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THE preix "Special to the Telegraph" is wood by the "Hongkang Telegraph to Indicato news which is suletly copyright under the provisions of the Telecomum val- cations Ordinance, 1916, Buch news se boat Indication "U" I received in Hongkong on the date of publication by Ur United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid repabileation, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
Bureaucracy and Taxation
an
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
not the struggle. naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are
vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they
remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may
be tiary;
may be, in you smoke conceal'd.
Your comrades chuse e'en now
the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the
field.
For while the tired waves, vainly
breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to
pain,
Far back, through creeks and
inlets maling,
Comes silent, flooding in, the
main.
And not by castern windows
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
chief Secretary has already warned
clerk, the chief deputy clerk, the assistant deputy clerk and a whole plethora of other assistants to realise what will happen in this Colony if the taxation proposals of the War Reventte Commitlee are adopted. commitments; liberal Home leave ar- A new department will be set up. rangements nust not be interfered
the Colony in annually increasing
The
love
too
T
B.B.C.
Haw-Haw
JONAH BARRINGTON tells you how we hit back at the German propaganda.. what we tell them every night.
HE B.B.C. are fans of old Lord Haw-Haw, too. They employ men and women translators and shorthand ists, at £300 a year, just to put his words-and his pals-on paper.
The high-ups glance them over: they confer with the
Service--then they hit back.
Foreign Office, the Ministry of Information, the B.B.C. News
Twice nightly, to Germans skulking under bedclothes or
headphone-listening in cellars, they tell the truth.
And, because the truth is a change from Dr. Goebbels's Soothing Syrup and Lord Haw-How's Elixir, they're gaining a bigger and bigger audience each night.
How do they know? Many ritorial claims in Europe" is a times I've asked the B.B.C. that best-seller).
They attack
THE B.B.C. Bystem is to
take a Haw-Haw or
of Inland with; old and faithful servants-old, Goebbels story, decontaminate
ΟΙ of the Civil Service
consisting of five members. that, in the mitted to retire to it, and to hurl it back into Ger. DR. GOEBBELS!" they say,
It will require Board Revenue
presumably, drawing the usual must be coch, allowances.
receipt of much
"
It is only necessary to visit Gov- ernment Departments in Hongkong,
The Ger- said in his speech. with their neatly painted name-
man Press has not published a plates announcing that within sits the chlef, the principal assistant, the
Ribbentrop single long quotation... second assistant the third assistant, this infant with so brilijant a future, question, and all they do is to the fourth assistant, the deputy assist will be loth to abandon it. The pre-close one eye and put on fingerThis man who attacked Mr. The German High Command the second deputy assistant, the decessor to the present Financial to the nose. They know that Chamberlain is himself one of are desperate at the thought of chlef clerk, the assistant
increasingly heavy taxation for ordin-German listeners to B.B.C. pro- the greatest turncoats in history being forced to carry out a mass on the ary purpuses quite apart from the war grammes risk imprisonment or, the man who, having created attack in the west. They know must be envisaged. Pensions will, in extreme cases," death.
the Anti-Comintern Pact, went that a direct attack
Maginot Line would involve a the from being slashed, involve
to Moscow begging for help."
tremendous loss of life.. They out-hector Haw-Haw. yet that is the situation that YOU! REICHSMINISTER may be forced upon them..
The emphatic rejection of the Nazis and their ideology by spend their well-carned Pensions in many as a straight statement of and then give him socka.
in fact.
They plaster the Ark Royal the whole Arab world has 80. It will require a Commissioner who any part of the world except that in
lie with withering sarcasm. impressed the Germans that won't be in
Jess which earn them, and they must
They give the names of Ger- "In a message to Rome," they they have now abandoned their than $21,000 per annum. Thero will be
replaced by new Colonial Omco bo a Deputy Commissioner, whose appointees. Expenditure on public man prisoners captured, and
been sunk near the Isle of May.
the Arabs 19 struggling will absorb the taxes derived health, education und social services add, cheerfully, "We'll give you say, "you asserted that she had propaganda efforts to picture Salury from a hundred tax-payers. There generally is, and always has been. some more to-morrow."
In an Arable broadcast you as-slaves.. will be several Assistant Commis- below the level compatible with the
They play recordings of
serted she was sunk in the sioners, each with his own little amice principles of Empire guardianship
which we espouse and cannot well Hitler's speeches, making him North Sea. In a Spanish broad- BBC calling Ger- and stenographer.
in-confess himself a liar out of east you declared she had been There will be a multitude of Examiners,
decreased below
present clerks, bo
his own mouth. (The bit where destroyed by fire." typists, accountants,
"Women are demonstrating in ussessors. Inadequate levels. there will be another Depart-
the streets of Vienna... Is it, then, likely that the Govern- he says:
WHO are the men who "One hundred thousand Ger. The 1
hope may be expressed in sornement will accept the Committee's
nightly hit back at mans, evacuated from Baltic quarters that bureaucracy inny make recommendations that the proposed concerns administered for the bene-
saxes should be for the duration ofat of their shareholders. They are Lord Haw-Haw? I am asked to countries, must liquidate their an exception and run the proposed the war only?
