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INTIMATIONS

INDO-CHINĂ STEAMINÁVIGATION

CO., LTD.

INTIMATIONS

WANTED.

#FIES DOCTOR urgently required,

THE THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY Spply Box No. 1317.

GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the Gateral Managers, Mouri, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd Des Voux, Romdh Hongkong on WEDNESDAY, this sith May, nt Soos for the purpopf receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts and electing Directius and Auditori

The TRX FER - POOKS, of the Company will be CLOSED from gut May to the 3rd Meys the days inclusive.

By Order of the Bond, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

General Managerâ Hongkong, April 24 047.

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE,

1:30

N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the Hongkong Club wil te hek in the CLUB Hers on MUNDAY, the 14th May, 1517, ut A.15 P.3.

BUSINESS-Ax set forth in the notice posted in the Hall of the, Cink,

By Dider,

E. DES VEUX,

A

Co "CHINA MAIL" Offe Hongkong, May 5, 1917.

WANTED

1770

YOUNG GIRL offers her SERVICES 15 SUTSE, for sme two ml Children. Bak District preferred.

Apply→ *NURSE."

Co Umina MAIL" Üffice.

1733 Hongkong, May 1, 1917.

"GOOD FRANCE FOR

EARLY COMERS WONDERFUL DISCOUNT

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Japanese Fine Art Curios

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15 Days Only

SALE NOW ON H. MATSUNAGA,

49. Haiphong Rond, - KUALA

Secretary.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

1700

Hongkong, May 4, 1915,

THE CHIVA-BORNEO COMPANY,

LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

DHE Fourteenth YEARLY MEETING'

SHAREHOLDERR of the atmos Company will be held at the Composters Ofee, St. George's "Building at TEAM. Į on FitDAY the 15 May, 197 to nceive a Statement of Acents to the 31st December 19th and the Report it the Genara Msonger and Disadting Fommittee, alini cleet a Ponsulting Curmittes ad Auditor.

The Transfer Thanks of the Company will be closed from the ath May to the 18th May th days inclusive.”

Th; CHINA-BOHNED 1o., Lim,

W, G. DARBY,

General Maanejado

Kowloon, May 3, 1917.

1748

f

RUSSIAN 5 INTERNAL L'BERTY LOAN 1917.

YUBSCRIPTION to the LIBËRTY

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

90th June, 1917.

The price of issue, is 85%.

The unn is tree of Income Tax and

other taxations.

The loan is issued for 36 years and will be revicemahle as par by yearly drawings beginning in December, 19

The Loan may be reimbursed at par after the 9th March, 1947.

Coupons are payable half yearly on the 29th March and the 20th September. Interest on the loan runs from the 29th March, 1917-interest from that date to be added to the price of 1590.

favourable rates will be quoted Special

Exchange.

for

xrid

is will be wired to Petro

IS

Free

of telegraphic charges and Bontis will be forwarded free of postal expenses. The Bank is ready to give every Eacility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the Bunds.

Q: TISDALL, Manager.

13

Hongkong, May 3, 1917.

COLUMBIA

1757

RECORDS

ARE

MORE FAITHFUL

TO THE ORIGINAL,

WHETHER

THE HUMAN VOICE

OR

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS.

CORNED BEEF

AND

CORNED PORK. ··

PUT UP AN Kaos and BigRELA

FÜR

Export on SteaNERM. UNA

MARTIN'S

8 STEEL

APIOL &

sign of day trang.varthy at the Eyvind (3 kamaly dana, navy ba • Verindades at Dane whe

JAPES LEÍA, all Chemieke zad klaras sath kanang Vroeghent tha, VL, N, 900WR0_BLA PERITEX Gunna Kenchanakan day

MARTIN'S

APIOL ASTEEL SECOPILLS

99

PATELL & CO. ORIENTAL PRODUCE

EXPORTERS,

SILK MERCHANTS, COMMISSION AGENTS,

Agencies In

NEW YORK,

SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A.

Branches CANTON,

BHANJEAL

YOKOHAMA,

BOMBAY.

·HEAD OFFICE; RING'S BUILDING", HONGKONG

SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)

COAL.

18 Undersized haring neen appointed As for the COWIK HARBOUR OOAL CO., 2TD., are prepared to quote prices for "best quality BILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Buskers at SEBAT TIK or SANDAKAN (British North Barten

SILIMPOPON COAL compares favour- bly with the better grades of Japanese Coal and gives good results on a very moderate consumption.

Steamers calling at SEBATTIK or SANDAKAN exclusively for SILIMPO PON COL (either sárga or Bankers) exempt from payment of all Post charger.

