement August,
When he was forty-six, in est of whom was then six) said Mrs. Perugini, angrily stamping.
hér foot. But she went 1857, Dickens met Mra. Perugini. been among the loweal taxed of the regarding the number of taxpayers pllen Lawless Ternan, through to whom it will apply can only be
"This affair brought out all "In the early stages of their conjectured, since Government, as the some amateur theatricals which that was worst-all that was married life, continues the Financial Secretary admits, has no he got up and performed in weakest in him. He did not Perugini-Storeyovidence, "Dic- means of ascertaining the number of persons who will be directly affected. most brilliantly, in order to raise care a damn what happened to kens made a compact with his 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 minority who will bear the brunt of the new taxation will be infinitesim. ally smaller than the munurity who bear the brunt of ordinary taxation, and if the sum of ten million dollers which has been mentioned is not an exaggeration the contribution which this Colony is to make towards the Imperial war chest will be, per capita -of-contributors, a staggering.one..
It has been estimated by Govern- ment that the Colony's total contribu
SOON the final break came. tlon towards Imperial Defence dur- Income Tax
Mrs, Dickens went to live at 70, ing the first year operates will be in the vicinity of
Gloucester-crescent, Regent's $10,000,000 (or £1,000,000 sterling)
Park, receiving a settlement of of which amount $6,000,000 will be
£600 a year. Another settle- remitted to the Imperial Government
ment was made on Ellen Ternan as the Colony's annual Defence Con- tribution, $2,000,000 will be expensted
who was set up in an establish- on local defences measures and the T the end of the first month of The Battle of the Marne, which meht of her own at Peckham,
ended the first phase of the fighting. past twelve months has been due estimated balance of $8,000,000 will Awar, the man in the
was then a charming chielly to the influx of refugees, many be provided as a free contribution to undoubtedly perplexed at the course did not take place until September 6 which
the Imperial
five weeks after the declaration of suburb. Government for the of events. of them self-supporting, and not to
with Ger
There is not very much more For more than a year past he has any Increase in the wealth of the prosecution of the war
Mechanical transport has speeded to say. Mrs. Dickens never many. The total represents, in all,
the movanent DX troops, US people of the Colony Itself. Few twenty-five per cent, of the entire anxiously faced the possibility that up Hongkong people, Indeed, have not revenue Government estimates it will the moment war wax declared, or Hitler's progress in Poland shows saw her husband again. Miss experienced
cruise, in twelve months both through even before it. London would be at-But where armies are anything like Ternan satisfied and comforted vicissitudes and
ordinary channels and by the in- tucked in raid after raid by explo-equally matched or are holding forthis restless spirit davotedly un- terioration in their standards
He is also rather puzzled-parties- cd positions elaborate and careful til he died, so far as his constant "rendings" afford a contribution of this magni- larly if he is not old enough clearly attack. And with the great develop journeyings tude there could be no conceivable to remember the last war-by what ment of air reconnaissance it is more would allow him to enjoy her
than ever necessary that they should company and solace, objection to it. But the majority of is happening on land.
Under his will she received the people of this Colony, even the Poland has been subjugated by the be made with the greatest secrecy.
On this occasion France began to majority of the European class, tremendous thrust of the mechanised
Germany: 2,000 from his estate of just not in the position to pay additional
which poured mobilise much later than To state that the people of the taxation of any substantial nature forces of Germany
arms the capital sum he had earlier nution in three weeks. It was not were belleved to be under Colony have been lightly taxed and at the same time maintain their cross her frontlers and conquered a but three million French soldiers over £90,000; though, of course,
existing economic level.
unnatural tu assume that the moment within a week and the levy of an- settled on her remained her own. in the past seems a somewhat rather single man, en.ning $250 a month, France and England definitely ranged other three million was ordered, i unjustified assertion when applied to and probable support of parents and themselves by her side, some drama- This vast number of men have all to later she married a most res- the very small percentage of the relatives not covered by the proposed the step would immediately be taken be conveyed over very congested rail-pected. Angilean clergyman total population who are the chief exemptions (or many middle-class on the Western Front to relieve the ways to their depots, pick up their whose name is not given in this war equipment and when the units book, but which is already well Portuguese, Eurasian and Chinese pressure in the East. taxpayers and who will be the
are ready proceed to their war persons mulet of the Len million
stations. Such an army connot be known to Dickens scholars.
Two questions remain. How dollars extra revenue Government
brought into action in a few hours.
much WAS Mrs. Dickens to blame? Can we belleve Mrs. Perugini's evidence?
