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REUTER'S REPORTER LOOKING FOR

THRILLS, FINDS PLENTY.

DESCRIBES VISIT TO KIANGSI, NEST OF

CHINESE REDS.

TRAIN TAKES 81 HOURS TO TRAVEL 120 MILES,

Nanch

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931,

WILL FRANCE MEET GERMANY HALF-WAY?

(Continued from Page 9.) "

The Hitlerites were always ready. to take over the responsibility of putting the country's affairs order, either alone or with the help. of others.

Berlin Bourse Closed, "

BERLIN, July 14. It has been decided that the

„—Router's special cor- ceived instructions to be in the Bourse will remain closed for the

respondent writes:-

I came to Kiangel, the nest of Chinese communism, together with the Staff of the Gonerálissimo's

Headquarters to look for thrills and I got plenty even before. I arrived at Nanchang,

Our boat, the Kiang Hua, was a Chinese Merchants steamer. This shipping company had 11 steamers employed in the Yangtze River service, but 10 of them, so far, have been commandeered by the Govern inent for military transport pur-:

train before sight o'clock.

Train Service Dislocated.

I found the railway station filed Although the Generalissimo's Head- with troops and military supplies.

quarters had issued specife in structions to the railway adminis ration to run at least one express train between Kiukiang nad Nan- chang daily, often for days there have been no trains running for ordinary passengers All the loop- motives, and rolling stock have been, commandeered for military trans- Since the Kiang Hua was one of port purposes. On this particular the few Chinese steamers stall day, troops belonging to the 23rd Division, commanded by General navigating the river, the boat carried so much cargo that it took Li Yun Chich, were awaiting trans fully 20 hours for the vessel toportation from Kiukiang to Nan unload the large amount consigned to Apking alone.

Aniding a City of Hilla. Anking is a city of hills. The streets run up one bill and down another. There are no sutomobiles, Formerly people travelled in sedan

chang. It was with groat difficulty that a few coaches were reserved for our group. The train was scheduled to leave at sine, but it did not leave till one o'clock in the

'afternoon.

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remainder of the week.

The Vienna Borkurbank has ask- ed for a three months' moratorium

and a loan of £1,480,000 from the

Government...

„Federal Bank Agrees.

New. Yonx, July 14....... The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, together with other Federal Reserve Banks; has agreed to renew its participation in the $100,000,000 credit to the Reichs bank, "subject to the agreement being renewed by other partici pants in the credit,"

To Promote Friendship.

RUGBY, July 14 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, left to-day for Paris from where he will proceed on Thursday to Berlin to return, in company with the Primo Minister, the visit recently paid to England by Doctors Bruening and Curtis.

He said that the object of the return visit was to promote friend. ship not only between Britain and Germany, but between Germany and France. They were going "under exceptional circumstances but be hoped that the decision of the In ternational Bank yesterday must ease the situation.

While in Paris, where he will visit the Colonial Exhibition, Mr. the French Henderson will see Foreign Minister, M. Briand.

The situation arising from the closing of the Darmstadter Bank

MR. SNOWDEN'S TAX A SOCIALIST

PLAN OF NATIONALISATION?

MACHINERY THAT MAY LEAD TO EXTINCTION: OF OWNERS.

MR. BALDWIN AND A VICIOUS'

IMPOSITION ON INDUSTRY.

The London Morning Post recently published the following article on the proposed "land"tax which suggests that the impost is a Socialist plaa for the ultimate nationalisation of the land..." The tax, owing to the smallness of the amount, is, perhaps, not being taken seriously, but what the public are apt to over- look is that it establishes a principle which may enable a futura Bocialist Chancellor of the Exchequer to tax property owners out of existence.

A suggestion to this effect was made in the official newspaper of the Socialist Party, which, while lamenting the loss of revenus under the Socialist-Liberal past, declared.

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**Once the tax in instituted it can be expanded sa in the case of the Death Duties,"

HOW TAX MAY BE EXPANDED.

While the country is laughing at the farce of the Liberal Socialist crisis," Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Snowden between them are putting through the most pernicious piece of Socialistic legislation this country has ever known.

