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Hongkong, Feb. 19, 1918.
PUBLIC
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Pa
TUESDAY,
the 20th Felu usry, 1918, commencing ab 2.30 p.m., as their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voi Road, Corner of
Lea House Street,
A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, ERASS FENDERS, FIRE FRASSES, CURTAIN POLES, CARPETS,
RUG, &c.,
As Follows:-- Upholstered Suites. Arm chairs and Sofas Card Table, Bedroom Furniture, Twin Brass. Bedstead, Double and Single Sideboard, Brass alongped Bedstenda, Diener Waggon, Extension Dining Tables and Chaim, Tes and Uccasional Tablee, sta, etc., Dinner, Tea and Coffee Services, Crockery, Glass, and EP: Ware, 2 Cooking Stavoe, Cutlery, Erass Fenders, Curtain Poles, Toilet Bats and Bath Room Utensile, eta, etc..
$130
Two Pianos (in good condition), Electric Reading Lampa Twe 4-Fold Blackwood Screene, a quantity of Blackwood Furni ture, etc., etc., ele,
A fine assortment of Brass Jardinieres, Flower Yes, Candlesticks, Finger Bowls, etc., etc.
(Fall Particulars from. Catalogue.) TEMA:-- Caah."
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Hongerng. Feb., 18, 1916.
133.
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the Red March, 1916, commencing
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'SUNDAY'S TELEGRAMS.
THE BRITISH FRONT.
Losnow, Feb. 20. Conetal Sir Dougla Haig reports: **Our: Lerapiates successfully bombed an servirome near Lill All returned safely
The British artillery – tas beva factive agninud enemy trenchipa about the Ypres-Canimunes Catal and east
at 2.50 F.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8 THE GREAT BATTLE NORTH Resinglie.
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AN ANOTHER OF
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TORE, fc., Comprising
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OF VERDUN.
500,000 GERMAN TROOPS ENGAGED.
RESULTS AS ESTIMATED BY BOTH SIDES,
(Reuter's Service to the Chran Brait)
THE BRITISH,, ARMY.
ATTESTED MARRIED MEN TO BE GALLED UP.
LONDON, Feb. 25.
It is reported that all attested married men are to be called up by July 8th.".
The Gaviornment has decided con:[ ditionally to recognise the Volimteer Training Corps organised throughout
lains, &o., &c., and a number of Small / GERMANY'S "LIST OFFENSIVE" YAST MILITARY ENTERPRISE AND the country, for Home defoncu.
Folding Chair
die
Grass Cloth Becispro.ds, Table Cloths, Sideboard Covers, Dailies, Papkins, Hand- kerchiefs, Tray Clotis, Cushion Covers, Pillow Cases, Hand Bags, &c., &c.
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PARIS, Feb. 26.
A communique states:- North of Verdau cannonading bas zontinued with less violence and thej Germans made no attack in the courte 15 of the night
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We have established up organised a lino of resistance behind Beaumont, an tha heights eastward of Champ Seaville
towards South Oraes."
We made fresh boatherdments of the
German positions in Argonne and thers bae been intermittent artillery activity Malancourt to the left bank of the
Meuse.
LATER.
The great four days' attack by the Germans north of Verdun is nt"present ebbing, but the most eminent authofie ties do not minimise the magnitude of the Gerrian designs.
-Consequently, the most minute pre- cautions have been taken.
J
GREAT DYNASTIC MOVEMENT: FORMIDABLE CONCENTRATION OF ENEMY ARTILI ERY.
LONDON. Feb. 23.
The French daily review of the Cer man 'offensive near Verdad says that
movement,
The liability of those, oligible for Array service is unaffected:"
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THE GERMAN RAIDER.
TENERIFE, Feb. 28. The Moruce's latest victims were
INTIMATIONS
Latest Arrival
GORDON'S
DRY
GIN.
DONNELLY & WHYTE.
SOLE AGENTS.
EVACUATION OF ALBAN...
