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BANK HOLIDAY. "
WAR SAYINGS CERTIFICATES Tritance with Government Noti
Applications runy be made through the andernoted Banks from whom fill information and the messary fochur may be obtained :—,..
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, HONGKONG SAND SHANHIAV
BANKING Corporatios. Mercantile Bank op Istra,ĒTI,
Buation No. 230 of 25th inabunt, the
·EXCH`NGE BANKS will be ULOSED- For the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS. on MONDAY, the 4th June, 1917.
Hongkong, May 31, 1917.
WANTED.
numeliately, SECOND OFFICER,
Apply
1857
MARINE DEPARTMENT..
The Asiatic Petroleum Co.
(South China) Ltd. Hongkong. June 1, 1917.
War Savings Certificates
Valve 5 year
after purchase
£500
£1
1363
THE CHINA MAIL.
DONT LET SLIP SO GOOD AN OPPORTUNITY.
"LEADING THE WAY"
Purchacs Frica
£387 10 0 139. 6d.
FREE OF INCOME TAX
For every 158. 84 lent now £1 will be paid in 5 years' time equivalent to 3 per cent. com. pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.
Anyone, whatever his or her 14game' may be, can bay War Savings Certificates up to a maximum of 600 £1 Certificates in all or their equivalent.
Mennwhile the money may be withdrawn la fa'l any time, with an addition after the first year.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
(1) A Certifiente entitles the purchaser to receive £t for each 138, 6h, onthe lifth saniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the accumu Inted interest.
(2) A Certificate is not transferable except by permission of the Postnaster General fry of I will be charged in respect of mach triusfere. In the event of death, the same enles will be applied
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CLEARANCE SALE
From June 1st
FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY
GREAT DISCOUNT3
ני
JAPANESE FINE ART CURIOS
H. MATSUNAGA,
11 d'Aguller st Hongkong, May 31, 1817.
F
HONGKONG-KOBE TICKET
FOR SALE.
1838
TEST CLASS TICKET, from Hong- kong to Kobe for sale. 850.00% Advertiser prable to make preof some. apply. Ticket, co CHINA MAIL Office.
Hongkong, May 30, 1917.
1856
STOCK TAKING SALE
golden opportunity for securing general argain a enormous reduction in price.
D. CHELLARAM offers his entire
"CAPSTANTM
MIXTURE
"THE SKIPPER'S "FAVORITE
W. D. & H. O. WILLS.
BRISTOL and LONDON.
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, LTD.
GERMAN VANDALISM.
ONE RESULT OF RETREAT.
Fav
DEVASTATED VERA.
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correspondent, writing
as in the case of Savings Bank Theposits.stock in trade af oriental silks, crepes, (3) Un written application fona mtafatta, plair fancy Yoiles organdy ivory. abtainable at any Post Office) being
wares and gold Jewellery at greatly mule to the Controller. Money Order redinced prices for 15 days only Department, London, the purchase prier,
| from "Was Varrespondents" Headquarters er part thereof in multiples of 16s. Carpets reduced 3 Received new
Indian Persian-Tientsin and Velvet o Much 24th, sa will be requid at any time, with an silition of for each
consignment of silk stockings also fd on the first anniversary of the date of purchase and with a farther addition of id. per 15. l. for duch nonth thereafter.
(4) No person, my old more than 500 £1 Certificates or their equivalent.
.".
price
The El Certificates (purchase be
158.61.) are issued in book
Certificates for £19 (purchase price £ 62) and £25 (purchase price £15-78. 6.) are issued without books. The 11 and £25 Certificates are on sale at local
ost Offices and at prest Banks
Single Certificates fur
sums from tim
to £500 may be obtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office,
Lordon application forms are available at all Post Offices, and at most Banks,
If Certificates he fox, and the serial numbers an be furnished to the Controller of the Moner Order Depert
D. CRELLARAM," 39-40 Queen's Road, Central. Boecknag, June 1, 1917.
NOTICE.
