SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915.
Hughes and Hough
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AND. AOMIBALIT.
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AND
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MEIRION HONGKONG,
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instruc
tions from Pow Curso Onat, to sell by Public Auction,
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WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, the 10th and 11th March, 1915, -commencing each day at 2.30 pm, on the Premises Old Post Office Building, Queen's Blond, Ground Floor,
A VERY VALUABLE COLLECTION OF
CHINESE PORCELAINS, BRASSES,
BRONZES, &c., &c., Recently imported from the North, Consisting of --
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AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned have received instruc tions to Sell by Public Auction.
#10
TUESDAY,
the 9th March, 1913, commencing 2.30 pm, at their Salen Rooms, No. 8,
Des Vaux Road, Corner at Ice House Street,-
A Quixere or
WITH THE RUSSIAN
ARMY.
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YISIT TO THE TRENCHES.
Eamy's Weak Artillery.
(By Granville Fortescue in "The Daily Telegraph.")
THE CHINA MAIL.
Socusezer, Jan. 21. Sochneref in the skeleton of a town. The rufters and wreckage of its' houses stick up from the ground like a carrion-1 picked carcase in the desert. A mouth
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Beware of Imizations.
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, de, dels passed since the Germans were stop ärst. He was halfway actors, whet pod at Bzura, wd daring that time three bullets plastered themsettes against My turn ware Sochiesof has an invessantly under fire. the bricks abova bis heal. When I was first here the town had second. I know the game, no I had affared only frona the enemy's field artil-practiseal it from the sharpshooters' pain ery: now it has been hattered beyond of view myself. I knew the whole squad all recognition by the Geritan siego guts.would be ready to welcome me,
Comprising:- Drawing Room Suites, Redroom and Dining Room Furniture, Arm-chairs and Solan. Carpets and Riga, Bra-mounted Bedsteads, Toilet Tables, Wardrobes Washstands, du, Ridebonada, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Cheira, etc., etc.. Dinner and Doort Services, Crockery. Glass and E.-P. Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, etc., etc.,
Abo
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With Sochaczed as your centre, tak started out to beat the firy yates" ros [ingen mile radius, measure rarth along cowl. I had time to evans eight twang- the Rees to the past, nail then to thing shots before 1 was safy beside the sentit eut the same river, and you will adjutant, I felt like a play deer in a have a segment packmarked with sholtshooting gallary under cover. hades alone it escavations, made to enjoy watching the others make their by small shells, but enormous pits that dash. The way to the trenches lond Ses.mark where the 1in propetals of the through a cometery, a grins road enough ab nanan have explieshd. Ons af | for men whose profession is killing. The fhos excavations was directly in the cast bank of the Bar rises thirty foc Along this crest we're of a roud about 1.000 yanks ont sheer fruit the river.
An assortment of Blackwood Furniture, Marble Clock, Combination &c., ta
(Fall Particular from Catalogan.)
Terms: As asusi.
·HUGHES & HUDOD,
Auctioneers Hongkong. March 5, 1915.
Superlig
206
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instrue.
THE COLONY, to sell by Public Auction,
(TO ACCOUNT OF THE CONUMUNED),
on
MONDAY,
the 18th March, 1915, at 2.30 p.m., 59 Kennedy's Stables, Causeway Bay. THE WHOLE OF THE LIVE STOCK
AND STOCK IN TRADE OF THE WELL-KNOWN
"HONGKONG DAIRY" Consisting of the entire Herd of Milch Cows and Young Stock. including ono Young Bal, together with about 60 head of Poultry Plymouth Rocks, Black
Yaon, Ming, Kanghi, Yur.gching. Kienlung. Towkwong and Kaiching Prodecta. Comprising: White and Blue Plates and Vasos, a || Langshana,” etc., stc, number of Sang-do-bœuf and Peach Bloom Vases, 3 nod o.Coloured Vases, Agata and Crystal Sout Bottles and Ornaments, Ming Bronzes and Incense Burnera, etc., etc.,
Aleo_
Old Lacquered Screeps, Amber, Coral and Jadestone Bande, Old Chinese En- gravings and Pictures, Embroideries, Mac. darin Costa, etc, etc., etc.
