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INTIMATIONS

INTIMATIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

Applications may be made through

COMPANY, LTD..

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-FIGHTA QR- DINARY GENERAL MEETING WID be held at the Company's Offices, St. the lernoted Banks from whom full 10 at to o'clock Nour, for the Buildings, on SATURDAY, the information and the necessary forms

th MAY. may be obtained ;-

purpose of presontine tha Koport of the Directors together with Sta

Statement of Accounts to th February, 1017, sad electing Directors and Auditor

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CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. HONGKONA AND SITANGA

BANKING CORPORATION. MERCANTILE BANE or Isma, LTD | inclusive..

War Savings Certificates

"Value 5 years

after parchase

£500

21

THE

Purchase Price £387 10 0 159. 60.

FREE OF INCOME TAX.

For every 155. 6d. lent now £1 will be paid in 8 years' time equivalent to 5 per cent. com pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.

anyone, whatever bis or her lecome may be. can bay War Savings Certificates up to a maximum of 500 Et Cerilicates in all or their equivalent.

Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fat any time, with an addition after the first year.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS," (1) A Certifie entitles the purchaser to receive Et for mich, G. on the fifth anniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the aunt. lated interest.

(2) A Certificate is not transferable except hy permission of the Postnaster General; & fre of 1s, will be charge in respect of each transfere. In the event of death, the same rules will be appited in the case of Savings Bank Deposits,

(3) En written application (on a form obtainable at any Fest Olier) Jasing Tradi the

to Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, or part thereof in tuultiples of fidcl, will be paid at any time, with an addition of 3. for each las. 6d. on the first anniversary of the slate of purchas and with further audition of id. per 18. G. for each month thereafter.

(4) No person may hold more than 500 21 Certificates or their equivalent.

The EI Certificates (purchase price There are issued in back fort. The Certificates for 419 (parchase price £ 68) and 3 (purchase price £197, 6) are issue without books. The 21, 13 and £25 Certificates are on sale at local Iost Offices and at most, Panks.

Single Certificates for sums from £100 to £ may be obtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant General General Post Office, London: Application forms are available at all Post Offices and at most Banks.

TE Certificates be lost, and the serial nambers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at

charge of is.

GENERAL PUNT OPPICA, LONDON,"

June, 1910.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compung will be CLOSED from the BST AP, to the br■ Mar, both days By Order of the Board of Directors. GIBB LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, April 17, 391%

1863

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD:

TGENERAL MEETING THE THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY"

the

Company will be held at the Offices of Matheson & Co., Ltd. Des freax Road, the General Managers, Jesses, Jardine

ongkong en WEDNESDAY, the Oth May, at Noos for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Alitors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from or May to the 23rd May, both days inelavive.

1

By Order of the Board, JARDINE. MATHESON & Co. Ltr.

General Managers. Hongkong, April 26, 1977.)

HONGKONG CLUB.

NUTI E.

1730

X EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of the Members of the Hongkong Club will be held in the Chus House on MONDAY, the 14th Mar. 1937, at 15PM.

notace posted in the ilail of the Chub.

BUSINESS-A set forth in the

By Brdur.

از

E. DES YŒUX,

Neretary. Hongkong, May 4, 1917.

THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Embassy

HAND

N° 77.

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

ARE TEMPTING.

99

MADE

W.D.&H.O.WILLS.

BRISTOL & LONDON.

GERMAN EXOUS FROM FLYING FOX HUNT" BY MOTOR

ENGLAND.

CAR.

Herr Stielow, the repatriatel London

Did you ever hear of a "ying fox correspondent of the Berlin Likalan-drive" in a motor car! This sport is zeiror, publishes, says the Times, an in more or less peculiar to Australia, par- teresting lamentation over "the destruc- ticularly the East Coast near Brisbane, tion of Germanism in England" He Queensland. ays that, whatever may be the eitustion

The Overland and Willys-Knight dealer of Germany in England after the war,at Brisbane, recently sent word to the "it is already certain that the whole Overland factory at Toledo, Ohio, of an mighty structure of Getmanism, whiell extended fox, drive by "Overland hunt-

INTIMATIONS

YOUR EYES

SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL. At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult

We test

119.

eyes scientifically and fit glasses to individual re-

quirements.

& Co.

CLARK &

OPTICIANS

DRK BLOGS, CHATER RO

HONGKONG

HONGKONG & MANILA.

MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA |

(Mitsubishi Co.) COAL DEPARTMEN I.

SOLE PROPRIETÕES OF. TAKABHIMA. OUHL MUTABE KISHIDARE 'TOSHINOTANT HOJO,NAMAZUTA SAYO. KANADA,

AGENT FOR SAKITO COAL.

