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RUSSIAN 5
INTERNAL
LIBERTY LOAN 1917.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
THE RUSSO-ASIATIO BANK. HONGKONG, IS READY TO RECEIVE "FURTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE ABOVE LOAN UP TO THE 29th JULY, 1917.
a. TISDALL..
Manager. RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.
Hongkong July 9, 187.
NOTICE.
THE AMERICAN
1940
CONSULATE GENERAL has received blanks and copies of registration regulations for the registration of American citizens subject to the conscription law known we the ·Selected Service Act" and is prepared to arrange for the registration of Americans subject to that act
Hongkong, July 6, 1917.
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1927
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THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE BRIEISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., LTD.
BRITISH BUSRA
BUSIEST WATERWAY EAST OF SUEZ.
railway terminus has been made and completely restored British prestige troupes and horses afe embarking and dis.ia Mesopotamia the army has fought and ribirking in a steady stream and with matched Bagirificently.
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an exactitude of organisation acid a quick. Lo The spirit of the British soldier per- Ross or despatch very different from the rides Husrs. Here you see him at his -state ud affairs at the commencement of best adapting himself to the climate and the woye of the East with the good DAIRY FARM NEWS. SPIRIT OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER: [The Pampaign. The noise of hammers is
head all day long, in the railway repair, Bumour and unfailing resources that have workshops, oribus the river front where the always distinguished him above, his Daland, Water Transport aretion is, hogy elbows. As traffic policeman, he controls. erecting riser crait of a kinds. In much the Arab ghurrywalla with of the work flat has been carried o
CORNED BEEF
AND
CORNED PORK.
POT UP IN 564 AND BARBELA
FOR
EXPORT OF STEAMERS USE
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BILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)
COAL
A special correspondent of The Eaiglish- Iran; writing Iran, Lusra on April 7th.
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courtesy more effective than knowledge of there is an appearance of permanence. 1. Araki, Non-Commissioned officers ran is not so much capital thrown away, na the river traffic with the jenim of men born to the work. Skilled mechanges in inevitably the case with a great deal of
khaki uniform can deal with the most the expenditure incurred during this war. All these wharves and workshops and play an import. railways are destined to aut part in the future development of the country and in that sense they are a profitable investment. So, also are the wide roads, buils of concrete, that have been driven theangh the palm-tree beit
The afat ton of Pasta is no tie Bawra of The British weupation. orial Esra, with its "narrow, dirty streets and covered buzaurs, lies a mile at sy up the Ashir Cock "away from the main stream of the Shatt-ul-Arabe British Busty lines for many miles the banks of what is 20% and wil be till the end of the war the busiest waterway Past of Suez. And while the old wity sleeps in immemorial val, the new city prodins the arrival of get another conquering heat, in a land where amies have marched to victory ne detent, where Empires have to all the important buildings in military prices for best quality BILIMPOPON fier and fallen since the dawn of history, I ovenpation, and the waitsemppis that is COAL trimmed into Bankers at 8EBAT
When the British army fired landed near curried throughout the ures of British TIK OF BANDAKAN (British North
In whors Busra of to-day is a Sorteo
Pustu nothing hur se belt of date palms, Busra.
The triumph of up-to-date military engineering SILIMPOPON COAT, compare favour. ably with the better grades of Japanese Truched down to the water's edge. Doal and give good results on very Lynch steers plied up and down the and in spite of the all-pervading thust and piseid stream whose most familiar craft the ever fasting torment of fles enough of moderate consumption.
Thathe athenities of tropical life have been was the lazy, dew.moving Mabula streams is full now of name artive and introduced to make existence are tan more modem craft, and the river banks tolerable even in the extreme heat of the
upmer
19 Undersigned having noon appointed AGENTS For the COWIS HARBOUR
COAL CO., LTD., ale prepared to quote
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Etosters calling at SEBATTIK or BANDAKAN Bxclusively for SILYMPO PON COAL (either cargo or Bankers) are exempt from payment of a Port chargon,
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At Bobattik Steners are berthed along are lined with jetties from "below the side the Company's wharf where there is minimum depth of 27 to 28 fest at law Ashy Creek to Markit, five or six trailes,
up the stren
The date palms have water Spring Tides.
