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Pensions

HONGKONG IS becoming

Colony of pensionors.

years ago.

time is rapidly approaching when the Colony's finances will no longer

be able to stand the strain.

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The Holy Roman Empire in the 16th

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"Rome

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Hitler's Empire to-day.

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE"-of. 1939

-OW, as the shape of Europe threatens to change once more

you may consider whether Hitler is dreaming of a new

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Holy Roman Empire.

by

ADiplomatic Correspondent

south-eastern Europe and keep it holy in foreign States."

Looking back on Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, that proclama- tion sounds like serving notice. on the world of what was come.

to

When Legislative Councit meels

For the first time he has in- in 962, lasted in various forms to-morrow it will be asked to agree (cluded within the frontiers of right up to 1800.

The excuse for publishing it You note that it states that to a supplementary appropriation the Reich a race other than Ger-

was the 200th anniversary of the the old Empire created a feeling which will boost the total pensions man.

Its frontiers changed from death of Prince Eugene of Savoy, of close relationship with Ger- Until Hitler's ald to former civil servants and marched into Prague most peo- thing to remember is that it did of Poland, repulsed the Turks Hitler knows; but does that

troops time to time, yet the important who, with the help of the King man civilisation. Perhaps only, their dependants this year to $3,- 176,000, which is exactly double the ple thought that his ambitions, provide a political and social from the walls of Vienna in mean the States that made up amount paid by taxpayers four were limited to bringing within organisation that served the 1683.

the Reich people of German race, purpose of rule for nearly 1,000

the old Empire are to be regard- Eugene, according to the pro- ed as a legitimate, field for Ger- Where is it going to end? To-morrow It may be Hun- years. Judge its success by the clamation, "despised and perse- man expansion? Obviously, if pensions are to go ongarians, Croatians, or Poles. Increasing at this abnormal rate, the

fact that it worked.

cuted," left the French Court to If so, then Holland and Perhaps we all missed the By the middle of the sixteenth become a "soldier of the Reich." Switzerland are in the line of significance of an incident that century the Empire stretched happened in 1934, when Hitler's from Hungary in the east to Hol- after Prince Eugene, with the point to the repeated rumour of Then, says the proclamation, danger, and the notion gives In ten years we have paid out followers sent a crown and land in the west. As well as help of the Duke of Marlborough, an attack some day on those two $20,252,768 to Aupport former civli sceptre of the Holy Roman Em- Czecho-Slovakia, it included a had overcome the French in the countries. Fervants on retirement. Half of pire to Nuremburg from Achen part of Northern Italy, Switzer- war of the Spanish succession, this total has been paid out in the for the Nazi Party Congress. land, Savoy, and a part of Bur- "the German Reich was free, last three and

Concentrated Power F11 half years, 80 tremendously has the coat expanded that the removal was due to the

Then it was given out publicly gundy in France.

and owed its freedom to the since. 1935-36. In twelve years fact that the original crown and pire was a loose confederation of Marshal, whose name had long the old Germanised Holy Roman

From 1556 to 1806 this Em Eugene of Savoy, the Reich Field soldier-general and statesman,

be WHAT need not civil service pensions have in-1

'doubted is that Hitler creased by three hundred per cent. sceptre were confided to Nurem- the different Princes of Germany been in everybody's mouth."

regards himself as the heir to Since the Great War they have in-burg in 1424. creased more than tenfold.

The crown and sceptre were House of Habsburg. The dif- man policy. The proclamation eastern Europe it looks as if he under the presidency of the Now for the pointer to Ger- Empire, and as the shadow of When the Budget was before authentic coples of the symbola-ferent States within the Empire continued:

Nazi Germany lengthens over Council last September, the estimat-which were taken to Vienna for often ed deficit this year was $2,405,436, safe keeping during the Napo- fought.

quarrelled, sometimes "Under the renowned general

is coming into his kingdom. Now, unless revenue has increased leonic wars. Only copies were proportionately to expenditure, the

Do not forget that the first Some of them such as Holland; stock fought for this Imperial Empire, with its centre in Rome, of those days, all of German Emperor of that older Roman deficit is nearer $6,000,000, more possible in 1934, but since then Italy, and Switzerland, gained than half the Colony's surplus of Vienna has fallen into Flitler's their independence, but in the idea and guaranteed our common did not take the title. He called

hands-and the ancient crown mass the Empire hung together.

