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A BROKEN DOWN SYSTEM. This is a condition for disease) to which doctors give any names, but which few of them really andersland. Disslimply wekken-alreakdown ka li were, ofthu vituð fornes that asqıainthenys- em. Naissiter what may be its causes (they aka almost numberless), its symptoms are much sho ine; to prominent being sleeplessneLR, andise of prostration or weariness, dressinn of spirit and went of entgy for all de ordinary alfairsoflife. Now, whatsonois absolutely essen Und in all suchmans is increased vitality-vigour. vital strength and energy to throw off then torbid feelings, and as tight aucceeds the day

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TAXED FROM MORN TILL NIGHT.

A TAX-PAYER'S 'COMPLAINT. (By Harold Cox.)

SCHOOLGIRLS IN MOTOR CRASH.

TWO OF ENGLISH PARTY BADLY HURT.

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928.

"RED" MENACE IN INDIA.

NORTH WEST FRONTIER DANGERS.

The Government of India report In addition to the heavy taxes Two English schoolgirls, mom- taken from us in the shape of in- bera of an English pienie party of for 1926-7, prepared by: 'Mr. I. como tux every halfyear, and the 28 students, were seriously injured, Coatman, Director of Publle In-

other more or less formation, has been published. still heavier duty levied at death, and several the Treasury levies day by day afshaken, when a motor-coach In

During the year Communiam in series of taxes at every turn of our which they were returning to Paris India was more active and more from the Forest of Fontainbleau daily life.

crashed into a tree near Plessie-vocal than in the preceding year.

The report Chenet after it had swerved to avoid a small car.

These taxes are technically known as "Indirect" because they are not directly charged upon the person who has finally to meet them. As a result few people are conscious of their existence, but they are there, and have to be paid day by day.

They begin at the breakfast table, Whether we drink tea or coffee or cocon we have to pay a tax to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; the Jam or marmalade we eat is also taxed on the sugar contained in it.

"The continuing disordera, fr The injured girls, Miss Grace China which led to the despatch Mary Hi10, who has compound ently in 1927 of an Inilin brade fracture of the leg, and had to live to Shanghai, have served to Bring a foot amputated, and Miss Mary Frividly before Indian millids tha Hargreaves, 14. Who Tecolved importadel of Bolshevist Russia As serious internal injuries, are from an active and potent force in world the county school at Bridgwater, politics. This natural interest in the affairs of a great adjoining Somersetshire

The parents of all the children country has not been permitted to were at once notified and those of languish for want of stimulation the two injured girls were advised from outside, for there has been no lack of authoritative pronounce. to come to Paris without delay....

Miss Hill and Miss Hargreaves, ments from Moscow that the Chin- after receiving first aid at the eso disturbances are as no more hospital at Corbeil, were taken to than the first tremors of a great the British Hospital in Paris in revolutionary upheaval that will motor ambulance. The other girls, dash the British dominion in India who are staying at the Giri Stato pieces.". At luncheon and dinner and after dents Hostel in Paris, return to noon tea the Chancellor of the Ex-Bridgwater to-morrow. chequer is again watching. Any one who drinks a glass of beer or

When breakfast is over, often cigarettes are lighted, and not only are the cigarettes themselves taxed at the rate of 188. 7d. a lb., but there is even a tax levied on the matches, used to light them.

whisky or wine has to pay a heavy worker, for beer is a food as well

It is, however, comforting, to learn that, in spile of all this pro- paganda, "Indigenous Communism, as represented by the so-called Com munist Party of India, seems to

tux upon it, and every bit of cake na a drink, and is specially valu-have made little appreciable head-

Laxed on the sugar and sultanas able to men who have to carn their living by working in the open air. in it,

As a result of the rise in taxa- tion the average price of beer for the working man has rather more than doubled. The case of whisky is perhaps even worse.

If a man bucks his fancy on a horse race he has to pay a Betting Tax, and if he ends the day by ng to a theatre he has to pay an Entertainment Tax-on-bis-ticket; alternativoly, if he goes to his [club for a game' of cards he has to pay a fax on the pack of cards he USCA. "If he takes a patent medicine as a tonic he has to pay a sub-suitable subjects for taxation, but

way."

Communal. Feuds.

The year under review has been marked by antagonisin between A bottle Hindus and Hohammedans, which of whisky now costs 128, 60, and has showed itself in "excesses or of that figure the tax alone repre-riot and murder worse tinn any- thing recorded for many years sets 8s. Bd.

