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INTIMATIONS

SECOND

RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 FOR

ROUBLES 3,000,000,000

THE Subscription to the above LOAN

INTIMATIONS

"KISMET

IN AID OF THE

13

STAR & GARTER BUILDING FUND."

COLDERS of Vouchers entitling of are

HOLD

that these should be reminded exchanged at MOUTHIE's for tickets on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, 1st or 2nd December, from 9 4.3. After conne

will be Opened from 14th Novemberment of the General booking on MON

to 18th December, 1916.

The price of issue is 96 per cent. The Loan is entirely fres of Incoma Tax and other taxations.

The Loan is redeemable at par on 14th October, 1928, without option for the Russian Government, to convert là að'am mazier date.

Coupons are payable Ealf yearly on the 14th April and 14th October,

-A interest on the above loan runs from 11th October, the interest accrued on date of subscription must be taken into consideration and li to be added to the price of to.

The Basic Asiatic Bank in Hongkong is ready to accept application for the shore named Loan..

Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian Exchangs.

Payment may also be made in Roubles. Applications will be wired to Petrograd from al telegraphic charges and commiss sion.

40 per cant, only" of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the

Bonds.

-The-Bank-je-ala-ready-to-gion.every facility to subscribers in the shape. of advances against the scrips.

G. TISDALL, Manner!! RESSO ASTATIC BANK.

Hongkong, Nov. 7, 1916,

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DAY, th December, seats cannot be guaranteed to holders of advance vouchers, but the same can be used for ordinary booking at their face value.

Hongkong, Nov. 30, 1018.

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EXHIBITION AND SALE OF

OIL PAINTINGS Executed by E. BELSITO, Emų Is As Oy

WAR CHARITIES, Under the Distinguished Patronage of LADY MAY,

AT TH

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HAMS.

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WE HAVE just received a Consige HAMS (avemze weight 19 to 15 lbs.) in ment of FINEST ENOLISH

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TANGOS

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ETC., ETC.

Repentance

AND

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SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)

COAL -

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Hope

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Steamer calling at SEBATTTE or SANDAKAN exclusively for SILIMPO. PON COL (either goor Bankers) as exempt from payment of all Port daarges.

At Sehattik Steamers are berthed along side the Company's wharf where there is a minimum

dep't of 27 to 28 feat at low

water Spring Tides.

Charts of Sibeko Bay (Sabattik Har

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THOSE 300 U BOATS.

GERMANY'S LATEST THREAT.

A neutral correspondent, writing from Berlin, records this harrowing threat conveyed to him by one high in the counsels of the German Kaval Staff :—

cannot say that I take that view of it

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There may not be much likeness between MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA

a Ford car and submarine, but seeing that, under normal conditions, the Ford Company turns out a thousand cars & day, I cannot imagine it to be impossible engineering industries to turn out a for the German ship-building and quarter of that number of submarines » year.

(Mitsubishi Co.)

COAL DEPARTMENT.

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF

ad when we have exhausted' Su speculations as to the enemy's strength a little sconer, Germany will have inng porblem of our means for dealing

"By the end of this year, or perhaps for attack, there is the equally perplex-TAKASHIMA OCHI, MUTABL fighting trim three hundred submarines with it. War is a grent teacher; but it of the cost efficient type. If England teaches then wishes to continue the war (), a

both sides, and it is quite certain that proper blockade will be put into effect,

men have learned our "anti-C and no vessel carrying food or war have about dodging.

piore about destroying than the Germana materials will be permitted to

reach England's shores."

It is

There is a very familiar ring about this as a great story-even Mr Noyes

U

Best of would

make some

only touched the fringe of it--and sort of thing the number 300; as repro while a grap

sanit by

ce hundred senting the strenxth of the enemy's boat feet, has been cropping up in

return for

it were no more than half. place or another for more than a yese, on it even if it money expended The only new thing about the report is a crown in the pound it would also that, according to one Swiss newspaper, lanks, our dashes and our queries (in provide our drifters and destroyers, our Hindenburg has stipulated that sub- mine frightfulness shall be pushed to other words, our private und confidential anti-submarine craft) with the busiest, happiest, and most profitable time of their

its utmost limits.

The most curious thing, however, is that

should contemplate the Germany declaration of another" blockade" when one is already understood: to be in ex tence. It cannot have been forgotten that, as from February 18 last year, Germany has been destroying every enemy (Le, British lied)

merchant ship found in "all the waters surround- ing Great Britain and Ireland, including

entire English Channel."

the

or

It is true that the Germans did not themselves call this a blockade. In auch a blockade as maintained by the British Fleet we content ourselves with colouring and bringing before a Price Court anything suspected to be of enemy origin or destination.

But

lives

The usual anti-submarine patrol is things up bit for those engaged on it deadly monotonous, and it would liven to have to deal with a "death or glory" as of 300 instead of occasional "drib lets of a dozen or SG.-P. A. His M.

