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LOST OR STOLEN.

NEAR GRAND HOTEL" about $30 to

to

PM on 15th July Japanese white and black POODLE DOG. Reward

retürning DA

No. Queen's Road Central top door. Anyone flecaining the dog after this notice with

be prosecutedi

Hongkong, July 19, 1912.

WANTED.

1972

SSISTANT BOOK-KEEPER for

Engineering coats.

Apply in cwn writing with copy of references and stating salary requires!

"W. S. BAILEY & Co. LTD. S

Hongkong, July 1, 1917

COMMERCIAL UNION

1905

ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

FROM

ROM this date until farther notice

MR GEORGE

FREDRICK

DUMBARTON has been appointed. Acting Local Manager of the Hougkung

Branch this tompany.

W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS,

Manager for China

Mongkong, July 18, 1917.

1961

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY{CO., LTD.

IF

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three

and half Dollar, per share for the

six months ending Roth Jane, 1977, will

be Pavable.om THURSDAY, 9th July

on which date Dividend Warrants may be obained an application at the Cummy's Office."

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Con The any will x CLOSED EDNES 1. the 15th to THE RSDAY the gork uly (ath days inclusive) during which period na transfer of shares can be registered.

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Servetany Hongkong, July 14, 1917. > 1940

THE WEST POINT RUHLDING CO.

LIMITED.

S INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three

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hu Payable on THURSDAY, th July on which date hvidend Warmrts

as

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By Order of the Board of Diretors,

A. SHELTON HOOFER

SPONGAN,

Hongkong." July 10, 191-72

1947

RUSSIAN "57 INTERNAL LIBERTY LOAN 1917.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT **THE BUSSO" ABLATİC BANK. HONGKONG, IS READY TORECHIVE FURTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE ABOVE LOAN UP TO THE 28th JULY, 1817.

G. TISDALL : Manager.

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FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertise net is issued by the

AN AMERICAN TRAINING

CAMP.

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. Ltd..

The great majority of these fellows of lan Hay's First Hundred Thousand" have been are free, subject to little if will remember bis vivid and humorous account of the lack of oticers for train- || 'uny discipline, qowing and going as they ing the new British Army. This lack ja pleased, and with little if any idea of even greater here. The officers' training THE EVOLUTION OF THE RESERVE sacrifice. Here they met the most raps will in time remedy this difficult but for the present, the officers are Atringent restrictions. Their pleasure much hampered in

this

OFFICERS.

-A well-known Autoriza résident who sends us the following cutting from the ristian Science Monitor, says it is a good pea picture of what Ameries is doing in | preparätign för the war, and he is able to speak from personal, knowledge of Ft, Ethen Allen, V, one of the training

imps mentioned in the article:-

PLATTSBURG, N.Y.

and convenience are not considered in of whipping tato ir important work

the slightest. Sacrifice is the funda antal factor in all they do. Not whimper, pot a grumble is heard. one man pets it "We are in this for that it is worth."

all

1

mass.cf

promising but raw material. novel sight. With their stew pans, tin plates, spoons tucked into their boot legs, eat meals sprawling on the ground they

The nien were at mess, and it was a

A

that are evidently seasoned with the sance of good appetite. An air of cheer- fulness pervaded the place. The officer in charge said: "Of course they are contented. Why shouldn't they be They a

hey are? well treated and have nothing to complain about."

is

Of count, with everything so new and where the mind has not adjusted itself to novel requirements, many blender are mode, and a man knows when he making a fool of himself. This is taken philosophically as a part of the disc pline, and the men are learning to laugh at themselves. It is good fun to see the companies marching Lome in rank step after a hand hike and drill, singing Alexander Ragtime Band," or whist ing cheery tunes.

One

The grounds are spacious and the men have ample opportunity for baseball and other sports. The distribution of the evening mail, on the occasion of the visit of The Christian Science Moniter's representative, gave "a touch of nature making the whole world kin." soldier sat apart absorbed in devouring long letter, his face wreathed in amiles. No slim-either here or at Plattsburg— They are looking for fur and find that home is sing its grip

disposed Regular Army sol- plenty of enjoyment; but do not for dier

conducted us through the camp. ; moment think that they are living in He

a

The generous expression of approval that the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour has EUSSO-ASIATIC BANK giren of the way the United States is 1940 preparing to perform the stern task that Hongkong July 9, 1917.

whe bas set before her is recaller whet, te visits the training camps at Platts berg, an st Ft. Ethan Allen, Vt. A Plattsburg is to be seen the evolution of the rearve officers that will command the United States Expeditionary Army a fool's paradise. They are keenly awar join the Army, and that he was proud in France.

