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FROM JASSY TO THE ARCTIC DAMNATION” BANNED.

WITH THE ALLIED MISSIONS. Convocation of Canterbury, meeting at

THROUGH DESOLATE RUSSIA.

Church House, Westminster, has been exercised over" damaation "--not the [FROM THE TIMES" SPECIAL QUERESPOS subject, the word, which figures with painful frequency in translations of the The five trains in which the Allied Mili Gopals and in the English Prayer Book tary and Red Cross Missions left Bould as is its authority, there are people, mania to travel through Russia

clerical and lay, who object to the use each other at two hours' intervals. Each It is its appearance in the Prayer Book train was provided with food for 2

that has made the subject, a living issue month, and cach. had two machine-guos Lower House of Convocation has offered with rifles and ammunition for the guard Proposals for revision of the Prayer Book of soldiers. To avoid a crowd, it was and the Dean of Christchurch informed arranged that the trains should start his clerical colleagues, recently, that "they from a little station some three miles had been searching for a substitute in distant from Jassy; but all the same the various places." platform was packed with Roumanions, there to say good-bye to friends who, for. more than a year, had shared all their DùsfortuncE,

The

Roumania Roral Family came see the last train off. By it went General Berthelot, Chief of the

Both Houses were at one that" dam nation should go. The Lower House suggested condemnation. "

as more befit ting to modern ears. The Upper House, not less buvo judge proposed instead to Before Convocation separated yesterday both Houses and agreed to **

place eef the offender in many

Book.

THE BUDGET.

INCREASED TAXATION.

PENNY FOST ABOLISHED.

In his Budget speech of two hours duration the Chancellor of the Exchequer dealt with his gigantic figures, so coolly and confidently that it almost seemed as if the burden of taxation and the Na tional Debt had lost its grossness, because it had reached such inconceivable magní“. tude.

It was, of course, for the details of the new taxation that members waited with the utmost eagerness.

lows:

1917-18.

Actual revenue

£707,235,000 Actual expenditure...... 2,690,221,000.

1916-19. Estimated revenue 842,050,000 Estimated expenditure... 2,072, 197,000 It will be seen that the Chancellor is

OUR MAGNIFICENT GUARDS

There is a magnificent tale of fighting by a party of the Grenadier Guards near L'Epinelte, commanded by a particularly gallant officer, who has already won the Military Cross and Ber (mays The Times" Special Correspondent of Headquarters on May 1st). They had fought prae- tically without stopping day and night against, ever-renewed troops for a day and a half, and the party was reduced to 18 men. Again the enemy came on, and the gallant 18 went out with the bayonet and threw them back. Fourteen The national balance-sheet is as fol of the 18 survived, and as once more the Germans pushed forward, these 14 wore last seen flinging themselves again with the bayonet against the advancing line, and one man only seems to have got home, getting back to the troops which bad now. come up in support, after lying in ca

venue and of expenditure--the expendi- Certain Coldstream Guards also fought

to not much more than a handful of men they fell brick fighting, always taking advantage of every possible position, until hardly any won through and got away. Ono private of the Coldstream Guards, single-handed in a post, is said to havo kept the enemy checked for 20 minutes, till he himself was killed by a bomb. The Germans must certainly have got through before the arrival of rein forcements, if some Irish Guards had not extended their flank on one side and held on with a pitiably thin line until the enemy was through and round them on all sides, and still continued fighting until the situation was safe behind. Much of the fighting was hand to hand,“ with the bayonet, and when the positions were finally made firm there were only one non-commissioned oficer and six men left.

French Mission, and Lieutenant-Colonel to take thegment and that word is budgetting for large increases both of reditch til midnight.

Walton. the senior of the British officers phrases in the revised Prax of course,ture on the war being nearly £7,000,000 when absolutely: surrounded. Reduced

who were leaving

An o second-class carriage was pro vided for the British Mission. Twelve officers and men had to manage in it as best they could. It had no henting arrangements a defect which did not seem very serious at first, for the weather of that early Murch was as mild as April days on the Riviera. But the thought of passing through Siberia and Northern Russia in an unheated carriage was not Every picasant, so the usual inducement was tried, with the result that a store was placed in the carriage at Kharolf.

DANGER FROM GERMAN AGENTS....

On the engine there was a look-out of armed French soldiers: The danger was that German agents, who would have been delighted to play a trick on rs, might try to do some damage to the trains Buch expectations were not an- founded, for the last train, which left iate in the evening with the high officers of the two Missions, was, derailed a fow wrios from Jassy. It was found that parts of the line had been removed, pre- sumably by German agents, who were swarming in Roureania."