German civilisation for the fu- himself father or leader. Hitler and sceptrc.

ture....

calls himself the Fuhrer, and A Sundered Reich

"The common defensive effort what matters is not the title but of a Reich sundered in countless the power that goes with it. WITH that as the back- States created a feeling of close

ground, let us relationship with German civili- Sovereign, exercising dominion In the real sense he is a examine again the proclamation sation. posted up years ago in the Ger-

over an area nearly as great as "The military achievements of was the Holy Roman Empire at Excluding

man barracks, sec if, perhaps, Prince Eugene freed the way for the beginning of the eighteenth those on dollar

On the parade grounds a pro- there are more clues in it to the a new stream of settlers of Ger- century. pensions, the Hongkong Blue Book clammation was posted stating direction of German foreign man shows that there are 52 people no that the ancient Holy Roman policy.

blood who still preserve longer residing in the Colony who Empire "was once

German culture in eastern and itself-with a difference, and an. He is making history repeat are drawing pensions of over £1 Fatherland," day. Seventeen are

important one at that. drawing pensions in excess of £2 per day, while eight are drawing pensions of over $1,000 per annum.

Assets over Liabilities.

Hongkong is now supporting over 1,100 people on pensions. Between them, they are drawing over $3,- 000,000 per annum.

They do not spend the money in Hongkong, so that every cent pald out for pensions represents a dead, loss to the Colony.

One former Government em- ployee has steadily drawn a pension since 1877. Another tired in 1802-for health reasons Hia pension stil! goes on.

Then, two years later, the at- tention of German soldiers was drawn boldly to the fact that Austria orice formed part of the Holy Roman Empire of the Ger-

man nation.

our great

The world perhaps missed the meaning and the potentialities of that proclamation. So con. [sider what that Empire was, and from that we may get a clue to re-what is in Hitler's mind, what

are the limits of his ambitions.

Do you remember that in The position is admittedly a "Mein Kampf" Hitler years ago difficult ono. Obviously we must pay pensions. But it is just as wrote that he was not interested obvious that we cannot afford to in colonies beyond the seas but pay tho enormous amounts in those near at hand? representing nearly one-tenth of our total revenue--that are now being mulet from the Treasury.

Pensions and Military Contribu-that once went to make up the tions combined are taking over one-quarter the Hongkong's rovenue. The result is that our local social services suffer.

He meant Austria, Czecho- Slovakia, Croatia, and the other countries bordering on the Reich

Holy Roman Empire.

Now that Empire, which be gan with the crowning of Otto

It is manifestly unfair to the Hongkong taxpayer that he should be asked to so extensively support comfort and well-being enjoyed by people whose pne ambition is to the civil servant, all the more leave the Colony as soon as they reason why, after retirement, his are assured that the Colonial pension should circulats in the Government will pay them a Colony instead of in other parte salary for the rest of their lives, of the world.

|_ 'During hla ̧ residence in the Colony, the civil servant enjoys amenities that are far beyond, the reach of the ordinary commercial worker.

The Colony la supporting him in retirement: he should support the Colony, among

Government is casting around for new means of raising taxation in order to meet, among other increasing charges on the public service, this Frankenstein monster of ponalons We would suggest

There can be no objection to

can bo no this. Rather, It should be the aim of commercial houses to attain the same degree of well-being for their workers, to make their lot in that a pension that has to bo Hongkong as happy as is the lot remitted overseas should be one of the oil servant,

of the first victims of its own

But there is, in this degree of growth.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Laster Trugle, defendant-aped $1-arrested for allmonu, 1936- arrested for back alimony, 1037-arrested for back alimony, 1038-arrested for murder, 1939"

The difference is that the old Holy Roman Empire was a col--- lection of loose States recog- nising the overlordship of the. Emperor, and that was its weak- iness.

The new Empire of Hitler, on. the other hand, is a highly cen- tralised State revolving on the axis of Berlin: "One people, one State, one lender" is more than a catchy slogan; it spells concentrated power.

Then Came Napoleon

THERE is another _dif- ference. The. Habs- burg emperors thought first of the dynasty, the family. With an unmarried emperor in Ber- [lin, that weakness, too, is

eliminated from the new Em-.. pire.

Yet the Holy Roman Empire perished in the plans of another conqueror who stalked through Europe as Hitler marches now. Napoleon planned to annex the title, to make the Empire part of the "Napoleonic iden

To defeat his ambitions: Francis. II, proud Habsburg, resigned the Imperial dignity in 1806 and 80 ended the Empire that lasted a thousand years. * Hitler says his empire will last a thousand years too.