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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY.26, 1940.
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
JAPAN AND WANG
But while we may
Crowther estimates, no more than £60,000,000 over and above the exist- An Excess Profts Tax or Foreign Minister Arita, in his Diet ing taxes.
the speech, confirmed the policy of
an Excess Incomes Tax will only be Japanese Government of giving assis- fruitful if we have inflation, not if That is no reason, of tance to the new China regime under we prevent it. Wang Ching-wei. As to the respect course, why these taxes should not be of Powers' interests in China, Mr. pushed higher. Nor is there reason tax should not be in- Arita also clarified Japan's policy and why income
for the middle range of creased
of stand. He made clear the basis this policy, which in no way aims at incomes. Most of us think we are to exclusion of third Powers in China, pay at 7s. 6d. in the pound, but in Such indications by the Foreign Min- actual fact we do nothing of the sort; ister will prove of service to him in the standard rate is really an "arith- the future handling of diplomatic metical fiction." problems. In other respects, his do all this, it is important to grasp, speech was commonplace. He simply as Mr. Crowther says, that
the only taxes that are likely to reported on the diplomatic situation
bring in any substantial sums of which this country faces in its rela- tions with Germany, Italy, the So-
money are not confiscatory levies on viet Union, Britain and the United
the rich or fancy taxes on profiteers or Rolls-Royces, but plain, honest States.
What arouses
taxes that hurt plain, honest people. our particular con-
Whether future cern in this connection is the
we tax wages direct or prospects of efforts to adjust Soviet- adopt Mr. Keynes's half-way plan, the wage-earner cannot go free. Japanese relations. Arrangement of
There is Soviet-Japanese relations
still the great gap to be is highly
closed by borrowing the country's desirable, in view of the territorial
do not propinquity of the Soviet Union. But normal savings, and, if we can we place much expectation in this adopt compulsory saving (or, rather, even if we do) we have still to work just started? The Soviet Un- ion is notorious for frequent changes of the ordinary man and to make the restrict deliberately the consumption in its diplomatic policy. "Yomiura
restriction equitable and supportable Shimbun."
by rationing. "If the Government is going to spend more than half of the total income of the community, it will have to lay its hands on resources by The ques- every means open to it." The bank chairmen have this year tion is how boldly and shrewdly it devoted themselves largely to two sets about the job and how it carries "Manchester public themes-the export trade and the people with it. the means of avoiding the "vicious Guardian." spiral." If the speeches, contributed nothing exactly new they showed how rapidly opinion has moved towards acceptance of drastic ideas since Mr. Keynes opened the public dis- cussion two and a half months ago.
Hitler's anniversary speech to his Lord Wardington in his speech to people consisted largely of vast and Lloyds Bank described four suggested vague threats, based on the immense "remedies" against (or, one should power stated to have been built up the outbreak of say, alterna- by Germany since perhaps more properly tives to) inflation: a high level of war. Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at In London, gave some taxation all round, rationing, compul- a luncheon
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PAYING FOR THE
WAR
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NEUTRALS' RISKS
AND PRIDE
sory saving, and voluntary abstention more exact but necessarily limited in- from buying scarce or imported goods. formation, to show that Great Britain On their respective merits Lord had also very far from idle during Wardington did not comment except the same period. The relative strength to commend the last as the only one of the rival forces thus created und open to the initiative of the private armed must before long be put to the individual. Some of his predecessors test of more intensive combat, which in the bank tribune had gone rather we await with complete confidence. farther in suggesting what the Gov- But in one respect the Prime Minis- ernment might do, but the Impression ter indicatedTM a most important differ-- all the speeches leave is that leaders ence between them, which cannot fail of business and financial thought like to be in the minds of all the neutral the bank chairmen are (with the States,
politicians) a little reluctant to face There is not a single non-belligerent that feels itself threatened the full rigours of the situation. For country
a clearly written exposition of it the by this enormous
accumulation of
reader may usefully turn to the latest powers at the disposal of the British Oxford pamphlet, Mr. Geoffrey Crow- command.