(Fall Particulari from Catalogus.) TERMS :---As usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, March 4, 1915,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
дой
TIHE Undersigned hasa raqsived instruc tions to Sell" by Public Auction,
on
FRIDAY,
the 19th March, 1915, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sanza Rooms,
No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner
of Ice House Stroot-
À QUANTITY OF
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, &c.,
As follows:-
Two Drawing Room Exitos, Bedroom Furniture, Dining Room Furniture, Arm- chairs and Sofas, Carpets and Rugs, Bram and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Toilet Tables, Wardrobes, Washstands, &c,; Sideboards, Dianer Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, etc.. etc., Dinner and Dessert Services, Crockery, Gas and E.-F Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, etc., etc.,
Also
Blackwood Cabinets, 1 fse 4-fold Hackwood Screen (Porcelain Favela), and Blackwood Fire Screen, Stands, Tempoys, Bektas, etc., One Piano, Marble Clock, Combination Safes, Bemington Type- writers, One Gent's Bicycle,
Sch
20011
Also
the whole of the Dairying Utensils, Mik Bottles, Tubs, Feeding Bones, Milk Cans, now Churn, and new Blilk Separators,
And
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Straw Steaming Apparatus. Inspecting orders may be obtained from the Auctioneers.
Terms-As usual.
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HUGHES & BOUGH.
Auctioneers, Hongkong,, March 3, 1915.
EVERY BEETLE EVERY BUG
anor "Keating's" comes Into thorough contact with it
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The warivalled way to
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KEATING'S
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of Sochaczef. My companion. Mr. Be the trenches are constructed; they are son, described it as big unough to bury not elaborately built, but have plenty of an elephant iu." This is hardly water-hend enter. The men sleep tursh of aggeration, for I took a photograph of an. the day, leaving only a pad to watch other such hole, with two fees stand the enemy's trovements.. Bites alrays ing one sixve the other, and yet not is in the loopholes, and every few yards reaching its rim.
a shelf is dug in the wall of earth for, a box of extra ammunition.
The town bows the rightful ravages by these giant shantomen
Wo stopped at the computy officers
& comfortabl have literally been disinterested when quarters for lunch in theme comes
explosives have touched tarer Captain Melinkof welcomed us them. A whole block of buldings has to what he called his two-roomed sub. smashed into the stret into an indistinterranean fal with all modern conveni- asirat.. The door, taken from, a house in guishable pile of rubble. One house
Sochiezel, divided the Alchen, and office stand with its that torn of, and the
from the living and sleeping rovel A hitchen and the bedroom above is ex-
THE MODEEN MULES,
Corack.
to view, showing the pitiable disse was crackline is one array of the household gods. Nos coffee pot was put on to boil as we en soul treads the silent streets; the learned. Two izen buds, a tuble, and twi The steels completo the furniture. stricken populace long ago have fled;
offeers were delighted with our visit. They complained most of the monotony My friends, the Siberian Fusiliers.nt the life. It is hard to conceive a have been relieved. and their places position subject to constant night attack taken by another regiment. With char and always suffering more or less from acteristic Russian hospitality, Major shell fire as being monotonous, but it Sokolowski invited me to the commo-
was just the someness of these incidents dious cavern that serves as his quarters, that ammcgod the officers. Going underground from the bright sun. light. "I could not help thinking that the modern soldier had developed the The meal was served with the cheer characteristics of the mele. Es lives informality I have cale met in the underground, and displays the greatest American army. Coffee, black bread, ativity at night. By the dim rays of thin slices of bacos, uni fat, with white single candle. I make out a table, covered bread; as a delicacy, is the trench ration with the outline of the orders for the While we are, the serie buzz of the Seli day, The adjutant sits bears it. and, telephone sounded.
sian officers tell me are hangars.
tracheth.
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Some of the New Zealanders have also was counsel for the defence, witness seidi. been trained there, and it is a sign of the Johnson Club was a voluntary society the keenness of the officers of the De-of over thirty members, who mat about fence Force that some of them who four times a year. They owned the pie- could not be given commissions with turria dispute and a few prints and other the first contingent are actually serving articles. In December, 1011, they held in the ranke
DR. JOHNSON'S PORTRAIT.
