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INTIMATIONS

HUNGRONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that &

INTERIM DIVIDEND of £3,0 par Share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF TEAR ending" 30th June, 1918, at rate of 3/3) per Dollar.

The Dividend will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 19th August, 10:8 at the Offines of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrnata,

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 28th July, to SATUR- -DAY, the 10th August, 1918 (both days inclusive) during which period no Transfer of Bharos can be registered,

By Order of the Cours of Directors,

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager:-

Hongkong, July 11, 1918,

THE WEST POINT BUILDING

COMPANY, LIMITED.

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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three Dollars per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1918, will be royable on FRIDAY 6th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be braincl on application at the Com pany's Office.

The TRANSFER BOORS of the Company will: ba CLOSED from Friday, the loch, to Friday, the with July (both days inclusive) during which peris no Transfer of Shares can be

egistered.

By Onler of the Board of Director, A. SHELTON HOOPER,

erriary.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTE

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General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD,

Hoogkene, July 10, 1918.

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Y INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three Nix enths ending 30th June, 1918, will be payishle on FRIDAY, 26th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be nistafid on application as the Com 'pany's Office.

A and Esif Dollary is Share for the

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

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Frisbey, the 19th, to Friday, the 20th July (both days inclusive) during which pri no Transfer of Phares can be Fegistered.

Ry Order of the Board of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Sacratory.

Hongkong, July 10, 1918

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THE NEW TREATY.

LONDON, May 30. The Telegraph has received the following depatch from in Miah correspondent, under date of Tuesday

The Austrian and the Gerinan public is informed..at last, of the details of the military convention forced upon E peror Charles during his recont sojourn at Geroan headquarters, and the details, as now published by the Deutschá Volkszeitung, are bound to create a deep impression. The new treaty, asyn this paper, consists of seven ckuses, ap follows:

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TIEME OF THIS NEW TREATY...... 1.. His High Majesty the German Kai- ser and King of Prussia, on the one hand, and His High Apostolic Majesty the Kaiser of Austria and King of Hungary on the other, form a close military alliance for twenty five years, during which both some of the price in Paris. Take beer. A boek in a good café on the Roulevards parties to the alliance pledge themselves

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ANGINEERS: And SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BRASS and IRON' American youths who had not yet. FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have attained their majority, an example in over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate any craf particular being the American ship Ben-†of 200 feet long, jamin, on a voyage from Boston bound for Calcutta, India, vix the Csperof Good Hopa. in 1792. This vessel was com manded by Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem Mass., who was not yet 19 years of age the time. This young master and embryo statesmun, for he was afterward elected a United States Senator from Massachusetts, bad followed the sea since he was 14, making his first voyaga from Salem to Baltimore as Captain's- clerk. At 28 he had accumulated a for to employ the entire strength of their cost &d.; Vermouths, which before the tune and at 36 was the head of the was wore id. and &c., are now is odd. largest American shipping house in

China peoples for military purposes.

The voyage of the Benjamin was never allied nations of Germany and Austria. They have gone up gid.since the luxury Bungary shall divert all their care to tax was imposed. "A"nip" of brandy completed, for while at Mauritius ber commander received word of the break- have their rics enter into any eventual costs is. 3d. Where whisky can still being eat of war between France and fature conflict fully prepared and at the had, in. d. and 24. 1d. maximum of their atronoth. Only thus can & future war he if brief ducation for bad the armies of both allies beer in this condition in 1914 this war would have beer ended long ago.

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charged for the nip." These prices do not include tipa, which run from 1 to 2jd.

Bottles of whisky sell at £1 to £17.6d., and rum, which before the war was as. od. a bottle, is now 108.

England, and he sold the Benjamin's cargo at a dazzling proat, turning the paper currency received into Spanish dollars, which increased three times in vaine in six months. The reaminder of this fortunate voyage was equally sa Ordinary

tobacco is for 40 profitable. It extended as far as the 2. All the tale inhabitants expable of

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Nothing to amoke," "No net profit of over 100 per cent. on his fading any all auxiliary services in connection with French or formiga tobacco or cigarettes, ship and cargo. the production of arms and ammunition: cigars only in run the notices on most

Regulations for the organization, is of the tobacco-shop doors. struction and employment of the allied It is the truth to say that it is easier to troops shall be drawn up according to obtain English than Franch tobacc une cammon principle, the initiative of But the prices! A four-ounce tin of ■ which shall be left principally to Germixture not by any means the dearest in many. The formation of the troups of England costa Bé, ad, bare, and the price the rarions states of Germany and of popular cigarette in 13. id. for 10. Austria-Hungary shall constitute ope

ole army, without being considered

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4. Armament shall be on

basis, to the extent that the formations bf one country may drew their supplies from the nearest depot in the other cantry. wherevor-stationed. without haring to depend, as in the past, on. supplies from some distant home base.

5. The allied troops shall he brought into contact with each other for the purpose of educating them to mutual entem, love and appreciation This principle shall guide the training

2 future officers, and an exchange if officers shall be organized between the Gorman and the Austro-Hungarian Armies so that the Austro-Hungarian officers may, as occasion requires, com mand German troops and vice versa.

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