Charts of Sibuke Bay (Sebatik Bar-been cleared rawy if many plans to make bogz), Prices and all other information on for jetues, and athey buildings concerning the Port can be had an
necessary in the base of an expeditishary application to the Agents.
force. The clearing of the palm alone has been ati caprhsive business.
BRADLEY & CO. LTD.,
Aguata Cowie Barbour Cal
"Company, Limited,
1087
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
for all British and Contiene goods, including
Books and Stationery.
Boots, Shoes and Leather.
# IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS, "Whatever may have been the agricu!.. tural value of the land before the series! of the British there is no doubt that the works that have since been carried out here enormously increased the value of
into the desert, the electric light laid on
Nothing hay contributed more to the changed rosifitions in Mesopotamila thin. the Inland Water Transport Liqartuent which has revolutionised everything in the Shatt-ul-Arab and the Tigris, and has made it possible to tot something like a hundred per cent. more work out of the magnificent rivery of the country.
PERFECT DOGANISATION..
One's only thought is, looking at the vast stores of provisions that everywhars meet 'one's eye, and remeinbering the superne difficulty of sending stuff rem
HOERALE Indents promptly
executed t lowest prices the river frontage. Large tracts of land Fagurd, whether the Mesopotamian.com. have been recovered from the river. The pain is but now over-supplied with food river bed close to the banks has been a year and a half ago it was under dredged so to permit ocean-going supplied If this is the case, however, steamers to come alongside, and the mud the error, if error i Ge. is on the right recovered from the river has been pumped side. For General Maude han rightly on to the shure levelling it up well above calculated that an army well-provisioned the surface of the stream and creating an army that fubts and moves well, land suitable for building on The Busra and there is no denying that is the fight-- district is divided into five sectioning which has driven back the Turk and Burt City, Makina, Margil, River front
Chemicals and Druggists' Sundries, China Earthouware and Glassware,
Motor Cars and Accessorie Cycles, Milnery dod Piece Goods Drapery Fancy Goods and Perfumes,
Hardware Machinery and Jevallers Plate and Watches, Photographic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Olmen's Stores,
Commision 94% to 5% Trade Discounts allowed. Special Quactions on Demand Nomple Cases from EL upwards, Dongnments of Prodite Held on Account WILLIAM WILSON & SONE
(ESARLANED” 1814
and Timoore The Frontage near Ashar
was the fast place at which the British
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HAMBERLAIN 8 Colic, Cholers and arrived sind for this reason has become needs no ganing the seat of the base headquarters and the headline to attract the public pye. The simple statement that all chemists solk bradonarter. Fra sufficient, us every family knows ite plines
ofertannication But the real developments have taken value. It has been good for forty years and is just what its name implies For Jafe. In the Margil, section.
sale by all Chemists and 8tbrekeepers
Here the
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the river, or manage with skill and dis-GLASGOW, MERT A. R, Brown, cretion the hordes of püixed labour, Arab, Egyptisa, Indian and Chinese, that find.
The soldiers' saple and profitable employment in the expeditionary forces. demeanour in the bazaars in day time is' admirable, contributing to the content- meat and friendliness, of a population customed to be governed by corruption and terrorised by the Turk. At night
E. KATO..
Manager. No. 2. Paposa" STRLET,,
HONGKONG.
time the towns is sundel of quieta SINGON & CO.
wave when the bugles ring out the fire alarm. The the narrow streets resound
ESTABLISHED 'A.D,, 1880. the tramp of hurrying feet. The whole
TRUN STEEL, METAL and HARD Whalersle that take pine and they are of frequentE MERORANTS. sarrison turns out to deal with any fires necurrence. It is in wich moments that and Retail Ironmongers, Pig Iron aul Foundry Coke Importers. "General Store wees the composite, garrison at the keepers and Shipchandler, Nos. 36 and buse at its isest. It is composed of mes 37, o Looxe Bzzzzz, (2nd Street. Wast
of Central Market) Telephoon No. 515. of all units-kome permanently allotted to
Hongkong. September 4, 1915. base work for physical reasons, others tentarily. P.. und T,B. men alike fare abourful, bewareful, and ready for any emergency that may arise. British rule in Mesopotamis eculd not be better" introduced than by the kindly,resourcelul and efficient British soldier.."
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"NOUTAUS "HOISSO AYAR
TELESO No.
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1917.
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