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INTIMATIONS
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November, 1916.
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RUSSIAN INTERNAL
HONGKONG GOVERNMENT
SIX PER CENT. WAR LOAN OF 1916.
SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 FOR
ROUBLES 3,000,000,000
HE Subscription to the above LOAN will be Opened from Hth November
IŠŠUE OF $3,000,000 HONGKONG | to 28th Decoriber, 1916. -
CURRENCY SIX PER CENT.
BONDS to Bearer authorised by the War Loan Ordinance 1916
The Proceeds of the Loan will be banded orer to the Imperial Government ne
■ War Contribution from the
Colony of Hongkong.
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The Principal and Interest of this Loan am guaranteed by the Government, of Hosigkong and are secured by the Rorenzies of the Colony-
Frice of Imane-$100 Per Cent.
Interest payable-1st. May and I
November.
First Coupon for full six months
interest payable--1st May 1917. Principal repayable at par on-1st November 1923, or, at the option of the Government of Mongkong, principal may be wholly or partially vipaid at any time after fifth year
· by drawings of Bonds.
THE
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Hong- bọng, are instructed by the Government of Hongkong to invite subscriptions for. the above Loan.
The price of inue is 98 per cent The Loan is entirely free, nt Income Tax and other taxations.
The Loan is redeemable as par on 14th October, 1926, without option for tha Russian Government to convert 1 aò an carlier date.
Coupons are payable half yearly on the | 14th April and 14th October,
As interest on the above loan runs. from 14th October, the interest accrued on date of subscription must be takan lato consideration and is to be added to, the price of ice.
The Russo-Asiatis Bank in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above named Loan.
Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian Exchange.
Payment may also mado in Roublos. Applications will be wired to Petrograd fres of telegraphic charges and commie-
ica.
Bonds may be paid on application, the 40 per cent only of the cost" of the balance to be paid on receipt of the
Banda.
as Bank te also ready to give avery facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scrips.
G. TISDALL,
Manager.
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· RUSSO ASIATIC BANK. Hongkong, Nov. 7, 1018.
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troops may be more rapid that, we desiré. Taken at their face value, these figures provide a striking contrast to tho goo graphical details; in ten weeks we have beaten nearly half the German armies at The last two months, writes A. Fthe Western front, and another three Pollard, Litt. D., Professor of English montha would mean the collapse of tha Literature in the University of London, German, line. Is any case, some deduc- TAKASHIMA, COHL, MOTABE,
ilona seem obvious! the German line, I apart from the Soukir, must be wearing thin and offering temptations to an Aked ROJO,KAMASUTA, SAYO,KANADA, Secondly, the German output of muni. YUBARI COLLIERISS thrust in more than one direction. SHINNEW, KAMEGAKADA, BIBA?
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AGENT FOR SAKITO COAL the downgrade, while ours ie on the increase, In men, and in munitione the
have been marked by momentous events;
The Bonds will be issued in denomina- tions of 8100, 1800, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000, payable to Bearer with half yearly interest coupons attached payable 1st May and 1st November, at the ofice of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong.
The first coupon will be attached to Berip, Certificates which will be expanyin Chine OTE 1, Princes saimosities maks some men and women tide, has got beyond the turn, and on the
changed later for definitive Bonds.
This loan 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 forms 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 |
but, while the successes of the Entente East and West confirm our belief in our OXYGEN & ACETYLENE Co., Ltd, ultrate victory, they provided as yet no (Societe d'Oxygene et d'acatylene d'Extreme Orient) will be transferred very clear indication when that victory from 4.B. The Swedish Trading Com-
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THE WESTERN FRONT.
Buildings Telephone 2082, Works 1033) capable of believing any alander about Western front the Germans are falling as from the 16th November, 1916.
an opponent so the passion of war renders back, almost any sort of rumous or forecast credible. The easiest, the most popular," and the most fallacious test of military progress is the map, and we carefully read. mark, and inwardly digest the territorial advance which our two daily 1991ommuniques record on the Western
The Far East Oxygen and Acetylene Company Limited.
F. PERNAUT, Technical General Manager. Rongkong-Sov. 7, 1918.
er in part, and in the event of partial MINISTERING CHILDREN'S allotment the surplus amount paid as deposit will be appropriated towards the payment of instalments due on allotment.
The Government has the right ta refuse any application.
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That tosches'us, geography, but it does. not. teach us much history: and the pith of these multifarious geographical details is compressed into a single sentence interjected without parade in a felegraphic. dispatch from British Headquarters in
The tide has not ses so clearly in the East, and in the slack water the ships are pating some in one and some in the other direction. Since the beginning of August the Rusdans have captured Stanislas, forced the Austrian centre under Bothmer to retreat from the Strypa to Zlota Lipa, and extended their bod on the "Carpathians. At last, too, thể Salonika forces are beginning to move and to press back the Bulgariane acros the considerable tracts of Crack territory they had been encouraged to occury. But Mackoneen has occupied a large part of the Dobrudja, the Rumanians have had to fall back from Petrosony, and the
Riga to Pinak.
