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His Excellency the Governor **Macno, Lieut.-Col. Antonio Jose Bernardes à Miranda, after landing at Queen's Pier yesterday.

BRITISH PILOT'S DEATH

!

ACTING CHIEF

JUSTICE

Judge J. R. Wood Appointed.

MAJOR E. J. R. MITCHELL

His Excellency the Governor has

appointed His Honour Mr. John

BRITAIN'S BUDGET

POSITION

BALANCED BUT FOR WAR

DEBT PAYMENT

Roskruge Wood acting Chief Jus- BIG SAVINGS FROM ECONOMIES AND

lice with effect from March 27.

CONVERSION OPERATIONS

LONDON, TO-DAY.

Notification is made in the Hong Kong Government Gazette that His; Exellency the Governor has ap proved of the promotion of Captain Eric

THE REMARKABLY BOUND BUDGETARY POSITION OF John Reinhold Mitchell, O.B.E., to the rank of Major in the GREAT BRITAIN WAS REVEALED YESTERDAY BY THE |Hong Kong Volunteer Defence

PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR'S REVENUE AND EXPENDI Corps.

TURE STATISTICS. A TOTAL DEFICIT OF £52,279,090 -WAS- Mr. William James Lockhart-

SHOWN. BUT THE PAYMENT OF £30,000,000 TO AMERICA Smith has been appointed acting FOR THE DECEMBER INSTALMENT OF THE WAR DELTA cold reception was accord ed the Assistant Land Officer during the THE PAYMENT, OF WHICH SUM WAS NOT ANTICIPATED |absence on leave of Lieut.-Col.

Frederick Eaves.

On the other hand, &17,250,000 was, devoted to war debt re demption. Britain, under the Lausanne Agreement, spanded payment of debts due to her totalling £37,500,000.

A farmer wear Wrotham, Kent, Is Rock buried by the blizzard that days --~(8. & G.)

MISSOURI PACIFIC HAMMOND'S

BANKRUPTCY

Adverse Effect On New York Market,

STOCKS SLUMP CONTINUES.

York, To-day.

Stocks

SECOND TEST

IF RESUMED

WILL

GERMA

CENTURY the

evening Hter of Pro

England 282 For 2 plained that

At Lunch. WYATT BOWLED FOR

Mr. Hugh Blackwell Layard Dow- [biggin, Q.B.E., J.P., has been ap- pointed a visiting Justice to the Popal declines being £13,750,000 on income tax and £12,000,000 on Several items of revenue fell short of the estimates, the princi- Leung Kok, In place of Mr. M. T. Customs excise. Skilful conversion operations, however, effected a Johnson, J.P., who has resigned.

The name of Mr. Ku Hauch Chin, saving of £30,000,000. has been added to the Register of Medical Practioners

Great Britain's financial year entitled to

Excluding payment to the Unit practise medicine in this Colony.

ended yesterday, and the Treasury from fixed debt, charges for Inter ed States Government, payments Mr. Francis Meade has been ap- has issued returns showing that re-est, etcetera, have amounted to pointed. Inspector of Labour, and venue has amounted to £744.791.- £262,250,000, and for sinking fund, Mr. William Elliot Assistant Inspec- 000. Excluding the payment to to £17,250,000. Itor of Labour.

the United States Government of His Excellency the Governor has

An additional sum of £2855,004, appointed the Secretary for Chinese the instalment of the war debt on representing Interest of Savings Affairs Protector of Labour for the December 15, 1932, expenditure Certificates, has been form from ails Of Crash StillPubes of the Factories and Waited to £748,174,000. borrowed meneys, my ward

shops Ordinance.

A deficit of £3,323,000 is

CONVERSION SAYINGS.

Stock Market yesterday, reached after providing £17.250,- payments below the amount anti 000 shares being dealt in

The reduction in sinking fund hess showed more activety, 880 Christchurch, placed England in 000 for the sinking fund. Payment cipated in the Budget, is due to

a very satisfactory position at #lunch, which was taken with the to the United States, was £28,956, the effect of the rise in price of In their market report, Messrs. score at 282 for 2-124 runs 000, making a total deficit of £32,-lt-edged securities following the E. A. Pierce and Company, through ahead. 279,000,

war loan conversion operation on their local "agents, Mosers. Asia | Hammond is undefeated -152) As against the payment to the fund requirements.

statutory and contractual sinking Lands, Ltd., state-

(and Paynter, is 32. The Budget United States, there would nor-estimate for supply services was late in the session, was due to the New Zealand-1st Innings

"The weakness of the market Scores: mally have been received since £447,204,000. last July, £30,250,000 from Allied war debts to Britain and from reparations, and a further £7,250,000 from Dominion war debts, relief debts, etc., making £37,500,000 in all at cur- rent rates of exchange.

Unknown.

E PASSENGER INJURED

Details of the aeroplane crash at Liuchow, Kwangsi, in which Mr. R. J. Stevens, test pilot of the Far Eas- tern Aviation Company, lost his life, are still unknown, although it has now been ascertained that a Chinese passenger who was in the machine at the time of the crash. is 'seriously injured.

FOUR POWER PLAN

Still Under Discussion By Powers.

