THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915.
Flughes and Hougn.
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PUBLIO AUCTION.
THE Undersigned hare recaived instrue
by Public Auction.
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNE))
ок
SATURDAY,
the 14th August, 1915, at 11 am at No. 2, Lochiel Terrace, Cameron Road,
Kowloco,
KUNDI Y
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Consisting of :-
Hallstand, Sideboard, Bookcase, Japanese Screen, and Tea Service, Teak Butenu (marble-top), Double Bed, Class, Crockery, Shanghai Bath, Ier Chest,
Electric Fans,
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Also
A number of Pots of Plants.
(Fall Particulars from Cataloguo.) On view from Friday afternoon. Tan-Asunza).
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, August 10, 1915.
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St. Nihal
A GREAT" WHEAT DEAL
1,000,000 TONS FROM INDIA FOR BRITAIN.
A Bold Expeitmans.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Singh recently contributed the following article to The Obre
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I fear that not many persus-ia or outside it London have connected Indiu, in their minds, with the fall in the price of bread. Yet the servico. that the great Dependency has performed in shipping wheat to this country by the million tons deserves to be warmly appreciated by very naan, woman child in the United Kingdom.
and
By making available to Britain huge consiguments of wheat which, as the mot volservative estimato, are likely to exereid 2,000,000 tɔas in the aggregate.
India, has foiled the machinations of American speculators who were taking SAM HEE Cigareten man. advantage of the necessity of the Allies and bleeding them. Though millions if tons of Russian wheat still lie lorkud up in the ports mad about the Blue's Sen, though the American harvest is not yet on the market, and though the wheat kings of Chicago have been straining every nerve to keep the work! price of wheat at an exorbitant lovel, the arrival of successive consignments of todian wheat is steadily pulling down the ratu.
1factured by an and intrelaced under the above mark bare boundmined by the Public since they were put on the market half a year ago, for which we are extremely obliged Recently we received a letter from the British American Tobacco Com pany stating that our SAM HMC Labot THREE somewhat resembles their CASTLES Label and requesting us to modify its appearance in order to make distinction and prevent purchasers from making & mistake. Now our SAM HEB has been duly registered with the. Mark Government, but since the British Ameri can Tobacco Company is of opinion that our SAM HEE Label somewhat resemble their THREE CASTLES Label, we have no desire to brosk the friendship en account matter. We are, therefore, asing of anch the RAVEN and EAWOO Marka to substitute a 8AM BEE Mark for the time being. Our object is to make the prices cheap and goods fins: these are most important matters. In future w shall use more exertion towards making the finest goods to meet the taste of our
CANTON SANTANG BROS. TOBACCO COMPANY. Hongkong, August 10, 1915.
This marvellous result has beeaf India's population depend upon wheat,
Bu achieved by a coup which, it it had and not rice, far their sustenance.
cenrred at a normal time, when the this year nature has been very kind to world's attention was nigh absorbed by India, and she has reaped bumper the war, would has been reckoned ensop. Some six million acres which Inst of the greadest enterprises which any yente were under cotton and other crops santry or may narin had over ander were sowa to wheat, making a total of taken. It has required courage and on-over thirty-two million res under terprise on w part of the Government when this year. No wonder that the of India. loyalty and devotion to the surplus that India en spare to feel Empire on the part of the people offritur without at all suffering herself Mindestan, and the ready co-operation of, is expected to ceed two million tons, the hon authecition with the Indian Second, the Government has promises Administration to bring it to pass,
ok upon any surplus revenue that it may obtain through its operations in wheat as a suri earmarked for the de-people. vulopraent of agriculture. This means | that if the cultivator has not reaped as full nu jermediate monetary advantage as hy might have done out of the ab-
ESPORTS STOFFEN,
Stated in a fete words, the roseit lms been cramplished in this wise: To warda to emul of lust your the price of wheat reached a figure which placed it pruutipally beyond the reach of the or normal situation created by the war, the diary Iulian mmsuger. Representative bene derived by the Government is
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Indians, ut by the Hon. Pandit M. M. to be returned to him in the shape of a GALLANT GRENADIERS, Halavis, appealed to the troveranent subsidy to be used for his advantage.
of India to intervene and stop all exports Third, the Government, by employing for the time bring. Partlit Malaviya" meita sprate the firm which ordinarily intratared in the Imperial Legislative expert wheat, has not disloented their Council, of which he is a murtaber, a resolation which read na follows:--
That this Council recommends that the Governordieneral in Council may be pleased to prohibit all export of wheat from India butil the price of that com modity comes down to 3 soers (about 18 pounds) per repes (14, 4d.), and when ever it rises above that ratio to take such other steps as he may be advised to bring the price of wheat down to a trensismabia kesel and to maintain it at
such level."
While this resolution was being dis cussed the number for Commerce and fadustry declared that the Government, had resolved to take over.
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BATTLEFIELD STORIES,
Horror and Herolam.
