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WANTED.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE in good locality, Kowloon, Furnished pre-

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO

Co., LTD.

WAR DEPARTMENT, CONTRACTS [ferred.

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(EALED TENDERS will be received at the Headquarters Offices. Victoria Barracks, Hongkong, patil 12 o'clock; Noos, on FRIDAY the 27th dayel April, 1917, for STEAM LAUNCH and BOAT HIRE for a period from 38th June, 1917, to 31st March, 1918.

Hongkong, April 14, 1917.

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Forms and other particulars may be desirous of recommending her ADY shortly leaving the Colony is personally at the boys Office Baby Amah and Wash Arab: also between

the hours of 13 and 1 st. Houseboy. Tender forms must be properly filled up, signed and dated, and delivered in a led carolope marked "Tender for Transport"

Tanders nrust be, and will not be entertained unless, accompanied by a leposit of $100 as a guarantee of good faith, auch snin to be forfeited to the State if the tenderer fails to attend at the Headquarters OfEco after 24 hours sotice in writing being left at the tenderers address or refuses to accept a "a. Contract allotted to him.

The right to reject all, or any, tenders is specially reserved..

Hongkong, April 1, 1917.

COLUMBIA

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PO. Bax 314 Hongkong, April 12, 1917.

WANTED.

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N ELECTRICAL or MARINE ENGINEER is reqsired as a Shift Engineer at the Geneniting Station of the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.,

Apply in writing, accompanied by details of experiance and copies of testimonia to The Manager, Hongkong Electric Co., Ltr., St. George's Buildings.

Hongkong, April 15, 1917..

NOTICE.

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RECORDS. CAPTAIN D. A LURHMANOFF,

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Violin and

Piano.

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SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)'

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COAL.

ELE Undersigned having been appointed. AGSTs for the COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD., are Frepared to quote prices for best quality" SILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Bunker at SEBAT- TIK or SANDARAN (British North. Borneo

SILIMPOPON CAT, compares favour- ably with the better grades of Japuores Coal and gives good foxclts on a very moderate consumption.

Steamers calling at SEBATTIK, or SANDAKAN exclusively for SICKMPO. PUN COAL (either cargo or Benkera) are exampt from payment of all Port charzen,

At Forttik Steamers are herthed along." side the Company's wharf where there is a,

minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet at low wawer Spring Tidea.

Charts of Sibuke Eay (Sebattik Bar- bour). Prices and all other information concerning the Port can Le hat ot

application to the Agents.

BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,

Agenta Cowie Harbour Col Company, Limited.

1047

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Importers-Exporters

AND

Commission Agents

HONGKONG.

Branches :-

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. BOMBAY, INDIA.

China :-

HANKOW,

KHANGHAI,

CANTON.

JAPANESE MAKERS

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

Volunteer Fleet Agent for Nagasaki and Hongkong, has the honour to notify the clients of the Company that the political changes"in Kussia do affect the Company's business, which will be carried pa as usual.

Hongkong, April 10, 1917.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE."

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man goes down with trench-foot, literally goes down, because he cannot stand up but that trouble has been almost abolished in comparison with the

THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of BRITISH SOLDIERS BITTER TIME large number of men who dropped out

Members will be held on SATUR. DAY, the 91st April, 1917, at 12 o'clock Soox, at the Offices of the Joy CLCB on the Grout Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNENA, Chuter Road.

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course.

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BOCHE AIRMEN PROWL OVER AN THE MIST.

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The Daily Chronicle Special Corre- spondeat, Mr. Philip Gibbs, writing from the front at the end of January said:

I rember the winters of '14, and 16 in this war-zone of France and Flan ders, and though there was hard weather in all of the months of cold discom- fort for our soldiers--there has been no weather on the Western front so grim and biting as the frost which now has its grip upon us.

...

