WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1915.
TAN PERIL OF HUNGARY.
THE CHINA
lead, their Austrian alive will nhandyn all further effort, in continuo, un netiva campaigni
Offcors aeturning fan the Carpathian
Hughes and Hough FATEFUL BATTLES IN THE PASSES. front describe the mime type of Austrian
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Extritaly favetrable reports hare been gresiyel hors as to the Husain fighting on the Carpathiau front in the vicinity of the Dukla Pasi, wrote the special correspondkout of "The Amesa “| tion which are almost entitaly veiled from Evo, last t The sp tions, which are, adapost entirely veiled from the world will, when the story ho
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The pisses, by an exceptionally strong, have bevis songthened by swers method known to military selónes, doubt
und the adview and direction of | Gertnan angives. In rằng places there rs three or four "lines of trenches on the rest of the hills, with an ascent stop metu ko gearly unclimbable. The singes are moved with barbed wire tanglements, which, paint -1 white, a aligent inviati against the analy, Espite of all these difficulties and oldu [ch, the "Bu hans have, Kowly bat wwwels, hay magturlig them desperate positions in the face of willy, powerin Australietu on bones, wratalling up, thus hills dayude ajar cara 1 and literally Saving out the defenders at
The real peat the bayonet.
weiunt et the altitude, the
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oyers as I personally witnessed at Przemgal, and state that they have small care for their men and no pride whatever about suzendaring when an
pportunity is offered..
THE FRENCH NAVY.
Progress of the Super-Dread-
nought Programme.
MAI
THE GENTLE ART OF "WIRING."
HOW IT IS PLAYED AT THE FRONT-
In days of ponco, liko every other oitizen, writes a British officer to the Manchester Guardian," I have often *** wired," but the verb has a new siggi. Acance now. No longer does it mean the compression into twelve words of a mosage that Aunt Fans has arrived [safely but that the key of her truk has)
been left on the parlour mantelpiece=
tha
Wiring, as we understand the term at the frat, is really a spustulnavat the only can we are allowed. It is quite as interesting golf, and not nearly so Sines the war began, the various belliger expensive. All on needs are a few reda onts have made strenuous efforts to increns et barbel wire and some Tests; and their naval strength, and while details are these supplint free by the We necessarily unavailable thera is ample eri-Offico. A darle night is also to be de- dence to show that France has been by no-siral, but is not alwayą obtainable, means backward in this respect. According After the war I should like to meet to the Paris correspondent of the Naval the man who, first twined barbe on and Military Record, M. Augagneur, (the wine. I shall have great please in Minister of Marine) announced about the telling his whit I think of his mis middle of March, that Super Dreadnoughts directed energy Mention. In caly Brotagne And Provence were ready fur thair trials, so it may rightly he conclad.dy that his invention. hng gilded a zest that theen vesels, the first of France's to life in the vaches. Super-Dreadnoughts, are now in the battle
ne
The game in sanally begun by, the edira. mauling officer remarking to the mayor It is interesting to tesce the growth of that Wo'd better bara ane puwa, wivo
the the French Navy since its adoption of Dreadnought type of ships. The first in front." The major - passes un representatives of this type were Jean Bars this hint to tape of his captains, whes in and Courbet of 23.100 tons,, which were turn whispers geatly but thanly to the built under the 1910 programme. Both subaltern of No. 15 Plot that cas Tessin were
Although the esti
THE Undersigned have recaiveć instruc heavy snow unl thi terstily cold wea-Kundey auccessful, both in their quantity of wire and posts wili la at his
다
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY,wing the bet acts in their the 28th and 27th May, 1915, commencing endal opbooks against mountain fast
each day at 2.30 p.m., at his Residence. Windsor Lodge, Austin Road,
;
i sad speed trikid: 30 kants, the Jean disposti, by midnight.
inated speed was only Bart, on her ton hours', trial, atbinet a mean speed of 21.18 kant on the messured
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tons from M. D. Dentexo, Father, am tremendously diaticuit, but un (Consul for Pera), to all by Pablic thing has so far phd untakable to Auction,
At midnight, "accordingly, word is the sturdy usut tufantry, who smile and of 21.09 knots as the mean of the
ten hours' rur. Un the three hears forced passed along the line of citri s that a draught Arial
the mona speed was $204, working party is going out in front of koots and knots as the best run of the their retur, and in a few minutes six measured mile.