Two badly wounded privates, band- aged from head to foot, and just able to limp about the hospital ward, told Central News representative a glowing
business. From the point of view al" the Socialist, this is, of course, not ident. Many Indians have niso objected be entle, the ants thus vmployed were not tyir own countrymen. It. however, the Government had not resorted story of the suherb dosh and gallantry this method it would not have been able of the Grenadier Gends in a to beredt from the experience which these commercial houses were able to place at its disposal, and it would have lal to bear the brunt of the opposition that they would have offered.
Last, but not least, the Government. by ensuring a large supply of wheat to this country at a most critical time, hus rendered a great service to the Empire. It ways much for, the loyalty of Indians
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g They abo gates a wonderfully human serount of how a little parts of not give in. We set cur tactii, und when Irishmen "waked" tvo fallen chums.
"They were a pair of the most devil- we were within a dozen yards of the Germans we gave them a taste of the may-cure fellows in the world," was their Grenadier baranet. There were fierce Ant comment, Where one went the hand to imad exchanges, and we had other always insisted on being by his the best of it when it came in asing) side. You never saw such affectiok,
the steel. We exptared a couple of even between brothers,
Early one hindre pristers the Germans sur- norring they were both seen near
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THE CHINA MAIL COMBINED COLOURED
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TYPHOON MAP &
REVISED AND UP TO DATE
GUIDE
On the next occasion "we had a dow Shows tracks and daily progress of the big typhoons
the whole control of the to the King-Emperor that not a dissent mine crater, and the Germans were shell rendering like naughty boys to a school.
What we propose in vier has been raised against the ing our position in most awful fashion. expert trade.
st wheat for export shall only be Government's policy of exporting India's The two "Juda wouldn't budge an iach. bought on behalf of Government and surplus whent. to the United Kingdom, only shipped on behalf of Government. and that Indians of all creeds and races We shall therefore prohibit the export lave helped to make the scheme a suc of wheat except on behalf of the Crown ces Undersigned have received instructiom April 1 (1015) to March 31 of next tions to Bell by Public Auction.
THE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
00.
TUESDAY,
tho 17th August, 1915, commencing
at 2.30 p.m., at their Sale Rooms, No. 8,
Des Var Road, Corner
of Ice House Street,-
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE TEAKWOOD
year 1016.
At the time the Government decided
I take this action it could not be fore
saen just how the experiment would turn
t. But time has shown the wiadom of the bold step then taken.
Considering the question from the pure.
1 Indian point of view: the action of the Government has proved a great boon, Indians have beets able to buy whout at
that the war is going on.
an exceptionally low figure, consideric
FURNITURE TYPEWRITERS, PLANOS, etc., etc..
SUBSTANTIAL PROFIT, As follows:- One Silk Tapestry.covered Dining Room Booking na thu mutter from the point Suite, Bedroom Furniture, Upholstered of view of the Government of India, it Arm-chairs and Sofas, Carpets, Erson, and is now assured's very substantial profit! Brasa-mounted Bedsteads, Side-boarda, out of its wheat corner. The gain in Dinner Waggons Extension Dining Tables the aggregate will be savoral millions sud Chairs, etc, etc., Dinner Services, sterling. The exact amount cannot, of Crockery, Glam and E.-P. Ware, Cooking cose, he stated, but some idea of it Stove, Catlery, Shanghai Bathe, etc., etc. can be formed from a study of the Yost Typewriter in good condition, price that the Government has been Empire and Romington Typewriters, paying for the wheat in India, plus tha] Pianos by Broadwood, Brimamend, and expenses incurred for shipping it
One large 4-Fold Blackwood Screen.
Sta
(Full Particulare from Catalogue.)
Torms-Ausgal.
HUGHES & KOOGA,
Auctioneers. Hongkong. August 11, 1916.
JAPANESE MAKERS
Kritain and comparing it with the pri
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RIVER TRIPS FOR WOUNDED.
AN ISH WAKE.
of gas. They used to send it over in clouds. but we did not mind that. We "Suddenly one was picked off, and dashed forward always, even though w the other ninde a desperate attempt to know the gas meant certain death. Of fetch him back under a terrible fire. course we couldn's escape sent free in This act cost him his life, and a few fact, we were jolly lucky to get out of moments latere laid the two of them it with battered bodies." side by side. On them we found a
Every Fine Day tili End Of September-rosary, beads and medals. A little party the corpsen
of Irish chaps took chargé
The first of the river trips which she) and "waked" them behind the parüpet
Fors of Loudon Authority have arranged of a trench.. kneeling down to pray to Want' Advertisements for the wounded soldiers in the London gether for the repose of the sosis of the hospitals took place on June 29, when 30 faller boys. A sergeant told his beds, men from the King George Military and it would have made you cry to wit Hospital in Waterloo-road embarked snes the behaviour of the others. Its per inch.......
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Temple Pier on the P.L.A. steamer Con-wis a beautiful morning, and you can servator far'un outing to Gravesend and imagine what a weird seen that rough 62
and ready wake" made.
bock.
