THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917.
SHIPPING*
P. & O. S. N. CO.
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ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
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MARSEILLES AND LONDON,
•TAKING PASSINGERS AND CARGO TO
STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT. &c.
Steamers
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Colombo
Nooa
Connecting Mail".
Steamer from Colombo.
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Dae Marseilles 1917,
Duck London --1917.
When Pasangers change Steamers at COLOMBO
On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.
SAILINGS DIRECT TO
SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
BATTLE STORIES FROM
THE WEST FRONT.
·KITE BALLOONS AND OTHER THINGS.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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VISITORS AT THE HOTELA."
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HONGKONG, HÜTEL. no that right
as very Mr S. Aitken
MEM osophy quickly. For half-an-hone there was the Mr G. E. Anderson. Dr F. T. Reyt
Mr. Alcobendas Mr. R. de Journel wildest ghting I ever saw, and about Mr W. Andrews Mrs 31. FKling- thirty others gue cut off as the Thcbs gatafe J. Barreskio Mr and Mrs
Ma H. Baring Mr Q.Tann through on the right and left of on. We Mr and Mrs H A. Landituen U
Baxter and child
[blocked up the truck on both sides and Mrs ER. Beninguidoa
bibed them of over the barriends,
of the thermas got right theng
further down the lip, but note of them ver got back. After an hour a battalion.
and relieved 138. in reservis came up,drove the Germans
Mr. W. Bartenshaw Me 15 6. Lawson Mr. 3. T. Hitting Mr. D. Hirrell Mr
r Mrs AL Mr C.Little Bones Capt & Mrs Hranch Mr Leo. Longinotto
Mr 8. Longfald Mr RJ. Birbeck Mr G. Lodin Mr 10. Browell Hr H. Markey
點 Sir
Lady E. Dr 0. Mariott Mr L. A. Calderon MeM
Chamier
Mr H. E. Maslin Mr McNeill Mr D. E. Cappiemanair H. van
van Maines.
Mr. Gon. E Costello Mr G. H. Mullin Mr J.T. Yan Clave Mr J. Alerecki eye. Moore Comma Mrles L
Pilsen
Nicolson Me MB Mr. J. S. N
Afr Mr J. D.
P. Proode Courtney Mr. P. fr F Me.J. G. Covington
Mr E. H. M. Crawford Miss
That Ronkel HD. J.
Capt
Mr
F. Bayr
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Ballet. Nro. W Falk Mr El-M.Sherwin Mr KM. Fetterly
Mr
Mr J. N. Ro
Mr R. Shindler
D.
EL Capt. Skinner
yarda-belimel the liar, our life is never dull! I have been brought down twice ind, we
ara shelled consistently and
That's one kind. Another time.we "accurately: The first time I was brought had advanced a mile or so and vinali stown I had taken up a gunner ofteer why dated more or less, when I heard oue huid never been in a balloon before. "Wiring. Just then our guns started up and officer way that they were counter-atack. were Polacting a rice ttle shoot for
soon blotted everything out. We can't! wotne tine, when something, instinet, I only see about "a hundyed yards ahend, Accommolution is the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in up, wala me look up. What I saw The smoke and dont re
Hongkong at the time of Booking.
01 Aral ve me the Willies all right.
ubadutely what out the sun. They kept iravelpe was crumpling up like a broken to seethe, Huma comes through the smoke,
it up for twenty minutes, while we waited Wasons, and we were dropping kr a
and then stopped, "We heard afterwards stone. Then I got boy, very busy. The that it had been dhe of the biggest coun gunner was cynd enough, but he was pat
ter-attacks they had clade on that part at home in a balloon.
of the like. Our guns broke them up However, KoiTI- how or other, I got him and his parachure posite us, but further up Narth tranches Mr J. F. Gale
were taken and re-taken. I donte Mr M, Ganjoin ore the side, arul then over I went enunter-attacks are any good unless they Mr. J. W. Griffin
Mr V. Goulbourn ayulf. For a meet the rush was devekip within a few hours of the succesCapt. T. P. Hall' terrife, and then the parachute blow out i fuil attack. The bower they are delayed MrJS
Hamilton I was all right.. The great danger on the more costly they are and low likely Mr and Mrs W.
plo get home.