The fact that the Inid tax can- into operation for at not come least two years is lulling may people into an entirely false sense of security. The tax is not taken quite seriously. In spite of Liberal. Socialist pacis, there must be an election some time. If one thing is certain, it is that the great

in Berlin, yesterday, has been fol-majority of voters are thoroughly lowed with concern in London,

(0) According to r, Snowden's Budget speech, assert the right of the community to the ownership of Jand."!

(7), By exompting all land valus od at less than £120, exempt "prac- tically all the dwellings owned by the working-classes."

Among the bodies and organiza- tions which will be badly hit by the tax are:

The Church, universities, auo- tioncors and estate agents, the Na tional, Farmers' Union, the Central Landowners' Association, the Land

“A VICIOUS TAX."

MR. BALDWIN'S DENUNCIA- TION.

On our arrival at Anking, Gen- eral Chen Tino Yuan, chairman of the Aphwei Provincial Govern mont, came on board to greet some of the prominent passangers we bad

Our follow-passengers were on board, including General Ho interesting group. They represent Chen Chun, chairman of the Hupched the pick of the Whampoa Cadets, Provincial Government, and Mr. who have a great reputation for Wu' Hain Ya, chief secretary of the bravery and loyalty. They were all Generalisamo's Headquarters at under 3 and most of them were Nanobange

colonels or formor regimental com

disgusted both with the present Union, friendly societies, the Dra manders, but they considered it to

Government and with the manner | pers' Chamber of Trade, and the be an unsurpassable honour to give

Nervousness Kept in Check.

M.C.C News from Germany indicates of its rule. up their posts and to serve General Chiang Kai Shek, as the latter's that nervousness has been kept in It is unthinkable that there will which have be no change in the next Parlia check by measures personal bodyguards. These young been taken to control payments outment. And the Conservative Party cadets will only take orders from from Banks and Foreign Exchanges. has made it perfectly clear that it To prevent the anxiety of the un-will have nothing to do with the chairs, but now ono uses ricshas. their principal " and world employed it has been officially on land tax in any shape or form. It is uncomfortable enough to sit willingly die for him They werenounced, according to a Berlin in a richa going up a hill at a always near him and, therefore, it message, that money for payments is enfe in the Reichsbank. An gradient of 45 degrees. To ride in was the more surprising that Gen Emergency Decree, issued by Presi- one going down is worse.

authorised the The oral Chiang had gone on to Nan-dent Hindenburg

Government to declare a Bank roads are paved with big blocks of chang without them,

Holiday to-day and tomorrow." stone and are treacherously slip-

Toying with a Mauser,

All Banks in Hungary have like

can think of nothing but imposing pery, but the inhabitants laughed

wise boen closed by Decree until

additional taxation running into One of them was sitting opposite Friday as a precautionary inesaute at me when I got out of my richa

The tax as at prevent proposed millions and millions of pounds. me, engaged in a vivid narrative against the effects of the German is only a penny in the £; but it "The latest 'example is the land This is not a tax upon the of the experiences of his regiment crisis. The German Cabinet, which

is in almost continuous session, has establishes a principle which will tax. when it was evading the pursuit of been in consultation with Dr. enable any Socialist Chancellor to increment value of land which may some Hankaw troops in Kiangsi Luther, of the Reichsbank, who tax property owners cut of exis: have accrued to owners through the not a tax upon the speculator" who Hankow - Nanking returned by air from Baale at mid-tence by little more than a stroke activities of the community. It is during the

of the per trouble in 1027, when suddenly a

It is undoubtedly the thin ends already made a fortune out of of the wedge to secure a form of land, it is an extra income tax at Mauser pistol he was carrying, went

land nationalisation under which nual value of all land privately owned with very few exceptions, property owners will be treated as the criminals Mr. Snowden openly on shopkeepers, owners of sports regards them."

half way down a steep hill and

walked the rest of the distance. #

day.

London Stock Markets Steady.

