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NATIONAL BANK OF
MMITED) (IN LIQUIDATION). (Incorporated in England) UNREDEEMED BANK NOTES. NOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN that
any OUTSTANDING NOTES WIL be paid on presentation to the under- ich signed on or before SATURDAY September, 1912, at Noox.
AFTER THAT DATE, holders will find it recessary to claim repayment in STERLING from the BoD OF TRADI LONDON, to whom the necessary funds will be requisted.
THE
BOARD OF TRADE make a charge for payment of claims out of monies deposited in the COMPANIES LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT" as the Bank of England.
A. R: LOWE,
Lajaulitor.
Chartered Bank Building,
$140.
Hongkong, August 17, 1917.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED 1535. Incorporate in Hongkong.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
IIS HEREBY GIVEN that an
NOTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Limited will be helil
at the Fend Office of the Society Yo
3 and Queen's
4
Colony
the st
gs, Victoria in the
Hongings, \
on SATURDAY,
day of September, 101: at 12
o'clock noon for the purpose of proposing, considering and, if thought it, pussing" the following Resolution viz:-
That the provisions of the Society s Memorandum of Association with respect to its objects be altered to as to rear as shewn in the print aigned for the paipase of identi fication by The Chairman of this Meeting."
Should the above Resolution be passed by the requisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as a Specist Resolution to a Second Extmordinary Geueral Meeting, which will be sub. acquensly convenexi
A print of the Memorandum as pro- ・pened to be altered can be seen at the
Head Othe of the Society,
ated this Ich day of August, 1917.
C. EL. R. HAY,
2012).
- per pro. General Manager.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU
FACTURING CO., LTD.
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N, INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR (81) per share fur count 1917, will be payable on FRIDAYgust 1917. Share |
to apply for
holders are
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PAPER PULP MILL. Situated at VIETRY, (TÖNKIN).. THIS MILL is built upon a property asuring 144,000 93. meters, and consists of the following buildings and
(notes of a wall and another man is nearly sick with horror at the strains of a very well-known music-hal tune--his brother was blown to bits one day when month-organ. Nearly ing the melody or every one home from the front will jump Mr. Vernon Partlett, withor of Mud at the back-firing of a mater engine or the slamming of a door,, but there are and Khaki" writes :—
Prinzing's Epidemict resulting from. ment for International Peace, is a sad record of typhus, plague, cholera, dysen. tery, typhoid, small-por, and scurvy..
It is estimated that in the years
If you were to take a fiorly adjusted i nuen who eaazot support the ticking of 1813-14 ten per cent, of the inhabitants clock or a watch, while other regular chemical balance and were to throw it sounds, such as the talling of a church
on the for, three things right happen when you came to use it again. It might -and this is váys improbable continue to weigh accurately; it might not work
of Germsay contracted typhus; and that some 500 physicians, excluding surgeons, died of the disease.
Deaths from cholers in the French bell, will turn them pale with agony, And there are very many mer for whostmy during the entire Crimean cam- the sound of guns has the wonderful paign numbered 12,467, in the English army 4,513, and in the Piedmontese army fascination of the snake from the rabbit.
There are touches of nerves that 11,930.
at all: or it might give your distorted sound singularly like superstitious-men weights-tell you that a gramme of sul-who will not pass through an archway, phur weighed an ounce or that a block then who are convinced that they will die of wood sould double its weight in the course of a úpate.
belief that an awful struggle against the
number of times, men who have a firm deaths in the Northed i And all over the world there are fine. I black power of death is going on around malaria were all polach fewer |
ed troops.
