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November, 1918.3.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT The be clasat on or before 15th EXCHEQUER BONDS AND WAR
SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Applications may be male through the undernoted Banks front whom full Information and the necessary, forma may be obtained
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. HONGKONG AND SHASCIAT
BANKING CORPORATION. MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.
6% Exchequer Bonds
Repayable 1920
These Bonds, and the interest thereon, are free of Income Tax, if in the bone ficial ownership of persons not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britai and Ireland.
Bonds are issued in denominations of £100, £200, £500, £1,000 and 25,000.
The interest is payable half-yearly on 16th February and 16th August.
Bonds can be obtained to "Bearer" cr they may be registered in the books of the Bank of England.
A declaration regarding exemption from Income Tax is necessary in the ense of Bearer Bonds, but the intorcat warranta relating to registered Bonis,. without any deduction of Income Tax, can be sent direct to the owner of such registered Bonds or to bis hanker...
War Savings Certificates
·65
Value 5 yeaIN
Liter purchase
£500
Furchase Price £387 10 0 158. Ed. FREE OF INCOME TAX.
$1
For every 156. 64. Jent now £1 will be paid in 5 years' time equivalent to & per cent. cam- pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable,
Anyone, whatever his or her lacome may be can buy War Savings Certificates up to a maximum of 500 £1 Certificatos in all or their squivalent..
Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fall any time with
an addition after the first year.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
(1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser to receive £1 for each 15, 6d. on the fifth anniversary of the date of purchase, troo of income tax in respect of the accumu- "lated interest.
(2) A Certificate is not transferable except by permission of the Featmaster General
a fee of 1s will be charged in respect of each transferee." In the
onat of death, the same rules will be applied
the
HONGKONG GOVERNMENT SIX PER CENT. WAR LOAN OF 1916.
ISSUE OF $3,000,000 HONGKONG CURRENCY SIX PER CENT. BONDS to Bearer authorised by the War Loan Ordinance 1916.
The Proceeds of the Loan `will be handed over to the Imperial Gorerament as a Waz Contribution from the Colony of Hongkong.
The Principal and Interest of this Loss are guaranteed by the Government of Honglong and are secured by The Revenues of the Colony,
Prics of Issue-$100 Per Cent.
Interest payable--lat May and 1st
November
First Coupons for full six months
interest payable-1st May 1917; Principal repayable ut par on—ist
November 1998, or, at the option of the Government of Honakong, principal may be wholly or partially repaid at any time afer fifth year by drawings of Bonds.
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The Emperor of Japan on the 25th alt reviewed the Imperial Fleet in Tokyo Bay, Eighty four ships participated in the maneuvres which were watched by The Bands will be issued in denomins. His Majesty from the cruiser Tsukuba tiens of 8100, $300, $1,000, $5,000 An account given in the $10,000, payable to Bearer with half!
Gazette,' say— yearly interest coupons attached payable 1st Miny and 1st November, at the office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong....
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The first coupon will be attached to Scrip Certificates which will be as changed later for definitive Bonds.
This load will be free from any local taxation as regards both principal and interest.
Applications will be received by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong from whom the necessary printed forts can be obtained. Such applications must be for $100 or any multiple thereof and be accompanied by a deposit of 25% of the amount applied for..
Applications may be accepted in whole se in part, and in the event of partial lotment the surplus amount paid a deposit will be appropriated towards the payment of instalments due en allotment. The Government has the right to as in case of Savings Bank Deposits, refuse any application."
Payment will be required as follows,
25 per cent on application
On written application (op a form cbtainable at any Post Office) being wiz. made to the Controller, Money Order Department, Londen, the purchase price, wart thereof in multiples of 150. Gd.. be repaid at any time, with an addition of 3d. for each 15s. 6d. on the of the date of purchase,
allotment (4th Dec. 1918)
25
19
11
215
19
11
11
20th December, 1916,
232
17th January, 1917.
first anniverser addition of Id. per 100%
and with a
15. Bd. for cach month thereafter.
(4) No person may hold more than 500 £1 Certificates of their equivalent.
The #1 Certificates (purchase price 168. 8d.) are issued in bookt form. The
Certificates for £12 (purchase price 68.) and £25 (purchase price £10756) are issoed without books. The £1, £12 and 225 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Banks
Single Certificates:
Japan
cemetery, and behind it marches a bille
company of the men belonging to the
regiment of the dead officers. They stand around the opened earth lika statues, their faces, set in an expression of pain. Some of their eyes are filled with tears, for they knew well and loved! their young leaders-young, indeed, they were merely boys
Reverently the bodies are lifted to the grave-there are o coffins, here.
