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NOTICE BY THE SANITARY

"BOARD...

WARNING TO HOUSEHOLDERS.

HUSU NATION arising OUSEHOLDERS are warned of the from the practice of allowing persons, who are not in the householder's exples, to sleep in the servants' quarters."

Any persun (whether adult or child) found in servants', quarters at any time, without the householder's permission, may be desired by the husable and lunial "Over to the police for prosecution under the Servants Quarters Ordinance, 1903

It is unlawful for any householder to allow

any room in his servants quarters to be occupied by, more persons then one adult (or two children under 10)for every 30 square feet of habitable for space, and 330-cublic feet of clear and unobstructed air space

If the room contains a enbiele: aruare feet of door spaces, and 350 mublic feet of air space are required for each Adult,

By order of the Bearth.

W. BOWEN ROWLANDS,

Secrets y

Hongkong Aug 20, ĐI

MADAME

CLARA BUTT

"ON

COLUMBIA

RECORDS.

COLUMBIA RECORDS ARE

MORE FAITHFUL

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TO THE ORIGINAL,

WHETHER THE HUMAN VOICE. OR INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC,

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CANTON ROWLOON RAILWAY.

NOTICE.

RESUMPTION OF THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE.

THE Fublic is hereby notified that on anul from TUESDAY, 29th instant and antil further notice the following Gunton and vice vernd trains will run between Kowloon and

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IP EXPRESS TRAINS, Kowloon ....... Dop 2.05 am Canton Art. 11.43: 1. m. Kowloon i... Dep. 2.20 p.m.. Canton Arr. 6.35 p. m. SLOW THROUGH STOPFING AT ALL

STATIONS.

Kowloon ......... Dep. 8.30am. Canton ... Art. 5.20 pm. DOWN. EXPRESS TRAINS.2 Canton

Dep. 7.25 8.

Kowloon Canton

Arr. 11.00a.m.

Dep. 3.20 p.us -

Kowloon".............. Arr. 138 jam.

SLOV THROUGH STOPPING AT ALL,

Canton

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Dep. 5, 15. a. m.

Kowloon... Art. 433 p.

By Onler,

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A. S. MACKICHAN,

For Mariager,

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Kowloon-Canton Railway

The ADMINISTRATION,

Chinese Section,

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Hongkong Aug 25, 10:4

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DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK,

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(Is Liquidation).

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REDITORS ́are requested to send in their CLAIMS to the undersigned on or before 31st August, 1016.

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REV. H. O. SPINK-MEMORIAL

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MEMORIAL SERVICE beginning at 6.15 F., will be held in St Andrew's Church, Kowloon.. on TUES DAY, 20th August, in memory of Rer. STLIMPOPON (SEBATTIK), O. SPINK, formerly Chaplain of St. killed in action on

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STORIES OF THE BATTLEFIELDS.

ENGLISH BOY'S DARK DAYS

UNDER TREE ROOTS.

Mr. Philip Gibbs, the correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle tells the fellowing story in one of big recent despatches

The Germans bad dag ansllow trenches, but they were churned up by our heavies, and it in difficult to dig in again because of the roots of great trees, and the fallen timber, and the masses of twigs,and foliage which have been Brought down by British and German guns,

When our troops went into Trones Wood under most damnable fire of 5.0's they grubbed shout for some kind of cover without much

success.

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whose number I reckoned as 300, just MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA

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Eo was a linguist, having been an accountant-in-the-North German Lloyd, and gave me a choice of conversation in French, Italian, Greek.gr English! chuss my own tongue but lat him de the talking, and standing there in a tarbed wire entanglement, surrounded by hundreds of young Germans, unshaver, duty, haggard and war-vern, but still strong and sturdy mon. he described vividly the horrors of the wood' up by the two Bazentine where he and these comrades of his had lain under our last bombardment.

INDIANS KINDNESS.

They had but little cover except what they could scrap out beneath the roots et trees. And the trees crushed upon them, smashing the limbs of men, and shella burst and buried man in deep pits, But some of them had the luck to and the wounded lay groaning under preni: An address will be given by the BISHOP OF VICTORIA to whons Restrike upon three German dug cuts which branches which pinned them to the H. O. Spink was. Curate in Liverpool. were exceptionally deep and good ground or is the open where other shells Hoogkong, Aug. 22, 1918. Ons Cbviously they had been but some time were blasting from what I can make age for officers whis, before we threatened cut Fume of the men here retreated norces their second line, may have thought the country betweer· Bazcotin--and Trones Wood a £ne dwelling.place, and] Delvilla Won, for they were the meu not too dangerous if they went under who were captured by our cavalry, ground.

