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THE BATTLE OF KATCHANIK. the drive of the Serbians, but they had ander-estimated the strength of their enemy.

The Sartians bad abandoned some barbed wire at Uakub, which the Bulgarians, atrung before their trenches, but it was useless, becauze insufficient in quantity. The Bulgarians repaired sections of the railroad from Uskub je Katchanik, and used light fight ma which were bauled from Uskub to Katchanik by teams of 20 oxen and then sent back to Vikub by force of gravity,

New Yons, Doc.. 21. The Chicago Deity. News publishes the following dispatch by Mr Louis Edgar Brown, dated from Rome, describing bit impressions at the battle of Katchanik, where he witnessed what was destined to be the last Serbían ofensive :-

When the Bulgarians took Uskob 5,000

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1916.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA

·DOJK COMPANY, LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thi NORAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the BONKING & WHATA Dock Costeany, Lxurren: "Wil) ba bold at the Company's Ofico Queen's Buildings, Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 14th February, 1916, at 12 o'clock Noc, when the subjoined Extraordinary Resolu tion, which is passed at the Extraordinary GODI

Mesting of the Company held on

the 17th January, 1916 will be submitted for confiresation as a special resolution.

INTIMATIONS

'YOUR EYES

That the Regulations contained in the SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTED,

printed document submitted to this must-

ing and for the purpose of identification

subscribed by the Chairman heroof be

At the first symptom

amended as bersafter sat out and that much of eye strain you should

regulations so smended be and the same

Are hereby approved and adopted as the consult-us.

Articles of the Company in substitution for

We test

and to the exqlusion of all the existing eyes scientifically and fit Article therec."

The said amendments are :—

glasses to individual re-

That Article 67 be amended by the quirements. elimination of the words the Chairinan "

·în liua oon thereof ämd by the substitution.

of the word "phrës” for the word ̈*fva“A in line two thereof.

That Article 82 be eliminated.

That the following words be added at. the end of Articla 84 but any such appointment shall be subject to confirmation hp, the Company at the next ordinary Yearly Meeting.

That paragraph (b) of Article 90 be eliminated, and the following paragraph dubatitated therefor:-

(b) A Director who is a member of, or a Director of, or a momber of the Consulting Committee of, or otherwise interested in, 'ä Public Company which is interested in any contract or arrangement braught up for determination at any Meeting of the Directors shall notwithstanding be entitled to vote as a Director in respect of such V contract or arrangement provided

(*) That to bas disclosed his interest in such Public Company befors such contract or arrangementia voted upon by the Directors.

(b) That the Public Company so intarest

ed. is not Company whereby a Frivate firma became incorporated, and

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MERTING of SHAREHOLDERS will be

held at the Has KONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 12th February, 1918, at Report of the Directors together. with Noox, for the purpose of receiving the Statement of Accounts for the

31st December, 1915.

your onding The TRANSFER DUDES of the Dom- pany will be CLOSED from the 7th to the (c) That he is not a General Manager of 14 February (both days insinaïve), the Public Company in question mod during which period no transfer of shares that the drm in which he is a partner can be effected or which ha represents are not the General Managers or General Agents of such Patlie Company. Save sa above provided ne Directör shall

of the original 20,000 - men in garrison Prisoners said that a German the two a Director voto in respect of sty

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mide a lart stand in the hills midway between Uskub" and Katchanik, 816 Bulgarians ontflanked them from the Tetaro plain and Zorced the Serbians to taka up at position at the entrance to the

Katchanik Defile.

·

There had been little fightlagat Katchanik" nome days previous to the HE Watersigned having been appointed Serbians' decision to. begin their ratrast THE

AGENTS for the CUTIE HARBOUR through Cakeb-to Kalkandelen. The COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quote Bulgarians fought along a crescant shaped pricen "for best quality BILIMPOPON front of 15 miles. The Katchanik Defile COAL trimmed into Bunkers a; SEBAT- TIE or SANDAKAN (British North is placed near the outside of the bottom of the crescant. Katenamik was of the highest FILIMPOPON COAL compares favour. importance to the Balgarien, been big the |ably with the batter grades of Japanese Serbian stronghold there blocked their Cast and gives good results on a very advance north to Prishtins and wast to moderate comsumption.

Prizreed along the milway. They there. fore determined to expel the Serbians. The Bulgarians concentrated two half divisions at Katchanik for this purpose.

Steamers calling at SEBATTIK SANDAKAN exclusively for 81UTMPO- EON COAL (either cargo or Bunker) are exempt from payment of sil Fort charges.

At Sabattik Steamers are barched along, side the Company's wharf where there is a minimum depth of 27 to 23 feet at low water Spring Tides

Chaits of Sibake Bay (Sebattik Har tour), Prices and all other information equcerning the Port can be had ou application to the Agents.

Bangkong,[Dec, 2.. 1815.