At Ft. Ethan Allen the of all that is implied in the choice that to be with the troops. He said the

they have seriously aur generously made

and de Bonnel morality of the regular aro shaping of the rank and file of that force, They frankly speak of possible out

the is being worker ont.

come of their great advantore,. The situation in both camps in admit simply consider it as one phase that ago, and that this award

service. Their most cherished a aspiration able, and much care is taken to guards to be fully equipped to meet all the also was his account of the opportunities

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Comozions to b% Trade Decounts allowed. Special Quotations on Demand

· Hample Onses from £10 uproorde Consignments of Produce deal on decount, SWILLIAM WILSON, & 'CONS",

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London

the well-being of the men. There is no pampering of the Workers, but every effort is being made to send forth season e soldiers, fit to meet strenuousdemands of modern warfare.

demands of their positions.

was

30 per

even more

than Ere years. upward tendency is marked to day. Interesting

that a

a soldier has for self-improvement. There is on lack of appreciation of the chooses, the Government providing all He may study subject that ho

any great advantage that is coming to them as a result of this training. As a fine books free of expenses Unly if a book

i8. st the user must make it good upstanding lad put it: "If we were not

We left the camps with much food for making the pledge of our Eves, it would,

and several conclusions stand. thought,, he worth cur while to pay the Govers out clearly. They are ment for what they are doing for us. That the United States is working out.

No taint of Prussian militarism here.Banish forever the idea that these high ideals, and practical common sense. its mighty problem with clear vision, boys are being turned into fighting maThat the future Army cars are in good trim for their work is provided, chines! Father, they are the besef superbly working out their ideals of but it is of the plainest sort. Bathing ciaries of a well considered and

service.

At Plattsburg the mer sleep in banks on thin mattresses spread or springless boards. Sutrient food to keep the men

constrac

and sanitary accommodations are ample, tive process of manhood making boys who | That the enlisted men are carefully

w real war, but they are The moral welfare of the student is not coming back with careret inte conserved and given a fine opportunity

de xened ergutions,

for development. and blanted

tion.

carefully guarded. A la forbidding the maral sensibilities. Co the contray sale of liquor to men in uniform is they are coming back finely temp atrigently enforced, and secret serve with a richer humanity and a loftier men keep close surveillance over the lea of service; coming back to trains traffic.

new generation of citizenship finer than Opposite the Y.M.C.A. but may be any the United States had yet had.

Across Lake Champla, in. Yarmout seen this sign: "Prohibition Cafe." on the banks of the Winooski River, is Last year it was a full-fledged saloon. Camp Ethan Allen, beautiful for situa This is one of the regular Army Uther forms of dissipation are na car posta, hat to day it is a picturesque city fully watched. The men say all are so of shelter tents with population of elgrossed in their work that other things 8000 or 1000 recruits. Here is to be. lets commonly occupy the time of found the why of Plattaborg. Henders foughtless youth forgotten. Any

Bro college town ollers piore open tempta

*The Lions than are apparent here. Y.M.C.A. a filling a large place in the ware of the men. The constructive re- sults are so manifest that these negative conditions are barely perceptible. W What about the boys? Any Timorous, trembling in these testing times any "Mr. Doubting Thomas, questioning if any good can come from this struggle any Aunty Doldu? sure chant everything is all wrong, had

ection. They dispel con better pack his or hor grip and bark to stipation: liverighness, sick headaches, Flattsburg to get a mental and spiritent

good for the children: a for

post free toute. They will learn that the fine old brext of American manhood is still with

TO AVOID DYSENTERY

and Diartheen during the animer months a gentle laxative should be used whenever,ecessary to keep the system clean

PINKETTES

Fare laxativi

Medicine Ebargha

homes, can do is to be just in thought, keen in sympathies, generous in ap procistion, and active in co-operation.

That the least that we, the stay-at-

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