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25.
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17th January, 1917.
200%
In case of default in the payment of any instalment at its das date, the deposit and instalments previously paid will be liable to forfeiture
Scrip Certificates, with coupon attach- ed for the Brat half year's interest dae 1st May 1017, will be issued after payment of the instalment due on allot- ment, and such certificates, when fully aid, will be exchangeable for Bonds when received. Notice will be given when Bends are ready for delivery:" - HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
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OCAL CHARITIES for CHILDREN ELND for disabled and SOLDIERS and SAILORS and the comforter; our advance has been or s blind in spite of its popularity, is in fact a poor BELGIAN ORPHANS in BELGIUM.
Two months ago I pointed out that To be held in the grounds at Govern-north-eastern line leading to Bapaums, Brawlof's offensive implied a Balkan Excellency the Governor mea House, by kind permission of His Cambrai, Mons and Liege. In two and a design, but it is not yet clone whether balf months we have covered between the restriction of the Bassian advance to
the southern half of the Eastern bout SIGAPORE: Mesars Borneo Co. four and five miles, somewhat less that was intentional or the reverse. A
the way to Bapaume Cambrai de indianreet correspondent with the Russian twice the distance of Bapaume. More srmies proclaimed three months ago that | GLASGOW twice that of Cambrai, the German their Immediato objectives were Vilna and frontier more than twice thas of Mons, Baranovitch, neither was attained in spite of fieroa attacks, and Kuropatkin and Berlin more than twice that to the has since been appointed governor of and German frontier. On the деге goo Turkestan. Els successor in the com
graphical calculation it would take us till mand of the Bussian armies borth of the Christman to reach Expaume, till July to reach Cambral, two years to reach Mons, four or five to reach the German 1183 frontier, and ten to reach Berlin.
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Fripet is Rusky, Possibly the ablees seacral of the war who won the first treat Huselan friumph at Lemberg in September, 1914, drove the Germans out of Russia early in 1916, stopped them or the Dvins in the autum, and has never bean defeated. health placed bi
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MEY VERSUS MILEAGE. History, Lowever, is cob made by gehors de combat in the spring of last year, graphy but by men: and far more and again in the autumn; he now returns significant than mileage is human sts more suspicious moment, and the material Since July 1st, rims the north-eastern front, to which Geraka
divisions are reported to have been sent ARE MERCHANTS. Wholesale
· BOS STENIA METAL and RABD' sentence to which I have referred, the from the West for convalescent purposes, and Retail Ironmongers. Fig Iron and British forces alone on the Somme may abortly prove a very unhealthy dia-Frudy Joke Importers. - General Store battle-front hase met and engaged 35 trict, provided that Brassilof's great kopers and Skipahandlers" „Nos. 25 and German divisions, of which 28 have advance has not Impaired the RussianBING Loon Brea, (nd Bleset, west
of Centralkarket) Telephone No. 515. adready been defeated and withdrawn upply of munitione.
Hongkong September 4, 1918, exhausted." The Franch here conquered more ground then we, and it is a con- servative estimate which puts at 60 divisions the total German forces driven from the fighting line by the Allies on the Somme. Tass figure approaches hal of the 123 German divisiors known to be on the Western front, and a captured German document, dated, as
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August 24th, alluded to the difficulty owing to the wastage of guns, and ammunition, of placing new formations
In the field.
It would need an export stad officer
the Marine Engineers Guild into appreciate and bring out in all its Hongkong Arr Engineer preferred.
Rep! to
17 Nanking Road, Shanghai Hongkong, Ostrza 1816
ANG YUK DENTIST, suocessor
the late SEIN TING,
1190
bearings the significance of those lact
No doubt, they are subject to discount and it would be mash to ssume that the retired divisions have lost half thdr effectives. The Germans at Veren are said to have kept divisions in the fighting
life tatil they wore
thing like
gratulated
?
undertaken in the winter can only be The idea that big operations cannot be entertained by those who have already forgotten the battle of Lodz, the first ghting for Watain Debember- Kaszinó édrance into the Carpathians, the
February, 191415, and the attack Verdun. Hindenburg's appointment has been universally regarded in the portand of a fresh German offensive, it is more likely that he le directed to play over again the role of the victor of Tannen berg, and to save the junkerloin of Prussia Izom Etmky's invading army, The obstacles which skipped the Gezzosta on-the-Dvins in October, 1815, have-nos diminished in October, 1916; the Churman hour her passed and the men have gone Verdun ewallowed up the divisions which might have served Hindenburg'd purpose Lemberg has accounted for others, Bod six month ago; the defence of Kovel and
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