Admittedly beer and spirits are past."

With reference to this vital

stantial duty even upon that. If not for such high taxation as they question the report states:

the course of his daily business now have to bear. On both these articles of popular consumption we

e sends or receives money he has to pay 20. on euch cheque he draws and 20. on each receipt he gives.

Meanwhile, out of each day's

It is often said that Hindu- ought to get back to pre-war rates. Mohammedan antagonism owes its As regards tea and sugar, cocoa present, intensity to the Reforms, and coffee it is highly desirable that which, by bringing the people face to face with

warnings, roughly a fifth has to be should go farther still and of India

abolish these taxes altogether. some of the problems which they

set aside to meet the claims that The tea and sugar duties in parti- will have to solve before they can the income-tax collector and rato cular press with special severity enjoy response self-government, collector will in due course present. on the poorest classes in the comas precipitated the struggle for If after he has met all these munity, and are therefore a viola-the powers and emoluments of of charges he succeeds in saving any-tion of the elementary principlefice, and, in fact, for the control tbit may be mers certainly occured license ofthing for investment and buys that people should be taxed in proof the machinery of government. THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. Security on the Stock Exchange he THERAPION No.3 [has to pay a heavy stamp duty on

the purchase.

than by any other knowa combination. Goxiply aritie laken insaccordance with the directtonamo- companyigit,alteredhealth be restored THE EXPIRING LAMP OF LIFE LIGHTED UP AFRESH;

partion of their capacity to pay. It can hardly be denied that the From the point of view of equity Reforms of 1919, by forcing Hindus alone it would be far better to ex- and Mohammedans to take thought Many of these taxes, it is true, tend the income tax downwards, of their respective positions under have long been in existence, but so that all classes may make a fully responsible government of the contrast between pre-war rates direct contribution, of which they a democratic type, with its central and newerencelupassed in place ofwhat had

government by aniately seemed worn-out, verdun,ardvalueleu, and present-day, rates is terrific. Jare themselves aware, to the neces-doctrine This wonderful medicament le suitabilofer ullagen

The leer duty, for example, used sary expenditure of the State. If majority, have reinforced tradi- Dostitutions and conditions, in either ser; and Li

were direct taxpayers, tional enmities." Smell to Imagine a disease or derangement to be levit at a very moderate rate. all voters whose main feature is weakness, that will not

In 1913-14 the rate was 78. 9d. aleven Mr. Churchill might think it bo speedily and permanently overcome by chris recuperative mice, whichlidestined to cast into

standard barrel; it has now risen politically worth while to give ef- oblivion everything that had preceded is for this wide-speradekaunieroseofhumanalimenta ) 899. Bald by diagCreator alther Norrtummafrom

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is now reckoned that the trans- border tribes have no fewer than 140,000 modern rifles, and that the Mahsuda alone can arm effectively 12,000 men and the Wazirs 10,000 men. Hence increased difficulties for the Indian police.

"Increasing education together with its beneficial effects his the drawback of making many criminals more clever at their work and of in- troducing them to new and sophisti- cated forms of crime. The rail- way, the telegraph, the motor-car, and so on have been preased into the services of the criminals of this country, whose greater mobility and knowledge as compared with some years ago makes them ever more serious anlagonials for the Indian Police."

The year 1926-7 was not a parti- cularly good year for commerce and industry, but it was not parti- cularly bad. In India's foreign trade Japan ranked second, as she has during the two preceding years. Germany is making a steady bid for her old trade with India, and the hardware trade seems to be. passing into German hands," says the report.

The report, which deals with every sphere of Indian life, is pro fusely illustrated with photo- graphs, maps, and statistical tables.

WOMAN KISSED IN THE

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BY MAN WHO PROVED HER INNOCENCE.

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The woman-Winifred Murphy, of Thorncliff-grove, Chorlton-cum- Hardy and the man-Frederick Thompson, of Birmingham-were accused of housebreaking and steal- ing gems.

The police said that in the wo- man's house were found gems be- hind a gas stove, while under a mattress were Jemmtes, a hack- saw, and other housebreaking im- plements.

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When charged Thompson said, "I am guilty; she is not."

Thompson, who asked to be tried at the assizes to save three months* wait, was sent for trial to the ses sjons.

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