ther's "Paying for
we
are
MORAL POSTURE
There is not one which
Hitler made a .pretence of de- nouncing the Versailles Treaty in the name of national and human Justice. He sustained that moral posture for a long time with con- summate plausibility. As we now see, it was a device of propaganda and an Immense hypocrisy.-J. L. Garvin.
feels its indepen- dence in danger at our hands. There is not.
one which suspects
of coveting a square inch of its territory.
us
This is the over- mastering consi- deration that we are entitled to ask all the neutrals,
the War," which brings qut well the point that if we are to avoid infia- tion (or at least to prevent It from reaching dangerous lengths) we shall have to adopt a whole series of
all measures,
of them severe. At
in some great and small; to bear in mind present
inconvenience is caus- danger of having one method played when
conduct of war off against another. Some of the ed to them by our well-to-do are vocal about the neces- against an enemy who "threatens the existence of States which are too sity for restricting the consumption of small or too weak or too near "to defy The neutral nations whose the wage-earning classes and a good them." deal less vocal about the inevitability ships sail the seas round Europe know themselves. that they have to set against incon- of higher taxation on Indeed, from some pronouncement it veniences the fact that this enemy's might be imagined that the limits of chief destructive effort is at present neutral ship- income tax have been reached. Again, being exerted against
well aware that we find -trade unionists putting the ping; and they are case the other way round, and arguing the protection of their seamen against as if some manipulation of the taxes Nazi piracy depends upon the vigil- on large incomes would do the trick. ance and victory of the Allied navies. Mr. Crowther's pamphlet should help It is reasonable therefore to ask that, as we are to convince both sides that they are while fully maintaining,
resolved to respect, their neutral
wrong.
It is, of course, true that the actual rights, they shall bring to the settle- amount that can be raised from fur- ment of differences the spirit of con- ther taxation of the rich' is not rela- ciliation due to those who fight the tively large. To confiscate all incomes battle of all free nations. over £3,000 would bring in, Mr. Times.”
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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1940.
Germany Anxious To Secure Peace In Finland
TRYING TO INDUCE BEAR TO LIE DOWN
BIG A.R.P. EXERCISE IN HANTS
London, To-day.
The biggest civil de- tence exercise ever held in Britain was staged in the South of England yesterday.
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LONDON, TO-DAY. CONFIRMATION OF AN ACCOUNT OF GERMAN PEACE MOVEMENTS GIVEN IN THE BELGRADE PAPER "POLITIKA” IS GIVEN BY THE DIPLO- MATIC CORRESPONDENT OF THE “SUNDAY DESPATCH.”
The Germans have taken steps to patch up something in Negotiations have al- the way of peace, he writes. ready begun between Moscow and Helsinki.
The Nazi attitude is the result of a series of conferences between Hit-
ler and his political and milltary ad- visors.
-
Moscow is reported to be more or less willing, but would prefer to save the Soviet Union's face by a striking
Havas. Twelve thousand A.R.P. and A.F.S. victory in Finland. personnel took part in the exercise in two towns which were presumed to BELGRADE SAYS MOVE have been raided by enemy bombers. for
IS IMMINENT Sir John Anderson, Minister Home Secretary, and the Regional
Belgrade, To-day. Commissioner for Civil Defence, to- gether with many technical experts, The Belgrade press is con- carried out the tests lusting the whole cerned with the question of
day.
For the first time in auch an exercise, the practice of bringing In reinforcements from outside areas to assist areas badly dam. aged in raids was carried out. Fire brigade first, aid parties hur- ried into the South from places as far west as Poole and as far north as Andover to co-operate with the local service.
RESCUE INCIDENTS
mediation in the Soviet- Finnish war.
The Berlin correspondent of "Poli- tika" reports that unofficial Nazi cir- cles consider that a move is imminent official in this direction. Despite all
the German denials, the attitude of press shows that plans are being made to seek a pacific solution of the Soviet- is Finnish war. The German press dropping hints to the Finns under the gulse of "friendly advice," the advice being that resistance is hopeless and that a long war will have serious con-
Sir John Anderson, commenting on this side of the exercise, said it was an essential part of A.R.P. organisa-sequences.—Havas. tion and the quickness and thorough- ness with which the outside areas had the value of the responded showed scheme.
casualties
was
Sir John saw several incidents ar- ranged to test the various services.
