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SECOND
{5}"), RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 FOR
ROUBLES 3,000,000,000
HE Subscription to the xbors LOAN will be Opened from 14th November
to 26th Decembet, 1918.
The price of issue is 05 per cent.
The Loan is entirely free of Income
Tax and other taxations.
The Loan in redeemable at par on 14th Cateber, 1926, without option for the Rassian Government to convert1ið að an earlier 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 Bearned on date of abscription must be taken into consideration and is to be added to the price of isanĆ.
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The Russo-Asiatia Bank in Hongkong
- ready to accept applications for the
sbare named Loan...
Special favourable rates will be quoted
for Russian Exchange.
Payment may also be made in Roubles.. Applications will be wired to Petrograd free of telegraphia charges, and commis.
■ion.
40 per coat. only of the sort of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the Bond.
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WAR CHARITIES, Under the Distinguished Patronage of LADY MAY,
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HAMS.
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'THE COMPLETE AIR PILOT. ! be. is massing troops at a certain
THINGS THE "QUIRE" HAS" TO MASTER.
[BY AN A PLOT IN THE "DAILY CATONICLE"]
point, or diggingy in new, gun emplace-
a
ments, or if there is any unusual activity on the highway and railways imcas- diately behind his fring line. It is difficult matter to differentiate between infantry and cavalry on the march; to distinguish a cleverly-hidden gun ela placement, or to tell the difference between an ammunition and a supply depot.
"Lomb-dropping is practice that re
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (Mitsubishi Co.)
COAL DEPARTMENT.
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF
quires the patience of a Joh good judg-TAKASHIMA, OOHI, MUTARE
KISHIDAKE YOSHINOTANI","
required to attain any degree of aC HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO,KANADA, curacy. Last but not least, there is the matter of aerial combaty which, however, SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADÄ, “BIBAT" covers too wide a field for discussion in
* ] & CYUBARI COLLIERIES this short article
The British Air Service is now a great army, 60 per cent of whom, before thement, and a calm day-that is, if it is war, hud never even seen an aeroplane, much less been up in one-bank clerks, young merchants, undergrada, doctors, lawyers, journalists, all endowed with two sterling qualities required by the red within a period ranging from four to Thus in the complete air-pilot, educat- pilot of the air, courage and levelbeaded- nine months, we have a blend of gunner, ness. And bow, has this great miracle | vireless-expert, mapuder, amateur been accomplished August 1911 found detective, and aviator.
slamentably short of both personnel and material, but what little there was was of the very best. The already ex- perienced pilots set to work with a will upon the more than generous quantity of raw material that came to hand With- in a few months their influence made itself felt. They taught the "quirks" airman's.pet name for the novice--in their own simple and undemonstrativa manner, that the air is to be respected but never feared, the aeroplane treated as a Ecing of life and animation, with quaint humours peculiarly. its own, and not.ng a Heless ranss of metal and wood. work. Within six months to number of fully trained British pilots had tre [1255Bled itself; within a year the number
had
grown beyond all proportion, and still it goes on.
MISSIONER BISHOP NORRIS..
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
"
DRINK IN WAR TIME.
CONVICTIONS LOWEST FOR FORTY
YEARS.2.
in 1914 than in any year since 1906, the There were fewer public-houses closed decrease in the number of on-licenses in England and Wales being 7,034.
According to a Blue Book on licensing statistics issued yesterday in the ten Cars 1396 to 1004 (the date of the Licensing
thevertge annual decrease in the ave
in oa-licenses was 380. For the ton yeara, 1006-14 the average was 1,285, and during 1915 the decrease will
pro
The usual method of training a new hably prove to have been about 795, hand is to get him seed to the air, which, making an annual average for the 11
of
with 98 804 in 1906.
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though apparently harmless and void, is years since the act of 1904 came into CHINKIANG: Messrs Gearing as tricky and treacherous as the sea. operation of about 1,934, and. leaving & The beginner is taken up for several MR. LI HON FAN 6 Chiness fights as a passenger. In the initial beginning of towel on licenses staine
graduato versed in literature, hae flight the pilot will perform the mest been a teacher to European Officials and during maneuvres and precipitous torns, Merchants in this Colony for ten years. watching his passenger closely the whole He has a good method of training time for any signs of nervousness or fear, Europeans to pasa in the Chinese ex- It is s most trying ordeal that first trip amination, and is possessed of a first rate up aloft, and the bravest hearts have certificate as a Chinese tencher. He has been known to qunil. also a good knowledge of Mandarin and Hakka
HE Undersigned baving been appointed COWIR HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON GUAL trimmed into Bankers at SEBAT- TIK OF SANDAKAN (British North BILIMPOPON COAT. compares favour
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To exempt from payment of all Port charges
46 Schattik Steamers are berthed along- ide the Company's warf where there is a minimum depth of 27 to 28 feat at low water Spring Tidea.