The Serbiane on leaving. Uszyb had sent to Mitrovitz all their locomotives except two, into whose freboxes they had thrown band grecados, so that the "bollers were nothing more than masses of twisted tubes. engineer locomotives, which were of German make. was already at work repairing

On the third day the Serbian artillery reduced its firing to occasional shells, as they were hostmading their ammunition. nights, now dropped exhausted in their The man, having passed many sloopless gan amplacements and slept uncovered, amid the main and mud, the debris, and the

scattered cartridge cases.

Next day to the infantry came the order to attack, and was received with stolid, unemotional comprehension,The Serbians fixed bayonets, and prepared to sell their calmly dag themselves out of the mud, fires dearly. The first stack struck the Bulgarians in the funk of evening. The Serbiane drove on like huge waves, accept. ing only hand encounters, and not pausing to be abreased with a determination to get to aim the fire of their rides. They armed their bayonets into the Bulgarians bodies laughing at them as their foes lay mortally wounded on the ground. Detached groups it a hundred places along the battle front stabbed, dubbed, bit, and choked savagely. The battle became a métắt such as only Bulgarians and Serbiens as enemies are capable of fighting. The ruling passions were hatred and revenge.

The Serbinze had more than 100 guns, mostly the French 75 and 155 (Bid.) type,

The battle listed all night. Next day mortars, and apparently ammunition for an crdinary engagement, and more terrible weapon. Imagine a steel sufficient the Serbians produced their most prized Threo Serbian infantry regiments were bross-capped case, flied with explosive withdrawn from the northern Austro, gelatino, the whole weighing 5lb., one or BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,

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on their ability to pierco the Bulgarian | terrific. # 1027 line, bocase the reduced pressure on the After 12 hours' fierce fighting the Morava Austro-German front would accelerate the and Shumadis Divisions suddenly pierced onomy & advance, which war gathering heightened ag Bulgarian (roat Victory seemed again

such tremendous mementum that hence-

upon everyone's

lips.

What are the forth it would be impossible to check it.

Allies doing The question remained permanently unaswered. The battle began, and the Serbiana esw

The Serblaus dashed headlong into the red. Simple, frank, clear-eyed fighters, breach made by the Morava and Shumadis they hated the Bulgarians with uusqualled | Divisions, but the Bulgarians- gatherod intensity. Each Serbian prayed God be ne reinforcements, and before morning night kill two Bulgarians before he him that breach, opened at such a price, was

again closed. self went to meet his Maker. The Serbians

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trasted implicitly in the justice of their country's use and believed that God could not let them lose their deciding battle.

The battle was ended, and the Serbisus

had lost the road to Uskub

The Serbians, realizing that their retreat was cut off, fought like cornered wolves, The Bulgarians advanced less thans milos day. The "Barbian nation knew its cause was lost, but the army was determined to die in a blaze of glory, resisting to the last shell and to the last man.

A. Serbian soldier said:

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The Serbian artillery began the fray. Thousands upon thousands of shrapnel and high explosive shells were thrown on the enemy. Bulgarian prisoners' skid- that on the first three days of the battle the would rethez die on the field of battle Serbien shelle fell on the Bulgarian first than live under the Bulgarian.The and second lize trenches and barricades as many Balgarians with me as possible. Bulgarians have conquered, bat I will take.

continuously with a roar like that of a There will be many who will never enjoy siren on an occan liber. Never during the the day of triumph over the Serbians." (" Brst days of the bombardment did the The artillery continued to fre spasmodis-

ovorything was drowned in the continuous over the mountains with wagons piled high | gone. The ozɛteams were no longer.coug scream of the exploding Serbian shells.with shining ahells and passing through I reached Ferizovitch, 15 miles from the Ferizovitch on the way to feed the artillery's hungry maw. Instead, they were travelling battle front, on the first day of the the other way, the wagons filed withĮ struggle. The sound of the artillery was wounded and dying Berbians. Then began like distant thunder. Three miles away the Serbians great retreat.to Prizrend

and Ipek. where the ensky road crossed a mountain ridge I mw n'steady stream of tea-ox teams, Hespod high with ammunition boxes. A French doctor at Ferizovitch. pointed to the line, and cald ** That stream of ox team ammunition trafos started over the mountain at noon the day. before yesterday and has swept on cease- lowly day and night aver since."

"I looked at those gigantic Serbian and: the tips, and as the teams passed through |Bwies oxen, with horns, six foot between

the village carrying shells to the thunder- ing artillery, I realized how true' was the Serbiana' Loast that, although their baggage Ammunition trains move only eighteen miles a day, yet they always aTÍVO.

The Bulgarians' rude trenches, consisting

to 4925 inclosivo, standing in the Register of two foot heaps of broken rock, were in the name of Frank Barrington. Deaconpregnable to infantry, but vulnerable to baving been tout. Notice is hereby given artillery Within 48 hours the Bulgarians that unless the said Certificate be produced retreated four miles to escape the withering at the Office of the Company Queen's fire of the Serbian batteries Boad Central, Victoria, Hongkong, en or The Bulgarians were, not surprised by bafora the Third day of February, 1910, & now Certificate for this anid shuleswill be u- sued and the old Certidents will thereafter Es hdd by the Company as null and vold,

MOWBRAY'S. NORTHOOTE

Acting Secretary Hongkong, Jan. 3, 1918, w5 4

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contract or arrangement in which be in interested and it be do so vote his vote shall not be counted.

