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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8′ 1916,

ENTERTAINMENT.

THEATRE ROYAL

LAST 8 PERFORMANCES OF

THE GROTESQUES

THE LAUGHTER NAKRH", FROM TEX SAVOY THEATRE, LONDON,

Wednesday, February · 10th. "A VILLAGE CONCERT ".

Thursday, February 11th. "THE MAYOR'S MATINEE.”

Friday, February› 12th. LAST AND FAREWELL PERFORMANCE. SPECIAL POPULAR PROGRAMME.

The "Grotesques" will do at Canton on Monday, 8th February and Tuesday. Oth February, and will return to Hongkong, playing their test thras performances at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday 10th. Thursday 11th and Frisky 12k Fabruaty, mhan three special popular, performances will ba gəyin.

...

PRICES: $3.00, $2,00 & $1.00,

Curtain at 9 15 pm. Booking at MOUTRIE'S. Hongkong, February 8, 1913,

a grimmer or more soul-seathing time than the three days.

THE KING AWFULLY PLEASED WITH ES.“.

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THEATRE ROYAL.

December 2-I haven't had time to Messrs. GONSALEZ BROS

HELL IN AN ORCHARD. were behind waiting till dark to relievebrightened up a lot, though wo have

OFFICER'S GRAPHIC STORY OF A

touch this letter since then. Jove, I must have been in a bad state when I wrote the above! That time was cer tainly a bit of a nightronte and we were very hard pot to it, but it had to come to an end some time, and now it's only merry, which unfortunately I hall not forget. Since then things have AGENCIES:

Tour two remnants of companies, and I spent 48 hours out of the interval your CRINKLANG: Messrs Gearing &

was sent out at durk to guide them ía.

week's rest in the trenches. Wa were i Co.

It was a joyful moment, too; it was

sant the scene of that pight attack HOT CORNER. MANILA: Messrs Macondray &

better than going home from school at of ours to clean up!" A most appall. the end of the term. Though every ing tadi, much worse than fighting. Co.

The following letter from an officer of

Now we are back in our billets again fr SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Co. | tar-

has been on to the Times man of ta was absolutely finished wo

crept in file for a mile through ditches three days and go back to our original Ltd.

of Ceylon by a correspondent:-

I then straggled seven miles across

trenches to morrow night. "Yesterday Bakre I do anything else, I must really the frozen pew, falling about in the

was one of the best day's I havo over GLASGOW: Messrs AR Brown, take a picer of your notepaper and sit dark, half asleep we eventually sent and things happened on it which McFarlane & Co., Ltd. düren and thank you most awfully for mached this village about aid-wight I shall never forget, I must tell you abour

the straply delighthol pureel I have just Five minutes afterwards every man wast For partiralars, apply to-

set frem you. I have just this moment

" Company, with Major-and self agutud in, and is was one of the best 10

in charge. weru kalected to go and sce minutes I have had for a long time, in-

the King, representing the regiment. preting its contents and rending the

Major and I, having seen them 60, We had only got back from the trenches letters that arrived at the same time, found out a collage close by and were at midnight, but set off at 7 in the moun- 815 They couldn't have arrived ut, a better delightfully received by the good lady, time either, as I will provved to show with enormous fowls of hit coffee, trad

ing. just as we had come out of the mall enter or do. Plenas excuse my French style inul nona bitter). We

trenches, dirty, unkempt, and weary, hus

thaisy hand : I'll explain rhur tou%

very willing and the King was awfully It's the fopped out plentilly The next plan with is. I Ea ten minutes coll- not drink or high Aving!

thing I beanl was Major—'s voice about

versation with laim, and about a quarter. Well logs te bours ago 1 atritei 4-30 am, colling out: Stand to your of an hour with the Prince of Wales. broken, "weazy, dirty and dejected after arms there! C-C-1 get the men who came up by himself after the show,

hout the wurst month I have ever had quickly..... Dad! I'm most awfully in my life, as a perfect paradise of a billet sorry; what have been saying! By seven miles in rear of the firing line in that time I was up and half way across

E. KATO,.. Manager,

· No. 2. Proper Stazer,

HONGKONO.

NEW MACAO HOTEL.

NOTICE.

TAKE NOTICE that on and after the 1st day of February, 1915, the Management of the above HOTEL will be Carried on by L. W. Mas in place of 0.C. Moosa, and all fatare correspondence and orders must be Signed by the sait L. IV. HAK.

NEW MACAO HOTEL,

Macao. Mann, 4th February, 1916.

NOTICE.

THE EAST INDIA SEA & FIRE INSURANCE CO.

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TE HAVE taken over the AGENCT of the abov's Company in Hongkong and are now prepared to grant FINE Rad MARINE policies of Insurance at Curran Rates.

