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YOUNG GIRL offers ber TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that A SERVICES NURSE for dee
the TWENTY-EIGHTH R. DINARY GENERAL MEETING will
all Children Peak District be held at the Company's Odi
Odices, St.
"NURSE." George's Buildings, on SATURDAY the
C%CHINA Man' (täce. oth MAY, 1917 at 19ueleek Nous, for the
Hongkong May 1, 1917) purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1917, and electing Directors and Auditors,
The TRANSFER HOOKS of the Company will be TASED from the ist Argit, to the are MS, both thys
inefusive,
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NOTICE
· 1703.
have from This Day- OPENED our OFFICES nt Now York, San Francisco, and Hongkong, under the
By. Order of the Bank of Directors.frm name of KARASITA COMPANY. GIBA, LIVINGSTON & co. ur local office is situated at No. 2.
Agenta.
| Connaught Road..
KARANJIA and COMPANY. 1603
Hongkong. April 30, 1917.
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Hongkong, April 17, 1917.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
CO, LTD
THE THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the floneral Manager Des Voeux Rond Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Hangtok on WEDNESDAY, the 9th May, at Noos for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Diretors, passing the Accomita, and eleting Directors and Auditors
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from and May to t 23rd May. Ich thays inclusive.
By Onler of the Boa
UNTON INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LTI
NOTICE.
TROM&This Date aral dusing the Absence of the Undersigned from the Colony, Ms. C. P. HAY will perform the duties of the Cleneral Manager of the Society.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE IDE,
General Manager, Hongkong, April 30, 1917.
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JARDINE MATHESON & CO. LT CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO, LTD,
' Veneral Managers, Hongkong, April 26, 1917.
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THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY. LIMITED
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE Fourteenth YEARLY MEETING
of SHAREHOLDERS of the abov
will be held at the four pany's Company Office St. Neorge's Building at 11 AM on FRIDAY the 19131AY, 1917 to receive & Statement of Accounts to the
NOTICE.
FROM TAROM This Date and during the j
Ahrnce of the Undersigned from the Colony, Ma CHP HAY will perfoth the duties of the General Mariager of the Company:
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THREE
ASTLES
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MAGNUMS
CIGARETTES
CONNOISSEUR says:
They are "Superlatively Excellent,”
FASCINATING..
FRAGRANT.
CHANGED DARTMOOR.
THE STORY OF THE PRISON.
By Order of the Boaril,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Mariager. Hongkong, April 30, 1917.
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31st December, 1916 and the Report of BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE the General Manager and Consulting Committee, and to alert Consulting
Committee and Auditor.
The Transfer Books of the Compan will be closed from the 3th May to the 18th May both days inclusive.
The CHINA BURNED C, LTD.
W. G. DARAY,
Gervent Hantger.
Kowloon, May 3, 1917.
"1769
RUSSIAN 5% INTERNAL LIBERTY LOAN 1917.
QUBSCRIPTION to the LIBERTY LOAN is opened at THE HUSSO, ASTATI BANK Hongkong, from dufe
2ich June, 10171
The price of issue is 5%
CO, LTD..
NOTICE.
FROM This Date and during the Absence of the Undersigned from the Colony, M CORP. HAY will perfornt the duties of the General Manager of the Company...
By Orier of the Board,
MONTAGUE EDE Henrial Manager. Hongkong, April 30, 1917...
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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1917.
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G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
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Hotel Mansions.
Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,
KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
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High Class English Jewellery.
KAIPING.
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AND
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the
ring of, masonry abere were now aliu; * many French: between 9xx and 30,600 in Phyim zamowow space, where nobody knew anything of endurt or ever had
From the first enough to evento Arieviesas ere disaffected, and small blame to them. They came in UA paupers, and had to all their garments to by food from the French, with whis they never attalard to a friendly fouting. Prisently, through the American agent. Peasley, they gut, an allowance of throm halfpence a day; and when this was
and held their feast of Independence Day, Eour own Government was never generous to them, and they owed us no gratitude.
To the whequered history of Durtne ja frèch chapter is to be added. Chequered
it may be pulled, for while a war prison (of the Napolesála rey could have no record evanparable with that of a Newynte.mgmented by a penny they were affinent. * Bastille, cor-la Coonetegorie, much tomaten, of comedy arad tragedy is packet inte the anuals of the granite pile on the red sath west slope of North Hessary, history, involving, I regard be had to the This romantie episode" in our 'military
The new chapter "will 'cemper in thegro prisoners, at least three nations, fortunes of certain conscientions objectors, came to the end decreed by pence. By for whom Dartnicer becomes a kind of horn mevat from the hospital. The bolts
February, 1918, the convalescents had NOL naging boue. Hence with no exceeding were shot in the great gate, and the rest stretch of fancy one may say chat, it nf Dartnicor as a war prisen proper is reverttu its original use as a prison of siteinen.
WAT
It was not our frit war prison. The Bret was at Nofing Cross, neur Peter.
The loan is free of TE Tax and Japanese Fine Art Curiosuch, but in the spring of 1901 we other taxations.
