NIGHT IN THE TRENCHES.
AN FERIE" EXPERIENCE FOR THE LAYMAN.
t',
OUR ALERT SOLDIERS,
(Press Association War Special.) British Headquarters. France, June 22-Following
visible through a periscope, the blas and white line of their pare pet stretching away on either hand into the gloom. In the intervening space between the two lines a30 one or two dark heaps of bodies of Germans killed while out working
HE HONGKONG TEI APH
MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915,
COMPANY REPORT."
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Some of Our
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd...
at night. Of the enemy there is Capital subscribed Dot a sign. You can watch his by the Share parapet for half an hour without holders.... come flying over from his trench Mortgage Deben. detecting any movement, Bulleta Reserve Fund all the time, but the marksmen are concealed, and give no target
tures
1,000,000,00
By-products and Specialities.
048,975.78 CORNED BEEF,
749,500,00
$1,898,475,78
the Company ...$2,308,476.78
Report of the board of directors |
our guide, a typical Irish sergeant, for a return shot. A can boisted we entered a long communication above our parapet would be per- trench in single file and plodded forated before it had been there Working Capital of along in dead silence, our boots five minutes. This aar men well now and again sinking in the know, and take no unwise risks. sluzby mad that had risen over The Dug-out an Officers: Mess. the boarding at the bottom of the trench. The walls on either hand were wet and greasy as the result of recent rain. An occasional rat scuttled away at the sound of our footsteps.
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We passed on through several to be presented at the ordinary CORNED TONGUES, senses, the man in each keenly mesting of shareholders, to be on the alert, till we reached held at the Company's Hotel, at our destination the officers' Neon, on Saturday, August
Bingenuity mess. The
dis-28, 1915.
WHICH CANNOT BE EXCELLED FOR QUALITY.
500.00
played in making the doug- To the Shareholders of the Hong- It was not yet very dark, and
out that served for this purpose kong Hotel Company Limited. the surrounding waste of fields as comfortable and homelike as was lit up by that strange greyish possible was remarkable. The to submit their report for the half Gentlemen:-The directors beg light that sometimes comes just apartment was comparatively year ended 30th June, 1915. at $500 $ a dusk is fading away into night. roomy and some six feet high. Now and again an owl screeched The window boasted an uncracked ing sccount amounted to $68,- Less one
Accounts: The profit on work- each 750,000,00 from his perch in a gaunt tree stripped of most of its branches pane of glass, before which stood 839.24 as compared with $105,- held b
a table covered with the latest 325.31 for the corresponding the com- by the passage of shelle, while a bat fiapped away into the dark-Papers and bearing a jag of wild period of 1914, being decrease
pany .... flowers gathered from the field of $36,688.07. ness. The atmosphere was die behind the trench. In one cor
The profit and low account, in- Sundry oreditora tinotly eerie, but our sergeant was ner stood a well-made bookcase, cluding the sum of $27,664.34 Unclaimed dividends absolutely indifferent to his our constructed from a packing case, brought forward from December Reserve fand au per roundings, and stumped on with filled with novels. The dining- 31, 1914, shows a credit balance out even turning his head to see table in the centre was amply of $102,16471, which the direc- Reserve fund for re
last s/c if we were following. At certain sufficient for the eight of us who tors recommend should be sp- pairs and renewals intervals be warned us in a graff sat down to the meal which was portioned as follows:-
as per above state- whisper to keep our heads down served by two orderlies. Though To pay a dividendof- lest we should be sighted by some the dinner service was somewhat $2.50 per share on
ment German sniper.
rough, the nature of the food was After what seemed like miles
20,000 Shares of this unending narrow trench, we enddonly emerged on to oross road. There was no sign of life here, and every cottage within sight looked as if it bad been blasted by lightning, Huge holes had been torn in the paving
of the best. Soup was followed To transfer to repairs by shops, with beans and pots- and renewals toes, while tinned frait and cream BOODUD... 126 LB 120 were succeeded by coffee and some excellent benedictine.
To write off furniture
säd · · fixtures. scoount..................ÁRIOS TRA To write off steam try forward to launch, etc New Account ......
1
$50,000,00
BIRTH..
WRIGET—At the Govern ment Civil Hospital on the 15th. instant to Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Wright a daughter,
DEATH.
At Colombo, aged 90., [the 749,500.00
Father of Messrs. Sheriff Bros. $20,800.88 Jewellers, 30 Queen's Road, late 3,936.50 Chief Interpreter to the Sultan of
Maldive Island.
