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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917.

SHIPPING*

P. & O. S. N. CO.

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ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

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MARSEILLES AND LONDON,

•TAKING PASSINGERS AND CARGO TO

STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT. &c.

Steamers

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Ilongkong

Colombo

Nooa

Connecting Mail".

Steamer from Colombo.

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Dae Marseilles 1917,

Duck London --1917.

When Pasangers change Steamers at COLOMBO

On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.

SAILINGS DIRECT TO

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

BATTLE STORIES FROM

THE WEST FRONT.

·KITE BALLOONS AND OTHER THINGS.

[By 8.]

THE CHINA MAIL.

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VISITORS AT THE HOTELA."

I daresay people at himno sometimes wonder what a vanutar-stfack is like Well they wury good bit. I remember

HONGKONG, HÜTEL. no that right

as very Mr S. Aitken

MEM osophy quickly. For half-an-hone there was the Mr G. E. Anderson. Dr F. T. Reyt

Mr. Alcobendas Mr. R. de Journel wildest ghting I ever saw, and about Mr W. Andrews Mrs 31. FKling- thirty others gue cut off as the Thcbs gatafe J. Barreskio Mr and Mrs

Ma H. Baring Mr Q.Tann through on the right and left of on. We Mr and Mrs H A. Landituen U

Baxter and child

[blocked up the truck on both sides and Mrs ER. Beninguidoa

bibed them of over the barriends,

of the thermas got right theng

further down the lip, but note of them ver got back. After an hour a battalion.

and relieved 138. in reservis came up,drove the Germans

Mr. W. Bartenshaw Me 15 6. Lawson Mr. 3. T. Hitting Mr. D. Hirrell Mr

r Mrs AL Mr C.Little Bones Capt & Mrs Hranch Mr Leo. Longinotto

Mr 8. Longfald Mr RJ. Birbeck Mr G. Lodin Mr 10. Browell Hr H. Markey

點 Sir

Lady E. Dr 0. Mariott Mr L. A. Calderon MeM

Chamier

Mr H. E. Maslin Mr McNeill Mr D. E. Cappiemanair H. van

van Maines.

Mr. Gon. E Costello Mr G. H. Mullin Mr J.T. Yan Clave Mr J. Alerecki eye. Moore Comma Mrles L

Pilsen

Nicolson Me MB Mr. J. S. N

Afr Mr J. D.

P. Proode Courtney Mr. P. fr F Me.J. G. Covington

Mr E. H. M. Crawford Miss

That Ronkel HD. J.

Capt

Mr

F. Bayr

Roop

Ballet. Nro. W Falk Mr El-M.Sherwin Mr KM. Fetterly

Mr

Mr J. N. Ro

Mr R. Shindler

D.

EL Capt. Skinner

yarda-belimel the liar, our life is never dull! I have been brought down twice ind, we

ara shelled consistently and

That's one kind. Another time.we "accurately: The first time I was brought had advanced a mile or so and vinali stown I had taken up a gunner ofteer why dated more or less, when I heard oue huid never been in a balloon before. "Wiring. Just then our guns started up and officer way that they were counter-atack. were Polacting a rice ttle shoot for

soon blotted everything out. We can't! wotne tine, when something, instinet, I only see about "a hundyed yards ahend, Accommolution is the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in up, wala me look up. What I saw The smoke and dont re

Hongkong at the time of Booking.

01 Aral ve me the Willies all right.

ubadutely what out the sun. They kept iravelpe was crumpling up like a broken to seethe, Huma comes through the smoke,

it up for twenty minutes, while we waited Wasons, and we were dropping kr a

and then stopped, "We heard afterwards stone. Then I got boy, very busy. The that it had been dhe of the biggest coun gunner was cynd enough, but he was pat

ter-attacks they had clade on that part at home in a balloon.

of the like. Our guns broke them up However, KoiTI- how or other, I got him and his parachure posite us, but further up Narth tranches Mr J. F. Gale

were taken and re-taken. I donte Mr M, Ganjoin ore the side, arul then over I went enunter-attacks are any good unless they Mr. J. W. Griffin

Mr V. Goulbourn ayulf. For a meet the rush was devekip within a few hours of the succesCapt. T. P. Hall' terrife, and then the parachute blow out i fuil attack. The bower they are delayed MrJS

Hamilton I was all right.. The great danger on the more costly they are and low likely Mr and Mrs W.

plo get home.

You can estimate the Mr G. Harper these necasions is that the bullon may strength of the how you've delivered by Mr EA. Hartman

Hannibal fall on top of you. After a bit the gunner the length of time you get to consolidate. Mr E Heller and I drifted together, so close that I At lease that's say opinion,

Mr.D. S. Howitt cauld have sanken han by the hand. In reddy to go back again and see the Shelton Hooper C. Zantz

** Yes, I've had a good bit of war, but shouted to him and he said he felt quite faish, When you've been is at the death | Mr A. J. Jacobsen happy. Then we drifted apart, and I of so many of your pals, year want to be trench while he came down 100 yards fanded quite peacefully in an old Holin at the death of the Bochas."