muffled ligures vreep over the parapet the bench. Half-an-hour is spent carg ing forwil thm nutterials for the night coils of wire sung on their sticks: Jastly tack-posts, large and sanall, a picte, und
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It is staturi can walievity that is nh- The Dreadnoughts Feazes and Paris solutely nelle that the Austrians are joined the feat just before the cutbreak of pafting their fast dength into the hold-was, and made a formidable addition to the ing of theses lites, and that when their Jean Bart and Courbet and were commis French Navy. They are sister ships of the defence collapses heres there can be no sicped for trials about twenty-nine months HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, | free" sutelentlý strong – nursalled in after being laid down, showing the remark the south his the Bussian trance able progress which had beca made in the thereia ccatained,
Froach dockyards. int the Tungyion plains. Austria. Comprising:-. Upholstered Furniture, by a Pawel, Palizing this, is pouting into, the firing"
heary wooden mullet and some sand- bug to deaden the sound of the blows. [Silently, and as movučately as it can be
done in the dark, the listaners are pued The completion of the Bretagne and out and the stakes laki down just where
THE FIRST SC ven-DrgarNOVASĪTS,
and Lana, Crawford, (practically new), { Bin no time pointi "bovey Available mac Provence has given France her first Super they are to be "dziren in. Then the
Dreadnoughts, These are formidable
licking Into | mouths after the
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| that can be armed out uniformed. The Massive Blackwood and Cherrywood Cabinets, Arm-chairs, Car Tables, Fire last batches arriving are padly clothed vesse's of 2,177 tons displacement and ground is broken at each plies with the Sergens. &c., Reversible Turkish and have had the trainly, and they carrying ten 13.4in. guns as their main pick, and this real fun begins-hammer,
Krmament and twenty-b
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guns na 3 in. the posts. In spite of grundbags jalut." Hamis ay cut and clothes are Axminster Carpets and Kaus, & quantityder in her on the small their recondary. A third ship, the Lannine anal every other precaution, & estén torn, but nobody seems to mind.
Thrives are said should be: nosť pravomatowy Chinese and Japanese Lurcelain and
ready in
A good night's week done, we enterp another two or three amount of noise unavailable. All t de las mums inde multained in military months as she was launched only fira as the night has line dreadfully inele to our trench, and wand along the Bronzes, Curtains, Paintings, Pictares.
and Provence. Solid Brass-Fenders, Fire Brass, &c. werving at pangaldo of
of the four p
Dreadnoughts of the xtill, even the distant file-fire has died message, Working party in." Handsome Dining Room Suite (ucen. Ihape the west tow, beruits, wh1913 programme, the Normandio, Gascogne down: anil, of course, the 2002 runes there we drop Shind the parupok we and Flandre were probably launched about The edition of the inches during September last year, and it seems safe tout from behind the clouds, Poor old this rain is to have an in-cenclude that they will all be completed, no, how we abuse you at three times before the appointed dates, These vessels will carry Evolva 13.4is. gans in three quadruple tucrets.
Anat design), Sundry Electro-plated Ware, Large Dinner Service, Very Fine Japanese Ten Service &c, Teakwood Fedroom Suites (Twin Bedstends) New Hair and Wire Mattresses, Toilet Sets, Linen &c.. Bath, roon, Pantry, and Kitchen Requisites.
Also
lured in their charge.
relie and to have involved the men in rat hardships, and it is repoctai shar wild thousands have been frozen [in the trenches or have died farm luck ot suitable clothing wad exposure while Singer Hand Sewing Machine (practi-ader the terrisk stein. A witness cally now) Large American Ice Chest, informed me that thers aro thousand Berkfield Filter, Rubber Tyrod Ricksha in den sun and horses everywhere vory good condition, Sun Blinds and aider the snow”, Battan Furniture.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue.) On view from Monday the 24th May. Trans-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, May 13, 1915.
PUBLIC
AUCTION...
425
AUSTRIAN TEAD OF THE GERMANS, The fails to advance has greatly
DRIVING IN POSTS
Just
listen for a moncut. Faintly across the fields from the enemy's trenches connes sound we recognise: “Dump! dumyje! dump: The Leggum are at the stre Dump: dump dump: Slowly the post, game as ourselves The following is a tabular list of the sinks, to the grant. Dump dip! Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts dump til. the officer says. Thus car'il! built sad building for the French Navy to." So the work goes on. All the
".
DREADNOUGHTS CONTELTED.
Displacement. Guns. Knots
Jean Bart Courbet France." Paris
23,100 12 12in, 22 J.5is.
