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INTIMATIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

Applications” mag po made through

the undernoted Banks from whom füll information and the meraguy forms may be obtained : --

CHARTERED BANK HP INDIA

AUSTRALIA AND-CHINA. HONGKONG AND SIPANGHAR

BANKING CORPORATION," MERCANTILE BANK OF INDMA, I.TO. !

War Savings Certificates

Value 5 years

after purchase

£500 21

Purchace Price

£387 10 0 15. 6d.

FREE OF INCOME TAX

For avery 155. 8d. ant now £1 will be paid to 5 years' time equivalent to 5 par cont. com. pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.

Anyona, whatever bis or her income may be, can buy War Savings Certificates up to maximum of 500 £1 Certificates in allor their equivalent.

Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fe'l any time, with an addition after the first year..

TERMS AND CONDITIONS. (1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser to revive El for each 15. l on the fifth anniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the acentur- Intel interest.

(2) A Certifionte, is not transferable

General

sxupt by peruission of the muster

a fee of 1 will be charged in

respect of each transferee. In the event

of

death, the same rales will be applic

as in the case of Savings Park Deposits.

(3)

INTIMATIONS

HONOKONG (CE COMPANY

· LIMITED..

NOTICE.

manufacture it has been decided

WING to the greatly increased con

th. as from the fat July ext to raise the price of Tes to cents per

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Ltd.

General Managera

Hongkong. June 92, 1917.

19012

| RUSSIAN 5% INTERNAL LIBERTY

LOAN 1917.

QUBSCRIPTION to the LIBERTY is opened at THE RUSSO

ASIATIC BANK Hongkong, from date to-6th June, 1917.

The price of issue is 532-

The loan is free of Treme Tax and other taxations,

The loan is ixsted for 35 years, and will be nulegrables as far by yearly dwings beginning in December, 1999:

The Loan may be reimbursed at par after the Buth March, 1997

Cupons are payable half yearly on she 29th Marelt and the 9th September. Interest on the kan runs from the 29th March, 1317-interest from that date to be added to the price of

Special favourable rates will be quoterl for Russian Exchange.

158ue,

Applications will be wired to Petro- and free of telegraphic charge and Bonds will be forwarded free of postal expenses. The Rank is rendy to give every facility to suberribers in the shape of advances against the bands.

Hongkong, May

G. TISDALL Mamujer. 1917.

1767

THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO., LTD.

Ou written upplivation (on an HIGH CLASS ehtainable at any Post Oflier)

mude to the Controller. Money Order

Department, Lantion, the purchase price,

or part threst in multiples of 158 1.

PIANOS

FOR

will I requid at any time with an alition of . forth is, pad on the SALE

first anniversary of the date of purchase

anl with further addition of der HIRE."

15. 6. for each month: thereafter.

(0) No person may hold more than

El Certificates or their equivalent.

CASH OR

The E Certifiestry (prochase price. 15. fl.) are iamed in book form. The CREDIT. Certifients for 412 (parrhase price £3 6.) and £33. (purchase prices) are bid without books. The £1,212 and 25 Certificates are on sale at loutl It Offices and at most Banks.

Single Certificates for sums from £100 to £500 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, Panka.

Certificates be list, and the serial numbers

can be furnisher so the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at

charge of is.

GENERAL POST Orrizg Lesson,

Jprie, 1016.

(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates, see the other side)

Examples of Investment in

War Savings Certificates

04

187 10 →→→

03 15

48 17 6

18 15-

6 ST F

9.2 8

118_15_ --

B3 15 - 251 5

187 10.--

#117 6

alue after

8 years.

260 5 ---

177 10

19 15

44 7 8

17 16--

:9 17 6

4.8 0.89.

---

187 10

HT. 91

509 15-

185

253 10-

234, A-

77 10 ---

34 18 —

78 10.-

89 7 0:

15 15

7 17 6

I 13 →.

