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HONGKONG GOVERNMENT SIX PER CENT. WAR

LOAN OF 1916.

ISSUE OF $8,000,000 HONGKONG CURRENCY SIX PER CENT BONDS to Bearer authorised by the War Loan Ordinanes 1916,

The Proceeds of the Loan will be handed ever to the Imperial Government as

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CITY AND HILL DISTRICT

WATERWORKS..

THE CHINA MAI

THE BRITISH TANKS."

THEIR VALUE IN THE SOMME

FIGHT.

In the darkness of the barthe-not-oveslot ovom by the while mootlight!«xdapt“ lah huddled crowds and camps, bused 1 passed them again a few hours before the damn I thought at the individum? Pianať“ not et that as all the separate hopes and pulse-beste of these men who were ping to do a big thing luck should favour us.

Mr. Philip Gibbs, the brilliant war correspondans of the Daily Chrottle in his description of the Somme. Victory

And out of the darkness. I thought I writes of the'"* Tank" in these terms-heard the sound of laughter rising at the

Like children whose fancy has been thought of the monstrous bush-hush.” inflamed by sme new toy our men were afore the dawn the moon was high and clear In a sky tEnt had hardly any clouds. that the plaster walls of Freuch Arvs time the heavily armoured car "cottages were vary white under the black montioned already in the official bulletin.roods, and rows of tents were ke little

hillocks of snow in the harvest-folds, Than description is a dull one compared

As I looked up a shooting star flashed 1207 with all the rich and rate qualities which across the sky, and I thought, of the old belong to those extraordinary vehleles.legend of a passing life, and wondered why 'to-night all the stars were not falling.

TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on and after SUNDAY, the 8th instant, the Supply of Water in the Rider Main | enormously cheered by a new respoIt shone down upon the Belds and roads Districts will be turned off daily from which was so be tried with them for the about rx. until about 5 A.Xhe

W.. CHATHA3L, Director of Public Works. Public Works Vilos. A Hongkong. Nov. 1916.

BANK HOLIDAY

Accordance with Ordinance. Now of 1012 the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on MONDAY 6ch Instant.

Hongkong, Nov. 2, 1918

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November.

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The scent of them was kaps for months jealously and nobly, It was only a few days ago that it was whispered to me

Like prehistoric monsters. You know, the old Ichthyosaurus," said the 'offiebr. I told him he was pulling my leg..

But it's fact, mant

Presently dawn came, and some low- lying clouds were touched with a warm glow which deepened and spread until they were all crimson. It was a red

dawn.

"BEN OF AUSTERLITÍ.

The promise of victory like the sun

He breathed hard, and laughed in of Austerlita," said an officer. queer way at some enormous 'comicality. rouse under their bellies.

They eus up houses and put the Walk right

over 'em!**

I knew this man was a truthful and simple soul, and yet could not believe." They knock down trees like match sticks," he said, staring at me with shining eyes. They go clean through

a wood

Lefäre & o'clock, summer-time, all our Fuck were firing steadily, and all the sky, very pale and shimmering in the first twilight of the day, was filled with the flashes of gune and shell buwta; hoavý howitzers were eating up shells.

I went to the right of the line, hoping to see the infantry attack to the left of Leuze Wood, as I had watched the battle here & week or two ago, and here one of the motor monsters was coming acrosĖ the ground. But, as the sun roes higher it drew the moisture out of all these "And anything_elac ? '* I asked, enjoying what I thought was a new sense, white mist blotted out the ridge for

shall crater and trenches, and a dense,

of humour."

hour or more.. French troops who join Everything the," he said, cartestly-our-line here came scross country They take ditches like kangaroos.

