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Although the Colony's revenue for October exceeded the amount for the corresponding month last year by only $1,300, the revenue for the first ten months of 1038 was $3,000,000 in excess of the revenue for the same perlod last year, and nearly $400,000 more than that estimated for the year.

On the other hand, expenditure for Inst month was nearly $400,000 in advance of that for 1937, while for the first ten months it was $2,300,000 more than for the corresponding period last year, though still short of the year's estimated expenditure by lour and a half million dollars.

The actual gurts were as follows. Revenue for October $3,359,038.05, compared with $3,386,327.20 last year, and for the first ten months of 1938

it was $30,020,3

0,020,380.07 compared

with $27,003,004.03. The estimated revenue

nue for the year is $30,254,920.

GOVT. HOUSE

DENIALS

Ex-Hongkong Officer Is Buried

Tragic Death Of Lt.- Čol. E. H. Gray

Peshawar, Nov, 25. A British omcer, formerly of Hong- The report in an evening paper kong, Lt-Col. E. H. Gray, who was last night that His Excellency the one of the three British officers shot Governor had visited Shum Chundead when a Sepoy ran amuk in a was offelally denied this morning. milltary station on the North-West "It is utterly preposterous to say Frontier of India on November 23, that His Excellency would cross into was burled together with his col- Chinese territory," the "Telegraph" leagues to-day at Nowshera with full was Informed.

military honours.

"His Excellency visited the frontier, but did not at any place cross it."

The report that His Excellency the Governor had issued instructions for the bridges across the Shum Chun River to be thrown open to refugees was also denied,

The

"His Excellency's visit to frontier was as a spectator."

the

An earlier report that Major Rea, fourth offrer, had died, has now been declared to be incorrect.

Besides the three British officers, three Indian soldiers of other ranks order the...

the refugees were also killed by the Sepoy, who should be admitted was issued by the is himself dead: He was not Commissioner of Police, and not by sentry at the post, as was at first the officers' believed, but entered His Excellency the Governor,"

camp at midnight.

Li.-Col. Phyllis ay was married to Miss!

daughter of Mr. George Lammert, well-known Hong- kong resident. They were married in 1917, after his return from the Front, and a daughter was born to them in 1018; just before the couple left for Indie.

MILITARY NOT

SENDING MORE

On the expenditure side, the ex- TROOPS TO FRONT Col. Gray had been in the Colony

in 1914 with the then 24th Punjabis, later the 42nd, but left to serve at

for October amounted Lo 10.39 as compared with $2,-|

Military headquarters this morning the Front well-known in post-war 393,428.14 Inst year; for the first ten reiterated that the position at tho He was months it was $20,019,200.79 as com-

frontier would πολ call for army cricketing circles in the Colony, and pared with $20,308,284.71, while

reinforcements, The Company of was a member of the Army team, estimated expenditure for the year

the Middesex Regiment would remain, Col. and Mrs. Gray have lived in $33,370,540, Among revenues, there was a de-on duty, as they had been for several India ever since, mostly in Nowshern. The news of his death was received duties, weeks, against the possibility of

father-in-law, of nearly $200,000 in

armed Chinese refugees presenting aby telegram by his ap- but against this an increase of

Mr. George Lammert. proximately the same on ilcences and problem. internal revenue,

crease

The Post Office receipts were down by $114,000 and the Canton Kowloon

The internment of such men was a matter primarily for the police.

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It is significant that manoeuvres year were to avoid

DLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY Railway revenue shrank by 542,000. having the British troops operating

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A. R. P. Blackout Last Night Was Failure

Although the Air Raid Precaution officials, in Hongkong placed reliance on the general publle to do their ulmost to make a success of the "blackout" last night, the exercbes were not up to expectations.

along the frontier, probably in anti- cipation of disturbances such as are now taking place.

