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INTIMATIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT

INTIMATIONS

SECOND

"EXCHEQUER BONDS AND | 51'/." RUSSIAN INTERNAL

SAYINGS CERTIFICATES

Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks. from, whom full

information and the necessary form may be obtained :—

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CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BASXING CORPORATION, MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.

6% Exchequer Bonds

Repayable 1920

These Bonds, and the interest thereon,

SHORT, TERMED LOAN OF 1918 FOR

ROUBLES 8,060,000,000

be opened from 14th November HE. Subscription to the abors LOAN

to 28th December, 1918

The price of lawns is 08 per cent. The Loan isntirely free of Income Tax and ciber darasions.

The Loans in redemwable at par on 14th October, 1928, without option for the Russian Governinent to convert it at no earlier date.

Coupons are payable balf yearly on tire 14th April and 14th October,

As interess on the above loan, runs from 14th October, the interest accrued Loo date of subscription must be taken into consideration and is to be added to the price of late.

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The Russo-Asiatic Bank in Hongkong

boys named Loan.

are free of Income Tax, if in the Benele, ready to accept applications for the Ecial ownership of persons not erlizarily resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Bonds are issued in denominations of £100, £200, £500, £1,000 and £5,000

The interest is payable half-yearly on 18th February and 16th August.

Bonds can be obtained to Bearor " or they may be registered in the books of the Bank of England.

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Special favourable rates will be quoted; for Russian Exchange.

Payment may also be made in Roubles, Applications will be wired to Petrograd free of telegraphic charges and commis

ion."

40 par cami, only of the 'coet of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the

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The Bank is also ready to givo. #v8cy' facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scrips. a

A declaration regarding exemption | Bonds. from Tacomo Far is necessary in the Case of Bearer Bonds, but the interest warrants relating to registered Bonds, without any deduction of Income Tax, can be sent direct to the owner of such registered Bonds or to his banker.

War Savings Certificates

Value 5 years

after purchase -

£500 £1

Purchase Price

£387 10.0 15s. 8d.

FREE OF INCOME TAX.

For every 158. 81. lant now 21 will be paid in 5 years' time, equivalent to 5 per cent. com- pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.

Anyone, whatever his or her. income may be, can buy War Savings Certificates" up to a maximum of 500 £1 Certiäcates In all or thoir equivalent.

Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in full any time, with an addition after the first year.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

G. TISDALL,

Manager. RUSSO ASIATIC BANK.. Hongkong, Nov. 7, 1918.

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WANTED.

AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY for the Marine Engineers' Guild in Hongkong. An Engineer preferred.

Reply to-

17, Nanking Road, Shanghai. Hongkong, Oct. 28, 1916 1190

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IN LIQUIDATION.

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REDITORS are required to send in on or before THURSDAY the 30th their Claims to the darmigned November, 1916"

Dated the 14th November, 1916.

(1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser. to receive. Et for each 15a, Bd. on the fifth 12403 Anniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the accumu Isted interest."

(2) A Certificate is not transferable except by permission of the Postauster General; a fee of is, will be charged in respect of each transferee. In the event of death, the same rules will be applied as in the case of Savings Bank Deposits..

(3), On written application (on a form obtainable at any Post Office)

being made to the Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, part thereof in multiples of 168, 8d., will be repaid at any time, with an addition of 3. for each 158. Gd. on the first anniversary of the date of purchase, and with a further addition of 1d per 154, 6d. for each month thereafter.

(4) No person may hold more than 500 £1 Certificates or their equivalent.

The 1 Certificates (purchase price 158. ed.) are issued in book form. The Certificates for £12 (purchase price £9 68.) and £ (purchase price £10 78. 6d.) are issued without books. The £1 £11 and £za Certificates are on sale at local Fost Offices and at most Banks.

Single Certificates for sums from 2100 to £500 may be obtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant "General General Post Office, London

#pplication forms are available at all Fost Offices and at most Banks.

If Certificates, be lost, and the scria! numbers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at a charge of 14.

GENERAL POST Office, Londoyy

June, 1918.

(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates, 868 the other side.)

Examples of Investment in

War Savings Certificates

116

or

157.

187:

177: 10 --

187 10-

85

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EDINBURGH, Oct. 11.

EUGBY FOOTBALI..