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A Potent Weapon, But-and this is what is being generally overlooked machinery which the Socialists are setting up with Liberal aid is the most potent weapon that those who are declared enemys of cafety as it exista to-day could possibly have,

the

The Chancellor of the Exchequer

Mr. Badwin, in a letter to Mr. Nall-Cain, Conservative condidate in the Wavertree (Liverpool) by electica, writes:

"We have Government which

rate of 18, 88, in the £-en the an-

grounds, and oven many house holders who have hitherto been ox-

"It is they who will have to bear

At Anking General Chen Tiao Yuan informed us he had received a wireless message from Wahu stating that President Chiang Kai Shek had passed Wahu on board the Yun Sui, and was due to arrive off by accident. It was about 7 London Stock Markets were much at Anking about midnight, June 21. o'clock in the evening and quite stendier to-day. Though dull, pond Preparations were made for our dark in the carriage, as the training developments in the German crisis, there was a chock to the price steamer, Kiang Hun, to move out had no lights. Everybody heard fall and, in a few sections, quote into mid-steam so that the Gen- the shot, but nobody knew who fired tions, improved. In Foreign Ex-has stated his views on the owner-empt from income tax. eralissimo's gunboat could dock at it. Some suggested the culprit was changes, the German Mark strength-ship of land freely enough; what

ened.

he has left unsaid the official or- this extra impost merely because the China Merchants wharf. All one careless soldier sitting on the

Press telegrams from Berlin bay gan of his party has said for him. they have commited the crime of buying property in accordance with the military and civilian leaders roof of the coach; others that a that further discussions between

Bevealing the Secret.

the law of the land. gathered in the saloon of the Kiang communist had taken a pot shot the President of the Reichsbank, Hun shortly before midnight wait from one of the houses near the ing for the arrival of General railway track. The bullet hit the Chiang, but they were doomed to floor a few inches from my right disappointment, for about two foot. I very distinctly felt the o'clock in the morning, the. Gen-vibration of the wood. I said it eralissima's gunboat, followed close- must have been a revolver shot. ly by the Chu Yu and Ngo Met Betraying nothing on his face, the passed - Anking without stopping, cadet calmly corrested me; "No, a the flotilla proceeding straight up Mauser " river.

Calang's Change of Plan.

The stated:

that it will be a tax upen indus

the Cabinet and Party Leaders are Referring to the Liberal-Socia-"What is even more serion is taking place. A new Emergency list agreement, the Daily Herald Decree is being prepared. Basle discussions have clearly shown the Government that they must deal first with the steps Germany can take to help herself.

It took eight and a half hours for Hotel. our train to travel from Kiukiang

"The Treasury loses a certain proportion of the estimated revenue that will accrue from the land tax. but once the tax is instituted it can be expanded as in the case of the death duties."

try, and a tax of the most vicious kind, because the amount of the tax will not be dependent upta: ability to pay.

The great basic industries of the cuntry, which are the most de pressed, and which may be work- The tax on land has only to being at a loss, will be the most heavi increased to 18, in the & to achieve y taxed merely because their fac nationalisation, for 15, in the torfes cover a larger space than the represents the whole value of the amnior business which may be far land. And this is a threat not threat to everyone who owns &

only to the big landowners: it is a piece of land with a capital value Apart altogether from the sericus potential danger, the proposed tax of a penny in the will in itself

...

quarters had reserved a rooin for me at Headquartere, the Kiangai

The local Y.M.C.A restaurant to Nanchang, a distance of onlyi has the distinction of being the As soon as we arrived at Ku-120 miles. No food or drinks could place where you get the best foreign

food. in Nanchang President of £120. kiang, loarnt that General be obtained in the train. "When we Chiang Kai Shek bad not carried arrived at the Nanchang railway Chiang Kai Shok ordered the dishes out his original plan of coming to station, it was pitch dark, there from the T.M.C.A. restaurant for Kiukiang but had proceeded from were no lights anywhers. We had a dinner he gave last night in

(1) Put a stop to nearly all Hukou through the Poyang Lake to cross a river before we could honour of the military lenders now private house building, as did the to Nanchang. The gunboat Chu arrive at Nanchang proper. The gathered here. One of the restaur Lloyd George Budget of 1810.