Flest-Brest Reminiscences.
their annual dinner at Dr. Johnson' house in Gough-square, which had beas purchased by Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, one of their members, and the picture was taken there. After the banquet some- body was about to take the picture wwoją There was a distinct atmospherd of in a taxi-cab, when the manager of the Dr. Johnson about the Mansion House Olde Cheshire Cheese, which hostelry Justice-room recently when the Lord had supplied the dinner, said: "Sir, that Mayor was asked to adjudicate in the will not do" (Laughter.)
ease of a summons against Ye Olde Che- Mr. Macpherson: Dr. Johnson's -lan-- shire Cheese (Ltd.), 145, Fleet street, guage. (Laughter.)
he had been a member of the club sincer
1887, said sometimes the club met at the Olde Cheshire Cheese, and at other times in an old inn or tavern which was sup
Temporary Stay In Egypt.
One thing, and one thing only, would dishearten the colonial contingents who huve temporarily halted in Egypt on their way to do the Empire's work in Europe. they thought they were not to have the privilege of fighting tas German side by side with the British soldier their sathusiasm would disappear. But they know they will be wanted to do their 201 the routine of the regiment, goes on change on your front?" was the question part. So they take their life in the underground exactly as if they were that came over the wire. All quit desert as part of the big thing. What living a normal existence in barracks. here," was the answer, after one of the ever they are asked to do is dour serious,
After a short visit, I went with two others had taken a hasty survey; but because it may improve their efficiency, Russian officers to the cbservation station, he had hardly replied when a German and they want above all things to show This was in the ganet of a half-wrecked battery opened. Its target was a group themselves in a good light when the taken out by Mr. G. H. Radford, M.P., Mr. G. H. Radford, who stated that brick building: overlooking a bridge scrow of Russian gurs, well in the rear-
time comes for them to support the solicitor, for and on behalf of the John. the Bauru, The river looked fresh and During the rest of the meal an officer British Army.
son Club, for unlawfully detaining a blue in the sunlight; the snow had dis-kept count of the shells that whistled
Virtually the whole of the first war portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson painted appeared, and the ground before the overhead forty-three in the course of antingents from the Antipodes is now a by Mr. J. E. Christie. Germsa positions was green with winter, hour, and no damage. The treach cat
-desert esimies, The men are splendid!!
Mr. Ian Macpherson said Mr. Radford poeed to be frequented by Dr. Johnson. wheat. The enemy's trenchen are hardly purred against my andes, begging her this frequent eclogium of British troops was a member of the Johnson Club. The The picture of the doctor was never sold. 500 yards distant. A line of raw earth share of lunch. Sometimes our voices in the field can with equal truth be club included amongst its members the In his opinion it was worth about £10 marks their position. At the back of would be drowned by the curious blast applied to all that have been seat by Right Hon. Augustina Birrell, M.P.. Mr. 10. It was a clover and rapid sketch at their trenches, near a wood, are the which a shot fred from the wrench makes, Australia and New Zealand. "Physically Oscar Browning, his Excellency, M. Ger the doctor," artillery positions. and beyond these. The pickets at the loophold let go at they are on fit as any army that has radius, Sir F. Carruthers Gould, and a Mr. Barrington Ward: Is not the rènĩ:- some white buildings, which the Rus anything that shows above the enemy's ever been got together, and our colonial number of distinguished literary men. value of the article a purely sentimentall tranches. The whirr of an aerofane kinsaco may well be proud of the sumple in 1804 the members of the club used ons? A person would buy it because of The enemy showed little signs of life wounded overhead, and we came out to of men they are sending to Europe. Big. to meet at the Olde Cheshire Choose, its associations. along this front, and this seemed a sce & Russian fier start on a reconnais muscular, well-knit frames, any soon and in that year Mr. J. E. Christie, a Mr. T. Fisher Unwin, the wall-know favourable moment for entering the ance over the German lines. Suddenly from one flank to another of every regi.well-known artist, painted a replica of publisher, who said he was treasurer and There are elaborately cous four white balls of smoke a peared in ment on parade. Men used to roughing the portrait of Dr. Johnson by Sir Joshua founder of the Johnson Club, estimated tracted saps that lead to a position on the sky, below him, but he neverit, bronzed, big-fisted, hard, and pow Peyucids, and presented it to the John the value of the picture at between 10gs the bank of the Beurs, and there is an swerved from his course. I tried, from
sassing the square jay, resolute, fearson Club for the purpose of being hung and 12g unfortunately, art was very order which says that officers passing long distance, to take a picture of the lethey are just going to do their on the wall of the room in the Olde badly paid. No money had over onger to and from the front line should use enemy's front, but, as he was inconsi-best. They are out to prove they are Cheshire Cheese where the meetings tock into the club from the sale of the pic- this approach. But there la a short cut, derate enough to turn low a fundadest sons of the Empire, and just a place. A recript, dated Feb. 20, 1894, turo, and he was not aware that it had! and as traversing it is spiced with danger when I poked my camera above the the men of the Sydney showed that for the picture, written on behalf of the ever been sold.