THE CHINA COMMERCIAL CO.,

3. Duddell Street. Hongkong, January 18, 1915.

NOTICE.

L'UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. OF PARIS.

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JE HAVK taken over the AGzxey of

"down out" on the straw in his barn.

A FALSE ALAC

was over, and made himself most awfully agreeable, so much so that I found my self, much to my annoyance and I think a dear hito quiet village called the room. That alann over I slept like

to his own pleasure, talking to him ex You simply can't imagine how, horely nothing on earth till about 7am. whenactly as if he had been a subaltern in ad riping it is to sit the whole evering Major, came clattering into the room in front of the kitchen fire and deze and fully dressed and using rather strong with him and thought the King too splen my own regiment. I was really charmed snope a good pipe (my word, that pipe language and said "Come along, we're beling den und warm, and at peno got so turn out at once, the French have after 25 days and nights of cold and given way, in the ceatre and we've got wet and worse things.

to march 25 miles to rainforro them.

yent.

W the Ibero Company formerly held at

by Mesara. NITUMEN & Co. and are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS from this date.

CREDIT FONCIER

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Prince's Buildings,

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Hongkong, January 21, 1916.

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ENEMY 60 YARDS AWAY,

'did. for words,

LIFE IN THE TRENCHES.

Polar Expedition."

The following letters from the front have been received from "Somewhere in Franco“ by member of a large business firm in Londain, munster of whose staff are now

at the front-

A lance corporal writes: Nearly all of us are in horrible state, amothered with vermin; and, grovelling in the mud and clay, as we have to, it is impossible to keep class. You would think we were all train-

The weather is awful-we have had practically nothing but in for the last three weeks, and our trenches are in terrible s ate. It is quite common to see six inches of mud all over the place. The walls are all war and sliny and everything It takes us about three daya to`gez quz woad.

we wear in a picture uniforms free from:

We had a fairly heavy snowstorm, and then it began to freeze hard. You canzot imagine what it feels like to sleep in the open air with the thermometer at 17 de- grzes of frost with just no overcoat and no blankets. We are a bit better off now, an wo have been issued with fer cunts. We look Like & lor of bruken down actors, of a

I simply love the old lady-of-the-billet Hurry up, I'll go and get the men out." -obi-bar-se-little kids, und -her-neigh with that he disappeared, as I do"We Look Like a Second-hard

bours who all come in and sit round led out still half asleep and proceeded the tire and ask question abuat the war to do the filthy muddy kit I had flung mr everything imaginable! The rld of the night before, using awful language Body-mille-nged I ought to say, put and feeling that that was really the last has-looks after me very well, tdes straw, not even having had time to heaps of reable over my treature can has a hot bath. When me haut dress forte, nud is an excellent cook, and cured, booted and spurred, etc.. I went kitchen sitting rouru is as clean. a sew down to the kitchen to get sema taa pin. Sin you, see I am quite happy, ready before going out, and was grected and I think I deserve it, as I will show with a roar of laughter from the Major who was sitting with his feet, or the atore quietly alpping an enormous bowling for artists to see our chins when we In the tranches 'wo have just lot of coffe. Having had his laugh he said good time, considering the conditione,

come out of the trenches. We have a fairly (thank wodness there was ono particu- Great Scott, I didn't think you would burly hot corner known to fanta as "The boy it, come and have some jolly Orchard as it consisted of the outside good coffee!" I told him briefly how hedge of an orchard round a farms. This I hate him and his votes, and crawled was held by my company "A" and my buck to bed for another hour.

d company "D" now comminded by Anyhow at 8.30 pan we did get called Wo used to be uttueked here, day fout! We marched seven miles, every- night, rkelhed. burbed, sniped, ono still as tired as dogy, slept from mid- chugged and everything under the sun, night till 3 a.m, on the frosty road, then stul simply had in stick it out and do got dug into an attack on some trenches what we could by everlasting digging, which three fadian regiments had been as we were not allowed to retaliate, being pushed out of, retoul thern with the lowe in inferior numbers. Well on the 20th of one of our civeriest of sports day of this, having been told that we and about 80 tuen; matched straight were going to be relieved or reinforced back Ave miles, where we had a few secondhand Pular Expedition.

