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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 26, 1940. ·

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The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Monday, February 26, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

THE preńx "Special to the Telegraph" fa used by the "Hiengkong Telegraph" to indicato nows which is strictly copyright ander the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1930, Buch new ** bears the indication “UP” is received in Hongkong on the data of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- servo all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement

Bureaucracy and Taxation.

It is only necessary to visit Gov-

ernment Departments in Hongkong,

the

MICKEY

FINLAND AND

GIANT

STALIN

“In the twinkling of an eye, Mickey threw a loop of thread around the giant's nose.”.

The Telegraph The

picked this

out

Say not the struggle naught

avalleth,

The labour and the wounds are

vain,

The enemy fainis not, nor faileth, And as things have been they

remain.

If hopes were dur is, fears may

be liars;

It may be, in

conceal'd,

you amoke

Your comrades chase d'en now

the fliers,

And, but for you, possess the

field.

For while the tired waves, vainly

breaking,

.Seem here no painful inch to

gain.

Far back, through creeks and

inlets making,

Comes silent, flooding in, the

Alain,

And not only, When daylight comes, comes in

the light;

by eastern windows

In front the sun climbs slow, how

slowly!

But westward, look, the land is

bright!

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1810-1801

the taxation proposals of the War the Colony in annually Revenue Committee are adopied. commitments; liberal Home leave ar

A new department will be set up. rangements inust not be interfered It will require

love

too

B.B.C.

Haw-Haw

JONAH BARRINGTON tells you how we hit back at the German propaganda.. what we tell them every. night...

HE B.B.C. are fans of old Lord Haw-Haw, too. They employ men and women translators and shorthand- ists, at £300 a year, just to put his words--and his pals'-on paper.

The high-ups glance them over: they confer with the Service-then they hit back.

Foreign Office, the Ministry of Information, the B.B.C. News

Twice nightly, to Germans skulking under bedclothes or headphone-listening in cellars, they tell the truth.

And, because the truth is a change from Dr. Goebbels's Soothing Syrup and Lord Haw-Haw's, Elixir, they're gaining a bigger and bigger audience each night.

How do they know? Many ritorial claims in Europe" is a times I've asked the B.B.C. that best-seller)..

They

THE B.B.C. system is to

take a Haw-Haw or

"

The Ger-

the

46 atruggling

said in his speech. man Press has not published a with their neatly painted name- plates announcing that within sits the

attack Ribbentrop single long quotation.

"The German High Command thief, the principal assistant, second asalstant the third assistant, this infant with so brilliant a future, question, and all they do is to

The pre-close one eye and put on finger"This man who attacked Mr. the fourth assistant, the deputy assist will be ioth to abandon it.

14 the present Finareul to the nose. They know that Chamberlain is himself one of are desperate at the thought of ant, the second deputy assistant, the decesser chief clerk, the assistant chief Secretary has already onur German listeners to B.B.C. pro- the greatest turncoats in history being forced to carry out a mass

that a direct attack on clerk, the chief deputy clerk, the increasingly heavy taxation for ordin

the Anti-Comintern Pact, went Maginot Line would involve a assistant deputy clerk and a whole ury purposes quite apart from the war grammes risk imprisonment or, the man who, having created attack in the west. They know plethora of other assistants to realise must be envisaged. Pensions will, "in extreme cases," death,

to Moscow begging for help." tremendous loss of life what will happen in this Coluny fur from being slashed, involve increasing

They out-hector Haw-Haw. yet that is the situation that YOU! REICHSMINISTER may be forced upon them..

"The emphatic rejection of u Boned of Inland with; old and faithful servants-old, Goebbels story, decontaminate

the Nazis and their ideology by Revenue consisting of five members, that, in the eyes of the Civil Service it, and to hurl it back into Ger- DR. GOEBBELS!" they say, cach, presumably, drawing the usuni-must be permitted to retire to

They plaster the Ark Royal the whole Arab world has 80- allowances.

spend their well-earned Pensions in many as a straight statement of and then give him socks.

Ho with withering sarcasm.impressed the Germans that It will rep

require a Cominissioner who any part of the world except that in fact.

They give the names of Ger- won't be in receipt of much

which they earn them, and they must 1099 than $24,000 per annum. There will be replaced by new Colonial Ofce

Arabs Expenditure on public man prisoners captured, and "In a message to Rome," they they have now abandoned their be a Deputy Commissioner, whose appolatees.

been sunk near the Isle of May. the xalary will absorb the taxes derived health, education and social services add, cheerfully, "We'll give you say, "you asserted that she had propaganda efforts to picture from a hundred tax-payers, There generally is, and always has been, some more to-morrow."

In an Arabic broadcast you us-slaves. recordings of They play Commis- below the level compatible with the will be several Assistant

was sunk in the sioners, each with his own little omce principles of Empire guardianship Hitler's speeches, making him serted she

North Sea. In a Spanish broad- BB.C. calling. Ger-- which we espouse and cannot well and stenographer, There will be a

present in-confess himself a liar out of cast you declared she had been multitude of Examiners, clerks, be decreased below

"Women are demonstrating in his own mouth. (The bit where typists, accountants,

In adequate levels.

destroyed by fire." DISCESOTA.

the streets of Vienna.. short, there will be another Depart- Is it, then, likely that the Govern- he says: "I have no more ter-

"One hundred thousand Ger-TM - ment will accept the Committee's

WHO are the men who The hope may be expressed in some recommendations that the proposed

nightly hit back at mans, evacuated from Baltic quarters that bureaucracy may make taxes should be for the duration of at of their shareholders. They are Lord Haw-Haw? I am asked to countries, must liquidate their an axception and run the' proposed | the war only?