Empire Won't

Hand Over Any

Territories

Pro-Japanese Government In Hankow

Shanghal, Nov. 20. According to a report from Han- cow, the new Japanese-controlled Government was installed there this morning. The ceremony took place in the building formerly occupied by the Commercial Bank, which was decorated with Japanese flags, as well as with the five-barred flag of the old Chinese Republic, which is the emblem of all Chinese governments

Wing-Commander Steele-Perkins, In clinrge of A.R.P. in the Colony, stated this morning that he is most disappointed at the lack of co-opera- tion from the general public.

"We

hoping

The statements of Mr. Chamber-sponsored by the Japanese. Hongkong!

The streets were lined with Japan- of General ese troops, who

placed machine-guns residents would have endeavoured to lain, and the attitude make a success of Inst night's 'black-

at strategic paints.

were

out'," he said.

"No special legislation in regard to the restriction of light has, so far, been passed but if we are going to be faced with lack of co-operation we shall have to use

compulsion in darkening the Colony."

NEW D.M.S. Dr. J. T. Smalley, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), has been appointed Director of Medical Services as from November 21,

́H.K. ̈ ̄MEMORIAL SERVICE

London, Nov. 25.

Smuts in South Africa and Mr. Lyons in Australia has made it clear that

The inaugurating speech was de- the "policy of uppeasing Nazi Ger-

livered by

by General Kin Lung-chang, many by handing over British sub- Jects of many races to acts of ter- former subordinate of General Wu el-fu, whose name is often men- rorism and concentration

Fel-fu, camps has come to a pretty blunt halt", declared loned tor the post. of President of the Mr. Winston Churchill in a speech, future Chinese Central Government. Uther speechea were made by at Harlow, Essex, to-night.

He added that "such an act of representatives of Chinese and Japan- baseness" as handing over helpless ese civil authorities, in the presence native populations to Germany would of about 150 people belonging to both

nations. divide the Empire from end to end. that the Mr. Churchill rejoiced United States was arming. He suid sentatives, no foreigners were present. he could not feel the slightest an-

With the exception of press repre

The

xiety at the growth of their naval with ceremony terminated at noon

power.

a banquet.

It is stated that the new Govert- On the contrary the greater their armed strength, the safer thement at Bankow has been constituted under the name of the "Commission world would be.

talks, tor Maintenance of Peace, sithaugh

Referring to Anglo-French Mr. Churchill commented

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A Memorial Service for Her late anything divided the two democracies local executive. Majesty the Queen of Norway will they would each fall an easy prey! A prominent Chinese merchant, Chi be held at the St. John's Cathedral to aggression. United, they had a Nan-yen, has been appointed Presi- on Tuesday next at 12.30 p.m. Nor- great mensure of Insurance wegian pastors and the Rev. Dean security-Router. Wilson will be officiating.

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H.M.S. MOTH SAILS

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Concerning the attempted assassina- on of the Mayor of Shanghai, it is reported that the actual assailant managed to escape, while the man who was shot is said to have been an accomplice.

This assertion, however, is received here with scepticism, in view of the fact that the "accomplice" is believed to have been a Chinese policeman.

the Observers un the scene express

was merely was accidentally

London, Nov. 25. Mr. Neville Chamberlain end Vis- London count Halifax returned to from Paris to-night and were greeted H.M.S. Moth, river gun-bont, sail-nt Victoria station by Foreign Office opinion that he was quite unconnect- ed for Canton at 7.30 this morning.

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New York, Nov. 23. A dramatia - race; against time by the steamer on which he was travel- Havana, Nov. 26. Hing from Germany enabled Mr. Hugh Colonel Balista, chief of the Cuban Wilson, American Ambassador to Berlin to have a brief conference army, was given an enthusiastic re with Mr. Cordell Hull before the

cepilon on his return from Washing- latter, sailed for Lima to-day cista

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ton, where, at the invitation of the r. Hull's steamer United States, he has been to discuss was waiting to sail to Peru, while pro- | Mr. Wilson's steamer, the Manhultan

American rearmament

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