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THE

EXTRA TOUCH

OF COMFORT

These appliances

can be fixed on hire at rentals of from

$2.00 to

$5.00 for any period. (One payment only.)

or

In dining-room, drawing-room bedroom, a gas heater will give you

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1938

COLONY ENDS YEAR WITH BUDGET SURPLUS OF OVER MILLION DOLLARS

The Colony ended the year 1937 with a budget sur

plus of more than $1,075,000, official returns issued by the Treasury this morning reveal.

that little extra touch of comfort that Revenue exceeded original estimates by approxim-

means so much.

WE HAVE STOCKS OF

RADIATORS,

PANEL HEATERS, LUSTRAN HEATERS

& GAS FIRES.

IN VARIOUS ARTISTIC FINISHES.

HONG KONG & CHINA

GAS CO., LTD. Gloucester Building, 246, Nathan Road & West Point. Telephone 28181.'

TO-NIGHT

AT THE

GLOUCESTER HOTEL

GALA

DINNER

DANCE

EXTENSION

2 A.M.

MUSIC BY

.

NEW GLOUCESTER ORCHESTRA

POPULAR RADIO ARTISTES

ÖN

COLUMBIA RECORDS

"HILDEGARDE”

FB1758-TEN PRETTY GIRLS.

SO RARE.

FB1726 THIS YEARS KISSES.

I'VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM.

CARROLL GIBBONS; AND BOY FRIENDS SELECTION.

FB1805-HIGH WIDE AND HANDSOME

YOU CAN'T HAVE EV1937.

FB1835-PIANO PARADE OF ERYTHING-SELECTION.

TURNER LAYTON

FB1821-THAT OLD FEELING.

LITTLE OLD LADY.

FB1761-IT, LOOKS LIKE RAIN IN CHERRY BLOSSOM LANE.

LET US BE SWEETHEARTS AGAIN.

MANTOVANI AND ORCH,

FB1814-IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON-WALTZ.

MOONLIGHT ON THE WATERFALL·

FB1819-WHISTLING GIPSY WALTZ.

SILVERY MOON AND GOLDEN SANDS.

- ALBERTSANDLER AND ORCH.

FB1769--LA CANARI.

FAERY SONG (Immortal Hour).

FB1767—IF YOU ONLY KNOW,

HALFWAY TO HEAVEN.

THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.

PHONE 21322

ICE HOUSE STREET

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG LTD.) WATCHMAKERS, & JEWELLERS, DIAMOND MERCHANTS,

UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for:-ADHIRALTY CHARTS, ́ROSS' BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

ately $4,400,000, while expenditure fell short of estimates by roughly $150,000, and an estim- ated deficit of over $3,500,000 was converted into a substantial surplus, in spite of the fact that the civil service levy on salaries was re- moved in the middle of the year.

The Post Office experienced a re- cord year, its income totalling $3,- 254,396 against an estimate of $2,- 049,800 and $2,058,885 in 1936. Outlay of the Post Office was just over $1,000,000.

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and

EXPANSION OF AIR FORCE

With the exception of port harbour dues, and interest, all heads of revenue showed a substan-

London, To-day. tial increase both as compared

The remarkable response last yea with 1936 and with the estimates.

among young men eligible for ser- which were generally based upon

vice as pilots in the Royal Air Force lower expectations in 1937 than

to the announcement of an increased results shown by the

of 1936.

number of vacancies to be filled as Duties brought in $1,210,000 more

a result of the Government air de- than estimated: licences and inter-

has fence expansion programme, nal revenue produced $1,004,000

but bea- not only been equalled more than estimated: the Kowloon ten this year when the number of Canton Railway returns were near-vacancies was again larger. ⠀⠀ ly $200,000 higher than expected, and in December when total in-

on March 31st reached

а record

The Air Ministry announces that come was $138,000, something close although the number of pilots re- quired by the Royal Air Force dùr- to a monthly record was achieved. ing the present year which ends

Land sales brought in $528,436 as against an estimate of $206,000 figure of 1,750, the whole of that Interesting items under the head-number had been obtained by the ing of expenditure are Pensions, end of January. $2,559,809

Military for the year, Contribution, $5,586,415, charitable services, $214,920.

FOUR KILLED IN FARM SIEGE FOR TAXES Woman And Sons Defy Police

Four persons have been killed in the siege of a lonely farmhouse near La Fleche, south of Le Mans, in a dispute arising over the non-payment of 11 10s. in taxes.

Of the total, approximately 1,300 have been accepted from candidates from civil life and the balance, in accordance with normal policy, are selected volunteers from serving air- men in the Royal Air Force. The total number of pilots who have been entered since expansion began in 1935 now exceeds 4.500,-British Wireless.

NEW CONVENIENCE FOR BANK CUSTOMERS

Customers of two banks in New York no longer have to wait in line to deposit their cheques.

Machines are conveniently placed in the bank premises.

The farm was occupied by a wo- man and her two sons. They locked themselves in against a bailiff, shot dead a locksmith sent to force the The depositor drops his cheques door, and after a 24-hour siege on inside where they are automatical- afternoon of Jan. 25 shot dead aly photographed. The machine is. gendarme.

capable of handling a hundred che- Finally the woman and one of the ques per minute and at the end of sons were killed. The police had the day a human teller makes

the cowshed in which the record.

set fire to en

they had en refuge, and as the

three ran out the police shot two

dead. The second son escaped ining cartridges with buck shot. In the drkness..

the morning the authorities sent for

The siege of the farm house be teargas. Gendarmes climbed on to gan on afternoon of Jan. 24 when the farm house and made a hole in it was learned that the bailiff had the roof. They threw tear-gas

been refused admittance. Gendar-bomb through the ho

mes and a locksmith were sent to The siege continued all day and force an entry. As the locksmith before night fell the gendarmes had doors was exmining the lock, the door was blown up two of the farm

lightly opened from within and with explosives and poured tear gas he was shot dead.

into the house. It was empty, how-

A party of 13 gendarmes, head-ver, for during the attack thè de- Ad by the local sub-prefect, mayor, fenders had slipped into one of the public prosecutor and judicial au- cowsheds and barricaded themselves

horities, set out for the farm and within.

ried to parley with the family. They A gendarme tried to break down received no answer and decided to the doors of the shed and received lay a siege.

a-bullet. He was dying no he was

ied away by his comrades-

The two sons spent the night fill-