1918-07-13 — Page 2

INTIMATIONS

· HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION; ';

INTIMATIONS

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AN INVESTMENT which, in return for an outlay of £100- 1 INTERINE DIVIDIFIED that an per annum. for five years, will thereafter

IS HEREBY

per har subject to deduction of Froome Tax bas-been-declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th June, 1918, pat_male of 8/3) per Dollar.

The Dividend will be payable on and aftor MONDAY, tho 19th August, 1913, at the theen of the Corporation, where | Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.

return you an Income of from £500 to £1,000 per annum

Weiter for full particulars to AFRICAN REALTY

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 29th July, to SATUE 593 DAY, the 10th August, 2018 (both days li inclusive) during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered..

By Order of the Cours of Directors,

N. J. STABB

Chief Manager'

Kakoug, July 11, 1813.

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THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED;

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three

A Jollies per share fur the mis

nashe ending 30 June, tats, will hei payable on FRIDAY 26th July, on which date Divideze Warrants may be obtained on application at the Com pany's Offe

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will he CLOSED Lảm Friday, he 19th, to Friday, the with Jaly (both fars inclusive, rfering whigh period Transfer of Shares vin be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Grawal Agents. For the WEST POINT BUILDING Co., Ltta

Hongkong, July 10, 1918.

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THE LONGKONG LAND INVEST- MUST & AGENCY CO., LTD.

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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three A and balf Dollars per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1919, will be payable on FRIDAY, 28th July, on

hich date Dividend Warracts may be chuined on application at the Com Jy's Office.

TRUST, LTD.

(Capital £400,000 fally subscribed). Sti Now Broad Street.

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THE CHINESE OPTICAL CO.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, "the 19th, to Friday, the 28th July (both days inclusive) during which 6005 pehad no Transfer of flares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

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A. SHELTON HOOPER,,.

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Searstory.

Hongkong, July 10, 1818.

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BATTLEFIELD PICTURE..wering their way along a ranged high-hear any expressions of anger or grief a

LAND OF FOG SOWN WITH RED-HOT GUNS.

GERMAN ANT LIKE LEGIONS,

war unmindful of the shrapnel in their It is impossible to follow all the thou sand and one incidents of battle that are taking place around you.

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the calamity which had befallen themt Some of the refugees brought nothing they were able to carry-in one instance but precious family heirlooms which portrait, and in another a piece of lace pacish occupation that had survived handed down from the time of the farmer invasions,

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". THE BANK OF ENGLAND,

The great sgomy is hidden yonder in the thick fog beyond the guns that overrun the naked countryside. Only "the airman dropping down through the I wish I could make the priple at bombardment can penetrate the heavy home, see this battle as it really is veil and see the German army lunging writes Mr. Percits) Phillips in the Driend St. Vejant, ita massive body spraud forward. its tentacles striking at Bailleu Express. Lanking out over the Flanders trig across the plain to the citadel of Lille pisin from the low hills that mark the They follow the convulsive movements SIR C. 8. ADDIS AS A DIRECTOR OF high tide of the straggle hilis that of the locked front lines and the fresh waves of grey flowing across the eem to rock under the thunder of the

marshes, bunching together at a casal guns-you have at your feet a scene bridge to spread again on the other side. such as might be painted by an imagine pusing at a ditch for all the world mative artist seeking to over emphasise like ants halted on a garden path.

Nor is the battlefield at night a might the impressiveness of war. Instinctively ever to be forgotten. The burning barns sach pictures will come to mind, for or cottages set alight by German lielle there in the damp fats stretching inter- the dashes of guns and bursting shell minably to the south are all the elements under the clear starlit aky give one at of battle as they were visualised before sharp realisation of the grimmest side of this plague.came on the work."

PATHETIC SCENES.

The following comment on the pro- posal to appoint Sir Charles Addis, the well-known London manager cf the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, as a Director of the Bank of England is from the money article in one of the London papers.

If only for the reason that this will. be, we believe, the first case of an actual manager of a joint-stock braking institu tion being elected to a seat on the Board It is a spectacle that fills every on-

The exodus of civilians from the of the Bank of looker with awe; the grandeur of it battle znae has been marked by pathetic is peculiarly interesting, and one.which England, the appointment touches even the tired brain of the fight scenes. They have been cared for and manifestly indicates a wide view on the ing mat when he is able to rest above transported by the French authorities part of the Ceurs, and a desire to further the tumult of the plain, and the thought with all possible regard for their enn increase its strength as regards the nam voiced by a staff officer is be swept the fort, but no auiount of care could ease ber of practical bankers, concerned in the the suffering caused by the sudden loss deliberations of the central institution smoke-ridden horizon, hus eume, uneon- of homes and property. Old women of the country. Moreover, as in the sciously to the lips of others: "Yes," he de in carts piled high with furniture,case of its appointment of the frat said, wering his glasses, it looks like bat there were many in these mournful Comptroller to the Bank, so in itx processions who had left everything election of a new directer, an exceed.. Armageddon."

Bave what they could carry. Womeningly wise choice would seem to have Beyond everything. Fou are beaten with babies in their arms trudged been made, Sir Charles Addis command. down and humbed by weight of guns through the blinding dust, white withing the greatest esteem in banking The land is own with guns-red-hot it from head to foot.

circles. We have remarked on the fact gand-and_they, have turned it into a

At night every house and wayside of this being the first occasion when fornace. Look out and imaxire that all estaminet for miles behind the lines was actual manager of an outside banking the world is in the meltins-pot. There crowded with these hapless wayfarers, institution has been appointed to the it is, the battlefield we have dreamed The people of Paillou left as the Board of the Bank, but there is, of about and tried to picture for a geners Getun guns, drew near, and the old, course, a precedent for the appointment tion, thrown across forty miles of rained white haired inayor and his clerk, with of a director of an outside banking farms and faming villages, streaked and the municipal documents, rode in eoncern, in the person of Mr. Willso blotched with greasy smoke (and yester wagon, to a town some miles away. In Hoste, who, besides being on the Board of day over laul with the acrids cent of shell, a famous, seventeenth century ion he the Bank, is the deputy chairman of the a battle held as flat as a table, creased by assembled some of his townspeople; and, London and Brazilian Bank.. canals and shallow streams, with lines of as there was no room elsewhere, they kbaki melting into sluggish fog and tiny passed the night sitting quietly around tongues of red darting în every direction. tables in the diving-room.

An old woman, totally blind, led by her grand-daughter, was among these It is all there, even to the general on refugees. They were very quiet and his horse besides a tzen moving hattalions with curt word and impassive resigned, all of them, and one did not

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force. it seems strangely familiar to the men who have never seen such a sight before. The "wounded" staggering drunkenly up a country lase in staized bandages, the cross-roads, dressing- station. where a surgeon in shirtslegyes stands at the head of a file of men like a ticket-taker at a theatre. The flash of bayonets, in "the mellow sunshine, the [rattle of ladep: libera, going up and the rambulances crawling bacle; the dusty orderlies arriring with breathless mess- ages in a, stable yard, where ocers stand around a kitchen tablè, fit naturally into the picture, and yoU ATO not surprised.

Even the loferski tumulf around the i batteries, where men gestiro curiously because they cannot be heard, and the crash of shell against a road seem pårt of a di eani come true. All around you is movement swift or skw, but always methorical, a feeling of tensior, but no confusion. The men are tired. You.......

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