TENTATIVE DRAFT, ONLY, PUBLISHED

Since then, supplementary estimates have been presented amounting to £21,614,000. Ac- tual expenditure amounted to £458,250,000, representing

A

lannouncement that Missouri Pací-

century in LEG

ac had applied for a receivership Sutcliffe, e Weir, b Freeman

England-1st Inns,

under the new Bankruptcy Law. We R. E. S. Wyatt, b Dunning think that stocks with commodity Hammond, not out interest could be purchased on fur ther weakness.

saving of £10,500,000 stands at "The report of the Agricul

up

na

compared with

London, To-day. Mr. Stevens

It is authoritatively stated that was attempting to make a landing at the aerodrome the text now published in some of when the accident Occurred. the newspapers of the so-called Reparation and war debt pay- £810,455,000 |

Interviewed by the China Meil Four Power Plan, represents the ments, however,, are, under the £611,955,000 a year ago, and is is morning, Mr. A. V. Harvey; first tentative draft produced for arrangements made at Lausanne, made

bills, of Treasury nl manager of the Company, said

he intended to leave for the discussion by Signor Mussolini at Agreement has been ratified or of borrowing from public depart

suspend until the Lausanne; £775,905,000, and ways and means. ne at the earliest opportunity, the Rome meeting with Mr. Ramsay until a decision has been reached ments of £84,550,000-Reuter and bat at present bad her condi- MacDonald and Sir John Simon. not to ratify that agreement, British Wireless Service. tions were delaying-him,

It does not fully correspond with The latest reports, stated that the text which the British Ministers

If all payments normally clouds, at 700 feet were obscuring took to Paris and discussed subse- the landing ground, and it is highly improbable that a start can be quently with French Minister, "Mr. made from here to-day. The fight Daladier.

due to Britain since July CONVERSION LOAN 1912, had been received in fall, the Budget would have. been balanced with a surplus of £5,250,000.-

The Budget, which made no pra

will take approximately 7 hours: As the project is still under: ac Mr. Harvey will fly an Avro Cadet, five discussion and examination invision for receipts or outgoings It is intended to hold an official the respective Capitals, it cannot at for reparations and war debts, enquiry at thefuchow aerodrome.

Earlier details are to be found present be stated to exist in any de-forecasted a total revenue of

finitive on Page 143

form-British Wireless 4766,800,000, and a total expendi Service.

U.S. DELEGATE IN LONDON

No Date Yet Fixed For Economic Conference.

MR. NORMAN DAVIS

ADMIRAL RETURNS FROM CANTON,

U.S. Destroyers Due This Month.

ture, including provision for sink- Ing fund of 432,500,000, of £760,- |000,000.

INCOME TAX DEFICIT. Income tax and surtax yielded £312,000,000 which Is 418,750,000 less than estimated, The estate duties yield of £35,000,000 was $1,000,000 more than the estimate: Customs and exclee yielded £288,000,000' against an estimate of Admiral Sir Frederick Charles £800,000,000, Sundry Icansand London, To-day. Dreyer, K.G.B., CRE., C-in-C is reimiscellaneous provided a surpias Conversations between Mr. Nor-turning to the Colony to-day, on over estimate of £8,250,000. man Davis, Chief United States de board H.M.S. Falmouth from Can- legate to the Disarmament Confer-ton.

ence, and the Premier, Mr. Ram- ILMS, Berwick arrives thin Ray MacDonald and Sir John afternoon from Shanghal after a Simon the Foreign Secretary, were stay of one month. She is relleved continued yesterday afternoon by H.MLS. Cornwall

Further discussion on matters The Destroyer Depot ship Buck which are to be considered at the Hawk and four, destroyers of the World Economic Conference may, United States Navy, are expected to take place before Mr. Davis leaves pay a visit to Hong Kong about the for Paris next week

middle of this month. “data of the Conference rests]:

ague organising

On the expenditure side, fir

ad debt charges were fixed for

SUCCESS

Tenders For £45,000,000 Over-subscribed.

£79,000,000 APPLIED FOR

متر

London, To-day. Tenders for £45,000,000 worth of 214 per cent. Con- version Loan, 1944/49, and Treasury bills, were opened yesterday. The total amount applied for exceeded £79,000,000,0

able to an expansion of cur-". rency to improve agricultural purchasing power was reflect- ed in commodities.

(Continued on Pogo 14.)

LORING 10 HOURS

FROM COLONY

Waiting For "Hop” To Hong Kong.

MADRID-MANILA FLIGHT

Benor Fernando Reiny Loring,] the Spanish airman who is flying|| from Madrid to Manila in a Com- per Swife machine, is now at Pha

kek, on

on the border of Siam and French Indo-China.

He is awaiting a favourable on portunity to make the journey to Hong Kong, which, in good flying

hopra, and

No advice of his

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FIGHTING IN THE NORTH 2,000 Japanese Troops In Attack.

CHINESE CLAIM - VICTORY

Peping, To-day, According to Chinese re ports, 2,000 Japanese troops. yesterday suddenly advanced on the Chinese lines from Chrumenkow, one column at- tacking Heiangsu, and another attacking Shahoshuaz

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