1769 Germans built up hy genturies of cul, ing parties, in which tens of thousandy SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIRAI

tural work, in an apparently hospitable of these creatures were exterminated. & QYUBARI COLLIERIES. land, flowing with milk and honey, has Some of these shooting expeditions been destroyed to the foundations" penetrated into the very heart of the Herr Stielow compares this historic Australian scrub where they successfully tragedy" with the exodus of the Chilbroke their own ronds through virgin dren of Israel from Egypt, the persecu. bush and jungle. tions of the Christians in Rome, and the driving cut of the Moors and Jews from Spain and of the Huguenots from France.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE Fourteenth YEARLY MEETING

SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Company's dice, St. fieorge's Buidling at 11AM. on FRIDAY the 19TH BAY, 1917 to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1916 and the Report of the General Manager and Conventing Committee, and to elect a Consulting Committee and editor

The Transier Books of the Company will be closed from the 6th May to the 15th May both clays inclusive.

The CHINA BORNEO Co., LTD.

W. G. DARBY,

fieneral Manager. Eowlodo. May 3, 1917.

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(For examples of Investment in RUSSIAN S INTERNAL LIBERTY War Savings Certificates, see the other side.)

Examples of Investment in

War Savings Certificates

# years.

CO

918

600

200

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OF

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3 years.

251

167 16 ·

63 15-

41 17 6

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177 10--

68 16 --

44 7 8

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93 15 -- 197 10-

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78 15-

15 15-

7 17 6

10 16 -

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8 17

10

8 18 0

4:69

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310 8

2 13 8

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LOAN 1917.

QUBSCRIPTION to the LIBERTY

LOAN is opened at THE RUSSO ASTATIC BANK Hongkong, from date

28th June, 1917.

The price of issue is 93%. The loan is free of Income Tax and other taxations.

price

that the real moral is that voluntary Herr Stielow comes to the conclusion

military service is a perilous disease, be cause, when all the forces of the country are hecced, agitation against the enemy is necessary as a stimulus to recruiting His speculations on this subject, and his view of the harmlessness of Germaniam abroad, are, however, less interesting than his account of the dimensions of Cermanism in England. He says

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Dering the summer of 1915-1918, the whole of Queensland suffered from fanges back of the coast line were no protracted draught. The scrub-covered exception, and oust fires soon began to

the forest fires were so bad that the run through this country. For a hundred piles entirevity was fairly shrouded in smoke.

Ground Brisbane

Saturally, these wide-spread bush fires grounds of all the wild life peculiar to made great difference in the feeding the Queensland scrub cockatons lew screeching over Brisbane, Parrots and forced by smoke and fire to move from their accustomed haunts.

the Queensland bush is the "flying fox" One of the most ancanny denizens of This

belisor bird has a head covered! wings like a bat. with ral hair, exactly like a fox, and has

The flying fox is nocturnal animal and a gregarious one. In spite of its terrifyi

In fact, it is valued article of food in ying appearance, it is fruit-eating, New Guinea and other lalands adjacent

to Australia

in st

ct

in.

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For Particular, apply to

K. KATO,

Manager:"

No. 2 Fanose STELET,

Honokaro,

German efficiency and power of work had secured fruitful Sekl in every sphere throughout the whole country There was hardly a branch of economic life in which Germans did not play & preeminent part. In some cases more, in other cases less-but the whole com

MANILA Messrs Matondray & During the daytime the foxes sleep in One sometimes beard it sail that balyemps" are permanent, and each is mercial life was saturated with Germans.

campe "-usually deep, gloomy gullies

# Co. unfrequented range. These SINGAPORE: Messrs Horneo Co.! The loan is issued for 55 years and the inferior elements of the Fatherland habited by wns of thousands of foxen. will be redeemable at par by yearly found their way across the Channel.

Ltd drawings beginning in December, 199

Shortly after the scrub fires a number That quite wrong. There may have the foxes, confused by the clouds of The Loan may be reimbursed at par been much chaff, but it soon found its smoke, settled in the city of Brisbane in

these

camps

were burned out, and GLASGOW. Messrs A. E. Brown, after the 29th March.. 1027.

McFarlane & Co., Ltd. Coupons are payable half yearly on way into the dark; criminal corners, countless hordes Bamboon, shrubs and where it was kept under close observa shade trees in the botanical gardens and the branches being broken off by the in the residence districts were fuined, either sent away or rendered harmless. sheer weight of the foxes clinging to

The overwhelming majority were valu-them. who. by their intelligence, industry, and tically impossible becaues of the squeal able people, true pioneers of Germanisu stripped. Sleep in the City was prac Fruit trees throughout the city were honesty won a respected position in the ing and snarling of the starring fores country. It is true that they adapted themselves to circumstances, and often strictions on the use of firearing ware set To rid the city of this pent all re settled down; but even if they were not aside. Good shooting was to be had at "harrab patriots" they remained in every corner. Eventually the foxen heart and chamcter German. they formed an organic league between their nightly raids continued.