ROME, Feb. 26. The Serbian ad Montenegrioa hars completely evacuated Albani, although apered by a storm and by the attacks! of the enemy in which the latter lost i
ily.
apparently, not only was it a vast milink between the South American tary enterprise but a great Dynastic cast and Fernando de Noronla (an island of the coast of Brazil) The Garmans had been preparing for between Jaury 16th and February it for over two months. They und | Oth brought up all their 4-centimetro The collier Curbridyr (nn "Angio-had successfully evacuated the town,
howitzers and all available Anatrían 30- cedtimetce guns and heavy artillery
which had participated in the invasion of Serbia, besides the Kaiser's best troops. of whom seventeen Divisions have already been identified.
FIGHTING PROCEEDING WITH UNDIMINISHED DESPERATION:
LATEST REPORTS FROM THE BATTLEFIELD.
'Paris, Feb. 26. Today's communique says:
Ottoman, steamer of 1,250 tons) was
taken at the mouth of the Amazon,
arul the sank the coller. The Morre replenished her bunkers
The Phimico, oir ther Moèwe'a j approach, lagi sebling distress
the Moeur : sigrals, whereupon opened fire and sak the ship. One) member of the Flamince'a grew was drowned and two wounded,
THE REY. R. J. GAMPBELL.
ORBAINED DEACON IN CHURCH
OF ENGLAND.
LONDON, Feb; 27.
The eminent Nonconfurmist, the Rev.
The Austrins began an attack on. J. Campbell, formerly pastor of the Durizzo alter the Italians and Aibanista City Temple, has her ordained s Deacon of the Church of England at
An Austrian comme claims that Birmingham. the austrians are Lombarding Durazzo replying.. Harbure, and, that Italian warships are
RETRENCHMENT IN PUBLIS
`SERVICES.
LONDON. Feb 26.
The Committee on the Retrenchment of the Public Services recommends s
THE MORNE DESCRIBED BY detailed review of the Civil Service,
the re-organisation of the Circuit and County Court stete. ¡he simplifica-' tion of the Insurance Act, various alterations in the postal and telegraph revices, and the temporary suspension of old age pensions where the recipients. The Committee says that & member are receiving increased wages,
HER PRISONERS.
LONDON, Feb. 20. The Captains fot the Mecue North of Verdun there has been victims?) have sent a message to theavy snowfall ali day. Artillery Tenter's Agency, saying that the activity on both sides continued with rider is a ship of 2,000 tons net.
intensity along the whole frent. She has sixim guns and two of the House of Commons when j-sore- where fighting is in
torpedo tuber, and ale carries a Duming with the forces dues, ut rec-ire ber of wines. The Germans say her both hissalary and bisArmy pry. speed is 17 knots. The crew numbers 230, under the command of Count Donah
progress
with
A significant order of "the German General Deimling, which has been published, exhorts the famous Fifteenth Corpe "in the course of ita last offensive against the French to diminished desperation. display their usual courage nad prowess.
Several German attacks with great There are other indications that the effectives and unprecedented violence Germsas hoped for a speedy and on Poivre Hil were unsuccessful.
Seven Germanns with hand grenades Another attack at Lavouche Woor decisive victory.
controlled the Westboro, which had on was also stopped,
There has been no infantry attack board 5000 tons of cul west of the Messi
THE GERMAN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
LoxDos, Feb. 23.
A Berlin communique claims the cap- ture of the villages Beaumentand Ornes and fear farms, and says the enemy's positions on the ridge of Loucement were stormed.
It makes the remarkable, statement, that the sanguinary losses of the enemy were extraordinarily heavy, and the Ger man losses were normal. It also claims that 10,000 prisoners were taken by
ORDER them in the whole battle.
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Hongkong Feb. 23, 1916.
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MONDAY
th6th March, 1918, at 11 am, at the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Kowloon, ONE PORTABLE OIL ENGINE WITH "MAGNE" OPANTAURMEST. ONE LARGE HAND POWER PRESH OR BALING MACHINE.
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HALF A MILLION GERMANS ENGAGED.
Lawns, Feb. 23.
It is estimated at Paris that the Crown. Prince concentrated half-a-million men for his renewed attempt to force a way to Verdun, which had been bis aim aince September 1014.
In order to prevent a repetition of the Crop Prince's previous blunders, the Kaiser appointed the veteran General Haessler, formerly Commandant at Metz, and therefore well acquainted with the terrain, as his adviser.