British soldiers were moving forward or Thay simply love shell-craters: Laugh theur...

the left, silently, with the mist about

at 'em!**

Overhead shells. went, rushing heavy

It appeared, also, that they were, proof" shells that traveled with the noise of against rifle bullete machine-gun bullets, traine. Forward batteries were fring bomba, <shell-splinters, Just shrugged rapidly and increasingly, and then sharp atavento knocking was clear above the their shoulders and passed on. Nothing heavy crashes of giant erumpe, compared but a dirées hit from a fair-sized shell by a whimsical mind in this war with could do them any harm.

an immortal plumber laying down his

Bob what's the name of these mythical monsters?**

I asked,

Dot believing a word of it. He said “Hush [*”

Other people said * Rusht***

· Hush | "* when the subject was alluded to in a remote way. And since theri Eare heard that one name for them, is the "Hush-hush." But their real name is Tanks.

For they are real, and I have seen them, and walked round them, and got Inside their bodies, and looked at their mysterious organs, and wifched "their monstrava mozementa

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I came across a herd of them in a field, and, like the countryman who frst saw CHILDREN 10 Cta¦ a giraffe, said "Hell!

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grass and laughed until the tears came (In war one has's funny sense of humour.) For they word monstrously comical, like toads of vast size emerging from the primeval slime in the twilight of the world's dowo,

The skipper of one of them introduced 1183 me to them

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I felt awfully bucked," said the young officer (who is about fire' feet, high), when my beauty ate up her first house. But I was sorry for the house, which was quite b "good-one.".

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tools."

Machine-gun fire repped out in fierce spasms, and 'the German ***Archies" were throwing up shells which burst all about the planes of our airmen, who came like a Sock of. Sirda" over the battlefields; flying low above the mists.”

They did wonderful things yesterday. those British air pilots, risking their lives audaciously in single combates with hostile airiea, in encounters against ́ggest" odds, " in combing enemy headquarters and railway stations and kite balloons, and troops, and registering or observing al! day long for cur artillery. They were out to destroy the enemy's last means of observation, and they began the success of the battle by gaining the absoluter mastery of the air. "

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They simply love treee," he answered. When our soldiers first saw these strange creatures halloping along the roads and over old battlefields, taking

without counting the cost, to smash down

opposition they might meet, and to

go forward and for until they could get, such as : the enemy on the run, te

reaches on the way, they shouted and battle-lines to the tons of "Stop your A body of Scotch went up to the cheered wildly, and laughed for a day, tickling, Jock," but there was a grim afterwards. And yesterday the troope

get out of their trenches laughing and meaning in the malo, and it was no

love-song. shouting and cheering, again because thé, Tanks had gono on stead, and were

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The men fought yesterday fiercely and ruthlessly. They want to get on to the heels of the enemy, and there were

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For several days before-the, great blow moments yesterday when they saw many European Supervision

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of the line the capturs of Guillemont extraded on the left from the ground TEL 1321 by English and Irish troops, the splendid north of Pozieres to the Line recently rash of the Irish through Ginchy-there won to the north of Ginchy on the fight, was a steady forward, movement and and its purpose was, as I have, mid, te consentration of all the men and break through the third German" line machinery to strike at the Flers line below Courceletto, Martinpnich and Villagos beyond the zone of fire where Teshoant, a distance of shout six miles. battalions had been resting and where Time of attack was shortly after 6 there was the busy life of wldiers in their o'clock yesterday morning, and along.all billeting areas enddenly, became emptied the line the troops were swaiting the of all this human interest moment to rise, after our artillery had

The men had passed on-higher up the completed its first beztage roads, and higher up where there was * On the left in front of Courtclette there Atraggling tide of all the traffic of war, was hard and unexpected #ghting. As with supply colamni, ale treins, gas, we now know the enemy had prepared an limber, ambulances, and troops from all attack against us, and had missed troops parts of the Empire, surging, swing, in ecosiderable face in his front and struggling alowly forward through narrow garva- lines. He sent out advanced village streets, up long winding roada, patrols and bombing, parties, while our Bordes trampled and barren fields, men were waiting to g through the ruins, of villages, destroyed year or more ago, and sub into the

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