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INTIMATIONS

THE KOWLOON LAND AND

BUILDING COMPANY,

LIMITED

INTIMATIONS

SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONGKONG.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE that St. George's Day" Sird April, 1918

GENERAL

MEETING of the KewLoos LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED will be bold at the Registered Office of the Company, Victoria Building, Hongwong, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th day of 1919 at 11 o'clock in the

Februaryhen the subjoined Resolution

forenoon,

will be proposed as an Extraordinary Hesolution

That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following

(a) That the word "two" be substituted for the word "three" in the definition

of the "The Board" in Article 2. (b) That the word "two" be substituted

for the word "three" in Article 79.

DRAWING OF

(e) That the word "pan" be substituted. for the word "two" in lines ons and two of Article 78 and that the word "other" shall be substituted for the word "others and the word "his" for the word "their" in line two of Article 78 and the word "member" be substituted for the word "mem bers in line three of Article Te. (d) That the word "Director" be sub stitated for the word "Directors" in Article 77.

WAR BONDS

IN AID OF WAR CHARITIES.

$500,000

(HONGKONG CURRENCY)

or more or less according to subscriptions.

PROSPECTUS

Tickets $5 each. DRIZES to be paid in Bonds of the

Hongkong Government 8% War Loan of 1916 (which may be redeemed at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at par) and, in order to ensure that the scheme is productive of

4) That the word "Director" be subne messy for war purposes. an

stitated for the word "Directors" in line four of Article 79.

That the word "signature" be sub stituted for the word "signatures in lines one twe and four of Article 6 and that the word "one" be abetituted for the word "twe" and the wordDirector" for the word "Directors in lins one of Article 3?

Should the Resclation be passed by the

required majority, it will be sub mitted for confirmation as a special resolation to a second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently sonvered.

Dated the 9th day of February, 1919. By Order of the Board,

A SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT &

Aarrer Co., LD.

General Agents for the Company.

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THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

NOMICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE THIRTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Offices Messrs JARUINE, Matusos

LOOTED, OR THURSDAY, the Cat February 1918, at Noos, for the the purpes of receiving the Report of Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917.

.Sist

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 11th February to THURS DAY, 21st February, 1918, both days

nclusive.

By Order of the Board of Director.

W. S. BROWN, Secretary.

Hongkong, Feb. 1918.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

ORDINARY YEARLY

quivalent amount of slie prizes will ba reinvested by the Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation in Da British; War Loan Stock

Of the net amount subsribed: 75 par cent. will be distributed in prizes, and the remaining 25 por cent. will be given to War Canelles.

The amount to be distributed in prizes will be divided as follows:-

First Prize,

B0 per cent. Second " Third 19

100

smaller

++

TH

prizes

ranging in amount from: 95 H.K. $1,000 to HE. $50

Winning Tickets must be prosented at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong, during business bota

Should any winning ticket not ba presented before noon on the 3rd Uctaber, 1918, the licket will be mini- celled, and the value will be distributed amorkst War Charities by the Commit toe of St. George's Society of Hongkong. through the medium of the Hongkong War Charitica. Comautton.

The Drawing will be in public in Hongkong, and the date and hour at which it will take place will be notified in dus coure by advertisements

"Tho tickets will close in Hong-

Fale of kong on Friday, the 13th April, 1818.

Any disputes arising will be decided by the Committee of St. George's Society of Hongkong whoon decision shall be final

The names of the members of the Committee are:—

Hon Mr. P. E Bouroux (Prended). N. J. STAB, Esq. (Vice-President) His Honour Mr. H. E. J. COMPETZ. GS. ARCESURS, Esq.

H. BIED, Esq.

O. MONTAGUS EDE, Esq.

W. J. ELDRIDOX, Eag

H. R. B. HANCOCK, Esq.

L. N. Li, Esq.

Hon. Me. H. E. FOLLOCK, K.O

J. H. PAMSAT, Esq., (Hon. Treasurer), FORM BENTLEY, Esq, (Hon. Secretary}- Tickets and Books of Tickets can be had ca application at the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation on and after the 8th February, 1918.

H. O. SANDFORD, (Hos Treasurer), CHAS, BESWICK, (Hon. Secretary);

St. George's “War Bond Drawing Hongkong, Feb. 2, 1918

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THE ENGLISH ́WAY.'

HOW A GREAT BATTLE IS MANAGED.

I wish the poople who read these despatches could see the British army when it has to face misfortune. Then

id

almost, you might think, from all the A HEADQUAFTER OFFICE. Unshaken and unfarried, the masser affairs of this troubled world. & web minds of the Army faced with this new of wires bangs between two hats. The dilen have tackled it in exactly the sign on the door of one of thom Bay's

Operations. It is battle bead- BaxDe spirit. The Headquarter offices scattered behind the Hindenburg Ene quarters

-one of these quiet are filled with quiet, steady man who went into might be engaged on the tabulation of resorts of etadions men this morning. in its most critical stage. will find attack was being launched very ser stores instead of directing a great battle it was the moment when another great thera imperturbable, studiously polite, los motreat of a critical day. Litter more than in the bour of victory, you apparently, wholly detached from the quiet in, the little hut, save for the realise its splendid strength and steadierisis in which they are leading char sudden jangla of the telephone and the

uren voice that answered it. ness and ses revealed as at to other acters.

