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SECOND
5. RUSSIAN INTERNAL
SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 FOR ROUBLES 8,000,000,000
THE Subscription to the above LOAN will be Opened from 14th November to 28th December, 1918.
The price of lawna la 95 per cani. The Loan is antirely free of Incoma Tax and other taxations,
The Loan is redeemable at par on 14th October, 1920, witheus option for the Russian Government to convert it as an earlier date.
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SANETARY BOARD OFFICE. HONGKONG
DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and
OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS.. TAKE NOTICE that under Na & of the VENTILATION BTE-LAWS (a smend. ad), avery Domestic Balding or part of such building within the ESTERN Diriales of the City of Victoria, and the KASTERN Divisica of Kowloon and New Kowloon. sccupied by Member of more than ene family, except those within the European Reservation of is Kowloon South of Austin Road or those parts of s Domestic Building used as a Shop, on or Godown, Coupons are payable half yearly on theTHROUGHOUT by the Qnem during the | rattet be ØLEANSED 453 LIMEWASHED
14th April and 14th October
months of October and Novembar.
N.B.
word throughout "use I in this Notice means that the burama should be Limewashed in respect of all the Walls of ach Bar, all Qubiales, Partitions, Stair Casings and Stair Linings, all Callings and the Undersides of Boots in Main
and in insire of
of Verandahe The Backyard mast have its
"Containing Walia Limewashed up to the level of the First Floor,
As interest on the above loan ruma from 14th October, the interest sourced en dala of subscription must be taken
into consideration, and is to be added to the price of issuo
Tha Russo-Aratio Bank in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above named Loan.
Special favourable rates will be quoted for Busaina Exchange.
Payment may also be made in Roubles.. Applications will be wired to. Petrograd frem al telegraphic charges and commi
Daa
40 perfront, only of the most of the Bonds may be paid on application, the
balance to be paid on receipt of the Fonds.
The Bank le also ready to gira every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scrips,
G.. TISDALL,
Manager.
RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK
Hongkong, Nor. 7, 1918,
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THE Undersigned having been appointed
Buildings, Offices and Servants' Quarters
Carved, Painted or Polished Woodwork good condition, however, used not be Limewashed, but must be Cleansed.
The Board is prepared to limewash FREE OF CHARGE limited number of Buildings in these Divisions. OWNER who desire to avail themselves of this offer should apply in writing to the Secretary
on
before the 7th October, Choice
will be in to Among applicants falmolate discretion of the President.
Victoria is bounded the West by The EASTERN Division of the City of
man Street and Feel Street.
Kowloon is divided into the Eastern and Western Divisions by Nathan Rad and astraight line dreed from the North-and- through the Yaumati service reservoir to the Northern Boundary of Kowloon..
Dated this 21st day of November, 1916.
W. BOWEN ROWLANDS,
1954
Secretary,
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[By Philipa Gibbs in the DAILY
TELEGRAPH.".
British Headquarters, France:
October 8.
The men who took Le Sars are still there folding it, and only the short nets of their case come back from them. through the mist and seross the water
ing in slime, but finding an inch or two
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The Tank tarned its
towards the Tangle and struggled over the
shout shoppy ground-wave upon wave of craters with high rime—until it reached t of the deep cutting which makes s #bit bole in the side of Le Sar. This sunken una soldiers alive and dead. The living
quarry track was filled with Ger ancs flung home as the Tark, a red enth volleys and to as it straggled across the
testab it from beneath from each has been raining again, in a drizzling happened to its internal organs, it com- Hank. after that, something having way and all the shell-craters are poads.mitted harikari. Put it seems to have It would be possible to swim in some of been useful before going up in a blaze them, those scooped out by the biggest The German prisoners who faced cur shells and linked up with others. It is men in the outskirts of Le Sara, and then not easy to get runners hack across further back in the sunken read, and in country like that, and the Germans find the hiding places below ground, Bay it harder, and are drowned in many of there was grim and bister fighting there,
and those pits because of our artillery fire Day a soldier's tribute to the men captured them. "They fought us pouring "stuff" over them. Yet, cori- fiercely, and beat us. We could "ret ously, it is from the Germans that one stand up against them." Our men saW learns most of the frightful drama which red, even in the mist, and in the hand- to-hand fighting they had the Germant want an yesterday afternoon in Le Sacs village. They are prisoners, 300 of them, with five officers, who wars sent back to safety, while our men stayed on and
MR. IT HON FAN, &. Chiness graduate versed in literature, bas been a teacher to European Officials and Merchants in this Colony for ten years
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There was evidence during the week. end, says à London paper of October 9th that the now Army order allowing the upper lip to-be clean shaven has been welcomed by all ranks.
profound relief Moustaches are born, To many this concession brings ofde and it is an exceptional type
They know that they had a poor chance really to keep Lea Sare, and their best hope of life or death was to put up net a berti fight. Our guns had already
manly beauty that is enhanced by the smeshed the houses and barns to rabolah depration afforded by the "toothbrush" heape like those of Martinpuich and variety, which was the best that in the Courcelette even a little more, judging majority of cases could be produced.
Those to whom the moustache is from what our airmen and our natural adornment may still exercise nine-point-two, eight-inches, and other their preference, but it is probable that monster gune were making a worse hair in the future the British Army, re of the place. The men of the German Presentative as it is of all
Regiments of Reserves, lay low in their nation, will in this particnic of the
reflect the
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dag-outs and tacked their beads down clean shaven fashion prevailing among în new trenches, finely built in a hurry, young and middle-aged before the
Erlitutio A.D), $980. and those out in the shell-craters were For the moustache is oct as
as it was
TRON STEEL METAL, and HARD saying their prayers if they thought a century ago, the hallmark of the God was any good to them,
soldier.
AWARE MERCHANTS. Whale Then it was scarcely decent ford Retail Ironmongers. Pig Iron and civilian to indulge in the decoration, while 40 years later anybody who wore oundry Coke Importers. Gomeral Store. full beard was credited with having 37, Find Locne SCALET, (End Street, rest crapers, sad Shipshandlers. Nöe: 85 and come fresh from the trenches of the of Central Market) Telephone No. 615, Crimes.
Women's i influence in these matters is
Ecuncong September 6. 1918.
THE TANGLE
What happened first was that our barrage lifted, and long waves of brown soldiers sprang over their, parapets fuc
150
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ing up from ground close south of Le Sars doubtless as strong as it ever was, and and on the German left from the edge of Endcourt l'Abbaye and the mill-bouse Mr Kipling's aphorism that kissing beyond. Their first goal on our right man without a moustache is like exting wali one of those beastly gandrilateral on one without salt (put in the month redoubts called the Tangle
of of female characters) scarcely
Another behind our new line at Eauconit) applies when the moustache is a smudge and after that the road from tar of prickly bristles. tinguich, north-eastwards, and, then for-
ward to the Butte de
old high tumulus
whencourt that
the bones of some prehistoric and lay until waflong them up to the surface of our modern civilisation
The Tangle was the first, check, and i bad one. Machine guns swept the held with bullets so that men lay on their faces in the mud, not bothering you may guess, about appearances. They are just scarecrows and mudlarks, wallow
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