Thus settled in "camps" near the city, but the two countries, and through The city authorities then appealed to them Hlowed the life. streami international trade,

of the sporting blood of its population, TRON STEEL METAL HARD surable advantage of the two greatest the eradication of these caps."

to the immes-asking its inhabitants to lend a hand in trade Empires of Europe.

WARE MERCHANTJ. Wholesale How will England fill their places were rushed to the spot. A successful respers and 85ipchandlers Nos 35 and Meter car parties, armed tothe teeth, Boundry Coke Importers. General Store

and Betail Ironmongers. Pig Iron anl. That is a question, for the answer to shoot of an hour or two would result in 37, Hrse Loone SET, (2nd Street, want WE beg to notify that co and from Only think of one branch the hotels. Hundreds of thousands of foese

which one may well look with interest, a bag of several hundred foxes por gun. of Central Market) Telephone No. 515, the 1st May, 1017, M. NOSSER- One of the first hotel director of Lone were-wiped out. WAN BOMANJEE KABANJIA will

pests retire from the business of our firm here at himself a German, once said to

Hongkong September 4, 181, that one could as well imagine a stern

the 29th March and the 29th September.

Interest on the loan runs from the tion by the capable criminal police, and 20th March, 1017-interest from that date to be added tolerates will be quoted

to the of issue. Special favourable for Russian Exchange.

Applications will be wired to Petro: grad free of telegraphic charges and Bonds will be forwarded free of postal The Bank is ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the Bonds.

G. TISDALL, Manager.

expenses.

Hongkong, May 3, 1917.

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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. OF

*PARTNERSHIP.

me

and branches aboard. His responsibility engine without heat as Lomulon hotels N.B.-The Investment may be any PATELL & CO. from that date, and What will the barbers do without will therefore, cease from the firm of and resturants without German waiters. multiple of 154. 6d. up to 2087 10.

COMIC

REGAL

RECORDS,

Macgregor's Trip To London Where Tell Me Whore...

We All Go Parading in Tartan Yo'rs Always Welcome There

(Mary McIntyre ja

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Jess From Inverness"

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It's Just Like Bein' at Fame.. Maggie Frae Dundes

Breakfast in Bed on Sunday

Amy Morning. Every Laddie Loves A Laraiu

THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.

ECONOMY IN TIMBER

Li

Our MR. MANCHERJI JAMSHEDJT Germans, the bakeries without German STUPENDOUS SUPPLIES LEQUIRED

will carry on all the businesses bakers, and the City without German Con his own account, men of business 1" But it is vain to rack

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as usual while the businesses of one's brains about much after wer.pro- POMANJEE & CO of Hongkong and blems. World history, will solve them, Canton will be carried on by Ma. NOS- SERWAN BOMANJEE KARANJIA on his own account, and MB MANCHERJI JAMSHEDJI PATELL'S responsibility will cease from the firm of BOMANJEE & CO. from that date

PATELL & COMPANY, BOMANJEE & COMPANY, MANCHERJI JAMSHEDJI PAZELL, NOSSERWAN BOMANJEE Hongkong, May 1, 1917.

KARANJIA

1757

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OP ALL

FOR THE APMY.

The Earl of Selborne asked in the House of Lords why the Warce bad taken over the work of the Home grown- Timber Supply Committer, and why that Committee had been dissolved.

The Earl

arl of Derby aid tha: the staff and operations of the Home grown Tim- ber Committee had been placed

under the general control of the Director of Timber Supplies. The transfer was decided upon by the War Cabinet, and the reason for the change was that the Army was by far the largest, consumer of timber. The amount which went to France was stupendous Lord Lovat had taken position on the staff of Bir Douglas Haig to control the vast forestry operations in France, as marked

The French Government had place at the disposal of the British Army huge tracts of forests, and with proper sup- ply of labour it would be possible to obtain from this soures much timber y to be brought from Oversea

which had for you w

He

appealed to the cou

country to ECONO- mine in timber. The reduction

importa

from Scandinavia rendered it brofately: necessary to the sto ke in this country andons

Kould be unban

found acco

This respect, by

SINGON & CO.

UKAD OFFIOR: HOWLOON.

ESTAKLISHED) A.D. 188),

SATURDAY, MAY 1917.

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