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INTIMATIONS

INTIMATIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT BUSSIAN INTERNAL LIBERTY

WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

Applications may be mule through tho undernoted Banks from whom full information mul the necessary" forni may be "obrainel :-

CHARTERED BANK OF INDEX

AUSTRALIA AND CHÍNA,

HONGKONG

AND

SHANGHAI

BANKING CORISORATION. MERCANTILE Bank of Indra, LtN,

War Savings Certificates

Valde 5 years

after purchas

£500

Purchase Price

£387 10 0 159."8d.

FREE OF INCOME TAX.

For every 15. ed. lant now £1. will be paid in 5 years' time equivalent to 5 per cent, com-

poned interest. Ne Income Tax

will be payable.

Anyone, whatever his or her

iscome may be. can buy War

Savings Certificate

up to

A

PILGRIM VAT of 509 £1 Certifcates `in all or their equivalent..

Meanwhile the money may be

LOAN 1917.

ERTY

GBSCRIPTION to the SUBSCRIPTION IN THE BU356) ASTATIC BANK Hongkong, from date

guth June, 1917.

The price of issue is 95%

The ban is free et Income Tax and other taxations, a

The loan is jsex for 35 years und will be redeemable at par by yourly drawings beginning in December, 1992,

The Ln may be reimbursed at par Lafzor the 99th March, 1027.

Cons are payable half yearly n the 29th March and the 20th September. Interest on the loun runt from the 2018 March 1967-interest from, that date to be added to the price of sate

Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian Bechan

Applications

will be wired to Petro grid free of celegmphic charges and Bonds will be forwarded free of postal every facility to subscribers in the shape. expenses. The Bank is ready to give

of advances against the Bonds.

G. TISDALL, Manager.

Hongkong, May 3, 1917.

THE

1rör

MUSIC CO.,

ANDERSON

LTD,

withdrawn in fall any time, with HIGH CLASS

an addition, after the first year.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

PIANOS FOR

(1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser SALE ou

to receive for each 15, at on the fifth

anniversary of the date of purchase, free

of income tax in respect of the

Inted interest.

HIRE.

Certificate is not transferalle CASH OR (2) A excupt by permission of the Postanster General; a frends will be charged in respect of mely transfervo, In the

event CREDIT.

of death, the sun rules will be applied

ns in the use of Savings Barik Peguits bayon written application on a form ahtainable n any Post Office) being

TUNING & REPAIRING-

16. Des Voeux Rand.

Te 1320

male to the Controller. Money Offer A SPECIALITY, Department. Sandum, the or part thereof in multis price, 1,411, will be repaid at any time, with an dition of 3. for each tas. 6d. on the first anniversary of the date of purchase and with a further addition, of dr 15. B. for each month thereafter.

(4) No person may hold more than £ Certificates of their pivalent.

price

The "£1 Certificates (purchase 138 6d are issued in book form. The Certifientes. for £12 (purchase price £54 Band 5 (purchase price 9th 7, 61) are issued without banks. The £1. £19 and 25 Certificates are on sale at local

Offices und at most Banks. Iust

Single Certificates för sums from Bion

to £500 may behtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant General General Pet Office, London application forms are available at all "Post Oflices and at most Banks.

If Certificates be lost, and the serial numbers can be furnished to the "Controller of the Money Order Depart

ment, new Certificates will be issued at

charge of 1.

GENERAL POST Ogrice, Lasios,,

June, 19

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(For examples of Investment in War Savings ertificates, 900

the other alde: ),,

Examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates,

Value after-

187 10- 281 &

ទន

2 16 8

1:17 6

19

year.

198 15 —

B. 8- 0027 8

1 11 6

416 15 ----- 3 years.

995——

187 10-

83.15 ---

41 17. 8. 2515

8 7 6

1 i p

2. 10 ■

8 years. yours.

448 15 -----

266 5 —

177 10.

69 16--

64 7 5

17 15 --

180

*17

2 19 8

1 15 6

-17 9

46 17 61

18.15-- 93 15

U 7 0

4 30 0

155 15 --

911

---91 8

→ or gr

23% 10 --

23A 8 →→→

185 --- ---

157 10-

77.10 ---

38 18 --

RD 7 5

15 10-.

18 13 ----

7 10-

7 17 4

17 0

I 18 6

ᏓᎸ --

6 91 --

9 01-

NB.The Investment, may be any

multiple of 15. 6d. up to £387 10.

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Branches:

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BACK TO THE STONE AGE.

CHANGING WEAPONS OF THE

FIGHTING OFFICER.

DISCARDED SWORD.

There way, once a tipe, not so very long was, says a writer in a house paper, when an other could le distinguished efrom his'nun even in the ghest battles, This was Lav PRESIOTE of his congivans uniorm and he highty disorative pris.

It was just about this time that ini Japan the mythical Susapo Mikoto - vus | Putting up eight-healle dingops with his *tenigrip sword:" but in Great Britaiz, at any rate, the sword was in its infancy. Steel was not understood, the stones axe was satisfactory, add the first attempt ata "sword found more than its match in trying conclusions with the club. Nevert theless, the elah had to go. I was too nich to carry shield, bow, arrows, and

lab: and the officer all over the world. then as now, carried les équipment than' the man...

