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Bureaucracy and Taxation
the
in
the
MICKEY
FINLAND AND
GIANT STALIN
"In the twinkling of an eye, Mickey threw a loop of thread around the giant's nose.”
The Telegraph' picked
this out
Say net the struggle sanght
availeth,
The labuur and the wounds are
vain.
The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they
remain.
I hopes were dupes, fears may
be liars;
may be, inyon conceal'd.
smuke
Your comrades chase e'en now
the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the
Leid.
For while the tired waves, mainly
breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to
valu
Far back, through creeks and
Inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the
main.
windows
And not by custern
only, When daylight comes, comes in
the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how
slowly!
But westward, look, the land Is
bright!
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1810-1801
the taxation proposals of the War the Colony in annually increasing"
The
love
too
B.B.C. Haw-Haw
JONAH BARRINGTON tells you how
HE B.B.C. are fans of old Lord Haw-Haw, too. They we hit back at
employ men and women translators and shorthand-
pals-on paper.
The high-ups glance them over: they confer with the
the German
propaganda..
Foreign Office, the Ministry of Information, the B.B.C. News what we
Service-then they hit back.
Twice nightly, to Germans skulking under bedclothes or hendphone-listening in cellars, they tell the truth.
tell
them every
And, because the truth is a change from Dr. Goebbels's night..
Soothing Syrup and Lord Haw-Haw's Elixir, they're gaining a bigger and bigger audience each night.
"
the
It is only necessary to visit Gov-
said in his speech. The Ger- ernment Departments in Hongkong.
How do they know? Many ritorial claims in Europe" is a
man Press has not published a with their neatly painted name-
times I've asked the B.B.C. that best-seller). plates announcing that within sils the
They
attack Ribbentrop single long quotation. chief, the principal assistant,
future, question, and all they do is to
"The German High Command second assistant the third assistant, this infant with so brilliant the fourth aussistant, the deputy assist-will be lot to abandon it. The pre-close one eye and put on finger "This man who attacked Mr.
the present Finnnel to the nose. They know that Chamberlain is himself one of are desperate at the thought of ant, the second deputy assistant, the decessor to chief lerk, Ore assistant
chief Secretary has already warned pat German listeners to B.B.C. pro- the greatest turncoats in history being forced to carry out a mass. chief deputy clerk, the mereasingly heavy taxation for ordin-
on that a direct attack assistant deputy clerk and a whole
ury purposes quite apart from the war grammes risk imprisonment or, the man who, having created attack in the west. They know the Anti-Comintern Pact, went Maginot Line would involve a plethora of other assistants to realise must be envisaged. Pensions will, in extreme cases," death.
involve
to Moscow begging for help.” what will happen
tremendous loss of life Colony if this
Lar from being slashed,
THE B.B.C. system is to
They out-hector Haw-Haw. yet that is the situation that Revenue Committer are adopted. commitments; liberal Hume leave ar-
take a Hnw-Haw or a A new department will be set up. rangements inust not be interfered
"The emphatic rejection of will require a Board of Inland with; old and faithful servants old, Goebbels story, decontaminate "YOU!--- REICHSMINISTER may be forced upon them... Revenue consisting of five members. that, in the eyes of the Civil Service it, and to hurl it back into Ger- DR. GOEBBELS!" they say,
the Nazis and their ideology by to relire to must be permitted
They plaster the Ark Royal the whole Arab world has so- allowances.
lio with withering sarcasm, impressed the Germans that They give the names of Ger- "In a message to Rome," thoy they have now abandoned their they earn
earn them, and they must
prisoners captured, and
say, "you asserted that she had propaganda efforts to picture Arabs 15 struggling be a Deputy Commissioner,
appointees. Expenditure on public man salary will absorb the taxes derived health, education and social services add, cheerfully, "We'll give you been sunk near the Isle of May. the
In an Arabic broadcast you as-slaves. train n hundred tax-payers. There generally is, and always has been some more to-morrow."
of recordings Commis- below the level compatible with the They play
serted she was sunk. in the sloners, each with his own little office principles of Empire guardianship
which we spouse and cannot well Hitler's speeches, making him North Sea. In a Spanish broad. present in- confess himself a liar out of cast you declared she had been
(The bit where destroyed by fire." his own mouth.
It
cach, presumably, drawing the usual nd their well-earned Pensions in many as a straight statement of fand then give him socks.
It will require a Commissioner who any part of the world except that in fact.
won't be 1
less receipt of much
whose
which
than $24,000 per annum. There will be replaced by new Colonial Offer
will several Assistant
be
and stenographer. There will be a multitude of Examiners,
decreased clerks, be typlats, accountants, Basessors. Inadequate levels.
below
short, there will be another Depart- Is it, then, likely that the Govern- he says: "I have no more ter-
War
DC-
the new Department wil be any different to the multitudinous partments already in existence;
the
On
by the that
Lihe
ment.
the
If Government mulets a Cor-
BB.C. calling Ger-
many.
»
"Women are demonstrating in the streets of Vienna..
"One hundred thousand Ger- ment.