The businesses and Inland Revenue Department econo- There are other, and for the tax-the man-in-the-street and they are give no names, no clues. mically. Has any Department ever payer, equally important reasons why the coins to be administered for the B.B.C. screen their identities possessions behind. been run economically in Hongkong? the recommendation of the Commit bencat of the War Revenue Depart scared not so much for their "The sales of 'Mein Kampf' Do the following paragraphs from the tee should be opposed by

being the ment. If Government mulcts a Cosafety, but for the safety of are proposed "Ordinance to impose Wur

of this Colony.. On

poration earning $500,000 net Taxes and to Regulate the Collection people thereof" make it appear likely that surface, it would appear that the of $50,000, that $50,000 is going to be their relatives in Europe.

"There is a panic among the How do they compare with lax proposals are more equitable passed on, as similar taxes have new Department will be any than those originally propounded by been, passed on in the past. We al-

They do not German population of Hungary, different to the multitudinous De-the Government. But the great and rendy have as war-time precedents Lord Haw-Haw? partments already in existence: inarticulate Middle Class inxpayer; the increased Government taxation sneer, nor jibe, nor lie-neither who used to hold Nazi sym-

13, (1) (a)-There shall be a who would have been the

on petrots and liquors. The Corpora- composed vicum under Use original proposals, is dealing in these commodities have they his capacity for being pathies, but are now throwing

But out the Nazi agents..." of the Financial Secreta by the

cretary and four has no guarantee that his position is have alrently passed the taxation an unintentionally funny.

any better under these new proposals. to the consumer in the shape of in-they can register anger, heat, Governor, of whom not more than

it will be he who will be the creased prices for petrol, higher sarcasm, honest indignation to bably flying a shall be an official

too, will be the victim of the Pro liquors. of this perty Tax. Property Tax, suggests

IT'S HERE!

ment,

THE NEW

1940

FORD 10

H.P.

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leave their

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soft-pedalled

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"The Admiral Scheer,

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pro-.

false flag, la

in the mainstay of the Salaries Tax. He, charges for to higher prices for order. They can spit out the being hunted by the British.

"Listen, Herr von Ribbentrop

of the 5 Moss may be

proposed Ordinance, wils 10

word "Hitler" as bitterly as you There is not e paragraph in the or I.

Navy..

a Deputy churged to the owner of the land or voluminous War Itevenue Bill to

Ordinance, appoint a Commissioner, Commissioner, Ashlsiant Commis aluners and Examiners

or tenant, who normally pays the

property involved, but the tax itself safeguard the man-in-the-street from Though they occupy humble-you, Dr. Goebbels, . will be payable in the first instance becoming the only victim of the positions in the B.B.C. hierarchy,

though they earn only about IF there's any criticismr These two paragraphs epitomise the by the person, whether owner, agent Committed's proposals

The wage-earner is to be the Dum-

of the B.B.C. pro- objections to the creation of any addi- tion to the bureaucracy already in assessed rates. The person who my. And Dummy's pocket must be £10 a week, they know the im-

of the job in hand, paganda service, it is that it existence in Hongkong. We already usunily pays these rates is the tenant, raped because he, too, knows that portance

counter-attacks rather than at: have too many Heads of Departments, His total rental is computed at so this Colony must make a substantial and do it well. deputy Heads of Department, asslat much for actual rent, plus assessment monetary contribution to the Em-

This is the B.B.C. calling tacks. It avoids sensationalism —and sensationalism is a quality ant heads of Departments, second, rates. A tenant would have a dif- pire's war effort. ile is impotent third and fourth asalatania,

Gealt time proving in a Court of Law to suggest that Empire, and especially Germany 2-----

German speech-Rodden which in The creation of a new Department that the landlord is not justified in this small part of Empire

"The frayed nerves of the that will require new offices, new and ex- passing on any increased assessments, he lives, would best be served by

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pensive equipment, new staffs and especially as the proposed Ordinance the functioning of Government on Gorman propaganda authorities listeners have been taught to in spite of the hopes expressed by and the Eviction of Persons Ordin (to use the War Revenue Commilleo's are evidenced by the contradic-appreciate.

And at the moment it lacks the War Revenue Committee, newanee permit the landlord to add these words) the most economical basistions in their claim to have sunk

commensurate with efficiency.

jone-man control. the Ark Royal." Pension commitments, new people to charges to his rentals.

The man who pays the Salary Tax The Empire fights for Democracy, go on leave overy four years.

There's a job at Broadcasting "The German Press, does not The war in Europe may end even and the Property Tax will also, in and we are told that we must make! before the newly-created Depart directly, pay the Corporation Pronts heavy sacriflees to safeguard Demo- dare let the German people House for a master-mind-a

Bureau-Tax. As elsewhere throughout the cracy. But that very Democracy is know what Mr. Chamberlain propagandist and a showman, ". ment is functioning. But

ore business denied us in Hongkong. cracy, unce having given birth to world, Corporations