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The new attack was based on Marshal von Eindenberg's plan in Rusain T bandred thousand troops were "as- sembled on a narrow front of seven
Mense to Berbebois. miles, extending from Brabantsor
A FRENCH SUCCESE IN
CHAMPAGNE.
PARIS, Feb. 26. We, attacked and captured enemy salient south of Otemarienpy in Champagne, taking 300 prisoners. We also effectively bombarded enemy works in Argonne.
There was an artillery dad in Fecht Valley in the Vorges,
RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN CAUCASUS.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 20.
"It is reported that a British cruiser, which was lying at Sunts Cruz when the vessel arrived, went out in order to captare her bra she left,
The Wenburn had.previously passed British and French warships. WHERE THE WESTBORN
CAPTURED.
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MADRID Feb: 25. The British steamer Westburn was captured (by the German cor- air Morice) when six days out from
Pernambuco.
PORTUGAL'S SEIZURE OF GERMAN the cause of the war Lord George Hamilton rites that the movement will help to consolidate the union of Great Britain and Indie:
LONDON, Feb. 25. The Austrian and German ships, A communique states: Our troops in the Caucashs storin-seized in the Tagus number 86..
ed the town of Isnin and continue to pursue, the Turks in the regions of Erzerum and Klingss..
ACTIVITY ON RUSSIAN FRONT.
Feb. 25,
PETROCITAD A communiquangoonces. violent cannonading in the Rigs and Dviosk
Sectors.
LATER. communique states that opera tions along the whole front aro hampered by snowstorms,
BATTLES IN PERSIA.
TURKS IN FULL RETREAT,
PETLOGRAD, Feb. 25.
GERMAN SHIP ESCAPES FROM MADEIRA.
IN MEMORY OF FALLEN OFFICERS.
LONDON, Feb. 25.
At
LONDON, Feb. 25. service at St MaryA
The German ship Hochenfeldtbot's Church, Kensington, in memory.
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Tuesday night.
BLIZZARD IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, Feb. 27. A blizzard is raging in England. PRESIDENT WILSON'S. FIRM STAND.
-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Fresident Wilson in a letter to Senior S'one confirm his sharin'e exposition to Germon Bobtine policy, and affirms: that he cannot coment to an abridge ment of the rights of Americana ininng "A communique states", After a series of battles in Paris Tespect. "I chall preserve peurs at any the remnants of the enemy content except at the love of limour, be
writes. The attack began ia parvest on the truted in the region of Kermansbab 20th just, when, as also on the Elst where the Germans and Turks forti- the French positions were furiously fied two mountain passes. ----
The Russians stormed the Bide. bombarded by heavy guns...
The enemy began to advance on surkh Faas, which had been con- sidered impregnable, and they occu Monday evening. They were mopied the Solding Peas. down by French machine-guns, and The Russians are pursuing the Turks, who are in full retreat, whole wails were wiped out.
towards Kermanshah
The Russians captured gums, machine-guas, and moch ainm.um-
The five days' attack, resulted in only ailight advance, and in failure to pierce 50 the line at any point
tion
-LATER="
The best proof of the failure of the
A communique states: 25 German offensive is to be found in a
The Russian troops in Persia after Comparison with the Anglo-French advance at Loor and Champagne, when dislodging the enemy from the moun- tam-positions in the region of Ker brokea on the ibe German line war"
monslinloecupied the town frat day
thousands of prisonert Sekue, taking four gran
•Land]
The Russiaria,
of Tehemi were captured.
entered thu fown of Kashan.
THE MISSIONS ETRANGERE
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Gorkhis who have fallen during the war, there was a largy congregation,
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INCREASE IN PRICE OF SUGAR.
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LONDON, Feb. 27. The Sugar Commission acnounces an increase of two shillings per hundred weight in the price of sugar,
BYE-ELECTION IN IRELAND
Los, Feb. 23, The bye-election at North Lathy necessitated by the douth of the sitting member, Mr. J. Roche, rezusted 53 follow
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At the fequest on Jaber Balfour, who was found dead. is an express train at Newport on Wednesday morning, a son atated that thed coman Went to the East Int Act m the expectation of taking up a mining ppointment at Nanfu do to the Chiness Frontier, bet, the manager bought that he could not sinad the olimato be returned to England before Christmas.
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