A SIMBOL OF GLORY. "
As the men of the dead officers'
The remains are swathed in the ordinary At 9.90 the Tsukuba weighed anchor, † hrown army blankets, and so are lowered and preceded by the first class gun into the grave side by side, shoulder to boat fogaini which was moored outside shoulder, just as in life the boys had the harbour, and followed by the tain in their rude shelter in the trenches battleship-cruiser Ibuki, which was
thored near the Tsaka, proceeded for many a day and many a night. to her anchorage off Honmoku, where The chaplaine mad their respective she arrived shortly after ten o'clock burist services. Asbesto sabes and By this time, the First, Second, and dust to dust." The soil of France is Third Squadrons, which had been at shovelled into the graves, and soon the sachor at their, respective bases near little group of mourners melts away. Yokosuka over might, were in read iness to commence manmuvres and as soon as the Emperor's warship, accompanied by the two escort ships, regiment march off they gaze up took position of Honmoku, the
quadron, under the command of Vice reverently as they pass by the great Admiral Yoshimasu, which was com Crucifix in the centre of the cemetery. posed of the First Flotilla (Flag-ship It is to them not alone a symbol of the us, and battleships Aki Settsu and hope of salvation, but a symbol of the Kavachi) and the Fust Torpedo glory and majesty of death when it is Flotilla (Bag-ship cruiser Nisshin and suffered for the sake of others. And to & dozen destroyers): got underway the soldiers pass along, mera reconciled
tho led by the battle ship Fuso, arrived at a point sonic to the loss of their two young leaders, 300 metres off the Tsukuba, with the for they certainly did suffer death Emperor on board, they went through bravely and most willingly for the sake certain evolutions, and changed their of others for the sake of those at home course to the left, later forming in in the country they loved. line. The second squadron, under the command
of Vice Admiral Yashim, co One of these gallant young officer was chic twenty-two, the other but twenty-one! prising the Third Flotilla (Bags They leftIreland with hearts overflowing
and the battleship cruiser. Haruna battleships Kirishima, Hirel
and with the joy of life and with that Kongo, the Fourth Flotilla (the glorious spirit of youth which fills the second-class cruisers Yahagi, Chikuma world with a seemingly never fading and Chitose), and the Second Torpedo beauty and happiness. One boy left his Flotilla (lagship first class-cruiser Id-
niversity and the other the threshold of a great profession, and they went to the trenches of France and they met death absolutely without fear!
zumo, and a dozen destroyers) then wert through similar evolutions, being follow ed by the Third Squadron, consisting of
In case of default in the payment of the Fifth Fletila (daship Sashima, the
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Scrip Certificates, with coupon attach the ghita (Brat-class cruise of these two boys he counted in one for the first half year's interest due Tokiwa and Tokume and the Third tiny corner alone eleven white crosses on 1st. May 1917, will be issued after Torpedo Flotilla (flagship first-class newly erected. Each of these crosses Trish officer, payment of the instalment due on allot cruiser Kasuga, and sixteen destroyers) bore the name of young
While the Emperor was
four the recorded age more than 25-years- hydroplanes came from the direction of These young men came from the North the Oppums Aerodrome, near Yokosuke of Ireland and from the Seath with the Something went with the motor wrong
ment and such certificates, when fully maneuvres of these and in båt one instance alone, was the
sums from £100 paid, will be exchangeable for Bonds to £500 may be obtained on application when received. Notice will be given
Comptroller and Accountanthen Bonds are ready for delivery. General, General Post Office, London application forms are available at all Fost Offices and at mos
most Banks.
If
be lost, and the serial Certificates numbers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at
a charge of Is.
GENERAL POST OFFicz, London,
June 1916,
(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates, see the other side.)
Examples of Investment in
War Savings Certificates
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Value' after
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AS THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRY SO THEY DIED
It is in a cemetery in France, one of those cometeries which have sprung up, during the war, and where the graves are quite now. All around, anys writer in the Chronicle, the little crosses bear the Baines of men belonging to many British regiments, and here and there are French names, under which are toscribed the word "Mort pour Lá France. Two grazes yawn open waiting to receive the dead, and close. by a group of officers stand whilst the men who bave made the gravesare în the background leaning on their spades. A little way of an old man and some vogen are bay waving field of con and the whirring noise of a reaping. machine sonde drowsily on the air
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