not administered for the benefit of
and leave The businesses
their Inland Revenue Department econo- There are other, and for the tax- the man-in-the-street and they are give no names, no clues.
nically. Has any Department ever payer, equally important reasons why been run economically in Hongkong? the recommendation of the Commit-not going to be administered for the B.B.C. screen their identities possessions behind.
beneill of the War Revenue Depart- teo should bo Do the following paragraphs from the
opposed
"The sales of "Mein Kampf” by the
the ment. If Government mulets a Cor-scared not so much for their proposed "Ordinance to impose Wur
of this Cotony. Оп
being poration carning $500,000 net profit safety, but for the safety of are
soft-pedalled Taxes and to Regulate the Collection
would appear Ion | surface, It
Prague....* the new Department will be uny than those originally propounded by been passed on in the past. different to the multitudinous De- the Government. But the great and ready have as war-time precedents Lord Haw-Haw? They do not German population of Hungary, inarticulate Middio Clase taxpayer, the increased Government taxation sneer, nor jibe, nor lie-nelther who used to hold Nazi sym- who would have been the principal on petrols and liquors. The Corpora- have they his capacity for being pathies, but are now throwing victim under the original proposals, tions dealing in these commodities
But out the Nazi agents....' has no guarantee that his position is have already passed the taxation on unintentionally funny. any better under these new proposals. to the consumer in the chape of in- they can register anger, heat,
"The Admiral Scheer, pro-
8/10
that
the
"I have no more ter-
many.
"
"
in!
thereof" make it appear likely that tax proposals are more equitable of $50,000, that $50,000 is going to be their relatives in Europe.
passed on, as similar taxes have How do they compare with "There is a panic among the
partiments already in existence:
"J. (1) (a),-There shall be a Board of Inland Revenue composed
of the Financial Secretary and four ollier members appointed by the Governor, of whom not more than
We al-
It will be he who will be the creased prices for petrol, higher sarcasm, henest indignation to bably flying a false flag, is. one shall be on official in the mainstay of the Salaries Tax. He charges for taxis, higher prices for order. They can spit out the being hunted by the British employ of the Government. of this will be the victim of the Pro-Liquors.
word "Hitler" as bitterly as you
"Listen, Herr von Ribbentrop,
(2),-For the purpose
Ordinance, the Government may appoint a Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commis- stoners and Examiners
perty Tax. Property Tax, suggests
Navy..
the proposed Ordinance, will he
DO There is not one paragraph in thejor I. charged to the owner of the land or voluminous War Revenue Bill to property involved, but the tax itself safeguard the man-in-the-street from Though they occupy humble-you, Dr. Goebbels, . will be payable In the first Instance becoming the only victim of the positions in the B.B.C. hierarchy, These two paragraphs epitomise the by the person, whether owner, ogent Committee's proposals. objections to the creation of any addi- or tenant, who normally pays the
IF there's any criticismr The wage-earner is to be the Dum-though they earn only about
of the B.B.C. pro- tion to the bureaucracy already in assessed rates, The person who my. And Dummy's pocket must be £10 a week, they know the im existence in Ilongkong. 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. have too many Heads of Departments, His total rental la computed at so this Colony must make a substantial and do it well.
counter-attacks rather than ati deputy Heads of Department, assial- | much for actual rent, plus assessment monetary contribution to the Ein- ant heads of Departments, second, rates. A tenant would have a dif- piro's war effort. He is impotent This is the B.B.C. calling tacks. It avoids sensationalism: third and fourth assistants,
fruit time proving in a Court of Law to suggest that Empire, ond especially Germany
and sensationalism is a quality The creation of a new Department that the landlord is not justified in this email part of Empire Iri which
speech-aodden German will require now officer, new and ex-passing on any increased ammessments, he lives, would best be served by "The frayed nerves of the that pensive equipment, new staffa und, especialy as the proposed Ordinance the functioning of Government on German propaganda authorities listeners have been taught to in spite of the hopen expressed by and the Eviction of Persons Ordin- (to use the War Revenue Committee'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 And at the moment it lacks. Pension commitments; new people to | charges to his rentals, go on leave every four years.
The man who pays the Salary Tax The Empico fights for Democracy, the Ark Royal.
jone-man control. The war in Europe may end even and the Property Tax will also, in- and we are told that we must make "The Gorman Press does not There's a job at Broadcasting- before the newly-created Depart- directly, pay the Corporation Profits heavy sacrifices to safeguard Demodare let the Gorman people House for a master-mind--a ment is functioning. But Bureau-Tax As elsewhere throughout the crncy. But that very: Democracy know what Mr. Chamberlain propagandist and a showman. cracy, once having given birth to world, Corporations aro bualness | densed up in Hongkong.
commensurate with efficiency.
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