1904
having retired frota our basinesa, [R WILLIAM MALCOLM WATSON his interest and responsibility caused as
from 31st Decoraber, 1918.
MR. JOHN DUFLON HUTCHISON and Ma THOMAS ERNEST PEARCE will continue to carry on the business t in Hongkong.
JOHN D. HUTCHISON & Co. Hongkong, May 20, 1917.
1851
ment, new Certificates will be issued at RUSSIAN 5% INTERNAL LIBERTY
charge of is,"
GENERAL POST Devicz-Los Dos,
June, 1915.
(For examples of Investment in War Savings ́ertificates, sca the other alde.)
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N.B.-The Investment may be any
multiple of 15%. 6d. up to £887 10.
THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.
HIGH CLASS
PIANOS FOR
SALE OR
HIRE.
CASH OF
CREDIT
TUNING & REPAIRING-
SPECIALITY.
19, Dox You Bod
LOAN 1917.
SUBSCRIPTION to the LIBERTY
LOAN is opened at THE RUSSO
ASTATIC BANK Hongkong, from date
to 26th Jane, 1917.
The price of issue is 95%.
It must be said that sometimes lors! German commanders called the towns" people together, as at Nesle, and secured then they were sorry because of the evil. thing they were about to order their mea
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ro de, but they could not help themselves; they must obey the orders of the Higher Command: The Kaiser and Hindenbur TAKASHIMA, DORI MUTAHE,
of pure, are the men responsible. All
KUSHIDAKE. YOSHINGTANT (the same, the local commanders were BOJO, NAMAZUTA. SAYO,KARADA, thove who imprisoned long-suffering SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI French townsfolk for omitting to salt & OYUBARI COLLTERIER. offers in the streets.
There is some worsip-generated nobody koms whereof a great derumu offers
The inhabitants of the released towns vive As result of their retreat. That tell us that the enemy is very short of Tang cume. It is awee gudswerk, in any some medical and surgical necessitira. **** 1a on
thing is certains the He has very little indoform, for instadur, enemy lets his fat positions because and there have been many deaths through poisoned wounds. He has hardly any he hail tot naugh men to hold them.
lint, and is using paper for bandages. irresistable pressure of
would never have gone but for the And, also, there is no doubt at all tha: Gretimstances: German troops are now being underfed. thutens line of bis was immensely At Ham they have been known to ent strong, it he could have fought to hold it, rats, and to make endɣages of dogs. Feline, for vample, protected by acres.
Darbed wire with Mout St. Quentin and St. Pierre Vaast Wood to the north, and the river to the south, to a force atlag king from the west, was a resuarkable stronghold.
GERMANY'S STOCKS.
WHY THE BREAD RATION IN
BEING REDUCED.
Ter, is everywhere along the front, the amount of work the enemy has put into his line has to be seen to be appre cisted: Very much if it shut the whole of his front is recent work. The broad Comfinitive no food Questions. said that Herr von Batocki. in the Reichstag lines of his brown wire stretch, before the bread ration, would be reduced by between, and behind his trenches, bela about one-fifth from April 15th, because
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shells never fell. There are subterranean after belt, back to the country where the stock-taking showed that they had MANILA. Messrs Masondray & establishments, quite zew, as in a littleersached on stocks more than could be wool near Baye, deep and elaborately the Times correspondent at Amster, foreseen according to calculation (states Inrished, and spacious enough to shelter
The loan is free of Income Tax and other taxations
The loan is ismer for 35 years and will be redeemable at par by yearly drawings beginning in December, 1922.
The Lixin may be reimbursed at partie battalions! - fter the 29th March, 1927.
Hongkong, May 3, 1917.
S&MARTIN'S:
APIOLESTER
RECEPILLS
MARTIN:
1707
too Dear
dam).
The urban population would receive 'an (about Doz.; per head weekly; children increaed meat nation of 250grammes under wix hat this quantity.
SINGAPORE: Mesara Horns Co.
Ltd.
GLASGOW. Messrs A.-B. Brown, McFarlane & Co., Ltd.
