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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY,

EINITED: 2

NOTION TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY

in the above Company will be held at the Company's Otice. ST. Goog's Buntong Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 30th SEPTEMBER 49015, at 11:30 AM, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the General Managers and Statement of Account to 31st May, 1918.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from 15th to 30th September, 1916 both days inclusive.

GORDON & CO:

General Managers, Hongkong, Sept. 13, 1918. 1040

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

«COMPANY? LIMITED,

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom).

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TRANSFER OF SHARES.

ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the Bourd has resolved in accordance with ARTICLE 31 of the ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION charge a fee as from 197 OCTOBER next

in

INTIMATIONS

VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB

NNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS will ber held on THURSDAY 9th, FRIDAY 20th and SATURDAY, 30th Sept, commencing on the Best two days at. 4.30 7.3 and on SATURDAY at

Ladies by cts. Children at half price. Admission 81.00 or $200 for the 3 days Soldiers and Sailors 95 cts.

Band in attendance on Saturday. Hongkong, Sept. 32, "1016

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

1064

THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF

Members will be held on SATUR DAY, the 7th October, 1918 at 12 o'clock Noon at the Offices of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLus, on the ground floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNELE, Chater Road.

By Order,

T. F. HUUGH,"

Clerk of Court. Hongkong Sept. 2, 1916

HONGKONG CLUB-

NOTICE..

1071

THE THIRTIETH and FINAL HALF-YEARLY DRAWING OF respect of the transfer of any share 5 DEBENTURES of the Hongkong or number of shares, such fee to be at Club (1696 issue $100.00 each) was held the rate of ONE DOLLAR per transfer in the Club House on FRIDAY, the In the case of any Shareholder required Sept. 101, when the following ing more than One Certificate in Debentares were drawn for Redemp exchange for the Transfer deposited for tion registration & feo of ONE DOLLAR for every new Certificate issued (ofer and

above the fee for Registration) will be

'charged..

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd.

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\General Managera.»

Hongkong. Sept. 28, 1918. 1081

STOCKTAKING

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FOR ONE WEEK ONLY.

ALL SLIGHTLY SOILED SHEET MUSte

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AT 20 CENTS EACH.

CHEAP EDITIONS at 10 for $1.00.

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A REVISION OF PRICES OF

Mashers frères

FELUCCA

FAMOUS EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES.

(Na 13)..

SPECIALS

(Format grand)

The two well known brands that have made so many friends

in Hongkong, China, and many other parts of the world are now sold at the following prices by the stores "nawed below,

$1.50 for a tin of 50 Cigarettes duty paid. $3.00

21.

100

By AS WATSON & Co, Ltd. VICTORIA DISPENSARY. LANE, CRAWFORD & Cs.

KELLY & WALSH Ltd.

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Mr. Philip Gibbs in the course of a graphic description of the general advance of the British to High Ridge five weeks ago gives the following scraps of con. versation by group of Tommies:-

$60

1306

307

862 122

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516

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1191

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334

1683 1707 1700 1718 1305 1740

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1764

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1815

1515

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935

1397

17770

50%

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AND SHANGHAI BANKING. CORPORATION on SATURDAY, the 30th Sept, 1916 in exchange for surrender of anme

E DES VEUX

Secretary. Hongkong, Sept. 29, 1916.

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DAIRY FARM NEWS,

In Delville Wood and to the cust of Delville Wood there were English troops, and I would give a lot to mention the names of their battalions, for they were fine, but the secret must be kept. They fought in and around that

KAMEHAD."

"I might not have been absent bey. You'd be in a Barry if you Ban bayonet within three inches of your stummick.

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(Mitsubishi Co.) COAL DEPARTMENT.

"Flurry 7, was another man's com ment, I was furried when a big Boche hung on to my rifle so that I couldn't) poke him with it and kept housing

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF kamerad." says 'Kamoted!' he saya, still clinging KISHIDAKE YOSHINOTANI, Leave go of my ride, I TAKABHIMA," OUHL MUTABE There were a bacar's dozen doing that,

HOJO, NAMAZITA, SAYO, KANADA, grabbing the rifles, and making a sing

song. It don't improve 'one's temper in SHINEW, KAMIYAMADA, SIHAI dread-soft-hearted. We gave more mercy to the

the heat of battle. But we English are]&OYUBARI QOLŽERIES enemy than he shows to us."**

darkest

They

German? I asked myself, and was surprised at their lear of me. Why, the hadn't their equipment co, and bada't fund time to mount their machine-guas. We took the clean by surprise, and yet they expected our attacle-only later,"

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I stood to-day in the midst of a crowd of these English boys who had been fighting there, and they told me their. adventures in rustic dialect or good cockney. They describe there things or way. It's easier fighting the AGENCIES —— quite simply, in a matter-of-fact, way, as

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We had to attack a trench on the east side of the wood," said one of these chess. The ground gained yesterday and knight's move in this terrific game of young mes, nursing a wounded hand. today was a line running on the cast "Our shells were bursting just ahead of side of Delville Wood hallway to Ginchy, us when we went over they just through a maze of shell-boles. flattened out the Boche trench. We went Meanwhile, further south, the baitfe head and found hardly a soul alive there, was continued, and some of our troops but plenty of dead uns. Away on the among them some of the men who cheer. right there were men alive, though.ed the King when he went among them Plenty of them. They were standing upon the battlefields were working a to TRON STEEL METAL and HARD in shell holes, with their rifles over the the fire range of German machine-gurWARE MEROFANTS. Wholesale edge of the craters, and whenever they on the right of our live.

sow any of our officers they sniped them."

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Ay said another boy, and dirty

tykes they were, too. They didn't spare Two prominent Chinese merchants, wounded. Why, I saw a fellow one reading in Shanghat and the other currying off another bloke on his back in Scochow, have succeeded in collecting He was wounded, the other bloke was, thirty thousand dollar towards and groaning dreadful. But one of the the establishment of a Central Hospital snipers turned his gun and shot him in Peking which will serve

model for other cities The hospital There's some good Germans and will be situated in the West part of the some bad," said a mild-eyed land. You city, and the building is already well cover can tell, and that's what makes it advanced. difficult."

dead

It's bent not to chance it, was the option of an older man.How can s fellow expect to be made prisoner when ho raises bis rifle in both bande most of his body in a shell-bois, mind you and says kamerad ! ?

not sur rendering. Hands up and no rifle is my way of looking at 15.4

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