But who can measure the caprices of money? I suppose Solomon was above the need of thinking about it or he would certainly have added it to his three incomprehensible things. The report by Somerset House on the year ending March 31, 1939, shows that there were over 1000 mil-bonaires in Great Britain, which is 107 more than the year before.
A millionaire is defined as a person with £30,000 a.year, and there were 90 people in^1038-39 (eighteen móre than in ear before), with incomes of £100000. The people with incomes of more than £2,000 a year divided between them £521,471,169 as against £497,194,137 in 1937-38.
Be it remembered that income tax was already 5s. 6d, in the £, and with surtax added a:
The present war must be a record in one way in that three V.C.'S are simultaneously holding supreme command, Lord Gort in France, Gen. Freyberg in the Near East, and Major Gen. Carton de Wiart in Norway. Actually we do not know exactly what command the latter is holding but We know that it is one of the British forces landed in Norway.
Carton de Wiart is a most picturesque character, who" might seem to belong more io the age of Clu Guesclin than to this one. He is described as the most wounded man in the British Army. The son of a Belgian father and English mother, he had just finished reading for the law at Oxford when the' South African War broke out and off he went to it with the Middlesex Yeo-maury. He got a commission in the Dragoon Guards and stayed with them till 1923 when he retired on half-pay. He was five times wounded in South Africa; then in the first year of the Four Years' War, twice badly wounded in Somaliland where he lost his left eye. As soon as he could, he went to France.
No Knowledge of Fear He simply does not know the meaning of the word "fear" In Flanders after his left hand had been millionaire pays shattered, he got hold of a bag of
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