The Rugby on opined quietly, and holds small promise of interesting happenings. Everything will depend on the schools, and it is antiafactory to: know that most of them have good All youngsters to put in the Held. the senior clubs ar badly hit, none of them so severely as the Watsonians, 9 of whose last playing 15 have already lost their lives.

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Fears without any dividends at all the average over ten years is not likely to be fabulous; and if they go into the pockets of recent share purchasers At market quotations they are not likely to be very extraordinary.

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COURT-MARTIAL ON BRITISH

AIRMEN

GERMAN ACTION AGAINST TWO PRISONERS.

In Edinburgh, three schools engaged i The Daily Express." learns that two military 18s. George Watson's alone | British naval airmen who fell within the were victorious, their opponents being German lines have been arrested at the the RF.A; Fettes were beaten by instigation of the German Government, the Royal Fusiliers, and Edinburgh and are to be tried by court-martial Academy by the Edinburgh University because what are known as "tracer" good win from Dollar Institution, and Tracer” bullets are used by all the Q.T.C. In Glasgow, the Academy had bulleta were found in their possession. the High School from George Heriot's.combatant Powers in machine gun am-

GLASGOW CUP,

munition, for the purpose of correcting the gunter's aim One of these bullets of cartridges, and when it is fired the is placed at long intervals in each belt. gunner can see the precise spot at which he is firing, and can therefore, if neces these bullets do not contravene the

correct the range. terms of The Hague Convention: in fact, they are not even intended to kill The Germans, who use these ballets them- selves, have taken the high-handed. action of arresting two of our airgien for having them in their possession. If the airmen are found guilty by court-mar- tial, the probability is that they will be shot.

As was expected, Celtic won the Glasgow Cup, even although handicap pad by the absence of some of their trusted players. Clyde were the better side in the first half, and deserved the goal that came their way. But ex perisace told as the game went on, and Celtio carried off the corsted City hon our more easily than the score indicates

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The success of the visiting clubs was the feature of League football. It cannot be said, however, that the failures of Ayr United, Aberdeen, and Dumbarton. The Britisk Government, have, were surprising, when one remembers through the American Erhbossy, made the difficulty that clubs experience to representations to the ferman Govern field this same eleven in two consecutive that "tracer bullets were found in the MANILA. Mesars Macondray &

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› subject, and have intimated matches. And then there is the lack of ammunition for the machine guns of the training inseparable from the constant Zeppelin airshipswhose crew surrendered changes. Of all the defeated claba, in Essex. Partick Thistle gave tae most disappointing display.

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On the table, Rangers and Celtic Germans that the crew of the Zeppelin have each 12 points for 6 games, the manner as are our own airmen who have will be treated precisely in the same former having the better goal average fallen prisoners. Morton and Airdrieonians come nezt with 11 points each for 8 games. Then Third Lacark have 10 points for 7 games, and Falkirk 10 points for 8 games

GLASGOW CUP FINAL

• Celtic,/3; Clyde, 2.

ASSOCIATION LEAGUE. Third Lanark, 4; Queen's Park, 1. Partick Thistle, 1; Kilmarnock, 1. Rangers, 3; Ayr United, 1 Motherwell,2 Hamilton Academicals 2. Morton, 4; Dumbarton, I. Heart of Mid-Lothis, 2; Raith Rovers, 1..

St. Mirren, 1, Hibernisa, 1. v. "Al-drieoniana, 2; Aberdeen, 1.

THE LIFE OUT EAST,

UNOFFICIAL SALARIES IN MALAYA.

The Editor of the Malay Mail, leaving the progress of the war aside for a moment, grosses over the poor salaries paid in Malays outside the Government Service, pittances which do not hold out much prospect of a retirement of ease in the old country after swetting it in the Fant the best years of one's life:

It would be interesting (he writes) to know how many Europeans outaldo the Government Service have a total income of one thousand pounds a year. Not Most of them are working and

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THERAPION NO.1

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CURICE DARCHANDEL, BIRDinkar FITRONE I Berthe old country and the edgestion of his

THERAP OM NO. 2 THERAPION NO S

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Wounded soldiers at a Hove hospital were startled during the night recently by hearing a man, who hid bez dumb for months, shouting. Stuttering badly, he explained that he had dreamt that he was entangled in barbed wire, and that whilst in this position, he was struck by a German shell.

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