INSIDE "A" TANK " WHILE

CHARGING.

KISHIDAKE YOSHINOTANT, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO KANADA, SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI & OYUBARI COLLIERIES)

AGENT FOR SAKITO 'COAL

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and Canton.

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AGENCIES:

CHINELANG: Messrs Clearing &

Com

A soldier who was one of the crew of "Tank," where these weird engines of war made their first appearance on the Somme battlefield, described his ex- MANILA Messrs Macondray & periences to the Evening Standard."

Co. He was wounded, and was recovering in

Salford hospital.

SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Cö.

Ltd.: GLASGOW, Mesars A. B. Brows McFarlane & Co., Ltd,

The

ermany did not propose to bother herself with any niceties of that sort. Her motto was "Sini at sight to matter who might be murdered; but although the scheme achieved some notoriety as an orgy or massiere, its failure is a blockade is patent to the world

Tank to which I was attached," It will be well to notice that this latesthe mid

"Was

one of the first to go into warning comes only a few days after the action. The ground was so 'broken up German Chancellor is reported to have with shell boles that artillery could cot told the Federal Council that Germany travel over it, but the Tanks crawled eonid, not turn out submarizes with slowly neros it in front of the infantry, sufficient rapidity good

now seems like

a nightmare to and that they could never hope with me, and it is not easy to

describe Dy U boata effectively to blockade England feelings as

I sat inside while the strange or to cut off our food supply,

monster slid do

SUSPICIOUS COXFEA810F8.

down one side of a a shell bolo and slowly crawled up the other until at last we were astride of the It is the publication of these "confes- enemy's trenches. The waiting

for the nions" that makes one suspicions. Was order to more was the worst sensation. Bethmaon Hollwegg merely trying to When we got moving and began firing lall us to slumber while the preparations the excitement of the battle kept our for our discomfitare go steadily forwardi senses alert

The Germans are a crafty crew, and wp The motion of the "Tank' I can liken shall be well advised always to look with to nothing better than being on a stormy distrust upon neutral "disclosures" (thisses in a very poor sailing vessel We was, Swiss) of what occurs in their secret felt quite safe inside of the machine councile.

The Gormans tried hard enough with

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There is always just the possibility their artillery, but the men in the that flotillas are being built up with the trenches we were attacking' were too

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FRUN" STEKLA. METAL and HARD onslaught upon our shipping. The to do much.

Wholesale

Honakong September 4, 1815,

prospect may even seem to the onamy They expected another infantry and Retail Ironmongers, Pig Iron and an alluring one, and even we cannot attack, for which they were well pre Foundry Cake Importers. General Store- deny that if 300 submarines managed to pared, but when they saw the Tanke keepers and Shipchandlers Nos. 35 and torpedo an average of a couple of mes; come lumbering on toward them they 37, Hu LoonG STRIES, (2nd Street, we chantmen apiece before going the way of

a real of Central Market) Telephone No., 16, so many of their predecessors, we should were too amazed to make for a time be in an uncomfortably tightly

resistance, and our task was comparative- place

simple. The crux of the tatter is, how many infantry came along and cleared out the

When wo

we had done our bit," the submarines "does fermat actually trenches and dog-outs. It was a psi- possess 1 That. impossible question ear demonium while it lasted, with the only be answered by answering terattle of machine-guns and bursting others equally impossible, namely, how shrapnel about us." many has she built, and how

w many has she lost, since the war began Speculations on these

points

were

graduate versed in literature, has popular enough a year ago, but latterly been a teacher to European Officials and they have lost ground-presumably be Merchants in this Colony for ten years. cause the speculative element is so wide He has a good method of training as to make any calculations valueless. Europeana to pass in the Chinese ex Early in May, the Scientific American," amination, and is possessed of a first rate claiming to speak with the authority of certificato ne a Chinese teacher. He has he United Naty Department, stated also a good knowledge of Mandarin and that the total number of submarines kan taptured or destroyed by the Allies was Those who intend learning the Chinese, which worked out to one every five Laiguage, are requested to write of this was correct, and if the averske

days of the w China Mail" Office or direct to No, 100 Wellington Street, second floor has been maintained the total shooki now be 155. Whether it is or not I [1851 don't know, nor the most of those who

think they do not

Hakka

HE NEW FRENCH REMEDT,

THERAPION NO.1

Das BOME FIGURES, AN

Germany had

woout 25" rabmarines builtynd building when the war; began.

| if she has lost 155 arid pääsesses 300,

THERAPION NO. 2ould follow that 156 plus 200, lean as

THERAPION NO. 3

CAROBE NY LEASING CLEMENTER SUCK EYEWGANI. ER! KADE TO DECLARO.CO. LA GAFAS

BYLONDON, LOW YOU]

THERAPIONS

the number: laid down and completed since August, 1914-8 total of 420. / II wo amume thanti Jermany þægan to com plete her war programmes of U-boats after six month of hostilities, this

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