Times changed. The club at length

| To-day the officer, be he spend lieutenant | deappeared altogether, fand it was only

or senior raajor of his buttalion, books any years after that it'canie into use again by officers, in the shape of the mace

practically the same at thiny garle dise Norman period,

tance as his men, Bath her and nce clothed in khaki materia. And the mud which sticks to Tommy sticks also to the jintenant, The collar and tie akaw distinguish the officer from the man. Each use the rifle and bayonet, the ter alume 6s lofantry unite having a revolver nominally as his primary weapon of offenge and defeace.Hombs, the inst cruef"and" beastly of all the inventicus of modeth warfare, are used by all.

CAVE MAN'S CLUB:

In the very dark uges of long ago there "was nothing communtie whenit war-peerbajue

even less than there is today.

The

other was the man of greater bef.") He wielded the heaviest club'or stene" axp. Fund, it is hoped, basked in the toughtest heads. He had no distinctive uniform. Maybe his club had a"few strands of cop per wound and the handle for decora tive and non-slipping parpower; otherwise, | year matters" of the dark ages was kleuti;

'cul with the "Tommy". of his day.

After the Middle Ages the sword and use became the chief weapons of the elicer, and with the perfection of ansiour the bow and armw gradually disappeared. The days of the sword and lauch were real days of minange. Tilting at the ring was one of thesehiebevents in the career of the year knights who had not won their enveted spore in actual warfare. The gorgeously clad knights, superbly in the sam. were themselves men of: horsed, their armour and awords glitter-

a anuntie turn of mind, as the coloured serves which they were over the sleeves of their armour terrified.

But armour

was honey, and with the dawn if, powder and the intention of the pistol #

daily fiscarded.

# PISTOL AND CANE"

*****

the weapons of both officer and man: as It was the pistol that revolutionised

much as any other weapon which can be directly ascribed to the invention of powder. The sword retained, it is triu, but it was out the sole weapon of the form of pistol, accompanied the rapier officer. The Catalan dag, an Elizabethan

and dagger of the times of Drake and

Far handrits of years all over Brope Frobisher; later, the wheel lock, the

The eave

the dude remained, the weapou past excel-petranei, and the Hint-lock were each in Jence for "officers" and men.

turn worn as filing companions to the man sought on his way of the woods whereas the pistol, even if it were made word. This weapon was alwaye reliable..; and firsts club in hand. He went wife by the hand of Cominazzo, the famous hiting after the xane fashion, for in Italian, was liable to misfire at the wrong those old days it was the biggest club at moment. the strengt a which bend the fnua"ria::༥e »tieསཱ,

After the club, canic the stone axe, but the elab was not yet cooned. The wars of the cute soen and the tree and forest fighting. Iforever, the world in dwellers went on without censing, until one fine day some one discovered the bow

utad arrow. Then it was that the man with the huiry arms and the big club and the stone axe received u nasty shock. He found that his enethies in the trees cold [kit hiar iz safety from ular of sad that

le could not hit buck.

It is only today that the infantry officer has definitely discarded the sword as a fighting weapon, for at the beginning of the present was many firess took their swords with them, slurpened for actual

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supposed to be more advanced, aäd, like the dwellers in the trees and forests, we kill from far of, but it with bows and Lowe.

Our gynt howitzers hurl shells for miles across sen, dennst, and farm land, and the trenches are a place for the sword. Arile is a heavy, and sumber- sinne thing to earry when leading men. When the officer of to-day has exhausted This was not to his liking at all. I his revolver ammunition he resorts to the had to sit down and think. So, sat wick which hang on his wrist by a little KING EDWARD HOTEL sell down, and ruminated, and got the leather strap. The stick shops of Bend ng wheels of his sluggish brain to move, Strik and Picoulilly call, these sticks and aller many years came the chariot loaded eames. In reality they are clubs. an a result of his calculations. This first And no we go back to the primeval

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LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pa Entrance, chariot was no prettier than our tanke

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a wonden platform, with "gunwale":n tree trunks and heavy shields, with round dises for wheels. "from which projected great spikes of sharpened stone.

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WITCHELL, Manager

THE NEW FRENOH REMEDY. THERAPION NO 1

CURSUSCHANGES THESE METHOST DICTION

We can easily picture to quíel vus anch a chariot going into action-the charinteer, airy and bearded and muscular, the great horses, and the crew of two "beef, ere equally hairy and repulsive, armed. with clubs, stöne "ases, and bow, ind arrow Here was the, method of com huting the man who slew from the trees with flying arrows, The clariot would drive on witain bowshoe of the forest, and with luck and good shooting bring the free-dwellers to earth. Then the club. and the axe would come into their den again, and the cracked skulls, would equal BASIYAH IN LANG the number of arrow tom bodies, and every man would be satisfy provided be got his blown ita

THERAPION NË 2

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THERAPION NO. 3.

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WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

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