You can estimate the Mr G. Harper these necasions is that the bullon may strength of the how you've delivered by Mr EA. Hartman
Hannibal fall on top of you. After a bit the gunner the length of time you get to consolidate. Mr E Heller and I drifted together, so close that I At lease that's say opinion,
Mr.D. S. Howitt cauld have sanken han by the hand. In reddy to go back again and see the Shelton Hooper C. Zantz
** Yes, I've had a good bit of war, but shouted to him and he said he felt quite faish, When you've been is at the death | Mr A. J. Jacobsen happy. Then we drifted apart, and I of so many of your pals, year want to be trench while he came down 100 yards fanded quite peacefully in an old Holin at the death of the Bochas."
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MARSEILLES AND LONDON,
Calling at SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG, COLOMBO
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CARRYING AT AND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.
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STEAMERS.
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·about
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Due at B'SEILLEY. if calling #bost
Due LONDON about
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THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
All Cabins are fisted with Electric Fans free of charge and cach Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp
Round-the-World Tickets and Through Tickets to New York in connection with the Principal Mail Lines.
Interlinte Parts for Six Months.
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Return Tickets na fare and a half available to Europe for Two Years; or to Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be caveellel or altered without notice.
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Construces are reminder of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents regarding arrival of consignments expected of which they have received documents or advice.
Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyors, Masars Goddard and Douglas, at 10 am. on Mondays and Thursdays. All chaims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
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S. S. CHINA
WILL BAIL FROM. HONGKONG FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
VIA SHANGHAI JAPAN PORTS & HONOLULU. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th.
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Cargo carried on through Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to BEIRA, DELAGOA BAY, DUBBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN with transhipament at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE
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ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.
Just as we came to earth uway. the balloon fell with crash midway between us. It was a very hičky escape, However, the next day I was up again
and him the joy of putting the gunnets on to whig German convoy, out of which they knocked the necessary. Hades, "The next line I came down quickly was quite pereful. I had just registered a How. batters, all was well.“
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BANKS
BANKS
HANDEL
HYANKING CORPORATION.
ONGKONG & SHANGHAI NEDERLANDSCHE
PAIN-UP CAPITAL..
RESERVE FUND
Sterling
£1,500,000@2/-$15,000,000
Sulver
18,300,000
RESERVE LIABLAWY
PROPRIETORI
다
FEA
HOTEL
Mr D. K. Blait Mr & Mrs Neil Mac. Me and Mire"). T. Intyre and child
Breakspear Capt. & Mrs Vieria
E. do Matbos
Mr & Mrs F. W. Cary Mr. J. Compton
Bon. C. Mel. Messer Mr M. Nascimenta
Mr and Mrs A.
Carleton
Legion of Slaves, says a home paper. was the Euisena, desigastion of Port-
first appeared on the Western front Mr and Mrs Dubois gal's contemptible little army when Mr A. David four months ago under the chieftairship Mr. Flis of General Tamagnini. All this time the German scom for this force was auch that they dare not attack it. At last the and ressalts for itself, and undying am enerny made up its minds to move, with for the Portuguese soldiery.
The Serrancs," to give them their generic name of Tommies, showed themselves particularly adept with the bayonet, much to the Porche' surros for of all modes of warfare the use of cold steel is, for the latter, the nost terrify. ing."
A big sergeant in a London regingent aid that the Boche did him out of £4,000) on the day war was declared, so he tale up his mind to get some of it back in kind. He got his find wound at Ypres, Thrin months later he was in's torry, which was hit by a shell and overturned. He got a broken leg out of that. Then two months agn he had his any broken be a piece of shell-near Thillecourt..
Thus the Serranos" have had their "I was all through the advance and baptism of fire, with edifying results to to show how the Loches cleared every on the sorrow-stricken soil of France, an! themselves; their blood has been spilled one away. I only once saw civilians in Portugal has become an allied brother-in- three months. One, cumir up to a big, anos, not in words only, but in deeds. village where we were and entered And now it is the turn of America's
Samonies," as they are to be styled.