648,976.78
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Balance of profit and
Losa Balance from last re-
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date
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year to
$27,064.34
74,500.37,
From SHANGHAI, KOBE
AND MOJÍ,
PRICE 4:50 PERDOZ.
10,000.00
102,184.71 NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
$2,634,498.10
ASSETS.
THE Steamship
2,000.00
33,784.84 Value of properties
$2,212,043,32 per last lo $102,184.71 | Plus additionale and
alterations
retires by rotation but offers him- Directors: Dr. J. W. Noble self for re-election.
“SANGOLA”
4,024.78 having arrived from the above. consignees of cargo www.ports,
are hereby informed that their $2,216,068.08
goods will be delivered from alongside.
"Watchman. What of the Night 7" Dinner over, we went for a of the road, while in a ditoh lay stroll round the lines. The moon To mouldering the remains of a dead had risen by this time, and by horse. It was not a pleasant ita clear light everything could be spot, sad we involuntarily seen with great clearness. Sentries quickened our steps, finally were still at the parapet, ever on breaking into a run on the the watch fors human target, while advice of our guide, who pointed dozens of rifles with gleaming out that we were in full view of tayonets and rounds of ammuni-
(The Company's pro the German trenobes,
tion lying beside" "
each, stood Shelling the Opposing, French, leaning against the parapet ready tion of Mr. A. O'D Gourdin, the
Audit: Owing to the indisposi perties were valued by Messrs. Palmer A quick dart and we were in to be grasped at an instant's accounts have been audited by -and-#-Turner on yet another trenob, different, notice by the men reating in their Mears. A. R. Lowe, F.C.A, and
August 23 1913, however, from
the
last. dug-aate. The far-away splutter H. Feroy Smith, F.C.A., the latter at $2,314,215.00) Here the parapet Wae of a machine-gun somewhere down having been requested by the Furniture and fix- higher and
the walls were the line showed that some move Bourd to sot for Mr. Gourdia.tures, etc. as per farther apart, while at intervals a ment in the enemy's line had Mesars. A.R. Lowe, F.U.A, and A. last account sentry was encountered watching been detected, or, perhaps, it was O'D Goardin offer themselves for Written off as per last the opposing line through a hole some German working party that re-election. onnningly concealed in the sand- had been discovered digging a bagu. At one spot a dug out had saphead under cover of darkness.
J, W.O. BONNAR,
Chairman
been made in the trench wall, and At the back of the trenches stood Hongkong, 10th August, 1915. here lay an observation officer, some shattered cottages and
whose duty it was to watch the farmhouses, the moonlight profit and Loss Account, for the effect of our shella pitched from making strange shadows through Haif Year ending 30th June, 1915. the battery away back in the the gaping holes and jagged
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Crown rent
rear. Beside him was an orderly crevices in the masonry. In one To Bad and doubtful with a telephone-receiver glued to his ear. Just as we passed, the orderly, at the command of his officer, spoke an order down the telephone..
*Try No. 4 gun on target X" were the words emerging from the dugout.
The officer, through his glasses, watched for the shell. It came within a very few seconds whistl ing low over our heads, and burat with a Ballen boom over the point aimed at.'
corner we came across a large debta pool, the result of a heavy Get-To man shell some weeks ago. It was evident that some mea had also been baried by the explosion.
Occasionally during our round a flare rocket was sent up from a German trench. For a minute or so the whole area between the trenches was brilliantly lit up the tangle of grass and weeds, the few dead bodies lying out in the open, the lung stretob of the enemy's purapet-then the flare "Good," murmured the obser fell and barnt itself ont in the ver, that was right over the grass, a tiny spark in the gur- 'trench." Then, turning to the rounding darkness, orderly, "tell them to register on A night walk through qach that last target."
surroundings us these producea
1
2
Rates
24
"
"
Fire insurance .......
*45
Interest ...
Directors' fees ... Auditors' fesa Balanco a per balanos sheat
report
Since added...
nstallation of electric light, plant, mach- inery, etc. as per Lust 8/0 513.35 5,205.76 Since added
$1,468,97
5,010,41
21,363.28
102,164.71
$138,624.48
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at: Consignee's risk and expense into the harzardous and/or extra hazar- dous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited.
No Fire Insurance has been
$119,896,97 effected.