At Ungheni, the former frontier station between Roumania and Russia, the trains were met by a Roumanian d'tachment with a military band. The wore

t

All Biblical scholars realise, that the objection to"" dainaation" in Holy Writor rather, the English trans lation of it-is not new The word up pears in the authorised version of the New Testament. But when the Revised Version was taken in hand, there was substituted for it in some prysages con demnation and in others "judgment. and thus it now reads the two words from which the Houses of Convocation have made their thoice.

Yet the deleted word is good, virile Eng- lish, and, though it be banned from the Prayer Book, it has a lasting place in the language With what other synoym, for instance, could one fill out the phrase, that Macaulay's critical severity almost actualises the ideal of critical damna- tion"}

Shakespeare, foo, in “ Macbeth......... * has. hallowed its use:

Besides, chie Duncan Hath-borne-his-faculties so meek, háth

been

So clear in his great offiew, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued,

against

The drop damnation of his taking off.

RANGE GUN.

LIFE OF 200 TO 300 ROUNDS.

day--and big increases of taxation are obviously inevitable. He hopes, indeed. to raise thereby an additional sum of no less than $114,000,000.

NW TAXES,

Increased postage rates:

Letters home and abroad, -10% to 40%, stamp,

Inland Pestoord te stamp. Estimated yield: This year £8,400,000 Fall year 4,000,000 Stamps on cheques and

bills of exchange2d. stamp. Estimated yield: "This year £ 750,000 Full year 1,000,000 Income tax?

Standard rate increased from ös, "ro Ös.

in the B.

No change en incomes up to £500. Children's allowances of £25 extended

to incones not exceeding £800.

Closs to the Guards, and carning tha Allowance of £25 for wives and depen admiration of the Guards theirselves,

dent relatives on incomes up to were some Yorkshire Light Infantry, a £800.

Pioneer Battalion, who held part of the Revision of the differential rates applic-line most determinedly, as well as the able to unearned income up to £3,000 | best fighting battalion could have done, and to earned income, where total income The whole performance, indeed seems to is not more than £9,500, us in following have been the most gallant possible.

Our losses, as indicated, were severe, but, Existing Proposed there is no manner of question that the

Hates.

enemy's were infinitely heavier, and as aña exhibition of stubborn, bull-dog fighting it was magnificent..

Besarabia was now occupied by Hou- THE NEW GERMAN LONG »|| table :** manian troops, who had driven the Hol shevists from the country. Bessarabia is one of the richest corn regions of Europe. It had been a part of Roumanin and was now in Roumanian bands again The Russo-Turkish war, 1509-1810, went in favour of Russia and by the Treaty of Bukarest in 1812 Russia gained Bessara

A

correspondent at Headquarters

Rates.

Rate on "carned" income, where total earned and unearned income-

Exceeds Does not in the

ys am able to send you some de- tails, which may be interesting, of the to say, the Roumanian terri-long-range guns which are shelling Paris, bin, that is to tory cast of the Pruth. A portion of it, As long ago as last December we had 'n- the three southern districts, were rejoin mans had gang of unusually long range formation from prisoners that the Ger- ed to Moldavia by the Paris Trenty of about ready, and other information fol 1856, but the Treaty of Berlin (187) lowed In January there were said to Rate on again gave them back to Russia. Russia hold them until last November, when at least four, and perhaps

these guos in existence. Bessarabia proclaimed itself an indepen dent Republic, apart from the reet, of

Russin The Bolshevists having provoked

5. seven, of

They were suid to be of astm, and ained to 8in. Th that is to say, from 15in. were according to one in-

to

in Bessarabin the same state of affaiforniant 78ft. long, and in the trials had as in the rest of Russia, the Provisional

carried 76 kilometres

and were expected of the new Republic asked r Government the Roumanian Government to intervene. Seven Roumanian divisions were sent across the Pruth, and cleared the country of Bolshevists in less than a month. The Roumanian troops remained there, and it was generally believed that the little Hepublie too weak and disorganized to remain isolated would soon join the Houmantan kingdom, with the Dniester

boundary between

Roumania and Rus

sia T

At Kishineff, the capital of Bessarabia. we were told to make haste, as the Ger mans were, advancing rapidly in the Ukraine, and werd near Razdelnaia, railway junction through which we had to If we could reach that station pass. before the arrival of the Germans, the danger—from that side at least would be over. The train left Kishineff to the sounds of the Morseillaise and God played by the band of a

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GERMANY'S FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.