A private stares: Just in front of the daily, for about a fortnight, all of a sud-hours sleep and then continued on to our

trench were holding the Germans have in we woke one morning (we never billets, arriving there about 4p. 50apped up and dag a trench within 60 Alpire than two hours at a time) you see, for three days and two nights yards of oure, and pat some very st to find that the enemy had sapped up too had been practically continually on snipers in, whose ons idea reous to be to within 60 yards of us and built a huge the move and incidentully had some very

interrupt var distinctly homely mosin. Their ballets came through ear loopholes redoubt here during, the night, from unpleasant and diicult work to do. and continually deposit large lumps of rich which they could throws genades and not going to give you the number various very unplacent kituls of bombs of miles marched in so many hours, or right into our trench! Even then they the number of hours we went without üldn't let Major-attach and clear sleep until we got eleven and hilf thern out, and of course the Orchard be-hours fitful slumber in the frozen snow, came a 'moro uhsavoury residence every as it wouldn't conviy uy caning of kour,

what we really went through, Sufficient Bet what antinged us most was that to scy that it would be hard to imagine that very night they sent the Sanforthe in to relieve the other two companies | which had a inost easy time of it. harity shelled at all, and practically no casualties. They went off into ̈níen comfy billets, and left us in the lurch Well, how we did it I don't know, but! we did stigle it out for another six days. The first night it 'mowed line oki boots mul pour old—, my companion and s rent friend of mine," went out, with al putrol, all dressed in white e as to be test visible in the snow, and got shot on the parapen of the Geninen treache Only one of the patrol got back. It wa one of the wount nights I have ever spent, Major and I.and into men sent the whole blused night crawling about on nur icmache in lite snow under quito # heavy fire trying to find them but only picked up, one just before dawn when, of crung, it was too late. However,

't Is gnome, and I will wi-off the starte

will skip the rest till the day ut last came when we heard that tho, Seaforths

The Man Who Gets There

1s the man who has blood- real rich red blood and plenty of in his body.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

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OF ALL CHEMISTS

PRICES. $1.25 and 89.25.

PRESENT

THE

ITALIAN GRAND OPERA COY.

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DIREJT FROM MILAN,

OPENING NIGHT

15th February, 1915.

FOR A SHORT SEASON ONLY.

Monday, 15th February. GRAND OPENING NIGHT "IL TROVATORE" (English. The Troubadour.) Osana IN FOUR ACTS

Tuesday, 16th February. “LA. TRAVIATA ”

OPERA 13 TEREZ ACTS, Founded on Dumas' "Lady of the

Camelias" but the Period is Changed to the time of Louis XIV.**

Score by QUISEPPE VERDI..

Wednesday, 17th February. SPECIAL DOUBLE BILL. "Cavalleria Rusticana” OPERA IN ONE ACT.

To be followed by

"PAGLIACOI”

DEAM IN Two Acr Magio by LEUN CAVALLO. Thursday, 18th Februrry.

VERDI'S

"RIGOLETTO" OPERA IN THREE ACTS. Friday, 19th February.

COUNOD'S

“FAUST”

Saturday, 20th February. SPECIAL ATTRACTION, BIZET'S

"CARMEN":

PRICES: $3.00 $2.00 $1.00 BOOKING AT Montrie's. Business Manager" A. CARPL Advance Representative Gro. LESLIE.

Hongkong, Feb. 4, 1918.

-10%

CONCERT

in aid of

Lady Lugard's Belgian Refugees Fund

By the Pupils of the

MUSIC CLASS OF THE ITALIAN CONVENT to be held at The Convent, Caine Road,

Da

Tec

MONDAY and TUESDAY, 15th and 16th February, 1915, commencing each evening, at 6 pim. Admission (by ticket) : 31.

Children's Afternoon: Saturday, 13th February, 1915, commoncing p.m.

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Entrance: 20 centi. Hongkong, Feb. 5, 1915.

ƊETWEEN

LOST.

brown earth into our tea or stow. Somo timos, unfortunately, there has boon one of us watching at the loopholes at the very moment one of these ballets came through; bat heads don't stop bullen, as I have seun, and we bare baried several who fell in this way, and others have only been wounded.

Another private writes: I'm sure you

Hongkong Hotel and won't mind getting me a pair of very strong Dusen's Gardens a PEARL and heavy boots, nailed, size 30, and the widest DIAMOND CRESCENT BROOCE set fitting you ma get. Buy anything about in gold. Suitable reward upon returning to 10s, and please send them as quickly as the Hoogkong Hotel. possible, as the sole is off my only guir, and we are existing in a foot of water and rud

And if you will sand me a large supply of chocolats plain-1 should be very grate ful. We can't smoke, se qus-moutha arÐ raw from salt bally horf, and we simply. long for sweets. Spend the rest of the EL

TRUTH BENEATH A POSTAGE. STAMP.

That things are far from rasy in Gar Aoy, despite the order to make Berlin appear gay, is evidenced by vos received in a peculiar way by loading New Yorke merchant. A fusiness man of Hamburg with whoin his has had large dealings, wrat himatter nut marcinulle matters, 4* Please return the a posteripe The Now adding as a samp, tay buy collects. York merchout, suspecting there must be sums strong imptive behind-this strange. roquest, carefully steamed off" the samp and read these "illuminating "words -

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