Mr. J. D. Gilbert, L.CC., first sng- When the prayem were over, the gented the trips, and the proposal has sergeant bent over the corpues and sat. been whole-heartedly taken up by the ftled their hands in the shape of, a crona. port authority, who have placed the He placed the medals over their hearts Conservator entirely at the disposal of and round their necks in strang the the authorities for the purpose. The rosary beads. They were buried where is a commodious and comfortable they were waket, and a few green sext: used in the inspection service of shaped like a res supplied a comb
stone. This is the sort of thing you There will be a trip on each fine simply can't forget. werkday from now until the end September, Mr. Varco Williams, chair-
mittes, told a Dally Chronicle repzesen:
the authority.
Esed."
MKINY CRIPPLEM.
HOBRONSOM AR. When the Germans déserted their trenches and we took possession of
during the last twenty years. Explains day and night typhoon signale. Enables one to locate the centre of a typhoon. Gives a table of typhoons for last 30 years.
MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD AND TAPED FOR HANGING
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TOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS GODOWN'S New Prays, Kennedy Town GODOWN'S at Wanchai.
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Oraser & Co. Soger Treadle Sewing that hus be obtaining far it in this man of the Port of London Rivers Com Machias, Electric Reading Lampe, and country. The price paid for the wheuttative, and by that time we hope to then the sights we saw would bave SECOND-HAND: 12 Bose, Double
in India that was bought for the earish taso taken many hundreds of these bravest you to the madhouse. The Ger: Barrel, Hammertosa Fowling-piece. Conduit Road. shipments averaged, I think, little
Home Beply, stating price and where Jan may Logs on an outing which should do them mats were strewn in heaps, and more than thirty-one shillings a quar
"SPORT" a world of good. The trip will not al of them, looked little more then school-be seen, tu der. The commissions paid in India. qways start from Temple Pier, but DC BOTH. I had to plod over their bodies, in this catutry, shipglag. insurance and casionaly from Blackorall and Green- and it we were sick once at what we other charges added about twenty shill- ings to the quarter. In other words, the wich, so as to take in turn men from saw we were sick twenty timex. There ul: the hospitals. Each trip will take were few Germanx half alive, who wheat delivered in this country is costing out four hours, and we shall provide in English, begged our men to put them the Government of India about Bity thers during that time with a grou ten out of their ag shillings a quarter. The price that the and all the tobacco and cigarettes they and the Irish Rifles. The leaders did "We were assisting the Middleser carly shipment realised on the Baltic- Exchange ranged round about sixty-five?
tremendous work, but when, the Jack shillings quarter. The recent skip-
The men were attired in the blue bos. Johnsons at ging they fairly wiped ments that have arrived her late feched much lower prices, but it must Pital uniform, and made a picturesque them all away: The Rifles set the bell be remembered that the price paid for up as they waved & response to the elling, and as the Irishmen mounted cheers of the crowd which witnessed the parapet they were singing, in wild the, wheat in India has also decreased their departare, They were in the best nices. You can't bent, the boys with Even now, the margin between the
of spirits, although many were scarcely the dirty shirts. amoure resland and the out-of-pocket hie to walk, and most had crutches, expenses lentos a handsome profit to thengs and bandages. This merriest of the quarter of an hour we were in the
company was minus à leg, bus disdain-thick of the slaughter. One by one the EUROPEAN AGENCY. ing his crutch when once aboard, he Rifle Inds were dropping out, and this In working out the scheme the as made excellent running round the ship at the Grenadiers off their heads. It
at lowest cash prices Arntzent of India has shown wisdom in on his one leg, with the aid of the but seemed as if company after company xxrry directions. Fint of all, it has arks Another, with his leg in band. was going into a desta trap. The rear all British and Continental goods, exparted only India's surplus wheat, and yes, Teelised postcutudly on deck diers had to advance In sudden rushes nelading thus has not deprived sho Indian con chair. I've only been back a week and no matter how fearful, the fire was samer of his staff of ifo."
I: may
he said, complacently, with a bullat the men weat forward all the time.
THE GRENADIERS CHARGE. remark, incidentally, that, in spite of through my leg, gained at a place I'm
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
TO
ORDER
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Government.
A GOOD HARVEST.
the erroneous opinion in this country not allowed to mention, and they operat.
The Grenadiers, followed, and within
When one fell there was mother bar
to the contrary, a considerable portion of 14 an 200 at once I've already been hind him, and so on It seemed lurecy
TEETHING CHILDREN.
NEETHING children have coore or les
out for a motor ride, and now they've to continue the "attack, botwy could put me on this. It's a fire life, alto- gether. A graceful and unrehearsed incident
at the start of the vessel wan
the request of lady to be allowed to ARE YOU GOING ON A JOURNEY?
diarrhoes, which can be controlled by give chocolates to the men. She pro giving Chamberlain's Colic Cholers and duced a huge box of the sweets for dis Diarrhoea Remedy. All that is necessary | tribution.
"is to give the prescribed dose, after each
operation of the bowels more tira sintura! and then castor oil to cleanre the
stern.
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