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BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom ili information and the necessary, forms maybe obtained :—
OF
INDIA.
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CHARTERED BANK
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAL
BANKING CORPORATION, MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LTD.
INTIMATIONS
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPÁNY, LIMITED & REDUCED.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 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 82.50 por share will be paid to Shareholders on and after the 15th March, 1917, va presentation of Sharo Certificated for
endorsement.
By Order of THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. fongkong. Feb. 29, 1917.
1523
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY'
GOLOFINA CIGARS
PRICES :-
"PERFECTOS $5.00
BOUQUETS $3.00
War Savings Certificates
Velse 5 years
after purchase
£500
£1
45
Purchase Price
£387 10 0 15. ed.
FREE OF INCOME TAX,
LIMLIED.
NOTICE
N_INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE DOLLARS pen Share has been £3 Declared and will be Payable at the Rongkong & Shanghai Barking Corpora tion on or after WEDNESDAY the 4th April
The RECHSTER of the Company will
March to WEDNESDAY, 4th April, botli days inclusive, during which lays no Transfer of Shares can be made.
For every 15a. 6d. lent now £1be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 31st will be paid in 5 years' timo equivalent to 5 per cant. com pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.
Anyone. Whatever bis or her Income may be. can bay War Savings Certificates · ap to a maximum of 500 £1 Cortiñcates. in all or their equivalent.
Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fu'l any time, with an addition after the first year.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS will be ready on WEDNESDAY the 4th April, and may be obtained on application.
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DOUGLAS LAPRATE & CO.
Gmeini Manager*3..
1801 Hongkong. March 21, 1917. -
NOTICE.
TN the ESTATE. of MARY SYDNEY (1) A Certifikate entitles the purchaser ANY DALTON sometimes known to receive £1 for each. Lisk on the fifth as Mary Oliver D'Altom, late of Padding. anniversary of the date of purchas, free i pon, Stige of New South Wales, décensað, of income tax in respeët of the weun- intestate. lated interest.
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HESBY GEARY D'ALTON otherwise (YA" Certificate is not transferable known as Philly Courtney and Asoka, except by permission of the Betmasters of the alive-named deceased, is Gerenil
a fer of Is. will be charged in respeed to mounicate with the respect of each transferre. In the event mile respecting his share of the of death, the same rules will be applied above estate,
as in the awe of savings Bank Deposits.
(3) On wristen application (on a form
T. W. GARRETT, Public Trusice.
Sydney. March 2, 1917.
obtainable at any Post Office) being PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE made to the Controller: Money Order Department, Landon, the purchase prices, or part thereof in multiples of 15. Gel, will be repaid at any time, with an addition of 3d for each 189. 8. on the first anniversary of the date of purchase and with a further addition of 1 per 15. 6d. for each month thereafter, (4) No person may hold more 500 £1 Certificates or
or their equivalent.
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"PERFECTO"" Actual Size
Mahdv the Turks were seen galloping MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
behind. As our troops entered Imam off just out of range. The road is with their artillery awunition, and small arm ammunition, dumps of bombs,
The story of the Turkish yout from Kut is told in the following telegrams received on March 1st at Del hierved
1617 from Eyewitness, Mesopotamin --
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED.
than
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NOTICE. Y
directed to the undermentioned
for
(Mitsubishi Co.) “
COAL DEPARTMENT.
SOLE PROPRIETOES OF
KISHIDAK B YOSHINOTANT HOJO,NAMAZUTA SAYO.KANADA,
con wagons and other military Our cavalry are in pursuit to the Borth-west. Our monitors have taken 150 prisoners. Colurans of smoke have been seen from the enemy's burning stores. The local telegraph lines are military messages and despatches must
the moment for argent TAKASEIMA OCHI, MUTARE be sent by riders to advanced general February 25-Cavalry bivouac, west of headquarters, hence the delay. Shuman: The Turks are in full re-
Februscy
99: Cavalry in pursuit of SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBLI treat; they bure abandoned all the Turks have reached Azizio, cap-
six more field, positions between Sannaigat and are
dguns and over three & OXUBARI GOMĀTERIES retiring in the direction" of Baghsilah, hundred more, prisoners Gunbonts have
AGENT FOR SAKITO" COAL. nother twenty Eve miles up the Tigris cptured our gueheat Fires and
taken the As the crow
the Turkish steamer Basra with two Car infantry, after crossing the Terix at the Shumran bend Darge louds of wounded
and prisoners esterday morning and driving t
the enemy iron burges and mahailas (big country have sunk another steamer together with followed bim in
the right as he retired insul. This morning after some stiff Eghting they captured the position. All day the Turks have been fighting stubborn rearguard action. Their line of retirement is intersected by numerous nullahs. These and ruined huts seat tered all ofer the country, afford good seedy pursuit by the cavalry, while ewer for hechine guns and hamper marshy ground to the north binders During the two
The £1 Certificates (purchase price special attention of the Public is from the trenches on the river bank sailing boats). The ialaatry continue | Cortificates for £14 (purchase price / Regulations which form part of the on the ridge astride the Shumran pea howitzera, many rifles and a large
15%,
are issued in book form. The EH.) And £25 (purchase price £15) are issued without books. The £1, 212 and £25 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Banks.
