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JOHN JEFFREY & CO'S.) PILSENER
BEER.
IN THE TRENCHES.
A First Night'a Experience.
The captain in u Line regiment whose Litration renehal the rims a for work
segel. home a description se h's first experiences, which is worth.tescodiarity" in part, though the subject has by thi
time lost its powoltye. He writes:
We, halted at length in a village, and ng company was defarisal to Take up a part of the front line of trenches Wo stumbled out of the little black Village into a perfect blows of light and pan.
monium of noise. The Gear Star- Ehts showed up the Hat, wapy countryside (and ourselves adynoeing up) the road terem it with horrid distinct.) g. With all the bullets whizzing past
werkend on felt ons would have liked to have slipped forward into the rover of the treelies as unniatrusively is posible, and it fols embarrassing to be marching
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THE TWELFTH YEARLY MEETING 1598/30886 inclusive, standing in the TEKER PATENT BLEWARE, taking set up to hoc tous displacement,
of Shareholders of the above Com Registar in the joint ames of George pany will be held at the Company's Office Andrew Hastings and John Barh ST. Gionors BrILDING at Noon on FRI- DAY the Sels April, 1915 to receive a Caralake, Solicitors, Liverpool & Birning Statement of Accounts to the 31st Dec NOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN that ham. baving been lost or destroyed, bar, 1914 and the Report of the General unless the said certificates be produced to slect a Consulting Committee and ings. Visteria, Hongkong, before the 34th Manager and Consulting Committee and the Oos of the Company, Queen's Build- Auditor..
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uuli and void.
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Hongkong. April 15, 1915.
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.. LIMITED.
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GEO... CALDWELL
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WHO'S WHO IN JAPAN EDITED AND
FUZLMHED BY S. Kostad
The first (1913 edition is already sued. TOGRAPHIES of crer 5,000 people
THX THIRTY FOURTH ORDINARYBA well-known in society and of
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS several hundred foreigners sociated with will be held at the Offices of the Under-Japan appear in the book. Quite new on MONDAY the 10th May, 1915, materials and accurate sketches, both boing
utterly free from prajodices.
11.30 .
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com paoy will be CLOSED from the 26th
May portraits are inserted. The book contains over 1,400 pages.
up a rond a brightly fitus Pincvely in the good old nights). We strmbird through a little village that had beesi | instant to the 10th May, doh days. The price is yen 6 (12/-) or $1 per copy--
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lar.
General Agents,
Hongkong, April 20, 1915*
taken by the Glenfaws and retaken inclusive.
eral times. This ruined village, shown touraudenly in the violet glare of one of the starlights, photographed t en one's 'mind as a picture of indeserib. sble desolation. One felt quite glad when -che blackness, anddenly hid it win. W stumbled through as quickly we pus
ible (the roud had become a running streams of water, with occasional deep pools where a shell had landed), and at
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Subscribers for the second annual edition 884 of Who's Who is Japan' will be allowed
A reduction of one yen.
NOTICH IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the end of the village turned off the road) N in respect at all SEASON TICKETS
int a turnig hebt and planged hudavailable for Three Months issued on and isto à parrow deep canal, technically after lat lay, vext, the respective Prices
now as a communication trench.
FANTASTIC CURATORZĄ,
We slashed along for a few hundred yarly, and then enme to a broader, deep
will be as follows:-
· Gentlemen
Ladies
Children ...
www
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... $36.00 $18.00 812.00
and that the Price of Servants Punch er trench, wisting away, on either side Tickets available for 20 Rides wit be
at right angles to us. It was faintly lit | SL. 20.-
intervals with a brazier, and standing Season Tickets expiring in Aprit can be
pro ndio as Dow in fores, but no three extended to April 30th, on same terms manthly Season Tickets and no Annual Tickets will be issued in April.
a • lodge Erre and then were strange individuals pering through loopholes, with rides besides them. They had gustakin coala, capcomforters on their hoods, a wook's growth of beard on their chios, usually a cigarette behind their Ars, and the lower portions of their frame seemed sicthed simply in a sheath of yellow clay. They scerned uncommon. ly pleased to see us, these fantastic
beings, who in ordinary times are usually
The registered postage is 18 een, to Korea and China 40 sen and to Europe & America 10 sen or 35 cents.
ITBA GOOD ADVERTISE MZEJUAL
1. Many influential papers of the wodd
noticed this work in the highest terms. or simple, The Daily Mail says Yet another Who's Who and this time from Japan! The reader is apt as finst to regard it as a curiosity, as a sign that the East has now become Western practically alamat to the last detail. But Who's Who In Japan is far more than reference book. It is printed in English cariosity; it is a very sound and useful and contains brief biographies, on the Mr Kerita is a skilful editor and has done accepted model of prominent man is Japan. his work well
Who's Who I JAYAN Polishing Ornica,
No 5, chome, Uchiriwaicho,
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Notice is further given that on and after 656 1st May next, daily return Tickets and Annual Tickets will be abolished.
By Order of the Directors,
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General Managers. Hongkong, April 1, 1915.
-employed, in red tuntea and bushies, NORTE BRITISH & MERCANTILE
matching up and down in front of Buck- ingham Palace and other Royal Besi- doncos. I would have liked to put ono
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coatures into the sentry box at Kucking- ham Palace it would give people an excellent insight into the conditions in which the war is being carried on at .present.
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TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1919,
£23,652,185.
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Large Assortment of Chinese Sile and
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Be state that it is the prevalent bolist thats the weather becoinen dry the Geen will make a last great effort.
k-which they have made on a
have met with no subcase and Revenue Marice Dapartment... any lives. East of Lavantic, Other Receipts days ago one of their teenchos
The limit
tire p
where
was killed.
they had no fewer than 370
As is Ace and frivenchy fighting conting the mud, neither side making яду дій ne, The Allies' man, he says, took piibly dirty."-
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
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STRAND
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