ATTER-DREADNOVUSTS COMPLETED,
20
while we have two oven listenting 201 watching a few yards away. One post niter aouther is fixed, and still the enemy shows no sign of having heard us. Then *** Phizza mtararorket rises from their trenches, ghting up all the ground be. tween them and us. Promptly we drop
dited Austrian ardour, which had been Bretagne 23,177 10 13 in., 29 5.5in. 29, flat, and are thankful for our dark back inflated by the call to relieve Przemyal, When the mass of the full of the fortress
Provence
SUPER-DERADNOEWYTY COMPLETING.
wens inades Enown it is said to have been Lormine 23.177 10 13.4in., 22 5.dia. 20 preeted with cheers by many of the Aus. Nermadio
round. "Phizz another rocket bursts, and lands quite near us. Thou
a machine gun starts ---pa-pap," Akut evidently we haven't been spotted,
Trim, the reisies that the ware 21,8301213.4in., 24 in. 21 he the Ave rounds are far wide of is.
Flandre would soon erud mat, and that they could Gascogne
go home. No was who I swor talked to the prisoners taken on thir front can fail to realize the tremendous blow to the urad, already badly shat. THE Undersigned bave received instructored. that the fall the fortress ad-
tions to Sell by Public Auction.
сп
TUESDAY,
the 1st June, 1915, commencing
at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Voeur Road, Corner
of Ice House Street,—
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE TEAKWOOD FURNITURE,
etc., PRINCIPALLY NEW STOCK, As follows:-
One Drawing Room. Suite, Bedroom Furniture, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Carpets, Twin and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, etc., ato.. Dianer and Dessert Services, Crockery. Glass and E-P. Ware, Cooking, Stovas, Catlery, etc.,
Also
Ond Pair very fine Blackwood Cabinota, 1 4-fold Blackwood Screen (Porcelain Panals), Blackwood Fire Screen, Bland, Teapays, Hottees, etc., One Piano by Brinsmead, several pairs Lade Curtains (NEW) 4 yds. long, One Singor Sewing Machine
(Fall Particulars from Catalogno.) Terms-Cab.
HUGHES & HOUGH. Auctioneers. Boogkong, May 22, 1915.
A57.
THE Undersigned have received instruc
tions to sell
(For Account OF THE CONCERNZD) at their Salon Rooms, No. 8, Des Van Mosd, Corner c Ice House Street,
One Grand Piano by
"John Broadwood & Bonk,
One Boudoir Grand Piano by
Brinsmend & Sons
in good condition.”
Fall Partieniars from the Undersigned,
Tanus --AN- OSTA.
ECGHES & HOUGH,"
#dustionaars. Bougrong, May 20, 1918.
ministered to the entire Austrian cause, Few of the prisones even pretend to care for the Towelt. All are praying for peate at any price.
There a widespread opinion that Austria would, gludly maka an indepan. dent pouce, Ves "fears that, if she did, such action would be instantly followed
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For a few minutes to lie.. quiin. stifl: ' then, mu nothing more huppens? we go on with the wiring, leaving the comple- tion of the posturiving till the next night.
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THE ZEST OF THE QUOTE.
Now, the one had only 'good point] about the actual wiring operations is its étraparātive noiselessness. TH - Bayone
doubts me, let him try to draw a yard At a meeting of the Council of the of barbed wire of the first roll he see- F.M.S. Chamber of Mines, the view was at his itumwag 7's, and then pictyre expressed that though there was no short- age of Inbour in Perak, limited immigration what the job is like when carried out in
to the extent of replacing wastage would the dark. Either the barn stick to
by German invasion of Austria. The not be unwise. A letter was read from the gether, three rounds of wire spring
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fear of the Gamuana and a belief in their Warden of Blicas on the question of the of the coil simultaneously and windECOND FLOOR, Powell's Building. absoluta infallibility, in military opera-supply of Molybdenite as a hardener of themselves rend on body like a ten-Airy Rooms, Lift, Light. Immediate
steel It was stated that Sheffield
before
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Apply: among all Austrian It is the opinion supplies of steel hardeners. Now the pear, there is a eqrtahi atuount of plea. sources of supply were within the Empire Mora in "wiring." The prevailing feel. of many that, if the Germans once re- cutre in affective and far-reaching dead would be systematically tapped. ing feeling seems to be," This should Molybdenite was known to occur in the Malay Peninsula. -9.T.:
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(FDR ACCOUNT OF SHE CONCZENED),
op
FRIDAY,
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FURNITURE, therein contained
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