One was the rescue of from a burning building on to which A dummy an aeroplane had fallen. plane with Swastika markings used and soldiers acted as casualties. Ambulance units which took part in the exercise, took over 100 casual- ties to another town where they were put un a hospital train. Wireless.
SURPRISE
British
DEPARTURE
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TOKYO, TO-DAY.
COBURG THE DUKE. OF SAXE GOTHA, CHAIRMAN OF THE GER-
MAN RED CROSS, WHO ARRIVED 16 VIA HERE
ON FEBRUARY SIBERIA, LEFT FOR LOS ANGELES
ON FRIDAY ON BOARD THE S.S.
ASAMA MARU.
With Soviet Consent ? (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
London, To-day. The "Sunday Despatch" writes that Germany is with Russia's consent,
the doing her utmost to mediate in Russo-Finnish conflict although Mos-
STALIN
WANTS HIS OWN GREAT WALL
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London, To-day. According to press des- patches from Moscow,
build is to Russia gigantic defence line to
a
His sudden departure gave rise to protect herself from her many comments since the Duke, tally, Germany.
long
is believed, intended to stay a time in Japan to study problems re- lating to German-Japanese relations. The Duke merely stated that he was going to the Red Cross Congress
au- New York, while the Japanese thorities denied any incident.- Havas.
in
Stalin is reported to have given the order for the construction of the for- tifled line. Thousands of Poles are to be enrolled for the task and some of these are said to be at work already.
The line will run from the bor- der of the Black Sex, along the Rumanian frontier, across the Carpathians, up through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia, and and at Leningrad. A copy of the Maginot, Mannerheim The French official evening munique states: "After trench mortar and Siegfried lines, it will cost over preparation, the enemy attempted to £100,000,000, and will be the usual raid our outposts between the Ruhr affair of barbed wire, concrete block- and the Vosges. This. rald was at houses, artillery and machine gun once repulsed with losses."-British forts, mine-fields, tank traps, under- Wireless.
'ground_munition depots, etc.-Havas.
GERMAN RAID ON THE WESTERN FRONT
London, To-day.
com-
cow is still determined first to achieve a face-saving victory.
Germany's stand resulted from conferences between Hitler, his poli- tical advisers and the German Gener- al Staff.
Should Moscow continue to fight and obtain some victory, Gor- many would help her by prevent- pasange of volunteers Ing the
elther by through Scandinavia land or sea. The Reich is prepared to use coer- cive action and is reported to have warned the Swedish, Norwegian and
Danish Governments on the eve of the Nordic conference at Copenhagen. At the same time Germany pro- mised to "guarantee" the neutrality of the Scandinavians provided pledge to remain aside.-Havas.'
they
NORWAY SENDS NOTE
London, To-day.
The Foreign Office announces that London Minister in the Norwegian called on Lord Halifax on Saturday and presented him with a Note from the Norweglan Government on the Altmark case.
The Minister also replied to certain enquiries which were made at the in- terview a week ago.-Reuter.
R.A.F. AID DRAMATIC RESCUE
London, To-day.
Once again aircraft of the Coastal Command have been able to save the lives of ship- wrecked seamen drifting on a raft.
coastal an R.A.F. The pilot of | command aircraft patrol yesterday morning made out, in the half light, an object floating on the water.
and He came down to investigate
men. The found a raft bearing six seas were washing over them.
The men heard the aircraft, looked up and waved.
The pilot circled round the raft to had been let the men know they sighted and then flew off to find
destroyer which he knew to be not far away.
The craft soon made con- tact with the destroyer and guided it to the raft,
they Less than 50 minutes after been first seen the six shipwrecked seamen were all safely on board the warship.-British Wireless,
RIBBENTROP DOUBTFUL
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Paris, To-day, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi For
to eign Minister, may make a visit Rome shortly to sound out Italy's po- lley in the event of possible future developments in the European situa- tion, according to the Zurich corres- pondent of the "Paris Soir."—Havas.
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