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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

INTIMATIONS

BANK HOLIDAY.

THE SECOND GYMRHANA MEET-TV accordance with Ordinance No. 3 ING of the SEASON will be haid sti of 1919 the EXCHANGE BANKS HATEY VALLEY ON SATURDAY. the 26th will be CLOSED for the Transaction of instant, commencing at 3. p.m.-

The Charge of Adansion will be $1.00 PC Bun MONDAY, the

8th instant.

for others than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUS or GYMKHANA CHUM

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Free. The Committee invita the Indian of Hongkong to be present.

Hongkong, May 21, 1917.

1822

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,

- LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GEVEN that the ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS the above Company will be haki at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 8th May, 1917, at 11.30 AM for the purpose receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 30th April 1912.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of" thẻ Company will be"CLOSED from the 2nd instant to the 28th instant both days inclusive

Peak Tramways Company Limite JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, May 15, 1917.

AS. WATSON & CO. LTD.

1797

Elourkoux, May 24, 1912.

ST. GEORGES SOCIETY."

1841

PUBLIC MEETING will be held

on THURSDAY, May 1st, A15 PM in the CITY HALL, for the e of farming à ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY in HONGKONG.

Result of St. George's Day Celebration vill also be announced.

ALL ENGLISHMEN INVITED TO ATTEND.

bainian

His Honour M. H.H.J. GUMPERTZ

·Hongkong, May 24, 1917.

WANTED.

1844

YOUNG GIRL offers her SERVICES NURSE for me or two small Children. Peak District preferred.

Apply-

น

→ YURSE." Co CHINA Mait' Office.

1753 Hongkong, May 1, 1917.

NOTICE IS HERERY GIVES that RUSSIAN 5 INTERNAL LIBERTY

the THIRTY SECOND ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING" of the Company (sines its registration will be held at the Hongkong Hotel. Hong, keng. on SATURDAY, the nth d

1917, at Soos for the one May, receiving the Report of the Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1916

day of

The REGISTER of SHARES of the will CLOSED front Company MUNDAY, 2185 May, 1917 bob days inclusive during which period o Transfer of Shares can be registered.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managerge Hongkong, May 14, 1917.

→ 1709

LOAN 1917..

CURSCRIPTION to the LIBERTY

LOANis opened at THE RUSSO ASIATIC BANK Hongkong, from date to th June, 1917.

The price of ise is 5%.

The loan is free of Income Tax and fother baxations

THE CHINA MAIL.

INTIMATIONS -

SPERO

FRERES

ARE EGIT

FELUCCA

CIGARETTES

BEAR THIS HALL MARK OF DISTINCTION

No 33

IS THE MOST POPULAR

BRAVE OLD WOMEN OF FRANCE.

The loan is issued for 53 years and SCORNFUL OF GERMAN CRUELTY. eloquence of people who have been in

will be redeenmile, at pe by yearly drawings beginning in December, 1989.

The Least may be reimburseri at par after the Moh March, 1927,

Pompons are payable half yearly on the 29th March and the 29th September.

Interest at the loan runs from the

outh March, 1917-interest from that date to be added to the price of sane.

Special favourable sites will be quoted

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER for an Exchange.

OF COMMERCE.

NOTICE:

GENERAL MEETING of the A Members will be held on TIPS

DAY. 20th May, 1917 at 4 o'clock ysm, in the Chamber Room, Charteria Funk Building, 3 Queen's Road Central, Hong. kong, for the purpose of nominating a ve of the Chamber on the Council during the absence on leave of the Honourable Mr. P. R. Holyoak.

Notice in writing of the names of Candidates and of their properers and sonders to be lodged with the Secretary at least 48 hours before the time appoin

General ed for the holding of the Areting.

By Order,

A. B. LOWE Arting Secretary

N.B. In view of the Whitsuntide holidays, nominations will be received up to 10 am. on Tuesday, 29th instant.

dongkang. May 23, 1917.

1438

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE

N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the CLUB HOUSE on WEDNESDAY, the 30th May, 1917, at 5.15 PM

BUSINESS:-As set forth in the notice postal in the Hall of the Club.

By Order,

„E DES VEUX, Sirretary.

Hongkong, May 22, 1917.

NOTICE.

1825

MADAME FLINT Seft for Paris

yesterday, and ill RETURN to Hongkong the end of September, with a Choice Assortment of Evening and Day Gowns, Co tumes, etc.

Any ORDERS intended to have been placed with her before her departire ean be furwarded to and will receive her personal supervision.

"Hongkong, May 24, 1917.

NOTICE.

18.30

have from the 1st day of May Wen off our Offices at Shameen, Canton, under the style of HOGO & KARANJIA LIMITED, where we shall carry on business as Import and Export and General Merchants-Rawand Waste Silk and also Oriental Produce.

ARTHUR VIVIAN HOGG. NOSSERWAN BOMANJEE

KARANJIA

Hongkong, May 19, 1217.

1818

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G. TISDALL

Manager,

Hongkong, May 3, 1917"

WORTHY MOTHERS OF SUPRO SONS.

