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the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 1st March to SATURDAY, 31st March; 1917, both days inclusive.
The return of Capital of $4.50 per share will be paid to Sharehollers on and after the 13th March 1917. on presentation of Share Certificates for endorsement
By Order of
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong, Feb. 29, 1917.
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THE TALENTING OF SHAKE HE THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at St. George's Buildings, Charter Road, Victorian SATURDAY the 10th March, 1917 at 11.30 o'clock in the lorem com for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the lleport of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1916 and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 5th March, 1017, until SATURDAY, the 10th March, 1917, both days inclusive.
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ADY MAY, President of the Guild in this Colony, invites all Ladies interested in the organisation of working work-whether in parties for wHT connection with the War Charities Committee or not-ta"attend a MEET- ING at GOVERNMENT HOUSE on WEDNESDAY, 7th March at 10.30 .3g for the discussion of matters of general
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see that the stretch of the French line frain Soissons" to Compiegne, the nearest
int to Paris, kas a zumber of advan **** If a success could be obtained there, it would reproduce the sensation" The Military Correspondent of the caused by van Huck's blow there in Pall Mall Gazette" writes >---
Jubusy, 1914. And a German army would not be very far from the Somme new in case its efforts did not hamstring the Allied offensive there.
The first and chief advantage of jnitia-
Hongkong or Shanghai must apply to HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Ftive in warfare is that an army choces
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(6) De President's Scholarship of four hundred dollars (Peking unrency) for five vesis, temble in any Faculty 4 candidate for this Scholarship unt be under the age of 21 years on July 1st the
And
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HE POLIJE (REJERVE).
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ality; and that be is not eligible to for a King Edward VII compete for Scholarship.
0 The Chice General Chamber of Commence Scholarships of 3x. de Lars -year cuch for 4 years, terable in the Faculty of Engineering. These scholar- ships will be awarded to poor students who would otherwise be unable to enter the University,
(d)Five cash prizes of $100 each (Handates who secure King. Edward
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the point where it shall throw its force In so doing it wins immunity for its weak places and compels the enery defend 1 in. For instance, a dis. advantage to fight with one's back ty a swillen" river, and the application of this principle was seen in the "French defeat before Suissons almet exactly two years
German military theory hates the defensive as nature abhors a vaccum, and the jaesion arises whether, he will be content with it or whether who will employ the surplus of her strategie reserve from Nimasia to forestali on offensive in the West and stake all upon f desperate The factors which might unge throw. her to the second course the cameras and attractive. Two have been already mentioned: her hatred of the defensive and the immediate and wolid gain of ght. ing of ground of one's own ehnice,
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The chances of a successful blow are small that it is hardly worth whils discussing them.
The best such an operation could" achiers, would be to weakeniour offensive for short time. But this is no reason why Germany should not undertake it. Time is fight. ing against everyone, and she may judge it to be as much our enemy as hers. it we are as resolate as Germany and sa prepared for sacrifices, whatever she can do cannot affect the final, issue.
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THE BRITISH. THE GERMANS.
The Manchester Guardias, reviewing British banking in 1816, states:
industries.
In Germany the banks are closely in-
During the year, owing chiefly to the Farringdon report and the question of a lurge British Trade Bank, there has been But there are others that are even more much discussion as to the respective gent. The German Stuf have already merits of the British and German bank- tasted something of the effects of defening systems, and comparisons have been [Five,fighting, An army ecopelled for drawu often to the detriment of this big to a defensive course tends to lose country. But it should be remembered nxel, more especially if it should be an that Germany's principal task hitherto uascessful defensive; and it needs has been simply to develop her internal little insight to show that moral dan to evajuste ever more rapidly spell ultimate defeat. An attacking army, able to win small tactical guns, hns its spirit terlinked with trading concerts Every inflated, and the civilian population has important industry has its banking witnething to show for its privations institution, and the success of the bank The war has not yet disclosed a position depends upon the welfare of the indus- which has not its price and the enemy try. The industry and the bank have may prefer to risk his dwindling strength grown up together, and a chain of on such a speculation.rather than submit, directors knits the banks and the trading to a possible debacle. There are chances concerns of each industry into a com- in every attack, and from the German pact and formidable commercial alliance xide the war has now reduced itself to a The bank director combines his calling gamble. It is clear that the war cannot with that of a company promoter, and continue indefinitely, and it is this which when his company is launched, he will may prove the deciding motive. If Ger- see to it that his bank keeps a paternal many could. sccure some tangible result, interest in its ultimate success. In this sufficient to produce a notable impression country the banks established them. in France, she may imagine that would of giving credit to the trader and selves quite "apart from the necessity turn the scale and make the Allies more were primarily brought into existence inclined to negotiate a peace at once than for the custody and safe keeping The English to continue, say, another year of sacri. of the people's fices which might prove no more proat bare of his depositors, and
prides
ides himself able. It is the German mind we are considers that he has to keep himself in attempting to road, and this is not an E
being
improbable interpretation of it at the completely independent position, fr
torment.
WHY STRIKE IN THE WEST
.
any suspicion of becoming entang led in any trading meshes, free from any charge of unduly favouring one mant facturer more than another. He con- shall Why should she strike in the West tends that the amount of credit he
"grant to a customer shall be settled upon it roay be sekel. The Western front has its merits, which would be quite impos proved disastrous to the Germans from sible if he happened to be also a director an advance appli- the beginning. But, on the other hand, cation to his bank. He further contends we must weigh two facta. Russia must that in Germany, it often happens that by this time, seem to be possessed of the bank has to continue to finance an
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