At Pobaltik Steamers are barthed along THE ANDERSON depth of 27 to 23 lost at low side the Company's wharf 'where there in a

water Spring Tides. MUSIC CO., LTD.

JAPANESE MAKERS

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

ORDER

CHERRY & 00.

PEDDER STREET, Upposite Hongkong Hotel

Hongkong, March 20, 2914 19

Charta of Sibuke Bay (Sobatik Haz bour). Prices and all other information concerning the Port an, he had on application to the Agents.

BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,

Agonte Cowin Harbour of Company, Limited.

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION

"Only a Cough" but you stop it while it is ONLY a cough,

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL: COMPOUND

The Best preparation mada for combading severa, coughin, CURES any cough that I oply a cough. Very palatabin, OP" ALL, CHEMISTS

- PRICER: $1.95 and 82051

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Embassy

NO 77. VIRGINIA. CIGARETTES/

ARE TEMPTING.

MADE

W.D. & H.O.WILLS,

BRISTOL & LONDON.

FEEDING THE FRONT LINE.

FATIGUING AND DANGEROUS WORK.

There are stories of heroism in the

INTIMATIONS

YOUR EYES

SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL,

At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult us, We test eyes scientifically and fit glasses to individual re- quirements.

CO.

@LARK & C

SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS

OK BLOGS, CHATER RD

HONGKONG

HONGKONG & MANILA.

newspapers, of men who have handled MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA

homb and bayonet gallantly against terrible odds.. But there is another kind of heroism, of which little is heard that of the man who sets ent to carry to his comrades the food without which

One of the most astonishing achieve.they cannot live. There is no wild fury ments of Great Britain, is the manner of attack, no glamour, no romance about

in which she provided the great armies which she has placed in the field with food, drink and the munitions of war. It is difficult to realise that a couple of millions of men, transplanted from their homes across the sea to a region "which

a

him as he trulges off in the darkness of

(Mitsubishi Co.) COAL DEPARTMENT.

SOLE PROPRIETÕES OF

cation trenches are rivers of chaging

call, wet winter's night: the communiTAKASHIMA, QUHI, MUTABE, KISHIDARE ZOSEINOTANU oozy mud, and their narrowness makes HOJO,NAMAZUTA. SAYO.KANADA, it difficult to pass the atreteber parties SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAÏ and others coming from the front; at last they will ever see, or an unavoid any moment a casual shell may be the

is in ung places a vast quagmire, areably exposed place may mean death being fed, clother and supplied with arms, equipment and ammunition as regularly and as adequately as though they were a middle class family with a running account at a large co-operative

Ktores.

from a machine gun trained on the spot during daylight, and brought inta on the chance of getting" a ration netion at intervals throughout the night

party or relief. But the greater the danger and the worse the hardships,

How is it done? The secret of it" all is the fact that everybody knows just What he has to do. From the Quarter- till the task before him, whatever it may master-General to the company cook, be, is finished--or he himself has gone every man has his particular duty.under. Nothing is left to chance. Tommy is fighting away up in the trenches, and it

is someone else's job to see that Tommy has plenty of good fool to keep up bis strength and some one else means to do it.

OTURARI COLLINEIES.

AGENT FOR SAKITO COAL

Head Ofc0- MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO

BRANCH OFFICES -----

the more does Tommy rise to the or- | Nagasaki, Moji, Käratan, Wakamatju, casion, and his quiet, resolute spirit carries him ou, with a grin and a joke,

Otari, Muroran, Hakodate, Kobe, Osaka, Kare, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Tauragi, Vladivostock, Hankow, Foking, London, New York, Shanghai- Hongkong. Hiphong.

and Canton.

RICH COALOWNER'S DEATH.

HOLUEOFT...

Behind the firing line there is a ROMANTIC CAREER OF SIR CHAS. network of railways, stretching from the bure nearly to the front; the ordinary lines have been supplementeri

Sir Charles Holcroft, Bart, a Stafford. by metre, two foot and 60 centimetre,shire iron and coul magnate, died at his tracks, with their tiny, but powerful residence. The Shrubbery, Kingswinford. little engines buzzing Inckwards and nentis. forwarts and fossing about by day too promising. Sir Charles tarved his way. Beginning life in circumstances none. and by night. From the base the to a position of great affluence and res food for the troups goes up by ponsibility, and was able to give

during goods train to what is called "rail his lifetime, total of £100,000, to Bir- head" (e.. terminus) where is frequent-mingham University.