That Article $0 be amanded by the word seven in line four thereof. substitution of the word "Ave" for the

That the following new Article bein sorted after Article 96:--

JOAN. D. HUMPHREYS. & BON,

General Managers... Hoogkong, Feb. 1. 1916.

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY,

LIMITED

-į. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

73

The Company may by Extraordinary THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL Resolution remove any Director GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- before the expiation of bis texin of HOLDERS will be held in the Offices of office and appoint another person in Mears. DopWELL & Co. LISTED, en his stead. The person sa appointed MONDAY the 14th February, 1918, at shall hold office during such time only 11 a.a. for the purpose of receiving the as the Director in whose place he is

appointed would have held the same

he bad not been remored." That the following words be added at the end of paragraph (a) of Article 35:- A Director who is entitled to vote (a provided by Article 10 (3) notwith standing his interest is to be counted in a quorum, but otherwise & Directnt who is interested is not to be counted in a quorum...

19.

That the words to any, regulations be eliminated from line seven of Article 107 ambthat the following words be sub- stituted therefore subject is to such words not being inconsistent with such (if any) regulations xa are" and that the provisions of these presents" be eliminated from lines eight and nine of Article 107.

That paragraph (3) of Article 108 be eliminated.

That Article 112 be eliminated and the following Article subatituted therefor

RESZEVE JUND.

(1) The Directors before declaring a "-dividend may with the auction of the Company in General Meeting_set aside cat of the profits of the Com: pany such sums as they think

proper

port of the General Managers together

a statomant of accounts to: 31ɛt: December, 1915.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be OLUSED from the 7th to. 14th February both daten inclusive.

DODWELL & COMPANY LIMITED."

General Manageri, vid Hongkong, Jan. 31, 1916.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANË. ING CORPORATION,

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

ING of the SBAREHOLDERS in: this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALLay Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 19th day of February, 1918, at Noox, for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Cours of Directors together with a statement of

the 31 Accounts for the year ending the Desember 1915

NURDINARY YEARLY MERT

The REGISTER of SHARIS of the Corporation will be CLISED from MON- DAY, the 7th February, to SATURDAY,

58 reserve, fund to meet com the 19th February 1916 (both days fingencies, or faz egualising divi inclusive), during which period ze transfer depds. et.

or for special dividends or for of shares can be registered. repairing

By Order of the Court of Directors May of the

and maintaining

Fof-the

the Company

or for of any exis

ing reserve fund er for such other purposes Le they think conducive to the Company a intersets and may with such sanction as aforesaid pay out of the profits of the Company

NJ.-STABB,--

Chief Manager,

Hongkong, Jan. 31,-1910,

BOXING.

such bonuses as they think t to VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB. those members who for the twelve months covered by esch, profit and Jose account shall have contributed business to the Company (but so tha for bone to contributing members

any twelve zaɑnths shall exceed fifteen per cent of the net profite made during those manths). O (b) The Directors may inrest any sung set aside as a reserve fand upon such Investments (other than shares of the Company) as they may think it and may from tíme to time deal with and vay such investmorta, ** (The Directora miny employ the

fund for the time being or any portion thereof in or for any of the purposes for which it or for which auch portion was created and in or for, such other purposes as the

shall in their Directora

discre- tion

think ccndaties to the in „terests of the Company, and shall hare power to employ the assets constituting the reserve fund or any part thereof in the business of the Company and that without being bound to keep the same separate from the other assets of the Company. (d) The Directors may also with the Manction of the Company in General Heating employ the reserve fund for the time being or any part thereof in the payment of bonuses to membeza whether the part of the reserve fundi so employed shall bo set apart for that special purpose or not,

And that any necessary amendments to the numbering of the proposed: Articles be carried out... -

80

Dated the 2nd February, 2010,

By Ouder of the Board

EM DYER

Chief Manage

DON Poryss after the Shc Supper,

Und Idght' infrashinents.

ALEKANDEL CAR

Open Malght

SUBJECT to sufficient entrice being

received in AMATEUR Boxing Competition opon to Hongkong will be held in the Gyzassítim of the: V.B,0. ex FRIDAY, February 25th

CONDITIONS.

(s) 3 two micute rounds and il undecided

an extra round of one minute.

(b) In a weights, 118 lbs, 132 lbs. and.

(4) Competitors weigh in at V.R.C." on plit night of February 24th,

* Entries stating weight to be addressed to 1.DEAKIN Esq., 0/0 Y:RO before. February 15th. No Entrance Fou,"

No Competition if less than 18 entries. refen entries.

The Committos reserve the right

Hongkong, Jan 21, 1918,

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