SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1915.
Hughes and Hough
ÀUDIES 10 Tiz GoveZXMENT.
AND ADEAUTY.
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PROPRIETORS
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PUBLIC AUOTION.
TEK Undersigned have received instruc tions to Bell by Public Auction,
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TUESDAY,
the 2nd March, 1915, commencing st 1.53 p.m. st their Sazes Roosa, No. 8, Dos Your Road, Corser of Ice Horse Strock-- SEVERAL LOTS or
NEW TEAKWOOD FURNITURE, 130 SUNDRY BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, &c.,
As follows:-- Upholstered Drawing Room and Bedroom Buites, Bedroom Furniture, Dining Room Furniture, Arm-chairs an! Sofas, Carpeta and-Rugs, Brass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads Toilet Tables, Wardrobes, Washstands, &c., Bideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, etc., etc., Dinner and Dessert! Services, Crockery, Glass and E.-P. Ware, Cooking Stores, Cutlery, etc., eta..
8 Blackwood Cabinets, 1 Largo 4-fold Blackwood Screen (Porcelain Panels), and Blackwood Fire Berson, Stauds, Tempoys, Settess, etc., Two Pianos, Marble Clocks, Two Combination Bates, Remington Type- writers, Bras Fenders and Fire Brassos (new), and a few lots of Table Linen, 1
Baddle and 1 Rubber Tyred Ricksha,
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(Fall Particulate from Catalogue.); Team:-Carb.
AUCHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Feb. 20, 1915.
PUBLIC, AUCTION.
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ADHE Undersigned have received instruc-
Tour to Ben by Public anctions
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
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THURSDAY,
the 4th March, 1918, at 11 a.m.;
at their Sales Rooms, No, &, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
ICE Hour BIRKET,
AT THE ÁRNI Szavicz Vones Prez HosCKUNG.
AUCTIONS.
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HE Undersigned have received instruc Tus to sell by Public Reop
WEDNESDAY, the 3rd March, 1915 at 3 p.m., at the Fountain, opposite the City Hall, SEVERAL WELL-KNOWN RACE
PONIES, "
(Full Particulars from Catalogue,) Terme-Cash.
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Three ofours of the Royal Army Mo- lend Corps and two civilian medical 70, serving under that force," and at tached to the British Red Cross Society for the, Ist Belgian Unit, havi arritid in London from Gormany, where they have been prisoners of war. The officers C. T. Falmunda, --Captain B.A.M.C: Captain R. 3. B. Hamilton. the end of the trial the interpreter came Ambulans; to them and said Gentlemen, you RAM.C., S., 7th F.. Lieutenant W. S. Danka, B.A.M.C.. have been incredibly falls to force Civil Surgeon, 14th F. "Ambulancw; Dr.anywhere our our Army and I do not 1751. J. Austin, and Dr. A. R. Elliott, both knew what will because of you, but ena of the British Red Cross Society, letthing you may be stipe about is that you will be treated a gentlemen." Thu Belgina Unit.
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneers, Hongkong Fab 93, 1915
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Tundersigned bar lordon THX Undersigned have received instruo
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED
Wrrou REKRYN
od
SATURDAY,
the 6th March, 1915, commencing
at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8.
A LARGE SELECTION OF SILK EHBROIDERIES.
SWATOW DRAWN WORK. Eru.
All five were recently informed that next examination took place at Coluga. they und be allowed to return to Eng-No papers had been transmitted thither land. No pensons appear to huse been relating to the first trial. and as their givon, but they were made to understand own papers had disappeared and worn. that no more Eaglich ductors would be irrecoverable the trial was conducted just released from Germany unles Germans the first examination had been. Da doctors captured by the British were also this occasion the examination waa-cun- hornio. The released emptives were all ducted by the male at the tin. Then What a second examination on the follow- in good health,
Dr. Austin und Dr: Elliott were emping day by the shof meat offert of red thr. The 1t Belgian Unit the command, with the aid of st
Des Voeux Road, Corner oft out by Sir Frederick Treves left spreter. He asked the captives many no Juvman could Ica Hos SALT",
Bruscals of August 16. These two doc, questions, such as tors wer detached ani lent to the Bel answer, as, for instance, the syns and Danel Crow. They went through symptoms of pneumenis, those of typhoid
Samur on August 17, and reached fever, and its bacterioli, glo anató! Havelange, where they were to make a mical question concerning the leg mul hospital for the Lelgians. There they what organs of the abdomen would bo were captured by the Germans, whosu pertented in the cut the wubject Army. We then advancing on Samur. being plored by a bayonez. The further They were tried as spin and finally went. examination took place next day with via Ufingen and Gerolstein, to Cologne, another interpréter and two moto Ger" where they were thrown into a military man officers, and a few more questions prison und kept in solitary bonfinement were asked and their swers taken for 36 y. They were re-tried more down, after which the captives were re- than ones by the Commandant, and ut. quested to sign them. amined in medician and surgery to prove that they were medical men, and, finally they were sent under escers to Torgau, where they joined the combatant officers
Consisting of :- Silk Crepe Dress Lengths, Silk Crepe Shawls and Scarves, Bedspreads, Table Clothe, Didobeard Covers and Table Contres, Cushion and Pillow Covers, Toilet Covers and Night Drens Cases, Sandalwood B., Fan, at, etc.,
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20 rolls Pongee Silk, a number of Egret Plumes and Satin embrs idared Bedspreads in various colours.