In their demands for indemnities, the German Jingoes are making clear some very unpleasant, financial facts for the people to consider. The war has added 1.15,000,000,000 to the pence expenditure This total, it is pointed out,

60 per cent of the whole national income. Capitalized at 6 per cent,il: would famoput to m 392,000,000,000, or move

than the entire national wealth of Germany before, the war, a burden which wonką. paralyse production and all enterprises

as where payment of duty has been avoid. ed through businesses being wound up or

hands

Estimated yield: This year £11,250,000

changing B. Full year 41,400,000 Super tas

Limit of super-tax exemption reduced

from £3,000 to £2,500 Maximam rate of tax increased from

39. 6d. to 4. ed. Estimated yield: This year £ 9,200,000 Full year 14,150,000

III

to carry 100 or 62

Mere remarkable than the gun was the shell, which was 50in. in length and pro- longed into a bottle neck at the front with two copper driving bands and rifling ex tending in advance of these, the weight

The luxury tax, apparently, is to be of the shell being about 3561b. We had

article over the counter, and Mr. Bonar collected by at stamp on the sale of each.

more details and, collating them with the knowledge obtained from fragments

Law suggested that the Select Committee. of shells picked up in Paris, they are

might co-opt traders to serve with them shown to have been largely accurate.

France, the requisite régulations. In where a similar tax came into The gan

is length and size, and the chief secret of ined income and super-tax rate of fs.

probably of about the same

[An income of £3,000 will now pay com. operation on April 1st, the Government the the shell ited-in its shape, and in the 2d pas of £10,000 will pay 53. 4d. and coods is made in the Budget of the year,

great length of

range obtained is inad, in the £; one of £5,000 will pay position of the centre of gravity in it. Conjecturally, the projectile may divided into two parts, the shell proper, which is probably not more than 2ft. long, and and a false cap, giving a very elongated shape, which may be Sft. The two cop per driving bands are lin. wide, and front of these is steel or iron band of

252

save the Kattalion which rendered sin. or more over which the rifling ex-

Roumanian military honours to the Allies.

A MEETING WITH RED GUARDS. We crossed the Dniester, and arrived at a little station called Tiraspol, to the great astonishment of the Red Guards, who did not know whether to take us as friends or enemies. For two months; since Trotsky had declared war on the

Roumaniau

no train had garchy crossed the bridge

that

night The Bolshevists were greatly puzzled, but most of them grumbled and demanded the sur. render of all our arins. However the interpreter, a very clever French officer made à long

Judging by his very theatrical

lations, he was very em phatic. The result was that the Bol- thevists, who had begun by grumbling. broke into shouts of Long, live and England 1" I

the

which would give the shell great stability in the air. Correcting from the latest data, the information of prisoners, the gun's length would probably be about 104 calibres, which is getting on for twice the length of any of the same calibre

gun of 'we' maka

The muzzle velocity is calculated to le something like conjectured that it is to 5,000 feet per second, and it 19 fired at an elevation perhaps as high as 55 degrees, by which the lesser resistance of the thinner air at a grest altitude would help the flight. It is calculated that such a gun could fire from 200 to 300 rounds without material loss of a curacy.

may add that during the long journculties with

through Russia every quarters of the town, on the excuse that time we had

Red

it was much better for them to have the Guards the procedure was always the wame-a long and animated speech by the money than to leave it to the Germans.. interpreter, and all was settled. Some times we were taken for Germans and were welcomed by the population. For instance, at Kurak some of the French ofleers went into the town. The popula tion was mostly Jewish, and the officera had to speak German to make themselves

A MONOTONDUS JOURNEY..!!! Owing to the rapid Austro-German nd. vance in the Ukraine the train did not take the main line to Moscow, but took

longer and safer route-from Odessa to Kolozolka Nikolajeff-Ekaterinoslav Lozovaya-Kharkoff Kursk-Tuin - Moscow. There orders were to be received direct

officer of the train either to

understood. At every shop they were tolding the commack or to Kola.

and

that the French and English were bad people, while the Germans were goods tonous and

Our- journey from Odessa was mono always appreciated." At many where we stopped for hours we were able dents. The iumento Hst country through from any serious inci- to talk to people who presumably had not which we passed seemed totally deserted. been in the Army, and discovered that for

In the very rare stations crowds of pea- the English, French, or German w

were all the same all were birzhui" santa and Red Guards gazed at us with

but without hostility. curiosity,

Nobody (bourgeois) Germany or Austrin, I p

Had the interpreter asked seemed to work in the fields, although the them to cheer

weather was splendid. I was told by a quite certain that they would have done Russian, who understood, the situation

well, that not 10

emiling

naxt at the

80

The train a teen ploughed the cent of the soil had

at

one of £20,000 will pay s dl Farmers' income-tud:

on

.

