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Encirclement THE story of encirclement.

was assiduously worked up by German propagandists be- fore, during and after the Great War of 1914-18.

To-day, with all the greater power given him by an absolute control of propaganda, Herr Hiler is trying to revive it. There is reason to believe that the German people are swallow- ling it.

programme of

"T

Mr. ROOSEVELT: "Hi! Can't you guys read?"

What the

O-MORROW they send me away. They only tell me 'Some- where on the Sieg- fried Line. While I am away who will look after my family? Hitler?"

The speaker, a crane-driver from a Hamburg shipyard, spoke in the low tones used by practically | everyone in Nazi Germany.

ful buzz of conversation in London this subdued conversation is one of

Indeed, to one used to the cheer-

the most striking things about modern Germany, for it is such a direct contrast to the hearty, noisy Germany of other days.

There were soven of us round the table of the Hitle water-front restaurant. A crane-driver, two aLevedores, a taxi-driver, an un- employed youth in Storm Trooper's uniform,

2 foreman from builder's yard, and myself. Out- wardly just a sober little party of German workers entertaining a Iriend.

WHAT If voices were subdued and "the" tableTM set in an alcove? Did not

the presence of the Storm Trooper

lend an air of Nazi respectability to the party and raise it above suF- picion?

Great Britain has no desire to encircle Germany or to prevent her heing a great world Power -the greatest Power on

the continent of Europe. If Ger- many is content to live at peace with her neighbours, there need never be war with Britain.

Faced by it aggression proclaimed in "Mein Kampf" and ruthlessly carried out step by step, Britain has been obliged, as a precautionary measure, to enter into certain arrangements with other States.realised that they were not the But these arrangements are purely defensive and could not be called into play save in the event of aggression,

In his speech recently Herr Hitler boasted; "We Germans do not feel in the least inferior to the British nation." No one

So I thought when my friend the taxi-driver introduced me to his party as discreet Englishman, and I resolved to say little and in- dulge in no criticisms of the Party, of which I judged them to be arm

adherents.

After the slight restraint caused by my arrival had worn off they plunged once more into their dis- cussion and it was not long before I

I received the order

crane-

firm followers of Hitler that the presence of the Storm Trooper had led me to bellove. Yesterday telling me to report for duty to- morrow," went on the driver sullenly, "and while I work on the Rhine my pay is to be twenty-five marks a week less Party fund deductions. The good dod knows that with the price of things as they are in our happy Germany it is hard to support my family on the forty-ave marks I earn as a crane-driver. We thank

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wish them to have such a feel- castically. ing.

one 8000 becomes familiar and

which is so common in this spy-

ridden Nazi paradise,

"My pay is sixty-five marks a

week, and of that I pay twenty-five

"JA, that is so," nodded Karl the elderly, sickly- There is plenty of room in the

looking factory.foreman, then glanced over his shoulder world for Great Britain and before he spoke again. That Germany to exist side by side quick, suspicious glance with which as equal partners, along with other countries, in a society of free nations. The only condi-

to the Party," he continued, ad- tion is that Germany's rulers dressing himself to me." THEY say

that it is a voluntary contribu give up their dreams of world tion in order that we may have dominion and agree to abide by and medical comforts when we are extra pay. luxury, food, doctors, the laws that must govern in-sick. But listen to this. I am an old man, and my boots, my only ternational relations.

pair, they are not so good, eh?" and he lifted one foot that I might inspect his patched, worn footwear.

Until they do so, it would be madness to relax any of our precautions, but this is a very different matter from encircle ment; and the charge ill be comes mon who firat encircled Czecho-Slovakia and are now attempting to encircle Poland.

"This winter has been wet and

cold, and for two whole weeks I was in my bed with chills and in- nuenza. But the Doctor would not give me a certificate saying that I

was 111.

**For those weeks my wife and I lived on thirty marks that I had taken over a year to save. To exist on thirty marks for two weeks is not easy in Germany, where, food,.

Don't Tax

German Incomes worker

thinks

The author of this article is an English- man, whose business takes him regularly to the German ports. The conversation re- ported here took place very recently in Hamburg. The names and occupations of the participants have; of course, been dis-

guised.

what little one can obtain, costs three times as much as it did before our Fuehrer brought us peace, prosperity, and plenty,

"Can you wonder that We workers of Germany are not as red-cheeked and well nourished as you English?" he concluded.

"IF what you have been telling me is correct," I argued, "How is it that Hitler is so popular with many millions? Everywhere in Germany one witnesses this adoration of the Fuchrer."

Karl nodded.

"Yes, that is so," he admitted, "And even we who have no love for him know that he has done much good for Germany. He lifted us from the depths and made us,

country a great country again with self-respect. But

why-

could ho not stop then? Why not hold out the hand of friendship and co-operation to the rest of the world? Why must we for ever arm?

