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INTIMATIONS

ST. JOHN'S AMBULANCE BRIGADE

No. 1 HONGKONG VAD.

N examination on "FIRST AIDTM

Ad D. MAULBAN

GIBSON at the Helena May Institute ¤ THURSDAY, Jeth instant at 30 M

W. WILKINSON, Acting Adjutant & Honorary Secretary?

'Benskong, August 10, 1917.

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BRITISH TRADERS” INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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The Standard Tobacco.

MESSES IRL appointed GENERAL AGENTS of the above Company for Fire Insurance for Hong- kong and China.

ESSRS, BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

By Order of the Board of Directors.

per p

CHF. HAY-

General Manager"

Hongkong, August 9, 1917.

22017

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

THE

HE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Half Year ending 30th June 1917, at the rate of Two Poner three shillings Sterling per share,' is payable on ang alter MONDAY the 13th day of August. Current, at the Offices of the Corpora tion, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.

By Order of the Court pt Directors,

NJ, STARR,

Chirt Manager.

Hongkong. August 11, 1917,

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO. LTD.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE ADOLLAR (81) per share for account 1917, will be payable on FRIDAY the 24th August 1

Lok ShareŁA holders aro requested to apply for

Oced Warrants at the Company's

The

St. George's Buiklings, Hongkong. TRANSFER BOOKS At the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 20th August, 1917, "to FRIDAY, 24th August, 19.7, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managera. “Hongkong, August 10, 1917. 2096

HONGKONG ICE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

IN ACCORDANCE with the Provisions

of No. 111 of the Articles of Associa tion the General Managers have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half year ended 30th June, 1917, of TWO DOLLARS PER SHARE

DIVIDEND WAREANTS may be obtained on application at the Office of the Company on and after TUESDAY,

lat instant

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to 20th instant, BOTH DAYS inclusive.

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(TY ALEXANDER K. C. EATON.)

In 'nothings it truer that the afrength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, than in patrol werk. Numbers are s few and the work so exacting and so dangerous, that the need for the right sert på men is correspondingly great. It

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close at band there is need for still greater care. Another light goes up, and every- che is down on his face, it is dangerous' now even to remain crouching. A little farther forward the movement becomes a An unsimed bullet pings real crawl. past, cutting the air close to one's head; an argument for keeping still closer to the ground. -

We know our own wire fairly well, and axally port has been marked, perhaps aven prepared, beforehand; without any preliminary difcuity No Man's Land is renebed, and the protection of our own wire left behind. The "members of the putrol spread out and move slowly for- ward, every man searching into the dark.

The enemy wire at last the objective ness as he goes. Suddenly there is the the patrol. A cautions examination is burst of a Very light, somewhere thead. made; and it has to be cautions for Very Keep still cautions the leader, and the lights still go up at inconvenient moments," of course obvious that "on patrol"erouching men, their movement arrested, Time after time, seems almost a miracle is no place for a coward, yet far more is peer about cautiously, striving to make that the Hun fails to see that there is rote one there, while the possibility of required, if a man is to be sucessful, what ase they can of the uncertain and old ting being hung on the wire, or some than mere bravery or disregard of danger. eerie light. It reveals the ground about other form of sigual arranged to wars the All the qualities that go to make up the one for a few yards only; beyond are sentries, adds unpleasantly to the excite The light meat. There may even be a sudden bomb MBE SEVENTE ORDINARY good scout, intelligence, quickness of hand shadows and faint outlines.

explosion as a result of too much curiosity YEARLY MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Compens, will and rye and brain, technical knowledge, dies down in a lost fitful futter and every regarding some particular section of wire. be held at the Company's Office Sr. the power of quiet cievement, a certain thing looks blacker by contrast; but only Eat with care and luck these dangers are GEORGE'S BUILDING, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, August 15th, 1917 at

amount of ability to see in the dark, are, for a moment. I'p goes another light on sided and, the necessary information the left: then one on the right, and a few having been obtained, the patrol begins There is always a tendency to be care- rifes speak The patrol waits for a moment til all is again blackness and less on the backward journey, and it may THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the

silence sava for a far away ramble of sometimes spell disaster. The enemy is Company will be CLOSED from of absolutely ideal scouts is very small.

transport, and some lights in the distance. just as likely to see the forms of men August 8th to 16th, 1917, both daya

It seems almost unnecessary to say that The patrol mores no; every shadow is retreating as moving towards his lines, nclusive.

