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The SEINAL EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1001 四拜禮」
No. 10471
1...號九廿五英港香 THURSDAY, MAY. 29, 1941.
NEW WAR TAXATION RATES FOR HONGKONG: ALLOWANCES
RAISED
Interest Tax To Be Introduced As Further Source of Revenue
AN INCREASE IN THE BASIC RATES OF ALL FIVE WAR TAXES-SALARIES, BUSI- NESS PROFITS, PROPERTY, CORPORATIONS PRofits and intEREST—IS RECOMMENDED BY THE RECONSTITUTED WAR REVENUE COMMITTEE IN ITS REPORT PRESENTED TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS AFTERNOON, AND INCLUDED IN A PROPOSED DRAFT ORDIN- ANCE TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE WAR REVENUE ORDINANCES OF 1940.
It is recommended that the basic rates be set at 6 per cent and 12 per cent, as compared with the previous 5 per cent and 10 per cent. The Interest Tax, is of course, a new imposition and has been created for the purpose of taxing one broad source of unearned income at present untaxed
-interest on loans and mortgages.
Ceaseless Action By The R.A.F.
Enemy Aerodromes Smashed.
CAIRO, May 28 (Reuter).—The bombing of Aleppo nero- drome in Syria and a successful series of raids on the enemy- acupied nerodrome at Malemi in Crete are the highlights of an official Middle East air communique.
BISMARCK LOSSES
Total 2,000 Men
"Crete. - Aircraft of the R.A.F. carried out a number of successful raids yesterday and during the preceding night on the enemy-occupied aerodrome at Malemi. During the day a heavy altack was made on a large number of enemy aircraft on the ground. Many of these ZURICH,-May-28-(Reuter).—were destroyed-and-several Nearly 2,000 men were lost in others were severely damaged. the sinking of the German "Fighter alreraft also intercepted a battleship Bismarck, according formation of Junkers-88 bombers to an estimate reported by the north of the Island and shot down Berlin correspondent of the **Bagler Nachrichten," who observes that crews on German
three of them.
Night Attack "During the night attack, live enemy afreraft are believed to have|
Malemi and several others set ablaze
bombed and machine-gunned.,
It is estimated that under the increased basic rates, and including revenue from the Interest Tax, the total revenue will be $12,200,000 a year instead of $11,000,000 at present estimated.
INCREASED ALLOWANCES
Another important recommendation is that, because of the rise in the cost of living some relief should be afforded to those payers of Salaries Tax who have wives and children. There, it is proposed that the allowances for families be revised and that in future the allowance for a wife should be $3,000 instead of $2,000 us at present, $2,000 for the first child, $1,000 for the second and $500 each for the third and fourth children, as com- pared with a flat rate of $1,000 for each child up to and including the fourth as at the present time.
LATEST
H. E. Seeks
7% & 14% Increases
The essential parts of the Committee's report are as fol- Flows:
Terms of Reference The Committee was reconstituted on January 23, 1041, by Is Ex- cellency Lieutenant-General E. F. Norton, Officer Administering the Government, to re-examine. and advise Government on the existing ineasures of War Taxation in the light of the Colony's present financial position and the actual receipts from the four taxes imposed by the War Revenue Ordinance.
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POPULAR "INTRIGUE":
WHITEAWAY'S
One Of The 1941 War Methods.
Novel indeed are some of the methods and tactics adopted in the present war. Here is something the British army learnt from the invasion of the Lowlands. Picture show! Guardsmen, armed with Tommy Guns attacking an "enemy" post, during manoeuvres "somewhere in England."
Crete Forces Locked Together In Great Slogging Match
i
battle to-night as follows:
CAIRO, May 28 (Reuter).-Authoritative military circles summed up the Crete
"It is continuing to develop as an intensive stand-up slogging match. fighting is hard, particularly in the area between Canea and Malemi,
Hell Fire
Pass
Abandoned
"The situation is somewhat obscure and it is difficult to get accurate reports. More Ger- mans are arriving all the time and our troops, holding a line of more or less continuous posi tions, are being borne back by their attacks.
"There are a certain number of Germans nt-Retimo and Heraleloi The fighting at these two points is Isolated and is of no Importance compared with Malemi, where the
"The troops concerned are mostly New Zealanders, Australians and Lone British."
New Situation In main effort is concentrated.