Single Certificates for sums from £100 to £500 may be obtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant General Post Office. London:
General forms are available at all
Post Offices and at most, Banks.
If Certificates he lost, and the serial numbers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued ut
charge of Is.
GENERAL FOST OFFICE, LONDON,"
June, 1016,
(For examples of Investment in War Savings Cortificatoa, see the other side.}'
Examples of Investment in
War Savings Certificates
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281 5 —
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443 15 ---2.
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1 11 8
1 18 1
1 17 6
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multiple of 15s. 6d, up to 2887 101, **
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MORE FAITHFUL
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THE HUMAN VOICE.
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INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
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Regulations made by the Governor in Council under Section of the Electricity Supply Ordinance, 1911, on the 15th March, 1917.
33: Any person making any addi- tion to any electrical installation connected to the Company's main without obtaining the written consent of the company thereto shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $100 for every such addition
fuking movements.
Head Office MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO,
BRANCH OFFICES
to round up the stragglers. Five quantity of pontoons and other milte stores and supplies were taken yesterday | Nagasaki. Moji, Karatau, Wakamatau at and about Baghailah including tents. pack, saddlery, medical stores, grain, dates, cil. timber, etc.
THE GAMES FETISH-
days' fighting in Shumran bend we have MP. FISHER'S CHANCE TO REFORM takan four held guna, some machine- guns and three trench mortars and 1,660 prisoners, who include four Germans.
COMMAND OF THE TIGRIS."
ENGLISH EDUCATION.
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Omira, Muroran. Hakedite, Kobe, Omika, Kure, Tokyo, Yokohama," Nagoya,. Tsuruga, Vladivostock. Esakow, Paking. Londen, New York, Shanghai. Hongkong, Erinnong
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AGENCIES: CHINKING: Mesurs Gearing &
Co.
34:"Any consumer upon whose premises any such addition shall be found, shall be liable to a
To the current issue of the English penalty not exceeding $100 for
Review Mr Austin Harrison, the editor, every day or part of a day during The Saumraa crossinzand our vigur-contributes a stimulating article on the whien such addition, shall have qus ofensivo Sannalyst were two reconstruction of English education, an bean in existence. In this regula concerted actions fought at a listanen of the completeness of which, he contenda tion "consumer" means the person thirty miles simultaneously. Pressure on the fruits of the war and our physical in whose name the contract for the the right bank west of Kut and on the victory will assuredly depend. Mr E. A. supply of electricity to such left bank east of it dispersed the enemy'a L. Fisher, the premises was made with the Com-forces. fur crossing of the Tigris at had, he states, a thrilling opportunity.
the new Minister of Education, pany, or if there be no such person, Shumran cut his line of communications
The point to the principal tenant or person in and compelled his withdrawal from all that the intelectual disabilities, Actual occupation of the premises peints downstream and in consequence which creative minds in this
such addition shall be our Sanngiyat troops were able to follow have had to contend are the direct rene SINGAPORE: Mesus Irreo Co. in which found."
up their successful attack against Having regard to the possibility of a diminished opposition, and the last of the restricted educational code
ling to the neglect Reformation, thus, leading to breakdown of the Company's present, und Suwada lines fell to them in of national standards of culture and to plant through unauthorised arklitions to succession. Kut was an incident in their
stagnant plane of
of education, existing installations the Public is advance. The capture of the town,
which, not ing on an inveto mampeen thought
inveterate earnestly requested to co-operate with though of sentimental interest is of ux, as it were, from
sovered insularity, the Company by bringing to the Commal. significance compared to the rout
and movement, so causing us to develop pany notice any contraventions of the of the Turkish army and the command in a world literally of our own in which above regulations.
of the navigation on the Tigris which up the Continent shaped as some morally Duted this 90th day of March, 1017.
1500)
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co. wasinterrupted by the Turkish and socially inferior growth
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And as bigotry lost its
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The infantry after the attack at yat counted Eve hundred Turkish dead in the trenches and took fifty prisoners. Our Aaroplanes flying low harried the retreating Turks dropping bombs on them and emptying their Lowis guns into their ranks. The cavalry were engaged further west...
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A further massage, dated February 26, from a bivanse" west of Imam Mabdi, Bays: Yesterday the Turks put up an other rearguard action three miles farther on. Our infantry rashed two nullah they were holding in force and captured 318 of the Vaison, including twelve officer The Turks pat in an unprecedented amount of shell fire both hore and in the area covered by our cavalry but the mirage was most elusive and our casualties not heavy. They were probably firing off dump ammuni tion as an alternative to leaving. it
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