The Archive · 1931

CUSTOMS REVENUE

INCREASES, Estimate Larger Than Last Year by $60,000,000

Nanking, Aug, 12.

According to an official report submitted to the National Government by the Ministry of Finance, the Chinese customs revenues for the fiscal year 1991-1932 based on recent figures are estimated to total more than $260,000,000, increase of approximately' $60,000,- G00 compared with 1980.—Reuter, summer, and hive woollens for winter, they. are. teuly making a reselabe appearance: Drd i Told "their heads "up. keep their marching and saluting, the

shoulders back, and are quite foldieiy is their bearing.

Nearly every. precinct has a now police station." Brand new, tome of hem, ethers are reconstretedy but all are to-day modern sarracksat the rea a fers of Canton's up-to-the-minute force." With better pay and better treatment. then. ver before, its small wonder that evi me asd Jereased materially; that there little it any evidence of protection being given to the criminal element 50 that they: earn ply their voestion fvithowt molestation se" was true recenty.

"Anybody who has visited other of ithe metropoli of the Republic is pleasantly surprised on dropping unto Canton to see how clean a city it is getting to be. Garbage colfection is efficiently handled, and householders are got after if they dump refuse on the streets. The collection gangs- ring their little bells, and at this signal doors open and garbage is brought down to the carts that take it away.

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