Government has been careful to claim that the extraordinary increase in the Colony's revenue during the
Ilving 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 Colony since 1937.
stitution of income tax.
Were the Colony in a position to
To the
employees certainly are) the pro- posed tax of $80 a year may mean disaster. To the married man with
already harassed by swollen rents,
expects to relac by the imposition of one child, carning $500 a month and a ten per cent, tax on income. The bulk of Hongkong's 1,500,000 people pay but a fraction of the existing annual taxation of forty million dollars and will pay nothing what-
ever lowards the war chest to which
A MONTH
Lessons of 1914
street is
sive. Incendiary even gas bombs.
war began in 1014:
of
war.
preparations must be made for an
|tary Operations.
barrier rendered ex-
and.
Clearly the Allled Military Author- 20 to 50 per cent, in the inst twelve going on or give any indication of cost of living that has increased fram ities cannot publicly explain what is!
It is also not surprising that Ger- To the first I think we can months, and increased school fees, their intentions But it may help the additional burden of $02 a year the folk to get a better perspective many, should be unable to spare her only say this: Charles and which will be his lot may prove of what can be done by recailing how air forces for the luxury of frighten Catherine Dickens were certain-
ing an enemy population. The first Intolerable.
The principle of income tax murt France ordered a general robilisa-alm of each side is to obtain com-ly not well-mated, though we this Colony's Goverment proposes find support from every conscien- tion on August 1; the British ultima-, mand of the air in the zone of mili- may sympathise more as Mr. Bernard Shaw. has said, with so liberally to pour wealth that can Hlous person, and this Colony would turn to Germany expired at midnight
It must be a matter of gratiâca-"the woman who was sacrificed August 4. Although detalled bo so -spared at this critical time be failing in its loyalty and duty to on in our history. That ordinary taxa- the Motherland if it did not con- plans had long been made for send-on to every Englishman to learn to the genius uxoriousness to tion folla hoavily
tribute to the fullest extent towarda ing an expeditionary force to France, officially that many British squad- the upon
the successful prosecution of the war. It took from August 8 to August id rons are in France and that, accord- the appalling extent of having minority and so lightly
the ing to reports the Rhine bridges had to bear eleven children in upon the But the scheme propounded in Lezis to ship the four divisions across have been cut and the passage of sixteen years, than with a majority is, of course, only right lative Council yesterday is manifestly Critish Expeditionary Force
grievance which, after all, and just, since the bulk of our unfair to the medium-pald salaried the Channel. Bases had to be pre- that great
Iller must immediately try to amounted only to the fact that population, unhappily, is on the
worker and unfairly generous to the pored, billets and commissariat to be tremely dimeult, highly paid. The minimum salaries arranged for their progress through
Ashe was not a female Charles verge of destitution and is exlating to which taxation wit be applied! northern France, and all the appara- remedy this situation or accept un a standard that admits no exCLAN $165 a month for single men or us for maintaining an army in a major military setback for a glance Bickena.” wealth for purposes other than the women, $275 for married men, $375 foreign country to
be established, at the map shows that the Rhine
She seems to have had no British run right across the routes by barest sustenance. The minority, | for married men with one "child, The concentration of the whose standards of Hving are the lidren and $475 for married men until August 21.
$440 for married men with two Army at Muns was not completed which the Siegfried line must be re-sense of humour, and she was.
Inforced and fed.
not tidy, or a good household standards of the west, cannot object with three children-appear extra-
One other fact about the war of manager-yet her husband waa The British public were not allowed to carrying the burden thrust upon ordinarily low.
The concessions to to know of the sending of the BEF. 1014 is worth recalling.
That fact is that after the Eastern the most meticulous and exigent. them under-ordinary circumstances ! salaried men with families do not until August 10. Indeed, the Annual by the destitution and poverty of the appear generous enough. effect, Register states that owing to the suc-front collapsed in 1017 through the of hosts and householders.
In such circumstances his majorily. The fact that this burden
Allies frustration at home grew too the under-$1,000-a-month employes cess of the various measures taken disintegration of Russia is asked to contributo far too gen by the Intelligence Department, the crushing of Rumania, the is, however, borna by the minority-crouely in comparison, with those of German gonorals on August 21 were fought on for 18 months and won bitter to be borne, and, when he i and it is small minority-would
the upper class who can well afford still in morance of the dispatch of the war.
W. T. L. seem to dispose of the suggestion that to pay more then is being demanded. the BEF.
and the
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