Eh, bat it's cold? It is so cold that all the mud and quagmires in which cur en have Been Boundering for nonths are now hend frozen with great chunks of ice in the eats and the shell-craters, and with polished slides along the "duck walks so that men slipping and stumbling along com munication trenches and fall against snow-drifts all crusted with Sne crystals. It is

so cold that mptoring from one part of the front to the other is no kind of fun at all because the wind cute through the thickest of British

last year before they were ordered to rob their feet with oil and change their socks if they could get a patch of dry ground to do it which was not always possible. As for other maladies that come, from hard weather and exposure, they are reported in most cases until the men are relieved. A man with a touch of trench fover holds on to his post until he very beck to billeta Then it's "Ductor, I feel a bit greer like." A man with rheumatism in his hody and bones says "Hell!" very quietly to himself up in the fring-line, and waits for the reliefs 3. O. and says, "The same old trouble, to come up before he gets round to the

So the doctors tell me, praising these stout-bearted fellows, among whom there are very few malingerers. In spite of the hard weather the health of the Armies is amazingly good. The mon themselves are bard-hard as steel.

VENTURESOME ENEMY AIRMEN. Yesterday and today there were some hours of sunlight, when all the snow- fields were sparkling so that one's eyes landscape. Yet there was no cheerinos were blinded a little by this bright white in the soul. It was desolate, and made our spirits cold. The pallid light bad no warmth. Behind the lines the Franch roofs, and long icicles bung from their Cottages bad canopies of snow on their trench, over the battlefields a mist moved, like the breath of the earth rising in smoke, like the breath of men. There was no

Our kite-men from their baskets, went Ger-

warms, hiper Bavagely it wurs and naxes could see her Visibility

and paralyses ever the horse-power of the cars by freezing the radiators and getting a clutch on the carburettors. So

not even the fash "of booming out sullenly all

long an aeroplanes took advantage of the weather, and cama sneaking low through

it happened, that yesterday many officers the white mist, hoping to drop bombs who bad set forth on far journeys got to before our flying men could see and further than lonely roads remote from a chase them, or our Archies" get their telephone, with nothing in sight but long target. They took the risk and paid the stretches of snow fields, and a frozen price. Four of them were taught and car which had side slipped into a snow followed very closely by the white puff- put down.,, I saw one trying to escape, drift. After dark the headlights bulla of our sarapnel. Long range kurs went out because generators had turned were at work, Hiring at targets already to ice, and it is not easy travelling registered, allowing for the day's margin in the dark when the roads are like glass and the cars go skating into bet ges of error." and banks.

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MARCHERS HAVE THE SENT TIME. The marching men have the langth of the mortorists. What time exalted 3taff

By Jore, this weather is the very. devil, said one of the officers. "I don't know how our fellows can stick it."

And that is the thought in the heads of

all lucky people in cosy billets to-night-

officers go by, blue-nosed, wrapped like It is the men in the trenches who need mummies, as chilled as New Zealand the greatest pinck to endure the hardest mutton, the battalions on the move frost of the war..

tramp with a fine swing up the hard roads, beating a tattoo with heel and toe, with red cheeks above their shaggy stink-costs, and red ears beneath their steel belmets, and the breath of a thou

air.

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It will be interesting, remarks a

I men rising like smoke in the frosty London contemporary, to see for how

long the Zeppelin, supposing it survivo Up in the trenches it is different. It in any useful form, will retain its capita is hard to keep warm in an ice-bound Z. As a rule, when anything, taking its ditch, with powdersi snow on the para

pets and frost on every strand of barbed title from a person's name becomes widely wire, and a wind that comes with a known, decay of the capital letter very snap into the dugouts to bite the nocks con wets in, and a small cus takes its of men who are crouching round oil

stoves. The entry cannot feel his grip place. We have familiar examples in on the rife. All knowledge of his feet wordsbrougham,”**** gindstone

bas gone from him. His nose seems to bag, sandwich, d'oyley," and also have wandered over No Man's Land.in wellingtos" and bluchers, He is so cold that every hair of his although the last two are still sometimes goatskin cost is frozen, ad stiff as the quills of the fratful porcupine, and written With capital letters. Our sema to pierce him like a red hot needia. Dreadnoughts, too, ne-appeared because the pain of cold is the with a capital, but are now commonly agony of fire. Very faintly across No written with a small letter. hours the German sentry's footsteps, Man's Land if it is not very far way, he pecing up and down, up and down on the hard floor of the fire trench. That poor beggar is cold, too. Colder, because Iray warmly clad. Ugh! It's a

Thomo intand learns Caiss Mail" Omos ar wicked bite in the draught that comes dirnet Le No. 102, Wellington Street, first floor.round the traverse with a cut throat

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