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INTIMATIONS.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED

FORTY-SEVENTH MEETING THE SHAREHOLDERS in the Court pany will be held at the Company's Olles, No. 9. Queen's Road Central, Victorin, va THURSDAY, 7th April 1918, at 12 o'clock Nees for the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and the Report.

INTIMATIONS

LUSITANO RECREATION CLUB TENTH ATHLETIC MEETING.

PATRONS.

LIS Excellency Sir E. MAY, FI KUMAL, H. E. Maton-GENER (2 F. VESTRAES, His Lordship D BAZZONI calmiral ASSTRETHER, RS, Thur Elon. Mr W. ChATIFA, CALG,

The COMMITTEE have much pleasure

of the Director for the gear ending 31stin inviting, the Ladies and Gentlemen of December. 1915.

the Celony to their Sports at the Race

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-Course (by kind permission of the Stew. pany will be CLOSED from the 14th toands of the Hongkong Jockey Club) on ibe 9th April, both days inclusive.

Ry Order of the Board of Directors.

C. PEMBERTON,

Secretary.

529

Hongkong. April 11, 1618.

CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TUTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that

an EXTRAORDINARY GENERA LA MEETING of the China Traders Insur ance Company, Limited, will be hel ́i at the Head Cffice of the Company. No. Connaught Road, Victeria in the Colony of Rengkong, on FRIDAY, the 5th day of May, 1818, at No, when the ahjuin. ed Resolation which was passed as k Extraordinary Resolution it the Extra ordin ry General Meeting of the said

EASTER MONDAY, 2uth inst,, com-

mencing at 1 pm)

A has very kindly consented

MAX

to distribute the Prizes at the conclusion of the Sports.

There will be one open event: 220- yals Championship open to all bona le Annateurs in the Colony under the rules of the AAA. SIMI

By kind permission of the officers the Band of the 4th Runjabis will play faring the afternoon.

By courtesy of the Management there will be special trim cars,

J. O. REMEDIOS, Hau, Senetury, Hongkong, with Mril 1916,

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

MS

THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of

Company held on the 18th day of April embers will be held, on SATUR

1916 will be submitted for confirmation a * Special Resolution

That the name of the Company be changed to the British Traders "Tasarance Company, 1.mited." Datel this 18to day of April, 1916, Hy Order of the Burd,"

C. MONTAGUE EDE

Neneral Mazugges

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

FINAL DIVIDEND of TWENTY Belts and a BONES of Tex Devas per Share for the year 1914 and Interim Dividend of, Thirty Dollars per Share for the year 19 will be "Payche on TUESDAY. the reth instant

Warrants may be hul on application: at the Other of the Selery on or after

that date.

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGEE. EDE,

General Manager.

Fongkong, April 19, 1916.

850

RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT.

TERMED LOAN OF 1918,

Foe FRL DO DỌC ĐẾN

QUBSCRIP MOX to the shava LOAN

5th May inc usively,

The price of issue is 9.

and

The losa is entirely free of Income Tax

of other taxation.

The low is redeemable at par on lat February, 1926, Rasian style, withcat option for the Russian Gorerament to Convert it at an

an earlier date.

Coupons are payablo half yearly on the 1st February and ist August, Russian MLyfe.

As interest ca the, above inan" runa from 14t/14th February, the interest accrued on date of subscription must be

DAY, the 9th April, 1918, at 12 o'clock Neos, at the Uficos of the ducky B, on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUY ANNZI, Chuter Road. By Order,

T: F. HOUGH,

Cleric of the Course. Hongkong, April 15, 1916.

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB

EARLY MORNING GOLF.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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Smokers of GARRICK

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GARRICK CIGARETTES are always the same always good, always satisfying.

They possess a most pleasant flavour and are unquestionably, the Enest Virginia-Cigarette manufactured

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WOMEN'S WAR WORK IN HONGKONG.

BALL played on to any portion of the Sand Track, Gross-Track, or in the Ditches on both sides of the said Track

must be lifted and dropped in the fairway not nearer to the hole, ander pansity of one stroke.

This Los Rule applies only to Early Morning Golf, and has been introduced to Aroid Enzoyance to riders and ponies on the track.

Players are renested to keep their caddies of the rain when ponies are passing.