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FRENCH LESSONS
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beginning of the year 1916, as compared. MANILA. Messrs Macondray &
On January 1, 1915, there were 8,002 registered clubs, representing an in- crease of 164 over the previous year, the SINGAPORE: Mesare Borneo Co.
Ltd.
GLASGOW. Mesars A. E. Browi
McFarlane & Co., Ltd.:
smallest increase in any year except 1906. It is estimated that the number of clubs in existence on January 1, 1916, was 6,031
6.
FIRST FLIGHT ORDEALS. Recently there was a case at a large
DID FALL IN CONFICTIOFS. aying school of a major of Marines, con- cerring whose courage there could not be
It is very noticeable that the marked the slightest doubt, and who
decrease in convictions which took place among other decorations, the much tested throughout 1015. The total con-
possessed, coveted D.S.O. After a irst trip above the major remained in his seat of the Wales in 1915 were 135,311, as compared victions for drunkenness in Engited and landed aeroplane for fully s quarter of
163,828 in 1314-a decrease an hour, aahen of countenance, and too terrifed to speak. It was not cowardice 45,017, or 20.1 per cent. The total of
is the lowest recorded for
up but simply that be was temperamentally 135,811
nagited.
At length, when he had below the total for 1913 The figures. wards of 40 years and is £8 per cent.
DAIRY FARM NEWS. comped himself sufficiently to clamber for conviction last year and the two
out, he vowed that never again would he preceding years are a follows 80 up in aeroplane. Following the first numerous trips in dang
JUST ARRIVED NEW SHIPMENT, OF
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FINNAN
TILLET
HADDOCKS, HADDOCKS.
KIPPSES.
THE
there are
machines,
that is to say, with the ordinary pilot's -bar duplicated,
control-stick and steerinking under the
25
For Particulars, apply to
K KATO,
Manager.
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Hongkong Beptember 1913.
Year
Women Men 1813 153,119 35,765 1914-146,517 ............... 37,311
·1910
102,000
33,211. and both couples
In 1910 the greatest decrease was in Sarae controls.
Thus gradually, the the Eastera agricultural counties, in BO STEAL METAL and HARD WARE MERCHANTS Wholesale the bandling which quirk" becomes used to
convictions diminished 41.8 per and Retail Ironmongers. Pig Iron and of the craft and accustomed to the cent. The next bighest decrease was in sudden drop in an air bank, or an out Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, in which ward ship in a gust of wind, until the percentage was 37.7
cent eventually, without his knowledge, the With regard to the effect of the "No No instructor allows him to fly the machine Tresting" and new closing hours Orders himself.
of the Central Liquer Board, which Sufficient progress made, he is allowed began to take effect in August, the co- to make fights alone, and when he has rictions during the last ei months of learnt to bank left and and land the the machine in a safe and scemly manner, for the first, it most as it 48,750 permission is given him to attempt hand the convictions in the areas not the Royal Aero Clah's certificate; for touched by the Orders were more which an altitude flight, a distance numerous in the last than in the first
LONDON DIRECTORY. fight, and landing on a given spot are six months, viz., 12,435 against 11,796..
(PUBLIKIND ANNUALLY)
FINABLES traders throughout the World
the
only tests that are necessary. This, let it be said, is but the starting point of his flying education. Flying-fat
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© Dealers, sukinga
their trade
gun firing, botoh dropping, navigation and map reading are still to be master- ed. Only one who has been in the aiự I seen that queer panorama of jumbled fand
green, grey and bice, stretching away for miles on either hand behind him, can appreciate the difficulties of an air pilot endeavouring to make a true course from a mist-bound earth or when one's hands are frozen to the bone, and the ice-cold wind.”
dwhistles by one's ears, the extreme dificulty of menevring the control-stick and working, the machine gun at ona and
And the time time
ECONNAISANCE AND HIGHT FLYING, This mach for daylight dying, but
and what of the night when
re
alike undy
night flying is a science. needs more than thủ
rever,
to only the műsí
riich
mced (pilotą.
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