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coltage, My-company-oficers had their.
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mess there. He brought two workmen with him and they dug up the floor of i the kellar and brought out "£10,000 worth
of plate and other stuff, which comprised
PEER AND PRESS.
A GENEROUS TRIBUTE.
Mr F. W. Evana Mr 3. Evans Rev. Featherstone Mr L Forster
Mr Denman Fuller
Mrs E. Gandiot Dr Gibeon
$15,000,000
MAATSCHAPPIN
(NETHERLAND TRADING SOCIETY)
·ESTABLISHED : 1824.
CAPITAL
$33,300,000 AUTOR 60,000,000 (£5,000,940
$18,000,000 PATT
Cover or DIESTORA Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell-Chairwan, Hon. Mr.
P. H. Holyoak-Deputy Chairman. Hon. Mr
G.T.M. Fdkins, Eaq- C.E. Anton,
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F. C. Enteber, Esq.. C.8. Gabbey, Esq.
Mr and Mrs GEAR Compton, Esq. E. V. D. Part. Esq.
Nightingale
Mr T. L Perkins
Mrs Perrin
Coindr. Reed
Mr and Mrs W. E
Roberta
Mr&Mrs Findlay
Miss Skinnar.
Smith
Mr & Mrs V, Findlay
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Mrs Goutborn Rev. G.H.G. Griffith Mrs Staple Smith Mr and Mrs B. 4. Mr S, R. Smith
Major-Gen. Ventris Rev. Tópe
Hale
Mr F. B. Johnson Sir Ellis Kadoorie Miss Vontria Ms T. Kring Lt. Col. John Ward. Mr and Mrs A: Mr G. E. Wetton Col Young, HE
Lembelet
Capt. & Mrs H. K RA.3.0.
Cameron Macaulay
KING" EDWARD HOTEL. Mrs R. Almond Mr G. D. Kincard Mr J.B.F. AndersonMr and Mrs Leffel Miss Anderson Mrs Liddall Mr J. H. Anstin Mrs Lishwan Bir G. Bannerman Mr A. Z. Makin Mr Bensikom
Mr &
Mrs McAinah Mr W. BT. 8. Mr E. Moran
J. Boughton Mr J. McArthur Badge Mrs McUce
Cheng
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In a farewell speech to his continents
Mr
all the villagers' valuables. They had been deposited with the mayer, who had buried them there. The Boches were running enough in the retreat. They known as Colonel Lockwood-aid that be
st Epping. Lord Lambourne-better Mr
Mr
W. Morley
Mrs
MC. Pirie
WY. L. Pattenden, Esq.
CHIEF MATAGES
Hongkong-NJ. STABB, Ea
MANAGER.
Stangbai-A. G. STEPHEN, Esq.
CAPITAL
ROZZVE
62,007,000= (28,000,000
Fan9257,149= (2. 109,16
HEAD OFFICE—AMSTELUJE Branches at
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Rotterdams
READ AGENCY-BARATTA.
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HONGKONG INTEREST ALLOWED. “... On Current Account at the rate of Two per cent. per annum on the daily balance
OS FILED DEPOSITS-
For 3 months, 2 per cent. per annum.
S. J. STABB,
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Hongkong, July 12, 1917.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
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Cogle
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9. Mr and Mrs
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family except one lit:Is fellow, 17 years old and sion, he could safely say that he had.
and Mrs Hammer E. M.Sleigh and children' Mr E W. Smith about five foot high. He was, calmly never been mis-reported or unfairly Mr and Mrs Wm. Mr.J. B. Stalke eating his breakfast. The bed of one river created by the Press. His experience was
Jackson MG, B. was simply shot away, the water had been that whenever a politician made an un-Mr 3. W. James
Jamer literally blown out of its bed, which was he put the blame on the Press. In nine Mr G. Kawada guarded statement, and it got reported, Mr J. Joseph. merely collection of shell holes, improved the bathing, for big crump Press was right and the politician was and-a-half cases out of ten, however, the holes maks quite good bathing pools. wrong.
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