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6 91.8

LF

-01 21

2 10

7 8

1176

1 11 5

-189

.97 -

• ST-

N.B.-The Investment may be any

mutiple of 15. 6d. up to 2387 10.

TUNING & REPAIRING-

A SPECIALITY,

16, Des Vinux Road. TEL. 1399.

SILIMPOPON SEBATTIK)

COAL

18 Undersigned having been appointed Bare for the 'COWIRE REOUR COAL CO LTD., are premted to quote prices for hest quality SILIMP PON MK SANDAKAN (Britiad COAL trimmed into Bankomat HEBAT North Borneo.

sbly

SILIMPOPON COAL, comparan favour, with the better grades of Japanese Coal and given good results a very moderata consumption. SANDAKAN exclusively for SIEMPO, FUN CUAL (either cargo or "Barkers) Are exempt from payment of all Port churgu."

Etesmer calling at SEBATTIE or

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SLAVERY UNDER THE HUNS.

EXPERIENCES OF A KIDNAPPED BELGIAN.

punishment, and I could not believe that. it was all they were going to do to mic It was not.

Suddenly oue of the warders seized hold of me and began belabouring the with thick elab. Da my back, on my 084- all over, he thrashed me till f

}v thought

was trying to kill me. When I

The flowing account of life in buts in the works, and I had to work. recovered I was marched back to the Gerummy as prisbrier; and if the brutal the next day just the same as if nothing way in which prisonerse treated, ishad happened. It was hell, and there related in the Daily Express, B5. Beliau workman who only escaped every German in sight

vere moments when

longed

to recent mud werivedi London tow

| days ago,

spent more than two years in i Germany in war time, and I Eave no renson to love the Germans. They treated me vilely, as you shall learn, and they

AERIAL WARFARE.

are treating nearly all their prisoners FIGHT BETWEEN ONE HUNDRED the same way.

erl

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AEROPLANES,

1.

fifty British aeroplanes and the same A vivid picture of fight between number of German machines on the western front is drawn by one of the

rticipants, an afficer of the Royal Flying Corps whs has just been invalid- cd home. His narrative is told in the Montreal Star

INTIMATIONS

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OLARI

LARK & CO

OFFICIANS

A BLDGS, CHATER RO

HONGKONG

HONGKONG & MANILA.

| MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA

(Mitsubishi Co.)

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I firs; fell into the hands nf this) Germans when they emptured Liege, Ko that my experience of them covers nearly the whole war. For some months I was allowed to stay at home and work, but I had to be in the house every night at eleven o'clock. One night in Decemler, 1014. I was seven minutes late reaching the house paid dearly for those seven minites.

My troables began when I wa to spend the night in a cellar. The British aeroplanes, the officer says:---

After describing the start of the next morning I was taken to the kom-e cimbed six, eight, ten thousand standacut, and was there sentenced to feet. Tiny sperks began to rise far in be deported to Germany. It took a day the rear of the German linos. They or two to fill up the necessary papers, were ueroplanes coming to meet us. and then, with eighty or ninety other Later I learned that through sine Belgians who haul been guilty of exally trivial leges, I was turshed towaty strange ruineidener there were fifty of the milway station.

We might have fought them, but them. We were put into that was not our mission. We had been a goods tout, and sent off to Westphalis sent out to bomb the Gorman front line

and support trenches.

My observer was watching the squadron commander's nerephite. Ho fairly large town, about forty miles from of bombs. Forty-nine other observers MANILA Messrs Macondray & to a camp for civil prisoners at Hagen, a saw the signal. Ho let go his drst rack Cologne, where there are several imdx the same almost simultaneously Germans have portant smelting works, and where the Hell was let loose in the heavens, and tion facere built a number of mani- fell ernaning on the men beneath, who the town at Hase, and when we got bombs was turned loose from

The civil prisoners" camp was outside We flew lower. Another rack of there we were all told that we should machine. Tower and lower we flew,

HHRAD AND WATER:

This is the great German iron and steel works centre, and we were taken

could find no shelter.