Mr. Barrington Ward said the daden- small parties always take this route.
the King's Australian Navy could be former proprietots of the Olde Cheshire It trench, I am doubtful about the result, is na open: stretch of about Sty yards
relied on to do its part of the seas, the Cheese, was produced by counsel. who dants had only come into possession of Bidding good-bye to our hosts, Exporters & Importersanded by the Geman sharp continued our inspection of the tranches. the colonial soldier is a splendid addition so purchase of the portrait. The John- Previous proprietors of Ye Olde Cheshire young armies are thirsting to show that said it was quite clear that there was the picture a successors in title to the We travelled for three miles along the to the Empire's strength...
son Club wanted possession of the sketch, Cheese. bank of the Ezura, and from what I saw |
Xaver did men more cheerfully leare and he (31r. Macpherson), understood the
The Lord Mayor said he felt sympathy The game is to run that bity yards I do but believe the Germans can over the lessors of the soldier's busintas. defence was that the club could not show with the Johnson Club, because he knew and not get bit. The adjutant went cross here..
| Muskotry they lova; the bustulico parudo a rood title to it.
is splendid: fatigue duty is a pleasure Evidenco would be given to show that because it is necessary. The horsemen the picture, was the property of the club, -and they are fine horsezon are hard and that the latter had a good title. at getting the animals in condition
Mr. Joseph F. Green, who said he had ́after a seven weeks' voyage. They have baca hoz. societary of the Johnson Club Eorses of the hardy type, and as many for filleen or twenty years, produced a of the men are from the "back blocles"receipt for the picture dated Feb. 20, where they live in the saddle from sun 1894, from, the then proprietors of the rise to dusk, nothing will tire them: a Olde Cheshire Checes, and said in 1912 lona trek ia a cheerful prospect,
he wrote several letters to the defendanta You must see the men to appreciate demanding the return of the portrait, bus soldier; and no one will believe after bear them properly. No conditions are too without the desired result. The value ing it that he had not a touch of wa hard for them. Last week there were of the picture he estimated at about £10.rish blond in his veins; but he bidn't. He two w nights. and wes nights in the
** SIR, THAT WILL NOT DO." AN was on, santry' duty and was told that ther
pasword for the night was discount," desert are cold nights, Some of themas-examined by Mr Barrington and no person, not even an officer, was to New Zealanders had no tents. They had Ward, who with Mr. W. H. Woodhouse get past without giving the word. Late at been sleeping on the sand, but their efficers told them they had better make sono form of shelter. There was no difficulty about it. The man on the sheap run can knock up, awharry in a few minutes, so the Auckland Batta. lion searched about for piecce of timber më some bet bugs, In half an hour every man was housed quite snugly. Those whaerios are still standing, and if Imistake not they will be exchanged for the regulation ball tent with re luctance. They are a pleturojus, if not beautiful, evidence of a resourceful sol. diery. Even the regimental dentist has aaackcloth wharny for a consulting room, Many of the Australian officers arò men who have possed through the Common wealth Military Academy at Dimtroon.
General Merchants
and
(Full Particulars from Catalogue Commission Agents,
"WEEKS (—AF” DECAL,"
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
Engkong. March 2, 1915,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned have received instruc
tions from THE REDITELE, SUPRIME Cabaz, te sell by Public Auction,
WEDNESDAY,
the 24th March, 1915, at 12 Noon," st No. 20, Murrisou Efill Road,
THE WHOLE OF THE •
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Fell particulars and Inspecting Orders may be had from the Undemigned," or Mesars. EWERS & NEEDHAM,
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