For Particulars, apply to
K. HATO,
Manager.
No. 2. PODIZ ST,
Hosexong.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1917.
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A tablespoonful of the powder dissolved in glass of hot or cold water, or a few tablets dissolved in the mouth, will prevent fad que reform Energy,
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Wholerale
COMMERCIAL FORMS SHIPPING FORMS
CIRCULARS
PAMPHLETS
5. Wyndham Street. ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES WINE LETS
MENUS
INVITATION CARDS
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HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK Co., La.
Coupons are payable half yearly on
About four million more bread cards the 19th March and the 29th September. farm, miles beyond the front line, was enumerated at the last census.
Every village, chateau, and isolated
had been issued than there were people Interest on the loan runs from the ·made a strong point. 29th March, 1917-interest from that
Every vantage atocktaking showed a considerable deficit. The date to be added to the price of issue.
pent hud iter machine-gun emplacement. The meal ration hitherto guaranteed of Special favourable rates will be quoted The country is laced with his light rail-200 grammes (about 7o.) per head per for Russian Exchange
ways. The barks of the sunken roads are Applications will be wired to Petro streets of such dug-outs as only the Boche which meant a reduction of the bread day must be reduced by 30 grammen, grad free of telegraphic charges and makes through, weil timbered and ration by about one-fifth. Similarly the Bonds will be forwarded free of postal
Remember, also the ration for workers doing liard, and the expenses. The Bank is ready to give | xarded for comfort, every facility to subscribers in the shape
value of such material sx he must needs hardest work must be reduced by 25 per of advances against the Bonds.
Leave behind-telephone and telegraph cent., and the extra allowance for young G.. TISDALL liner (especially valuable to biur now), people abolished.
Manager.
..For the great bombs and arríat torpedoes in stores.
country. population, who provide for themselves;" our branches to be worth the ration must similarly be reduced by removal, previous se they were, seeing 2 per cent. what the risk was; vast quantities of timber, railway material and all the cou- mitigated by the increased distribution of TRON STEEL METAL and BARD
The heavy encroachment thus inde is siderable immovahir stuff necessary for other food. The stricktaking of potatoes WARE HEROHANTS. siege warfare." There are well-built
is proceeding, and the rest is far and Retail Ironmongers. Pig Iron an trenuizen, day-outh, and gun pits, ailestisfactory, larger stocks existing ther. Foundry Coke Imposters. General Store- behind the dae he surfendered, prepared had been expected. Not ho many potatous 97, Hire Loore BTEKET, (2nd Street west long ago, which he has ever even used. bave been frozen as was feared. It would of Dental Market) Telephone No. 615.
keepers and Shipshandlers Nos. 35 and To his retreat he went right past these.
Tar Germans, did not surrender their punds per head of the population. Before be possible to fesume, the ration of five
Hongkong September 4, 1915. strong, positions, their works, and their the increased potuto apply became effec materis! because it pleased them, hittive the bregd ration must not be reduced. because the, murrender gave them an opportunity for saving their armies.
There is plenty of evidence to show the enemy was burried in his retreat; that be went before the time he had fixed, it is a fairly easy matter to fire a village, and, therefore, of a care of villages I went over yesterday eat of the Somme paly one was not a smouldering ruin. But to 'cut down all the orchards was 'n jonger and harder tank, and there are signs that he was interrupted in his work. He tried putting explosive charges in the roots, and finally he ringed the trees. He meant to dainage more severely some of the larger towns, but circumstances prevented irir. I heard everywhere that while in Occupation of this country he anxiously Ganted his victims that, he and they would be fine friends after the war, and that England was their cruel spemy. That his hatred of us has own intense and profound one was left in no doubt.. But what these people thought of him was shown when sota prisoners were brought through the ruins of a village yerday Nobody said anything to them. Nobody moved. They merely looked on the men ho had caused them this misery. The reperenssion at tale latent tally coming out of Prussie's insane toilitary kople will falt by Germans for generations to
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