"I fought in the last war and I do not wish to fight again. I do not bellove that the workers · of

my brother speaks to a sailor on an English ship that is unloading in this port. Some little criticlam of Hitler he makes, and it is over heard by another stevedore, who is a Party member.

"AS-my-brother leaves the docks that evening a Black Guard trooper taps him on the shoulder. The next three months he spends in a concentration camp, and we of his family have to contribute two marks a day for his food."

Says

JOHN BLUNT

THE suggestion that an income tax might in future be ap- plied in this Colony has caused considerable perturbation amongst tho foreign com.. munity.

Not because of the method it. self, but because of the insur mountable difficulties which would be experienced in the uni- versal collection of the tax.

There is no doubt that a large sec- tion of the community would not find it difficult to evade paying income tax, which evasion would be attribut- able to the

to the peculiar methods of Chi- nesc accountancy-the

notibal case

partnership-system, and the with which the source of individual Chinese wealth can be camouflaged.

Unless every Chinese business were compelled to keep books under direc- thods of accountancy, it would be im- tion and supervision of western me-

possible to discover the incomes of proprietors.

"I have heard it said," I re- marked dialdently, that the BS. '(Black Quard) is being trained to take over the duties of the police In the event of war. It is said that I follows, they are even receiving instruc- tion in street fighting." Johann the Storm looked round before replying.

"That is correct. Sudeten

Trooper

*

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therefore, that the foreigner would be the only cer- tain source of revenue, and this is precisely why the very suggestion of income tax is distasteful.

remembered that It must also be During the

foreignero exist here on many und September 50.000 88. men, fully armed, stood varied financial bases. Civil Ser- ready to

dash Into Hamburg vants are paid in sterling (with the exception of those locally engaged), should war be declared. Of course. They enjoy special housing and other Hamburg is held to be full of

and are pensionable. This privileges, sedition and Communists, because is as it should be, but

Crisis of

form no

they

of its old traditions as a Free City. Inconsiderable section of the foreign But they were ready everywhere."

community,

and

while income tax

save

But why?" I asked. "What would not be ideal even in their need for ..

cases, it would not prove such It was

Hans the foreman who hardahlp uz when applied to the mon answered me.

lving here on a dollar basis, whose "Hitler, whom we love so much aim IL is to be able to retire that he has to shelter behind one day, if he can manage to armed guards and buliet-proof sumcient. screens to escape our 'affection. The sonring cost of living makes fears that the workers may try to him wonder when that day will be, rice should the Army and Storm especially when he thinks in terms of Troops be engaged against a converting his savings into sterkby foreign Power. Therefore the SS. Lat the present low rate. He would therefore have the unpleasant feeling being trained-just in caso ...

of being unfairly penalised if colled tax, knowing upon to pay Income LATER that night I full well that many of the main puri walked back through the of the population were evading pay- swastika-decked streets,} ment, past groups of swaggering, uni-|

* * *. formed youths and Nazi maldens,} all keyed up to hysteria pitch by TAXATION, to be effective, must

ltler's latest "victory" in Czecho-

be easily and generally applied, Slovakia and Memel,

But I felt that despite the every citizen is to pay his fair share. and there must be no loop-holes. If flaunting awastikas and strutting. This is so perfectly obvious for as brown-shirted heroes" the heart Hongkong is concerned, that it ap- of the German worker is still un- pears almost absurd to make such an conquered and that there are many assertion. who, despite threats and terrorism,

and

A tax on tea, for example, exempt- still keep alight the flame of pro-ing what may be called the coolle gress and democracy,

brands, would not be amiss, every

nationality would bear its

The present

share,

Germany will fight. Many young folk are now realising the emptiness of golden Nazi promises and realise that we are heading for disaster, "Johann here.", and ho indicated the sullen-faced young Storm Trooper, "is one of the many who is a Party member only because he does not think it prudent to be otherwise."?

Johann looked at me "But what can, I do?" he asked shamefacedly, "I have a wife and young baby; and what would they, do if I was in trouble? My two young brothers are "keen Party T. Milton Booker, 70, owns in cast-$10,000. Surely no great hardship members and I must not appear iron bootjack engraved "Property of Would be imposed in applying, a

graduated senik.

loss keen than they.

Washington Bootjack Owned

Wilmington, Del...

Manacorge Washington" which he has re-

practice of

charging receipt stamp duty of ten cents irre spective of the amount involved, offers another perfectly reasonable and equitable field for revenue...

The person who receives $20 pays the same tax nr the person receiving

-imposed

Ab, those Gestapo. fellow fused to sell to historical socletius. *. Royalties might well be they are everywhere," "broke in The Jack was found by a slave denter on transport companies according to one of the stovedores. "Last year at Paint Pleasant, W. Va..

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