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Leave Hongkong About

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INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS

(Non- Transhipment),

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS, WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR

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MARSEILLES AND LONDON,

Calling at SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG, COLOMBO

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CARRYING AT AND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.

PROPOSE

SAILINGS:

STEAMERS.

Lesvo 'Rand

·about

Leurs S'ronz. About

Due at B'SEILLEY. if calling #bost

Due LONDON about

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THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

All Cabins are fisted with Electric Fans free of charge and cach Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp

Round-the-World Tickets and Through Tickets to New York in connection with the Principal Mail Lines.

Interlinte Parts for Six Months.

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Return Tickets na fare and a half available to Europe for Two Years; or to Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be caveellel or altered without notice.

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Construces are reminder of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents regarding arrival of consignments expected of which they have received documents or advice.

Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyors, Masars Goddard and Douglas, at 10 am. on Mondays and Thursdays. All chaims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

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FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.

S. S. CHINA

WILL BAIL FROM. HONGKONG FOR

SAN FRANCISCO

VIA SHANGHAI JAPAN PORTS & HONOLULU. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th.

·AN UKBURPASSED HIGH ULASS PASSENGER SERVICE AT INTERMEDIATE RATES.

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OK. RITTER,

Prince's Baildings,

INDIAN AFRICAN, LINE.

Cargo carried on through Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to BEIRA, DELAGOA BAY, DUBBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN with transhipament at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE

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EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION FOR LIT AND 2ND GLAM PASSENGERE.

ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.

Just as we came to earth uway. the balloon fell with crash midway between us. It was a very hičky escape, However, the next day I was up again

and him the joy of putting the gunnets on to whig German convoy, out of which they knocked the necessary. Hades, "The next line I came down quickly was quite pereful. I had just registered a How. batters, all was well.“

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HANDEL

HYANKING CORPORATION.

ONGKONG & SHANGHAI NEDERLANDSCHE

PAIN-UP CAPITAL..

RESERVE FUND

Sterling

£1,500,000@2/-$15,000,000

Sulver

18,300,000

RESERVE LIABLAWY

PROPRIETORI

다

FEA

HOTEL

Mr D. K. Blait Mr & Mrs Neil Mac. Me and Mire"). T. Intyre and child

Breakspear Capt. & Mrs Vieria

E. do Matbos

Mr & Mrs F. W. Cary Mr. J. Compton

Bon. C. Mel. Messer Mr M. Nascimenta

Mr and Mrs A.

Carleton

Legion of Slaves, says a home paper. was the Euisena, desigastion of Port-

first appeared on the Western front Mr and Mrs Dubois gal's contemptible little army when Mr A. David four months ago under the chieftairship Mr. Flis of General Tamagnini. All this time the German scom for this force was auch that they dare not attack it. At last the and ressalts for itself, and undying am enerny made up its minds to move, with for the Portuguese soldiery.

The Serrancs," to give them their generic name of Tommies, showed themselves particularly adept with the bayonet, much to the Porche' surros for of all modes of warfare the use of cold steel is, for the latter, the nost terrify. ing."

A big sergeant in a London regingent aid that the Boche did him out of £4,000) on the day war was declared, so he tale up his mind to get some of it back in kind. He got his find wound at Ypres, Thrin months later he was in's torry, which was hit by a shell and overturned. He got a broken leg out of that. Then two months agn he had his any broken be a piece of shell-near Thillecourt..

Thus the Serranos" have had their "I was all through the advance and baptism of fire, with edifying results to to show how the Loches cleared every on the sorrow-stricken soil of France, an! themselves; their blood has been spilled one away. I only once saw civilians in Portugal has become an allied brother-in- three months. One, cumir up to a big, anos, not in words only, but in deeds. village where we were and entered And now it is the turn of America's

Samonies," as they are to be styled.

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mess there. He brought two workmen with him and they dug up the floor of i the kellar and brought out "£10,000 worth

of plate and other stuff, which comprised

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Mr F. W. Evana Mr 3. Evans Rev. Featherstone Mr L Forster

Mr Denman Fuller

Mrs E. Gandiot Dr Gibeon

$15,000,000

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$33,300,000 AUTOR 60,000,000 (£5,000,940

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F. C. Enteber, Esq.. C.8. Gabbey, Esq.

Mr and Mrs GEAR Compton, Esq. E. V. D. Part. Esq.

Nightingale

Mr T. L Perkins

Mrs Perrin

Coindr. Reed

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Roberta

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Smith

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KING" EDWARD HOTEL. Mrs R. Almond Mr G. D. Kincard Mr J.B.F. AndersonMr and Mrs Leffel Miss Anderson Mrs Liddall Mr J. H. Anstin Mrs Lishwan Bir G. Bannerman Mr A. Z. Makin Mr Bensikom

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Cheng

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In a farewell speech to his continents

Mr

all the villagers' valuables. They had been deposited with the mayer, who had buried them there. The Boches were running enough in the retreat. They known as Colonel Lockwood-aid that be

st Epping. Lord Lambourne-better Mr

Mr

W. Morley

Mrs

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MANAGER.

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CAPITAL

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Fan9257,149= (2. 109,16

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