Foreste dents Canon Cential

Correspondent. G

War Correspondents' Headquarters. March 17: One stene on the roadside of war sill

these scenes in the wiklorness which the remain sharp in my memory through all Germans havn made behind them,

cursed the spirit which had laid waste their villages, and destroyed their houses ari orchards and taken sway their young giris and all men to the age of 50. They spoke with the dispassionate earthquakes and shipwrecks and torns does. German eruelty was natural, inevitable, and unarguable, and "the soldiers who had done these things were the slaves of the fate which orthainet their acta.

I was taken to Hoisel from my own

yillage further beck," said one old lady.

burns my house and my neigh. bours houses and drove us to ward. Roisel was ill in fames when we passed through. The fires came out of the we can to Tinentur, and yester

The little ones. day they shelled us.

ousts and the beat of the scorched us.

afraid. Dur young girls were

were weep-

through which I have been passing. Eting and full of terror.

understand that it is hard

is becaitin of the courage of old "women who sit there on the way.

It was beyond Fernnne and through 1767 the open country where our cavalry patrols are working, aed in the village of Tincourt. Up beyond Lagniourt the cans Jesterday were, fring heavily and sharp gusts of wind blew forward the noise of a greater and further bombard- men, deep and low.

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to see one's village destroyed, and to see one's sister

taken away, and not to know what is to happen women it was not so hud. We are too old pen next. For us old to wees having wept too much. thought of our sons, who have died for Frazee. We showed our ora.for the enemy by hiding our fear."

WILLIAM WILL PAL."

The

They know they are beaten," said the old ladies. "Thoy ask always for pence. They are afraid of the punish- Quite close, the village of Koisel, takenment which God hulds in store for them by our troops the day before with sharp for all this wickedness fighting, was still moldering, and all "Yes" said onc the old women. around far miles ww the great blackThey will be punished. What we have full of wer with hundreds of villages | suffered they will suffer. All this she wal Earnstead laid low by fire and thrust up a skinny hand towards the dynamite before the Germuns left the raingt land behind her "must be paid in retreat.

But in Tineart only the outer streets. It is William who will pay," und the neighbouring, separate buildings another old wouan. With his bend.” had been destroyed. The main part of It was like the talk of the Greek the village was still standing, though the Fatus, the three old women who helt eremy had shelled is a little the day be the threw and span the the fore. When I came into it I saw that it snipped the thread this talk of the was one of the few places left by the wenien of Tincourt, so passionless, so Germans because it was a concent-ation hud, so bair, so certuin. But I marvel-

fur

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gamp of civilians driven in from other led at their courage, sitting there on MANILA, Mesare Masondray & Villiges while they were being smashed. I their bundles, after tramping away froms

UNAFRAID AND MOEN FUL.

The people were gathered about the roadway, about two hundred of the sitting or standing among piles of bundles, like refugees in the old days of the war here were many old, old women among them in black dresses und bonete, and a group of young girls of In urs, and small boys and children in

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They were looking down the road anxiously, and I found that thes were waiting for Eritish lurries and ambulances to take them away to safer country, beyond the much of German shell fire. They were people who had just been liberated from hostile rule,

A feeling scema growing in prevalence The grey tide of the German army had awept hirk from them, and they found and in strength that the risk of their themselves once again free

welfare of Monarchs whose Peoply of people's France, with news of France and of the spiritual home is Berl n is too great to be world on the other side of the trenches hore, and the principle of Monarchy and the wire which for two years and itself has now come to be criticised,

that ground. It seems to me that the half has shot them in with the enemy.

1 spoke with the old women these of opinions to show that the whole best way to meet and turn this drift brave old grandmothers who were sitting homeless and houseless on their bundles Arises from the comparatively modern

WARE MERCHANTS, Wholesale German idea of chanter-tickly in the midst of a ruined countryside,

and Retail Ironmongers. Pig Iron an within reach of the guns. They were separate hoyal caste. Not muay centu not weeping but smiling. They were rics uzu Kngs often chose mates for Foundry Coke Luporters. General Sture keepers and Shipshandlers No. 35 and not afrail but scornful of the perils themselves or for their sons from among 37, HIND LOONS BIBERT, (8a) Stree”, west through which they had passe 1.

the daughters of their own nubility. of Central Market) Telephou Nn. 515, Thus the Royal House became truly a

Hongkong September 4, 1915. part of the nation: Let the Ministers is every constitutional country advise their overign to revert to this healthy cus- on when the time comes to find a wife for the Heir to the Throne. The incon reniences of the arrangement are of course, obvious but they, ure, of little

And

"FOR OUR BONS BARK" They were thin because they had stinted for their grandchildren and they had suffered great horror, but they held their old grey heads high, and said, "For our sons' sake we endured all things."

They are the grandmothers of the bales who know nothing of all this war; account compared with the peril of and one day will be told, and the mothers foreign influence in high places-From a

Tines letter. of men who have fought and died, and who fight und die with supreme self- sacrifice in the shambles of this war. They are womon worthy of hero SQCB, thema Ives heroic.

They were not passionate against the enemy, only contemptuous of him, and of his role of them. They liked some. of the German soldiers and made "no" accusations of individual brutality, but

TO AVOID DYSENTERY

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