The above Local Rule is applicable to the Par Cup when competed for in the early morning.

Ty. Order of THE COMMITTEE, Hongkong. April 11, 1918.

B29

"LITTLE WONDER".

5 inch RECORDS.

The MARVEL of

The Musical World.

30 cents each, 4 for $1.00 cash.

Where the River Shannon Flows Tenor Jule

ken into consideration and is to be added My Wild Irish Rose... to the price of issue.

The old Folks at Home The Rosary

The Rosso-Aistic Bank in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the abort named loan.

Special favourable rates will be quoted for Bussian exchange.

Payment may also be made in Roubles. Applications will be wired to Petrograd

free of telegraphie charges and commission. 40% only of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to ba paid on receipt of the Bonds.

The Bauk is also ready to give every facility to abezibers in the shape of advances against the rips.

G.. TISDALL,

Manager

"Bangkong, March 30, 1916...

O Proviise Me ...

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20 urgical shirt, 15 sheet" (draw), 3]

beks, 4 hot water bort voxes, 1907 manyaled bandages, tanur! The following garments have been sent, bandages and several grow other band- Home this week by the women of Bougies, kong and, Our Little Bit Workers The test dressings have come" just Society, Kowloon

in time, as we have received about a

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COAL DEPARTMENT,

To "Miss Viving. The Maurice Hostel hundred wounded from the NW. FronOLE PROPRIE PORS of TAKA 52, Herbert Strées, Huxton N-Two, and are now receiving cases ditcet

of women's and childrebran toral camps.-Yours sincerely, pereris clothes,

To Mrs. Eden, Jackanapes' Work Society, DF, Marlborough Mansions, West Flarrpeted-34 pra mocks, 15 its pyjamas, 2 bandages, 18 prs. mittens,

dox, uifiers, I doz. pr. bedsocks, 1 duz. khaki handkerchiefs, 14 km collars.

To Lirat. Wockey and his compinions, 14, Gas Reg British Expeditionary "Porin-One parcel ginger.

The tajlowing letters have beca Teceived-

Maurice Hostel..

02. Herbert Street,

Huxton - M

14th March, 1916.

•Messe accept our grateful thanks for seven parcels of clothing just reeived through Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Co. We are very glad to have these things, The price of all clothing has risen so much, and the price of "all food so ter. rids, that our poor people find it very liticult indeed to feed and clothe their families.-Your very gratefully,

„BESTURE VIVIAN.

Head Quarte,

Abbasin,

39/3/18. That Lady Mary-Ever so many thanks for all the things sent by the women of Hongkong. Two of the cases got to the Alexandria Bah General Hospital at before I could divert them, and I enclose

DECLINING VALUE OF GREAT

FORTRESSES..

THEIR PART IN EARLIER WAR PLANS.

BICE TO THE PICK AND SPADE,

The Day Aaronicle'a ** special correspondent writes on March 2

"I relegrajalel yesterday that, in fact. there is no Portress of Verdun except the French army; and immediately afterwards I read, in the Temps" and

L'Eure" respectively, articles by Generals de Luerex and Verrsax which would have, shocked their military friends

foog ago,

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AGENCIES:

*There are no longer any fortresses,” coneindes the former officer there are CHINKIANG: Messrs Gearing & now only defensive" organisations set in

Co. the line of the front." And General

Verrax, disenying the exact stratagical MANILA. Messrs Macondray &

Co. Importarge of Verdw. is nearly as uncompromising

When the great SINGAPORE: Mesara Borneo Co fortresses called Verdun, Toul. Epinal,

Ltd. Belfort "were built," he writes, was hoped, by drawing thither important enemy forces, to diminish the effectives of any army of invasion, and to canalise

in the non-fortified intervals.

Our field armies, deployed within these intervab, would then give battle

THE ANDERSON otter from Lirut,ssel Scott, in the best conditions. The utmost art

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TIME TABLE. »

WEEK DAYA.

7.00 am to 6.00 x.m...Every Ib minstes. 8.00am to 10.00 a. m... Every 10 minutes. 10.00a.m. to 11.00 am...Every 15 minutes. 1150a.m. to 12.15 p....Every 15 minutos. 17.18 p.m. to 1.18 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.16 p.m. to 145 p.m...Every 10 minates. 1.46 p.m. 6o 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 2.16 p.m. to 5.00 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 5.00p.m. to 8.10 p.Every 10 minutes,

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8.50 p.m. and 2 p., 8.30 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. very half hour.

