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HONGKONG: TEL EGRAPH

October 14, 1939.

I'll Be One Of The Goats

Says

JOHN BLUNT Apropos The Now Income Tax

TUE residents of Hongkong

will have to pay income tax for the first time, says a news mesange from Hongkong", suavely stated the B.B.C. an nouncer on Thursday night. "Hitherto" he continued, “only a tax on rents has been in force."

As I listened to these porten- tious words broadcast to the Empire, I thought how Ittle they of Hongkong know, whom Hongkong never knew!

I can only nssume that those whose duly it is to decide what par- ticular farin of taxation is appropri ate to this Colony followed the line of least resistance and decided on an income tax,

That the Colony must show Ha patriotism in a tangible form Bone will deby.

The best I can do will be in- finitesimal when the tremendous. cost of the war is taken into ac⭑ count. Nevertheless, it will re- present an individual sacrifice to the common catise,

To endeavour to raise the money by inposing a levy on incomes in this Colony is likely to falt because of the impossibility of ensuring that every income is taxed.

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It is also obvious that the Inachinery which will be required will be cumbersome and costly, in view of the exceptionally difficulti circunstances obtaining.

With past differences forgotten, Winston Churchilt, left, and Anthony Eden are back in British Cabinet,

Churchill La First

Lord of the Admiralty and Edeo is Dominions Secretary of Blats.

War News in Brief

Luxembourg May Be Hospital Centre

LUXEMBOURG, the tiny independent Grand Duchy lying between Belgium and Germany, may become a hospital centre for all European Powers who are at war,

the

Foreign ruis and their stals, Government servants,

those few Chinese fems who conduct their businesses along Western Ines, will.

The Grand Duchy, in a statement, Monday at the discretion of the of course, instantly come under the aiming her complete neutrality, school authorities. provisions of the new tax.

rugs she is prepared to open There are,

An Important factor in however, countless territory as clearing headquarters whether "neutral" schools are

decking Chinese concerns controlling multi- for all wounded troops, and possibly opened will be the degree of pro- farious business activities, many of us an exchange centre, then extremely

tection available for children while profitable.

in the last war German troops at school, froin whom it will be practically impossi- few days of the beginning of host-schools which have not already re- myaded Luxembourg within the Arst ble to collect the tax.

In reception areas it is hoped that Surely this aspect should be very titles. It is believed that Geermany, opened will do so as early as possible.

having guaranteed Belgium absolute

Rotary Club, meeting recently for the first time since war was declared, drank a toast to Ger-

carefully considered.

Pity the Minority

safety from attack on her part, may Watford Purept this proposal.

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Full term at Oxford University be-**************** will they pay tax on income, but vos offlelally announced

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Why should Hongkong

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CITIZEN 5 DAYS

-AMSTERDAM-A dramatic story of how for five

revenue days he suffered “inhuman" treatment as a prisoner of the

To mention * Iow items which Gestapo was told recently by Mr. Theodore Kauffeld,

eculd reasonably be included in an

from Germany via Stockholm.

import tariff schieric-cameras, radio aged 37, a United States citizen, when he arrived here sets. gramophones, bicycles, (above cheaper grades), tches perfumes, cosmetics, diamonds and precious stones, watches and elbeks. silks and silk goods, and every item which can be included in the luxury

1455.

Higher stamp duties on receipts, enleuinted on

progressive scale, and even a poll or landing tax.

The work of selecting all these items might call for more work than merely by a stroke of the pen im- posing income tax, but the result would be far more satisfactory and equitabl

I Don't Object

Surrey, and is employed by the Mr. Kauffeld, who lives at Selsdon, British steet drin, Richard Thomas and Co., Ltd., sakl he had been on

holiday to the United States.

He decided to return to England in the German liner Hamburg.

The liner, however, did not dare to call at Southampton, and he was taken on-via Iceland-to Hamburg. "There, after finding that I was employed by a British Arm," he said, " was detained by the Gestapo.

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"I was confined. In a small room, and was not allowed to communicate with the United States Consul. The

It is not that I object to income tax as such. It is probably one of the fairest and purest forms of taxa- tion extant, when and where it can be collected from every income. only food was glue-like soup with

What I object to is the feeling that I shall be one of the goats, who by virtue of the fact that my income can definitely be ascertained, will be called upon to make my contribution to the Imperial Fund, knowing that thousands of others carrying equal responsibility, can easily escape."

occasional bread crusts and water.

"Only after five days of tids treat- ent was granted permission to can- et with the American authorities. and shipped to Stockholm. As a result I was escorted to the coast

Gordon Roll

Is A Private

old rucehorse owner and heir to MIR. GORDON ROLL, 20-year £405,000, is now Private Roll, of the Queen's Regiment, pay 2s. a day.

of his horses for £4,500 to a Surrey He was reported to have sold 15) bookmaker an hour or two before he enlisted at Guildford,

Private Roll recently placed his racing losses at £30,000 in five manths.

He then conded: "I have been a mug but I have enjoyed every, minute of it.”

It was Mr. Roll's plan, before the war, to make inore money as an ac- tor in Hollywood.

His last recorded gamble was at the casino in Le Touquet, when he won £200,

I'll pay with the next man, butperience in my life.

"My detention was the worst ex-ofcials was not only always dis- I want to be assured that the next fact ama eltizen of a neutral

Apart from the courteous, but often Inhumani man also pays.

country, my treatment at the hands off gles, or explanations were given.

"On my release, no excuses, apolo-

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