ly situated the divisional "dump" or Born in 1841, at Bilston, he was one of point at which are accumulated the a family of four socs and three daughters supplies necessary for a division of troops the eldest of the family. The two Charles being the youngest and James Here the Quartermaster of each lattalion brothers were drawa what he requires for his nuit, out their holy associated through and private lives and carries it away in the battalion Neither married, and both had very transport, wagons to the spot be has successful careers. Charles often ud- selected for his permanent stores; this mitted that the exertions and influence will be as near the front line as circum of James laid the foundations of his own stances permit-probably a matter of a Prosperity. Starting as a junior in the couple of miles' distance.

drawing office of the Horseley Engin eering Company, Tipton, in 1848, 1 Of course, the manner in which the Charles ultimately became a director, rations are new handled depends entirely and continued in office until quite on local conditions; it is impossible to recently and for some years afterwards lay down an invaliable rule; but the

general system may be indicated.

be was associated with his brother James and others in sinking the first pits of the The rations we are only dealing Conduit Colliery Company, and thus with the food supply at present became one of the pioneers of the Can ammunition, engineers' stores, etc., are nock Chase coalfield. dealt with a little differently-are now divided into five portions: one for each of the four companies and one for the hendquarters stall, which includes signallers, orderlies, etc. A company. quartermaster sergeant with a few men GLYCERINE OUT OF HOUSEHOLD food allotted to the company concerned. from each' company takes charge of the

WASTE The rations, subdivided into portions

In

*SHELLS FROM EVERY HOME.

So successful has been the scheme for

for each platoon, are packed in sa dags the collection and treatment of camp.

"dry" or placed in large dixies" refuse that an effort is to be made in (pots), if "wet," such as stew (previously Nottinghamshire to go a step further prepared by the company cooks), and holders.

bones and fat from house- have then to be carried to the firing

and

line. In pitchy darkness and well over was initiated, the weekly return to the During April 1915, when the scheme their ankles in thick, slimy mud, the Array for cuinp refoss was about £1,800, carriers have no easy or pleasant task. but it has now reached half a million Nor is it without danger, for a casual sterling per annum. Glycerine has beer shell may descend upon them at any pellant charges for millions of 18-poun extracted suficient to provide the pro- moment, while an exposed placoder abelis. This enabled the Ministry of certain to have one of the enemy's Munitions to dispense with over 1,000 machine guns trained on it and brought tons of foreign glycerine at a moving in into action at intervals on the chance of cost of £180,000.

catebing a carrying party. But courage Between it and g0lbs of household istics of the British soldier, and it is caring costs £5 per ton, the United and endurance are the great alaracter bones will provide the glycerine for one

18-pounder shell. While English gly rare. indeed for the men in the front states figure is £240.

line to find their "grab long delayeda Sometimes the condition of the roads

will admit of the rations being taken itp

to the vicinity of battalion headquarters WHEN YOU WAKE

in limbers, after dark, the, wheels being

carefully muted to prevent noise. At

TO-MORROW MORNING

other points, ponies or miniature aito-day's liverishness, biliousness, or sick-

ways can be used. But the last stage headache will have disappeared if you

to the firing trench has to be covered on seck the aid of

foot, and that it is both fatiguing and

dangerous work can be readily imagined

Of course, while an attack is actually

in progress, the, normal arrangements

must be thrust on one side, bat apart to-night.

PINKETTES

"disper: « constipation,

from this the whole wystem of stimulate digestion, clear the com

supply is so wonderfully organised and administered to seem positively

miraculous

Finkettes are perfection. « Of or post fra 60 centé the Dr. Williams Medicine Cou 06 Szechnen Road, Shanghai

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AGENCIES:- CHINKLANG: Messrs Gearing &

Co. MANILA. Mesers Macondray &

Co.

SINGAPORE, Messrs Borneo Co.

Ltd.

GLASGOW MESETS A. & Brown, McFarlane & Co., Ltd.

For Particulars, apply to

K. KATO,

Manage.

No. 2. PRDOTE STEIKT,

HONGKONG.

SINGON & CO:|

ESTARLINKEDAD. 1880.

TRON STEEL "METAL and BAHD

and Retail Ironmongers. Pig Iron an Foundry Coke Importers. General Store- keepers and Shipchandlers Nos. 85 and 37, HING Loans Brauer, (221 Streat, wait of Central Markat) Telephone No. 515.

Hongkong September 4, 1916.

MONDAY, MAY 7, 1917.

INTIMATIONS

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ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

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FOR ALL

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AND

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HORLICK'S

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Pare full cream milk, cariched with choice malted harley and wheat in powder form..: Keeps indefinitely,, :

THE FOOD DRINK FOR ALL AGES,

A refreshing and xasta ning beverage. ready in an instant by the addition of hot or cold water only. No cooking. Nourishing and convenient..

In 3 sizes, 1/6, 2/3 and 11/- Gã England):

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