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Feb. 26, 1915.
The actual judgment of their case took place alzòwhere on the evidence collect}} on papers, nail they were never told anything about it at all, except that
in
in captivity on September 9. They they were going to be treated as prisoners, mained at Torgau till September 26, and of war. All this took nearly a fortnight, sulmequently went to Furg, where they ring which time they remained 178 male their first acquaintance with Rus solitary confinement. Their cells, only an officers who had also been taken ft. by ft., were in a dirty and vermin. prisoners
ous condition, and they were very col. For breakfast the prisoners received caffer substituck, with hardly any milk.
On December & they left there and speat the reas of their tine in Magdeburg
House No. 9. They left there on at 5 a.m.; at 11 o'clock quarter loaf
EVERY BEETLESunday (Jan. 10) at midaight, and bave
of of
bread; at 12 o'zinck, pen up or other
since been travelling through Holland, via vegetable soup, occasionally a square inch
EVERY BUG Fizz. to England. At Flushing they.
umos "Keating's” comes.
| fate thorough restaci
with h.
Sold in This my. The mirivilled way
KEATING'S
POWDER
PATELL & CO.
mant, usually pork; and at 7 pm.
with the other three members of the most distasteful actor of skitty At The 'pri- party, were subjected to some inconveni- o'clock they went to bed.
enee us they had left: Germany" without soners had to clean their own cells and parsports, and the Dutch, being anxious to do all the menin work in connexion to verify the truth of their statements, with them. were unable to unction their leaving to embark on board ship for England until inquiries had been made. They there lore passed the night of Monday in the watch-house of Flushing, when it haring been found that they were indeed cap Lives, liberated from Germany, they wore allowed to proceed on their journey.
A CILARGE OF SPYING.
Later they wers, moved to" Torgaui,! where the treatisent of the British officers was comparatively pleasant. Tha! exercise yard was adequate.. When the weather was dry they had two tennis courts put up by the French affec who were also in captivity at Torgau, and for a long time they were allowed to purchase anything they liked except Dr. Austin and Dr. Elliott, when sur. alcohol. When they got to Magdeburg rounded, were searched and asked for all their money was taken away includ. their papers, which included passports, jag the money which was paid to them At in consideration of their rank as officers. etc., and all were taken front them. the time they were accompanied by a For their money they received tokens, Belgian Count and his chauffour. The and in return for the coins of which they chateau were relieved they were giren only Ger former was the owner where the doctors were to establish ama paper,
A
A NIGHTMARE JOURNEY.
Experters & Importers Belgian Red Cross. hospital. They were Captain S. B. Hamilton was esp
conveyed in the Count's motor-ear to the commander of the 1st German Army tured at Mons on August 23. He was Corps, who wanted to hang them out looking after the wounded in a house of hand. Pointing to one of them ho under the shadow of the Red Cross for
General Merchantsid, That is a spy. German offer a fortright. He attended the Garman
and
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, Feb. 23, 1915.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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who spoke English intervened, and the and English wounded, and was very well ringes, crowded together in such a way Capiain Ed. Austin, and Elliott were conveyed from capures were carried off to staall post treated himself, being allowed to walks to make life almost intolerable. Drs. office building: where all four were sub- about the tows freely. jected to a regalar trial The Count, minds, who was with him, was wounded. Cologne to Torgau in a second-class Bel- the two doctors, and the chaufeur were They treated them well, until the fol- gian carriage, but even in these circumver before was there suything like it, nor can fix marvellous properles ever be equated la alt examined by the Commander-in-Chief au lowing Saturday, but then began calling stances the conditions were hardly moro
them swine-bounds" and using other favourable. presidant, by a gentleman descriked the Military Judge, and by an inter, abusive epitheta. They were seat to
UP TO THI FIGHTING LINE. 165 BONGKONG, DANTON,preter. The last-mentioned opened the Targas, a four days' journey-one of the prowedings by saying, "You clearly most awful nightmares imaginable. They understand that you are on your trial asked for a drink of water from the Red Atrocities too Herrible to Tell. for your res, suspected of espionage Cross people at railway stations but were After that each man was put through refuted. Sometimes they were in cattle At trucks, sometimes, in fourth-cists car about an hour's cross-examination.
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of Ice House Strest-
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taken prisoner by the German and who escaped with sight or ten other men, They were shut up in prison; but, obtain ing possession of some wespen, killed the sentry while. be slept and escaped. My travelling, companion, had relatives in "Belgium who hid him sod eventually be I managed to get away,
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