North Africa
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
The membership of the Committee was substantially the same as that of the original Wor Revenue Com- CAIRO, May 28 (UP).The
Farther Withdrawals CAIRO, May 28 (UP)-A General
British Canca
"Severe
a
The
Schmelling Reported Killed
Trying To Escape In Crete
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ALEXANDRIA, May 28 (UP) ----Max Schmelling, former heavyweight boxing champion
from British soldiers who were escorting him to a prison camp, according to New Zealand sources,...
ships are bigger than on British. been destroyed on the aerodrome ut E. the Governor, in commenting mitice, with the substitution of the situation in North Africa has Headquarters connu have made of the world, has been killed at
Reconnaissance LONDON, May 28 (Reuter).on the adjacent beaches, were also on the War Taxation Committee's Honourable Mr R. R. Todd, Acting taken a new turn, and British further withdrawal to more favour- Crete while attempting to escape
Financial report, said:
Secretary, for the Honour- The laying of the report of the Warable Mr H. R..
General Headquarters to-day able positions. Butters, the Honour-
fighting Revenue Committee gives me an able Mr J. J. Paterson for Mr D. F. issued ¿ communique, which continues," opportunity to address you briefly on Landale, and Mr A. G. Clarke, Com-states that Hell Fire Pass, near According to well informed a subject which, us correspondence missioner of War Taxation, for Mr Tobruk, has been temporarily sources, very heavy fighting is con-
the local papers from time to time T. Black, Mr C.
van Langenberg. abandoned by Imperial troops.tinuing on Crete, especially in the reveals, is on the minds of many Assistant Commissioner of. War
Cunes and Malemi areas where hand- others then myself. That subject is Taxation, was appointed to the Com- It was at Hell Fire Pass where to-hand encounters ¡ore frequent. the adequacy or otherwise of Hong-mittee on 21st March, 1941.
last Graziani's army made its well As you are
attempt to withstand the British
"It was a great hunt and we
"Libya. The harbour at Benghazi are eager and ready for more,'
was attacked by bombers on the states a message to the Ad-night of May 26-27. One building miralty from the Commander-in-was demolished and a number of Chief, Coastal Command, reply-fires were started at the base of the ing to a signal from the Ad. Cathedral Mole. miralty gratefully acknowledg
Fighter Captured ing the part played by the "Near Sidi Barrani, a Messersch- kong's war effort. Coastal Command
mitt-109 was captured after a forced; in
recon-landing and over Tobruk a Junkers-economic side of the war naissance for the Bismarck,
52 (troop-carrier) was shot down by paramount importance, and with that mittee were held between March 5 situation was secured after a The signal from the Admiralty gunfire.
in view the people of the United and May 21, 1941. states that this reconnaissance "con-
few days of intensive fighting "A successful attack was made by Kingdom have accepted so heavy In addition to examining the War following a brilliant movement tributed in a large measure to the our bombers yesterday on, shipping weight of taxation and have so Revenue Ordinance, 1940, we were successful outcome of the recent
operation."
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A black wallet containing $24 and
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Meetings And Procedure
Five meetings of the full Com- offensive, but the strategical Air Attacks
On Cologne
Large Fires Started
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Kayoed Louis Schmeling is the only boxer_ever to have knocked out Joe Louis. Unfortunately for him, this was in 1936, before Louis had gained his world crown from Joe Braddock.
Schmeling, however, was world. heavyweight
In champion
1030, when he met Jack Sharkey and won on foul. He held the title until. 1932 when he
met Sharkey again. progain made
lost on a fiercely, protested
સવ
In 1938, Schmeling
and
hia:
off the African const. Several direct drastically restricted their consump-invited by His Excellency the Acting by the attacking forces, hits were made on two merchant tion of all but the bare necessities Governor to consider a draft Estate
The sante communique announces ships of between 8,000 and 10,000 of life that the standard of living Duty Amendment Bill providing for that fighting continues on the Egyp- tons each of which was seen emitting there is now definitely lower than higher rates of Estate Duty. We tan side of the Libyan-Egyption is authoritatively stated that appearance in the United States, and
| it was two years ago.
recommended the adoption these frontier. new rates of Estate Duty, with, the We Should 'Do Likewise Stor Ferry season ticket was A drifting mine was sighted north plcked up by the Police yesterday of Tong Kwu Island at 4.32 p.m.Bees are to save shipping space, to consider them at the end of the was, miles south from the seo.
The purposes of these great sacri-provise that Government should' re near the Ferry Wharf. Kowloon. yesterday. Another dritting mine
the save labour on non-essential goods
Estate Duty Amendment The wallet, is at the Water Polire was also seen south east of Blacksad to save money. It will not be Ordinance was passed by the Legis- Station, awolting claimani.
denied that, in so far as it lles (Ordinance No: 7 of 1941).
lative Counell on March 27, 1941, our power here, we should do like- wise.
examluution of the existing
Point at 4 pan. the same day.