11.00 pm to 11.45.p.m. every quarter of

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SUNDAY!.

7.45 a.. to 10.30 Km... Every 15 minutes. 16.80.m. to 11.00a.m...Every 10 minutes. 13.80a.m. to 12 Noon....Every 15 minutes, 19.00 Noonto 100 pin. Avery 10 minutes. 200p.m. 3.00p.m...Every 15 minutos. 6.00p.m. 5.00p.m...Every 10 mlantes, 6.00p.m. to 7.00p.m. Every 15 minute. 7:00 pm. bo. 8.10 p.m... Every 10 mizotas. NIGHT VARS on Work Days.

BATUADAYE.

Exten Uar at 13 midnight. SPECIAL QARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra BUILDINGS Dee Your Fand Central app wƐmason and panch tickets available for all came not already full running at the time stated in the Company's time tables, but not for special mare, can be abbaknad. de application at the Company's Oboe Bo Besson Holet will be saved t Dayment theriton has been made in Bank Nobes are by Cheque or Octapadoes cader espressisting Bank Notat

PIOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON

R.A.M.C., who is in command now, to show you what he says about them. As soon as he told me they had arrived wrote and naked him to end them to me here; to give to No. 2 Geceral Hoe pital, that bay just come over from

of the engineer was invoked to give these fortresses the capacity of the greatest resistaane. Entit happened that the art of the artilleryman surpassed that of the eaglueer; and that there shells of concrete and steel were powerless to resist the

GLASGOW: Messrs A. R. Brown, McFarlane & Co., Ltd.

For particular, apply

I. KATO,

Manager,

No. 2. PrDDEZ Branz,

Mudros, and has nothing; but he had impact of 300 and 420 shells." In SINGON & CO.

used some of the things, and will not these conditions our strongholds could no

EVERY BEETLE Prt, with the others. I had people at longer full the role for which they were

EVERY BUC

wang "Kosting's, commer fate thorough - tentacl

with it.

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home collecting or No. 19, and one built."... rich shipping friend bax at so ungh that that Hospital for the present ha as

The enlargement of the electives in maich as they require. I find the Ho pitals in my area here are very badly of, play, which make easy the masking of however; some of them, like No. 47, even the largest fortified town, and the have abuglately nothing, as everythingsastly increased power and accuracy of was spilt at Mudera. So I want to get artillery, guided by aeroplanes and exact the comforts to marry on with maps are the two great direct cause of is has been carried on bone by dle the abolition of the old, fortress and the Keener, but I inve written about it, and i unavowed declassing of isolated forta.. hope it will turn up later. If it does I But even more important is the indirec will send you the letter from the Bes affuence of the rediscovery of the power. pital I send it to. I will always do that, of the pics and spade. It is then that so as to let you know exactly where the have saved France, and thas” are now things have got to, and what they saying to make the completion of the task.

of the Allies more difficult. about then.

We have masses of troops here at pre Heat The Hospitals all over Egypt are very empty at present, almost no wounded and very little sickness alvat. Theo Hospitals in Alexandria, the lith and 19th, get cases of wounds from the Western Front,That is from the Arab fighting, apart from the most of the Hospitala have nothing, and, till fight- ing starts scoin will have nothing to speak of Captain Lambkin is stun with No. 19 at Alexandria, Major Murray [MeMuna 2], who was at Hongkong Also, is with a stationary Hospital bere a fort Said," but I don't know the number of it, and there was some talk of sending them to flesopotamia sincerely,

FE GORDON HELY

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Time was when duease was thought to be due

to che direct influence of evil spirits, and exorcism and magi, were invoked to cast it out

Gulence has taught us wisdom The evil. spirits exist still. We call them "Disease Once Germs and they also must be cast out. lodged in the stomach or intestines, fever with ite ballucinations or biliousness with its aches and is, is the result

ENO'S

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It may be safely taken at any time by young old

It is very effective in the early stage of Diarrhea by removing the irritating cause, th

bottle in the house.

Be prepared for emergencies by always

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