Typhus fever was borne by English troops where the 100ps to English soil, where in the years parts of the country. (in the fever hos In the North American Civil War if they dream the same dream & certain pital in London 1,069 died in 1866).
mensles, and dysentery,
It is absurd to say, then, cng the white than among the colour- that the negroes are immune to malaria; on the contrary, they contracted it much more frequently and suffered a great deal more severely
erely from it than the whites. During the siege of Paris 8,068 died pox, 4,821 of typhoid, 1,042 of
pasu "And monia, dysentery, 1923 diarrhea, 6,823 of
of bronchitis the 4,982 death rate in the city during the siege being about three times as bigh ne normal
In the Franco-German War 74,105 men in the German field-army contracted typhoid and gastric fever, and 8,904 succumbed to them.
of small.pox
him.**
The commonest of all forms of "nerves"
strong soldiers spending weeks or months them sl the time. I know a man, too, innerse hospitals, their minds dis-who will not sleep in a room without rted by the appalling sights and shocks flowers summer.or winter, he must have Bowers by him or else it would get war. There are hundreds upon bucdreds of cases, and there are these "nerve hindreds upon hundreds of varieties of is, perhaps, the longing to be sinst.
There are men
It would be dificult to say how many men have had to be invalided out of the heen paralysed for months; there are men whom the lust to kill has seized suddenly Army because they cannot live near other so that they would murder their own people. To such, theatres, erowded friends; there are strong mea who weep streets, the buzz of conversation in a all day: there are men who dare not be room, the proximity to people in a train
nerves,
who have
in
left alone: there are men who laugh or in an omnibus become tortures that are almost unbearable. There are men Inanely; there are men who tremble, and
* who taken shake as though they were lanatica.
But the vast majority of mer with the hate tabs to solitary huts, where nerves" are to all appearances ordin-they will live like primitive men until ary human being-they have but one something happens in their brains to jerk
of
persons
The disastrous co-German
from the
Wur
German Empire, throughout the caused the death of upwards of 174, Que
Imperial Provinces. Ind the including sequence the Government was petitioned
universal vaccination com 1. EIGHT brick-buildings, with iron small distortion of the mind. I know a them back into the old routine of life.
In 1874 à law was passed pilars and beams. Corrugated iron man who in perfectly fit and well, but be There are, then, hundreds of varieties pulsory.
vaccinated in the first year roofs. Two sheds with corrugated
of their has a peculiarity-it is impossible for him of nerves"; hundreds of ways By which requiring all persons in Corry to be irou roof...!! է,
machinery-w
to make
2 PLANT & MACHINERY of the to forces himself into a room where there strong men may be, mentally as well at and to be re-vaccinated in their twelfth L. have seen him morally crippled; huzdreds of strange year: figures having atown that children
to the kind required for making Paper in a closed drawer. pulp.
they grow alder
a. TWO European residences.
The above Property will be sold by Public Auction at PHU-THO (Tonkin), on the 1st day of September, 1917.
RESERVE PRIDE 8100,000. (One Hundred Thousand Dollars Indo-China #Currency )
Further particulars may be obtained on application to the undersigned.
CH. DE "LANSALUT," Solicitor for the Liquidator,
Halphong
change, in the fraction of a second, from t-terrors and eccentricities which obsess these that immaniti
the
entirely
an ordinary, cheerful individual into a brain--and to the men he constinada a fact that for which spidemics trembling wreck just because someone in the shambles of war it is scroetimes surrounded by states in
in consequence of in- the room had thoughtlessly closed a matter of wonder that there are any of of small-pox, in
suficient vaccination, Ere of frequent drawer. Be the drawer has a little bit the combitants of any of the armies who operates, sines the passing of the Law the disease Imperial Vaccination Law open and he is all right; be the drawer are not suffering froin "zerves."
not once made its appearance or shut and he clings, terrified, to his chair,
German soil in the form of a
fa widespread while drope of perspiration break out on
epidemic his forehead...
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Men often grow inordinately sensitive. to pounds. The most staid and stolid.
August 1917,-/ 2012 individus I have over met now twitchou with an insane desire to dance at this art
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to which the civil in- sofs country ste exposed, when the ter
habers return home after "
the
mination o of
on of a campaign in an infected region. It must be demanded under all circumstances that
divisions of troops
among whom infections, disenyo.
made their
sppearance,
belige returning
from the enemy's cosminating, isolat country shall be sub- jected to a medioni
as was done on
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Juchagasc
scale, for example, by the Japanese after
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to *pples
ther Hossis. Thin Tokarsk
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