Tremendous Chinese
Counter-Offensive
Special to the "Telegraph”`
Taiyuan Yuanchu highway Imme-
in
Why
With this end in view I have re- measures of. War Taxation cently appointed a committee with governed by three main considera-
wide terms of reference to study the whole of Hongkong's war effort and
tions:
(a) We
were informed by the to make recommendations for its Financial Secretary that owing to Intensification. One of their princip-defence measures which
had been
al tasks will be to suggest what res taken since the Budget for 1041-42 | ductions can be made in imports and TURN to Back Page, Column 4 I trust that
will they And It pos
possible to make substantial proposals.
The
Heavy Nazi Losses
The enemy has taken Haltaya Pass, Operations extend for about 15
LONDON, May 28 (UP).-It industrial targets ut Cologne in a disastrous fight with Joe Louis.
was knocked out in the first round. were attacked lust night.
He was born in 1005, and first "Bursts were seen on important made himself known as
boxer in The situation at Sollum is obscure. objectives and several large fires 1923 when he reached the final of
were started." Smaller forces one of the German Tournaments, attacked the docks at Boulogne. motion picture actress, in 1923.
He married Anny Ondra, German Bomber planes made a "particu- Most recent news of the German larly successful raid" on the enemy boxer was some time in September aerodrome at Lannion, Brittany, last year, when he was reported yesterday afternoon and destroyed having been injured while training to several aircraft on the ground, be a parachutist.
Honours. For African War Heroes
LONDON, May 28 (Reuter).; In recognition of the recent successful operations in East Africa, His Majesty the King! has ordered the following promo- j
the Order of the Bath:
Enemy Shipping Suffers: Convoy and Liner Sunk
CHUNGKING, May 28 (UP). A communique has been problem is one of peculiar dimeulty issued which states that while Chinese forces continuo an un-its entrepot trade though its mane in Hongkong, which exists mainly on precedentedly large-scale counter offensive in North China, ufacturing side-has largely increased Chinese assaults are very intensive at Thingshui and Yangcheng, during the last three years. That
tions in and appointments of escorting a German supply ship of approximately 6,000 tons LONDON, May 28 (Reuter)-Five' armed trawlers', were north and south respectively of the Chungliae Mountains as well most important issue will be card- fully kept in mind by the committee as at Kaoping in south Shansi. The Chinero slege of Yangcheng and by the Government in making Price of Crete Invasion
which was struck twice by heavy bombs dropped by an R.A.F. То Knights Commander-Licut Constal Command aircraft off Brest to-day. The communique declared continues and simultaneously Japan- Ita decisions.
General Alin Gordon Cunningham that the Chinese had been hit ese positions north and south of the kong can contribute more fully to
SPECIAL TO`THE "TELEGRAPH" The other means whereby long-
CAIRO, May 26 (UP).-OMelal Cunningham)
(brother of Admiral Sir Andrew The supply ship was left list-, taking of enemy troops and supplies ting hard from the north of diately north of the shore of the the war effort is through taxation, British military authorities are un-Willem Platt. and · Major-General Ing and settling down after the bound for the Western Desert theatre
Yellow River are constantly being and I come at this point to the report able to confirm reports that the Ger-
pilot of the British plane ea of ar 18,000-ton liner and other of war is augmented by the sinking hammered."
of the War Revenue Committee man losses on Creta total 18,000, al-
To Companions of the Order of the timated that his second salvo The Chinesa offensive indientes TURN to Back Page, Column 3 though it is pointed out that this is GothMajor General overed Henry "torpedoed" the ship below the
equal to more than two airborne Edward de Robillard Wetherall and water-line,
Godwin-Austen; Colonel divisions.
Belgadier General George sold that it was absolutely Brink of the South African Staff fire but the aircraft was hit only Edwin All the armed trawlers opened Impossible to ascertain the enemies Corps, casualties on land although they ad- To Knight · Commander of the twice. mitted that it was heavy in propor British Empire, Major-General Lan-to the number employed-while Levin Maclesfield Heath of the LONDON, May 28. (Reuter)The while almaller schocher had been the navy also inflicted serious losses. Indian Army.
alendy toll which the Royal Navy a holled; and hit several times,
Thinshul during the last ve days and that Japanese dead and wounded word literally, lit- tered over the sun scorched vast battlefield. De
It was claimed that Japanese thrusts had been repeatedly repulsed in the region between. Teinshut, and Kaoping
that in south Shanghal the Japanese who have been in netion for the past fortnight have all their supply routes threatened, it not already cut, and as a result the Chinese forces hope to achieve a major victory before the Dragon Boat Festival.
Soo Back Page – For
Further Late Nawa-kon
Steady Toll
vessels, announced to-day's Admiralty communique.
23, this communique also stated that In addition to the destroyer re ferred to in the communique of May a troopship of about 9,000; tons,8 7,000-ton fanker and a very large ammunition chooner and" been sunk,