(2) Even with the concessions in Yu, however, had come to Kiukiang station was full of soldiers waiting ant boys was all smiles this morn- with three German advisors, includ for their turn to forry saroes Noing when he handed me a bottle of dicated by the Chancellor (but not yet placed on the Order Paper) it ing Genorai Wetzel, and the Gen-fewer than 200 men stood on a raft, sauce at the breakfast table with will put a heavy charge on sports eralissimo's private bodyguards on about 20 by 00 foot. It was a the remark that it had been used grounds where there is an admis board.

miracla nobody was knocked off and by General Chiang at the dinner sion fee. It will place a charge of £72,000 a year on the estates "OF General Chiang's decision to go drowned whom they all rushed for the previous evening.

the Ecclesiasticn! Commissioners, The local residence of General the net revenues from which are to Nanchang direct surprised every- the ferry-bont, which bocais de body in Klukiang, where every cidedly overloaded. One of the Chiang is the prottinst spot in used to provide income for clergy arrangement had been made for him soldiers remarked he bad come to Nanchang. The place was formerly in the more necessitous parishes. to stop over, oven a special room, Kiangei fully expecting to be kita public park and a macious build- facing a small, lake, having beened by: the communists, and not to ing was created in the centre of an "reserved for the Generalissimo at bo drowned.

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the Garden Hotel. The two schools and dates as Billots.

commandera, famous Cantonese

Dost of Valuation.

more prosperous,

"The only result will be that fer- sign countries, which are doing all they can to reduce taxation, will find it easier to compete with cur sorely-tried industries.

"The policy of pilling more and more taxes upon our cwn people. is leading us to disaster. The time has come for us to follow the ex- ample of other countries and tax the foreigner, and by so doing pro test the interests and livelihood of our own people.

M.C.C. PETITION THE CHANCELLOR.

-EFFECT OF TAX ON MAIN-

TENANCE OF GROUNDS,

The M.C.C., "the nocepted e- gislator for every class of cricket (3) Mean a new valuation of in the British Tales and in the island for a public library. A wide land, which the Treasury estimates Ovarsen, Dominions," has, through bridge connecta one side of the will cost £1,000,000 to £1,500,000, its Committee, sent a petition to but which independent experts, say Mr. Snowden asking for the ex- island with the other

parts of the will cost at least £5,000,000 or pmption of sports grounds from the

land tax way to me da plat Tsai Ting Kai and General Chinng All the hotels in Nanchang are park, and the other three sides are 20,000,000

(4) Inflict in practice a new The petition states: Kaang Nai, had also come to Kia-full. "Nearly, all the schools and surrounded by water. About 30

come tax of 18,8d, in the & on the M.C.C. desires tc represent in kiang from Kanchow.. to welcome restaurants have been used to billet yards from the island, bamboo poles frechold of all houses, shops, busi- the strongest possible manner that the Generalissimó.

soldiers. The Young Men's Chris with red fings wall above the waterness or industrial promises fox a clause should be inserted in the cept in the case of working-ass Financo Bill exempting from the. On the 23rd, the representatives tian Association hero was kind warn people from going any dwellings whore the land is worth operation of the now land taxes all land, used for cricket and other bbon amaralissimo's -Hond-enough to move all the chairs and nearer the island, General Chiang's less than £120), quarters at Kiukiang arranged for desks out of a class-room and fix personal bodyguard, pm: 07 (6)- Xaise the reat of all, but the cutdoor recreation as long as there smallest dwelling-houses.Mortgas no distribution of profita kang special train to leave that morn-up our temporary quarters for us. National Guards, and 40 picked gec will see that their mortgages the members of the club or public from Nanking are ara rovised to cover the cost of the body, owning the ground-if not ing for Naachang to convey the I learnt this morning, however, policemen German advisers, General Chinng's that the Generalissimo's Head- stationed around the Generalis tax, and it will be much more dif the incidence of these taxes wil

feult to raise money on all classes have a disastrous effect upon the Iron

simo's residence. (Continued on neri Column:)"

cf property.

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