GORDON & CO. ja putro, when it goin out should have searched with eyes that strain-to pierce and there is an much chance of meeting

General Managers.,

Every dark patch on the enemy patrol coming home as going clearly defined object in view; yet this its secret, Hongkong, August 4, 1917. -, 2013

fact must be emphasised since the cameround in a possible enemy to be approach. out. So mp to the very last the same

ed with the utmost wuriness, with revolver caution has to be displayed.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

1 for the purpose of presenting in greater or less degree, requisite. So the Report of the "General Managers, and Statement of Accounts to May 31st, are his to be taken in selecting a patrol, There are many brave men; the number

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UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.

MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND UNIOR LOCAL” EXAMINATIONS.

plishment, for the objectives of a patrol may be many. Its purpose may be to drive in enemy patrols and prevent their THESE EXAMINATIONS will com THESE

mence, on MONDAY, December obtaining inlorination to examine ground, 10th, 1917.

Arrangements will be made to hold to ascertain the condition of enemy wirs-

No it is the weathered core of a dead Frenchman, one who fell in the early days of the war and Has lain. there, in No Men's Land ever since, waiting vainly for Christian, burial.

Surely that is a movement on the left; just by the hedge, a stirring of the bushes Astealthy tread atoms andible There is a long pause now, every move

to retrace its steps.

of a patrol going out without sufficiently encked or rifle ready to a quick bayonet Approaching our own line, getting clear instructions would mean failure, thrust.. Stay! What is that on the though our own wire-which, by the way. Sometimes the very number of the diree ground, that dark form in the Little seem strangely unfamiliar approached tions given may endanger their sccom. hollow? crouching German surely from the enemy's side, must be done warily, Jest an overzealous Hentry, in spite of the warning that a patrol is out, should, shoot before challenging. One experts to be shot at by the enemy, but to be fired at by ones own friends is peculiarly annoying, though by to means at unlikely occurrence. When than t the Examinations at any town where a or trenches, or the strength with which

danger has been avoided, the duties" of suficient number of Candidates offer the enemy is holding his front-line, to

the patrol are at an end. themselves. Candidates who wish to be examined at any other place than discover machine gun emplacements of ment arrested in the endeavour to gain Patrol work is extremely useful, and the Registrar on

or before September

must apply to listening posts, to search out snipers; such the double advantages of concealment by the elements of excitement and danger motionless silence and better powers of its own, so that there is rarely any are few of the objects for which it may hearing. Ears are strained to catch the lack cd volunteers for one of the met and all particulars can of entry obtained on application to the

thee employed, and unless the mind and tuistest noise--an incautious cough, the exacting jobe of a soldier's life at the Registrar,

rattle of rifle againgat & stone, or even the sound of breathing. No, it must have been fancy. Everything in atill, so still for the moment that, with the stars shining peacefully overhead and the ulean smell

2nd,

Forms of

ba

The entry form, duly filled in, must!

from The University Hongkong energies are concentrated primarily on reach the Registras, together with the one, or perhaph two of these, energy will fee (Ten Dollars, Hongkong Currency) he so dissipated that yeshita may be nil.

before De

· October, 2nd, 1917. Four Cash Prizes will "le awarded

00

Dor

the results of the Matriculation Exami nating

that Candidates of provided

offer themselves. merię

It has been decided let us su

suppose that patrol shall go out. The men are of the damp earth in ones nostrila, it in

|difficult to realise that there are hundrede. chosen, the arrangements have been made, of men within hall ready at a sign or a cash prizes secure

everything is ready. Intention and objes.word to hurl destruction and death at one munt enter the University on January 2nd, and must reside in one of tive have been explained, and the time another. The cautions move begins,

it in to take and the place of return again, and the enemy trenches being now anger by the The Examinations

ons will be conducted pointed out. The from ling, troops are according to the "Begalations for the then warned that it is going cut, and word Senior and Junior Incal Examinatīvs

the

and for the Matriculation Examination, is passed along sa to the probable place DON'T GO HOME TO-DAY

Hongkong, Angust 9, 1017.

and time of retam. A password to secure without a vial of Pinkettes, the dainty

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Then over the top, there is a scramble from the firestop on to the painpot; in fronte aut own.

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Curious eyes follow our movements Baring the darkness/verraite,

beadaches,

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