Instead of being assessed for incone

tax on the amount of their rental value, farmers will now be assessed

twice that value ... Farmers, who prefer it, can be charged ancome-tax on their actual profits under the ordinary schedule. Estimated yield: This year £2,500,000 Full year 5,300,000

Spirit Duty:

r

To be raised from 148, ad, a gallon to

30%., an increase of 159. 3d." Retail prices fixed by the Food Con

troller. Estimated yield: This year £10,500,000 Beer Duty:

Full year 11,150,000 Duty per barrel to be raised from 25

to 600.

Prices fixed by Food Controller. Estimated yield: This year £0.700,000 Tobacco:

Full year 15,700,000 Duty raised from te, Bd. to 89. 20.

per lb. This will mean an increase to the con-

sumer of 24. in the oz. Estimated yield: This year 27,500,000 Full year 8,000,000

Matches

Duty raised so that the price will be increased from Id. to id. per box.

Estimated yield

.....£600,000

Duty to be doubled per ewt. from 114.

to derive a revenue of £24,200,000

hoping

Here no estimate of the pro

but the receipts will be treated as an acceptable extra.

NATIONAL DEBT FIGURES.

A lengthy passage in the Chancellor's speech was devoted to a consideration of the true proportions of the National Debt, which of vital importance becan e our unfailing British standard is to raise sufficient revenue each year to meet all normal expenditure and the Debt charge without recourse to borrowing. On March 31st, 1919, the National Debt will be £7,980,000,000, including the debts-dne to us from the Allies and the Dominions. The debts of the Allies stand £1,632,000,000, and, in view of obvious facts in Russia and elsewhere, ife. Bonar Law proposed to write this sum down to half, Deducting also debts due by the brought down the real National Debt to Dominions and India, the Chancellor £6,850,000,000, the interest on which it. 51 per cent will be £360,000,000. To this must be added: Normal pro-war expenditure. £173,000, DAO. Additional expenditure on

pensiona, éducation, etc.

Normal expenditure Interest on doub

07.000,009

£270,000,000 380,000,000

Yearly expenditure to be met £650,000,000 Consequently, a on existing taxation alone. exclusive, of excess profits, tha Chancellor's advisers estimated a revonns of 540 millions, he had a deficit to meet of 110 millions.

This will mean an increase to the con

`sumer from 53d. to 7d. per lb. Estimated yield: This year £12,400,000 Full year 13,200,000 Fleury tax::

An excise duty of Ed. in the lead

valorem. Schedules of the tag to be drawn up by a Select Committee of the House of Commons

These rather gloomy figures of the Na the Chancellor's estimate of certain tional Debt were lightened somewhat by

very valuable assets of the nation, which he declared would be worth £672,000,000 by the end of the financial

ear, and the House was also cheered the comparison drawn between Germany's Guancial position and our own.

which was the German tax receipts show a defiend

to the advantage of ourselves,

for the year compared with the caperies. Estimated yield not precisely specified, ture of 385 millione, even if they succed

but a

be

for

raising the additional permanent perial revenue.of.

of 120 millions, which the

Baid M

thin

looked for considerable sum As to one and all of these heavy i in have declared their intention of imposing year. I could not res the Chancellor of the Erebener If that were four position, dreaded station of Razdelnais

same plea necessity The Bonar Law the thought of urged the was no sign of German and Austrian the disappointment of the Germans better or fairer, ways

I should had to money troops, and after a halt of four hours who hoped to feed their hungry popala Unly one or two members raisde their

found, and he knew no that bankruptcy on certainly

was not far from th to undit. British Government were able to continue our journey to tion from starving Roxmania and deert voice in diesent when it was announced Lat made

ms exc Odcesa e skirted that town, $nt Colonel Huravieff, a former that the excess profits tax was not to be the financial Arsistance of the United

la the openine acknowledgment of Russia. At Kolorfka we met the arrived on a looting day. The crew of

cruiser Sinope, having head of the Petrograd police superintendent, now

increased last year it actually produced States to the Allied cause, which in the 20 millions more than the estimate, and past year had reached the total of 950 German advance towards Odessa, had

the

train

of his speech Mr. Bonar

come ashore-end had started looting and commander of the Maximalist forcesit is expected this year to bring In a millions. Yet our own advances to thể... robbing. We were told that they had col. against the Austro-Germans He was total of 300-millions--but the law is to Allies were nearly as high, during the lected 38 million ronblea, from different tremely kind and gave us a safe con be amended so as to stop certain leakages, same period as in the previous year – s025-|-|

duct, which much facilitated our journey

Continued at foot of next Column.) through Russin

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

millions Instead of 650.