"We're holding them," said the Staa They work in strange places, amid officer at the map. They put over time, the undying spirit which has

incongruous surroundings. Immediately broughtit triumphantthroughallordeals. behind the battle front they live ander some gas in the night, and more of their You could have seen. it on Friday when ground, perhaps in the concreted callars troops are coming up. We killed a lot Killing before the is out. It's like

day the Hon overran three villages and strove of a village lately vacated by the Has; this morning, and there will be a bigger to create a debacle. You will and it perhaps in one of his clusters of deep the first battle of Ypres,

dugouts, saak so far beneath a fold that This is the order, for the-th to-day on the ridges by Cambrai, where the thud of his own shells can scarcely other officer, handing him a pink slip. the German battering cam is driving at be heard. our front: in the valleys, where the I come upon one Brigadier, cooped I sent certain troops to do a ceram 20era serve their batteries maaked up in a tomb-like chamber, at the end thing-outlining in three terse sentences against the fames of gas; in the hats, of long winding gallery, sixty feet 5 operation of great importance. It beneath the ground. He shared a lamp Tent its way other pink slipe cams where generals quietly mark their map with his brigade ujork and they sat drifting in, carrying along the bald in the orderly traffic of the battle lanes; together at a little plant table, one with narrative of desperate fighting in many in the dressing stations, where wounded the telephone at his elbow, the other references and sets of figures and the men ask hopefully for news.

before his map: The runners, he is fragmentary reports from our observers there from the fighting battalions bang on the ridges. I have pieced together the scene at- ed their heads against the low plank German headquarters a fortnight go roof. Their approach was signalled by when we smashed the Hindenburg line. the clatter of a tin helmet as it rolled The disconnected fragments of many in-downstairs in the darkness, pursued by terviews dovetail into a picture of chaos muttered curses

"I hope you can say something about and wild anger of bewildered men my boys," said the Brigadier. They re Curses and confusion of orders marked such fine Jack They've been lying out room or from the scenes the early hours of defeat; a purple- night and day, they're wet and coll, but 132 necked divisional commander flayed his still as keen a mustard and willing to

paderlings in Cambrai, and that head do anything.... quarters was a most disorderly place, Alled with wild rumours and wilder Prussians

MEETING of the BHAREHOLDEES in this Corporation will be held at the NATIONAL LOAN OF THIRD YEAR

C

OF REPUBLIC (1914). City Hall Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 33rd day of February, 1918, at Noox. for the purpose of receiving the Report QUBSCRIBERS to the above Loan of the Court of Directors together with are hereby notified that the FIRST * Statement of Accounts for the rear ANNUAL DRAWING OF BONDS anding the 31st December, 1917.

which should have taken place on 18th The REGISTER of SHARES of the December last, will be held at Peking on Corporation will be CLOSED from

20th February. MONDAY, the 11th February to

A list of drawn boads with date and SATURDAY, the 23rd February. 1918, (both daya inclusive), during which place of payment will be notified in due period na Transfer of Shares can be course in the newspapers. registere

By Jeder of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STAPE

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, Feb. 5, 1918.

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HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

NOTICE.

ON AND AFTER 18th February, 1918, the hours for the transation of business by the Hongkong Bavings Bank will be 101 to 13 Nog every week- day except Baturdays.

The Savings Bank will not be open for business on BATURDAYS on and after 36th February, 1818

"For the. HONGKONG & SHANGHLI

BANKING CORPORATION,

N. J.STABB

Chief Manager

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king, Feb. 7. 1918.

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVER that P. G. LEUNG LEUNG

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F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs. Inspectorate General of Customs,

Peking. 2nd February, 1918.

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That is not the British way.

TKU PILEGMATIC, POLICEMAX.

QUINT ERSOETS OF STUDIOUS MEN.

You will find other battle headquarters in the open air. Somewhors beyond the ridges an English divisiót is fighting grimly, pressed by wave upon wave of Frussian infantry, bolding its strip of At a certain place behind Gouzsan- gas ridden ground, badging not an inch under the drums fire of massed batteries. court, during the critical hours of the Far removed from this tumult is a German attack on Friday, you would cluster of fron roofed huts set out have met the usual corner policomsa, a neatly one square of grass, revealed soldier in appearance with a red and to all the world, yet not of it, trim black band on his arm, but a policeman and exclusive and enveloped in an air of repose. The huts are freshly for all that, handling s curiously mis- painted and each bears a sign, like

THE REAL THONGİ,

The General sat in his little office in

one or two busy, men. The only sound the next but. The other bungalows hald that broke the almost oppressive stillnes was the click of typewriters in a clarke'

It is all so

no gallopers dismounting at the gate, that many people imagine. There are covered with mád and panting with fatigue: no dramatic conversations be

A great battle was tween generals; no tension, no excite ment, no barry being managed from groups of little bangalows such as this, and in all of them the atmosphere is that of a City, office following its accustomed routine rather quieter, if anything evenly.controlled.

· and more.

An atmosphere of calm and of consul ence. That is the British way.

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