My conirades were afraid," said this They wrat down 40 feet, and panelled Serman sergeant. They cried our to their rocos, and brought a pians down me that the Indians would kill their

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the CHINESE GOVERNMENTS% A young company commander found surrerilered. Dat I said, That is t INTERNAL LOAN BONDS OF THE the piano sud struck some chords upon true, comrades. It is only a tale. Let THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS it at a time when there was onder musicne go forward very quietly with our hands At Schattik Stramurs are berthed og be made by us at the Office of the overhead the scream of great shells and up. So in that way we went, and the side the Company's whart where there is a

HONGKONG ANI. SIFANGHAI BANKIN4 minimum depth of 27 to 18 feet at low CORPORATION, NO. 1, Queen's Rout the inccauart crash of high explosives in Indian horsemen closed about us, and I water Spring Tidos.

Charts of Sibuko Bay (Saattik Central, Hoagkong, while our Canton the wook. Farther on, at the edge of the spoke to one of thein, saking for mercy MANILA, Messrs Macondray &

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woody our men found a machine-gun for our men, and he was very kind, sixl 347emplacement built solidly of cement and a gentleman, and we surrendered to hima

proof against all shell splinters, and it safely." was from this place that so many of our men were shot down before the enemy's gunners could be bombed out.

Bour) Price sad all other information suacaruing the Port cin be had application to the Agents.

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He was glad to be alive, this man who came from Wiesbaden. Es showed me the portrait of his wife and bay, and cried a. little, saying that the German people did not make the war, but had to fight for their cuntry when told to fight, lika

One of the most extraordinary experi- ences of this woodland" fighting was that of an English boy who now lies in a field bospital amiling with very bright and other men. All his people had believed, sparkling eyes. because the world seemi to him like Paradise after an infernal dwelling place. He went with the first rush of men into Mamotz Wood, but was left behind in a dug-out when they retired before a violent counter-allack,"

be said, that the war would be over 'ía August or September.

Are they hungry ? "I asked, **They have enough, by eat.” ha sid. They are not slärving, li

He waved his hazil back to the wood. funds, and remembered the terror of the place from which he had just come.

Over there it was worse than desth."

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Some German soldiers passed this hole where the boy lay crouched, and dung a bomb down on the ́of-chance that an English soldier might be there. It burst en the lower steps and wounded the lonely boy in the dark corner.

Le Juy there a day listening to the crash of shells through the trees over, ung sa amazing quantity of shells on head-English shell-fire-not daring to Friday morning. The place was swept come out. Then in the night he heard almost flat, and little was left of keepers and Shipahandie Nos. 35 and the voicer of his own countrymen, and church and house but reddish heaps of he shouted loudly.

bricks and dust, and twisted iron, and the But as the English soldiers passed they litter of destruction. Yet there were threw a bomb into the dug-out, and the many Germans lising here when the men boy was wounded again. He lay there of some famous pents through another day, and the gun fire began oll in the day with bayandle and bombe, over again, and lasted until the Germans Yorkshiremen and some of the Scottish came back. Another German soldier aa ali mixed together, as happens at such the old hole and threw & bomb down, times. These was one great cellar under, sale thing to do, and the boy received neath Eatentin-le-Grand large enough to bis third wound

bald 1,500 men, and here, crouching in inzchwayas and, dark passaged, wer numbers of German soldiers. G

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He lay in the darkness one more day, not expecting to live. Eut still alivo, still enger to live and to see the light again. If only the English would come again and rescue him47 14 dow

They estno to meet our men and surrendered to them. And here alas lay many wounded, in their blood, and unbandaged-cat as they had crawled down from the ground above where our

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when they como, capturing the wood (If any/min_wars to draw the pichire completely and finally, one of them, of those things or to tell them more sceing the entrance to the dugout and nakedly than I have told them, because thinking Germans might be hiding there, now is not the time, nor this the place. throw, a bomb down and the boy was no man or woman would dare to speak wounded for the fourth time. This time again of war's glory," or of the his cries were heard, and the monotonous splendour of war, or any of those old repetition of this ill Inek, ended, and the ring phrases which hide the dreadful victim of lies in a white bed with bruth wonderful shining eyes.

Y A GERMAN STORY.

****The German prisoners have wories like

this to tell, for they suffered wont. under the fory of car bombardment the soming wild going of our troops woodland-ighting Spoke them to day

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