WHO are the men who WHO ment will accept the Committee's The hope may be expressed in scrne recommendations that the proposed
nightly hit back at mans, evacuated from Baltic quarters that bureaucracy may make an excepilon and run the proposed the war only?
taxes should be for the duration of concerns administered for the bene- fit of their shareholders. They are
and leave their The businesses Inland Revenue Department crono-
There are other, and for the tax-not administered for the benent of Lord Haw-Haw? I am asked to countries, must liquidate their
the man-in-the-street and they are give no names, no clues. micully. Has any Department ever payer, equally important reasons why not going to be administered for the B.B.C. screen their identities-possessions behind.. been run economically in Hongkong? the recommendation of the Commit-benent of the War. Revenue Depart scared not so much for their "The sales of "Mein Kampf' Do the following paragraphs from the tce should be opposed
being soft-pedalled in. Impose proposed "Ordinance to
people of this Colony,
poration earning $300,000 net profit safety, but for the safety of are
Prague... Taxes and to Regulate the Collection surface, it would appear liable of $50,000, that $50,000 is going to be their relatives in Europe.
"There is a panic among the thereof" make it appear likely that tox proposals, are more equitable passed on, as similar taxes have How do they compare with
been passed on in the past. We al- than those originally propounded
They do not German population of Hungary, the Government. But the great and ready have as war-time precedents (Lord Haw-Haw? inarticulate Middle Class taxpayer, the increased Government taxation sneer, nor jibe, nor lie-neither who used to hold Nazi sym- "3. (1) (a)-There shall be a
who would have been the principal on petrols and liquors. The Corpora- have they his capacity for being pathies, but are now throwing Board of Inland Revenue composed victim under the original proposals, tione dealing in these commodities
funny, But out the Nazi agents. of the Financial Secretary and four
has no guarantee that his position is have already passed the taxation on unintentionally
"The Admiral Scheer, pró- other members appointed by the
any better under these new proposals. to the consumer in the shope of in- they can register anger, heat; Governor, of whom not more than
It will be he who will be the creused prices for petrol, higher sarcasm, honest indignation to bably flying a false flag, is. an official in shall be
order, unc
They can spit out the being hunted by the British mainstay of the Salurica Tax. He, charges for taxis, higher prices for employ of
of the Government.
too, will be the victim of the Pro-liquors.
word "Hitler" as bitterly as you Navy.. (2)-For the purpose of this perty Tax, Property Tax, suggests
There is, not one paragraph in the or I.
"Listen, Herr von. Ribbentrop Ordinance, the Government may the proposed Ordinance, will be appoint a Commissioner, a Deputy charged to the owner of the land or voluminous War. Revenue Bill to
Though they occupy humble-you, Dr. Goebbels,`. Commissioner, Assistant Commis-property involved, but the tax itself safeguard the man-in-the-street from stoners and Examiners..
will be payable in the first instance becoming the only victim of the positions in the B.B.C. hierarchy,
only about I there's any criticism These two paragraphe epitomize the by the person, whether owner, agent Committeo's proposals.
The wage-carner is to be the Dum. though they earn
of the B.B.C. pro- objections to the creation of any addi- or tenant, who normally pays the tion to the bureaucracy already in fassersed rates, The person who my. And Dummy's pocket must be £10 a week, they know the im- existence in Hongkong. We already usually pays these rates is the tenant. raped because he, too, knows that portance of the job in hand, paganda service, it is that it. counter-attacks rather than at- have too many Heads of Departments, His total rental is computed ut so this Colony must make a substantial and do it well. deputy Heads of Department, assist- much for actual rent, plus assessment monetary contribution to the Em
This is the B.B.C., calling tacks. It avoids sensationalism ant beads of Departments, second, rates. A tenant would have a dif- pire's war effort. He is impotent
-and sensationalism is a quality flcult time proving in a Court of Low to suggest that Empire, and especially Germany:
that speech-sodden German The creation of a new Department that the landlord is not justifled in this small part of Fmpire in which
"The frayed nerves of the will require new offices, new and ex- passing on any increased assessments, he lives, would best be served by pensive equipment, new staffs and, especially as the proposed Ordinance the functioning of Government on German propaganda authorities listeners have been taught to in spite of the hopes expressed by and the Eviction of Persons Ordin (to use the War Revenue Committeo's are evidenced by the contradic appreciate." the War Revenue Committee, new ance permit the landlord to add these words) the most economical basis tions in their claim to have sunk
commensurate with efficiency. Pension commitments, new people to charges to his rentals.
The man who pays the Salary Tax The Empire fights for Democracy, the Ark Royal, go on leave every four years.
"The German Press does not and the Property Tax will also, in- and we are told that we must make
third and fourth assistants.
#
And at the moment it. lacks. Jone-man control.,
There's a job at Broadcasting:
The war in Europe may end even before the newly-created Depart directly, pay the Corporation Pronta heavy sacrifices to anfeguard Demo- dare let the German people House for a master-mind
Bureau- Tax, As elsewhere throughout the cracy. But that very Democracy 13 know what Mr. Chamberlain propagandist and a showman. ment is functioning. But cracy, once having given birth to world, Corporations are business denied us in Hongkong.