The loan is issued for 65 years and will be redeemable at par by yearly drawings beginning in December, 1992.
The Loan may be reimbursed at par
after the 20th March, 1927.
Coupons are payable half yearly on
the 29th March and the 29th September, |,1765).
Interest on the lean runs from the
9th March, 1917-interest from that
"date to be added to the price of war.
Special favouruble rates will be quoted for Russian Exchange.
Applications
will be wired to Petru
15 Days Only
SALE NOW ON
H. MATSUNAGA, -
49, Haiphong Road,
Kowloox.
grad free of telegraphic charges and DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Fands will be forwarded free of postal
expenses. The Punk is ready to give
er ty
facility to subscribers in the shape
of advances against the Bonds.
G. TISDALL,
Hongkong, May 3, 1917.
COLUMBIA
Mujer.
1767
RECORDS.
CORNED BEEF
AND
CORNED PORK.
.EOT UP IN KEGS AND BARRELA
FOR..
EXPORT OR STEAMIES USE
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hol tehes of French-prisoners coming
After an interval of 30 years some ni
the Guildings were leased in 1816 to i vertuis · British Patent Naphthe com pony.X
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FEE CONVICT SETTLEMENT, Transportation causing in the middle of in every day, and nowhere to place then, the century, it was in September, 185). Nortati Cross was "browled six third-tet the first 3" convicts had been rate prison ships Plymouth were teenived at Darinoor. From that period, cramped. ;} 17:1 War prisor was the present the history of Dartracor.. imperatively declel. A site was finally as Mr. Thonison observes, is the history selected in the dreamest, coldest, and The establishment is huli;factory, half. of the modern system of penal, servitude. foggiest region of Daituror three or farma: Ging in a desolate, mist-eodden tour better sites lag to hand. Govern-truct, where the sun breaks through for basing necepted 19e lowest fonador" a few.werks every year. Here for the there was bound to be trouble over the
ness part cone those whoin authority regards as the " worst ** Criminals, albuit contract and the wark the roughness of the population is marvellously mixed. which is vixilate today in portions of the ranging from university man and Cockray Dendary wall dragged on from the to laxar sand ('auensian. In general, the winter of 1906 to May, 180, when, the Darttions convies-has been little known first draft of 2.500 en marched up ¦ to the public. The prisonet in the dock frou Plymouth. It was a cruelly cold newspapers is usually treated as "etar of the Out Buifty, whose case fills the
place for Frenchmen (un fires it classman, und sent elsewhere. winter: there was much siektes, there 1850 the staff included only 18 warder. were many deaths. It was a century agi,It rose year by year to about 230 of all and the art of inanagement of which "at makes.
this day we are proud was undeveloped : Now opens the new chapter. The but. all allowance made, it is shocking to Prison Commissioners have placed Dart- think that over 10,000 French prisonersmoor for a time at the disposal of the
Home Oe Committee for the housing.
222018 Was A Laveral. His La Duet KING EDWARD HOTEL of war died in our English fails.
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What in the virginastus is rather of men exempted "from" military service. wonderful is the fine behaviour of these The convicts in the prison, a relatively French Life in a war prison, "kubritu | smali mumber, will be transferred to character to the sharpest test. It is Fertland and Parkhorst. The now terribly and endlessly monotonous. It is comers will not live in idleness of their for most prisimers the poverty that often country's expease. Government will not mesas real hunger; for though at Dart. treat them w unkindly. The curse of all To the food was usually good, there was the older prisons, those of the French never enough of it. The whole existence Mocorchy, our own, and the rest, was is artificial, subject to perpetual and tire the utter stagnation of life in them.. some restraints; and, to sum up fand The prisoner rotted unemployed. The here is the chief count, against it), war conscientious objectors at Dartmoor will prison is a overcrowded eity withnete tasked, and for this they should be
NOZZED.
THE FRENCH PCCUPANTS,
COUGHING INTO ‡ CONSUMPTION:
grateful. To panish them would be to shut them within the granite wall and To this unhappy mode of living the engaged principally on land cultivation forbid them occupation. They will be majority of the Frenchmen at Dartmoor and reclamation-traditional activities of adapted themselves in splendid style. Dartmoor. There was deelling, of course, for a war prison of ose days bred quarrels as it bred fleas.
There were breaks for liberty but escape is the business of the prisoner of war and the sight of Vanhille from Dartmoor in famous. In the main, however, the Frenchinen settled down and shaped their lives to their condition Dartmoor was transformed, to the extent that native genius.could effect the change. into French town. Many little trades. rose and burished, and polite callings dancing and deportiment-did not lan- guish. The coinedies of foliere xere seted with accessories simpler than those of its own provincial days. The sociai evil of the place was gambling, and, since few of the prisoners had little more.10 sko than their clothes, this diversion radued to sheer nudity some scores of profortunates, who had to ascend in simme to a cockloft called the Capitol, whence they took their nickasine of Roma
Insourse of thus came the Americatus. Early in 1818 we had 1,709 American prisoners
Their numbers at Dartmoor swalled to 2,000, and within the double
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