Bills of Lading will be count- 10,000.00 | wraigned by the undersigned.
DAVID SASSOON
$109,896.97
52,53
$109,949,50
& Co., Ltd. * Hongkong 16th, August 1915.
o'tgagee)
(By Order of the
PUBLIC AUCTION,
com-
The Undersigned has received $3,830.63 instructions to sell by Pablice
136.69
Auction on
MONDAY. 3,467.37 the 23th August, 1915,
mencing at 12 o'clock noon ati his Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, (For account of the Concerned) 60 Shares of the "Yuo Tak Co., Ltd.".
2,500.00
400.00 Hotel's steam launch 'and motor boat as Jast account per Written off as par
lant report
$23,000.00
4,000,00
22,000.00
Rents of shops and
"
Scrip foos
8.00
panies as per Jast“
Bad debts recovered
417.76 Bccount
4,371314
Dividends on shoren
By Ba'ance from De
cember 31, 1014... $27,684.34
Hotel Mansions" 40,670.00 Shares in public com-
in publiccompanies
Exchange Balance of work.
account
Another order down the tele-to many impressions that it is phone and another shell came impossible to record them clearly. from the concealed battery, So The paramount feeling is, howing the business went en while we evar, undoubtedly one of trust in stood and watched.
the ability of our officers and men
In the First Line,
(Market value on June 494.00 1915 10,082.00).
Stock of linen, 73114
orookery,glassware," 68,639 24 Wines, provisione,etc. Linen, crockery, etc.,
etc. (in ass) License attached to
1915 B
$138,624.48
to hold each his bit of khaky line "Time's getting on, sir," said against any attacks, no matter our sergeant, and we reamed our how strong, of the enemy. The Reserve Fund for Repairs and Sundry debtors march. The trench winds on for confident spirit and steadfast" some distance further and then courage prevailing throughout the opens, out into the front line a ka is such that no doubt can
Renewals for the First
Half Year, 1918.
trenches. Here there is plenty of benter ained but that this To Payments on ac. activity, with men moving about objeto which the wit and in- everywhere. Some are standing geun'ty of every man is devoted-- behind the six-foot wall of mud will be successfully attained, and sandbago, now and egain loosing cff their rifles, perhaps at some aniper they
have located." Others are making their ton, the can being suspended| by a bayonet over a little bucket
of flaming wood. In the dug-cats
Fire insurance (anex-
pired premis)
49,179,82
(Nos. 801-860)"... Terme-Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
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Embrocations Fail
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By Balance from De-
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The new war story picture
count during the first half year 1915. $8,000.01 Fired deposit
3,020.23 Current account To Balance.....
$11,629.24
$11,629.24
$11,029.24
Hongkong & Shang- bai banking Cur. poration:
75,000.00
2,954,62
77,954.62
Csak in hand
1,274.51 $2,634,498.10]
Victoria Theatre.
the figures of men enatching a "The Child Killers" is attracting little sleep muffled in their b'an-large houses at the Victoria. The kets are vaguely discernible. film is based on the terrible fact Bullets sing overhead at intervals thet, early in the war, a little Capital
Balance Sheet 20th June 1915 LYABILITIES,
or bury themselves with a sharp French child was shot by a Cher 20,000 shares at $50 orack on the outside of the para man officer for presenting a toy each fully paid up1,000, pat. Shells there are none at gun at the invaders. There are 1,500
present. It is still too darly,
Much The Boomy's Trenches.
The German trenches some two hundred yards away are faintly
other extremely good items on the programme, including "Pathe's dabi Gazette and another Sherlook turen (8 Holmes episode.
(per cent.)
J. H, TAGGART,
Acting Secretary.
ELLIS'KADOORIB }
Bold at ls. 4d.per bottle,
Agents for Hongkong,
Messrs. A, S. WATSON & 20, Ltd.
have required, and, in our opin- lion, the above balance sheet is 1. W. BONNAR Directora properly drawn up so as to exhibit Anditora ReportWe report a true and correct view of the state that we have examined the ad- of the company's affairs sooord- opunts of the Hongkong Hotel ing to the best of our information Company, Limited with the and the explanationsgiroD: jas booke, vouchers and securities and as shown by the books of the of the company for the half company
A, E. LOWE POAT year ending Jons 80, 1915. H. PEROY SMITH F, 0..A... We have obtained all the
AUDITORADENS information and explanations we Hongkong, 9th August, 1915.
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