At Sebastik Steamers are herthed along.have to work for the Germans. I refused. We could use machine-guns now. The side the Company's wharf where there in minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet at low water Spring Tides,

Charts of Sibuka Bay (Sehattik 'Har bour). Prices and all other information concerning the Port can be had o application to the Agents.

BRADLEY & CO., LTD..

Agonta Cowie Harbour Coal Company, Limited.

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They promptly put me on a diet of beautiful weapons were spewing death bread and water, and at intervals they and destruction into the pits below. asked me if I had repented still re- Directly ahead column of flame shot

* fused, and so for five months they kept up from one of our machines, and I but bread and water. I became

caught a momentary glimpse of the was just a living skeleton, and it was of dawn under which we were fighting clear that if I

ever wanted un excape His petrol tank had been hit and ex- from Germany, as I fully intended to da ploded. Another spurt of flame, and I should have to give in and agree,

his machine in order to obtain food to regain spirally towards the earth.

swooped more swiftly and ny strength. Bo at last I gave in, and was a skilled worker they put me at once into the smelting works of the Siemens Martin firm

me in close confinement, with no pilot's face, ushen gay-gray as the sl

work

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Manager.

No. 2 PEDICE STELET,

HONGKONG:

SINGON & CO.

"The German squadron was upon us, flying in mass,formation and scattered. There were no strikes. The Cernians Just to the right of me ofle of their DAIRY FARM NEWS.dropped lead from hunger or from over bad let go another rack of bombe. Sud who were working with us would have fliers dropped out of sight. My partner work rather than lose the war--I will denly an explosion roared directly un-

Estarlished &.D. 1880. say that for them. As for the wretched derneath me. prisoners, there was no question of the levers as the machine gave a danger

tightened my grip on TBON STEEL METAL HARD ARE MERCHANTS. Wholesale striking among them. Even men was dus lurch upward. It was a narrow and Retail Ironmongera. Pig Im sol were too ill to work were forced to go on. squet.

Foundry Cake Importers, Gmeral Store THE SIXTHRAAK ED.

Our formation peased to exist. All keepers and Shipchandlers Nos, 86 and planes and keep we cared about was to dodge the German 37, H. LooNG STREET, (a tree" weat

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I have seen the head gaoler-for that is what he was-standing over a man who was quite unable to keep on his legs, threshing him with a thick stick..

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and machine gun fire into those trenches

pouring explosiven | of Central Market) Telephoas No. 516. while their air patrol tried to knock us

Hongkong September 4, 1915. I had experience of more than one gums nugged at us.

out of the sky and their high-angle fire thrashing, hit the worst was when I was Oce drum of our caught trying to scape the first time. Iammunition was already spent. Aly got away from Hagen all right, and partner whirled around on his little reached the Dutch frontier, but there stool, grabbed for another drum I was caught, and the police sent me slammed it into the machine gun to send and back to Hagen by train. There I was a parting message to the Boches. Sudden. taken to the police station and was fined ly he lurched forward. He was hit.. six shillings. It seemed a very small "Not ཇ word from him-not even a sigh I took a quick look, but, above I must save the machine. thin stream of blood trickled from his hair down his face.

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"I headed my machine westward. Just then came the commander's signs! to retire. We raced slang like the wind, the German planes spitting lead at from behind and those of our machines with observers left alive cracking back at them with what little ammunition remained unspent. As we whirred over the British trenches now, the Seals were clambering out

of then stid dagbing

over the bullet-swept plain to fight with steal with the Baches, who call them the Ladies from Hell because of their, kilts,

It was grim work flying back to quarters after that fat fight, the wind whistling through the torn planes of my machine and my partner leaning agains the empty bomb rack silest

As I walked toward therefroms, the machine which had been the other side of me glided to earth, but neither the pilot nor his observer got out. The abeerver was shot through the head and had been dead for half an hour! The pilot was hit in a dozen places, but he made perfect landing, then leaned over

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