THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1936
Hughes & Hough
AUVITONEURS TO THE GOVERNMENT. ¿
General Anotioneers 'kare, Coal and Genera Frodnos Brokers and Commission Agents.
PROPRIETORS
Wa-Wan' Goal Storage.
Codes, sed Bentley's
A. 4th & 5th Editions."
A 1 Telegraphic Code.
Telegraphic Address MURION" HONGKONG,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in
suctions is self by Public Auction,
(TOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONGŒEAMED),
.on
FRIDAY,
the 8th October, 1918, commencing $18.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vantx Road, Corner
of Ice House Street,-
BOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
And
A QUANTITY OF
DRAWN THREAD WORK, GRASS CLOTH, etc.
Comprising:-
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (TOR' ACCOUNT OF SEER, CONCATENA
FRIDAY,
the 8th October, 1916, at 230 pm, at their Sales Rooms No. 8 Dea Fox Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
ONE GENTS SADDLE AND
BRIDLE &c.*** ONE COPPER CONDENSER ONE CAMERA, PRE ONE CLARIONET &, de Tormes usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioners. Hongkong, Oct. 4, 1916-
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1004
THE Underagued have revelred instrud
dons from EM. VICTUALLING STORE OFFICER, to sell by Public Anction,
SATURDAY,"
the 7th October, 1918,
at 11 am, at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of Ice
House Street -...
A Quantity of FLOUR
BISCUITS RICE DATMEAL
Tas;~~Cach.
BUGBES & HOUGH, Auctioneers "to the Government. Hongkong, Oct. 3, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1001
1 Persian Carpet (practically now), Sideboards, Dinner Waggon, Dining Tables and Chairs, 2 Chesterfield Sofas Arm-chairs, &c., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Double and Single Brass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, dr., Miscel-structions to sell by Public Auction, HE Undersigned have received in laneous Furniture, several lots of Black-
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED). wood Ware, 2 Pianos, a few lots Porcelains, dc., Pantry, Bath Room and Kitchen Utensils, Table and Sideboard Covers, Bedspreads, Napkins, Doylics, Grass Cloth Goods, etc., etc.
Ly
Also
Brass Jardinieres, Vases, Finger Bowl etc.
(Fall Particulary from Catalogue) Terms'>
-Cash.
HUGHES & HOCGH.
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Sept. 30, 1916.1
THE
Auction,
FUBLIC AUCTION.
on
THURSDAY,
1067
the 19th October, 1918, commenciag at 10.30 am, on their premises No. 1 Ningro Street, Yaumati, VALUABLE PLANT MACHINERY, TOOLS, ES including Cast Iron Scrap and Metals,
As follows
•
On
TUESDAY..
the 10th October, 1918, commencing at 9.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Faux Road Corner of Ice House Street, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND
·BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
Ec...
Bets, de Bath Room Utensils, Largo
Also...
1 Large Wall Clock London make," Calle Portable Motors with Battery: ate, complete, 1 Fiano in good condition, Electric Beading Lampe, Blackwood and Teak wood Screens, a quantity of Black dc. wood Furniture, Pictures, Engravings,
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE DANGERS OF NO MAN'S LAND.
WHEN MAN MAY WORK
NIGHT IN THE SALIENT call regularly every faw AS GOOD AS A HOLIDAY. minutes, and the terrifying rush of the ballot causes every man to Be tab on his The main object of holiday in foʻgain stamieh, Amachine gun, when traversed energy for another year's work, ing, nearly always, ewcopa back again, nerrod and a clear brain, full of vigour so that one may return with sound so it is not safe to get up at osco and ready for business again. Unfort When the slow summer dusk begins to very now and then accension of unately that objecti is not always deepen, man begin to stir in the french unlike than of a shell, proclaim that blood. If your blood has become
explosiona," sharp, "yat berry and dull attained. All day long they havo slept or dozed in Sombs are being thrown not far off-
IN all depends on the state of your the war sunshins, lain in their dug-outa
impoverished -liste holes in the parado or nodded probably from adjacent sape. Occasionally probably too Brief for you to comin or Impure the Holiday is on the Areatop in a sultry atmosphere through the night a terrific exples on proper benefit. Everybody should start of burring bluebottles and occasional uses the atmosphere to reverberate and very few people can claim to be fres
holiday in reasonable health,
though shots from snipers rifles. For here you everyone to start. It is a minenwerfer from the dregs of some serious ailment, eannot move or walk about by day, the bob bursting somerbers away on the which has drained the blood af gits sniping (from dominating positions) is right, and it in followed by a succession natural strength. That is why they feat too keen. But when she dusk deopens one of our own trench-gims retalist of much exertion.
of share reports and heavy explosions lagged out, brain weary and
incapable into that pearly-blue light which for ing. In the silent pouses between these now to build up your blood with a true
Do not wait for holiday, but man moving is the most invisible, long sounds may be heard the harsh cry of tonic, and, so trigorate and refresh begin fles of men start off for the trenches and
some bird-I know me its name which your system. the sound of tramping feet is heard on haunts the coarse grass and secret places Pils. Over and over again they have Nothing is more valuable the roads, writes an officer in Land and of the salient Occasionally distant been proved to be as good as a holiday.
for thi
sala_purpose than i Dr. Williams' Pinke Water.
ratalo and a harsh grating sound became to jaded men and women. If you can. Night by night and all night long adible the German transport on the not takes those Ales of ghostly figures move slonsada beyond the ridge. A lighter and Williams' Fink File is ever greater, for
holiday, the
value of Dr. the roads and trencher. Hation parties, more continuous grating sound is made waste caused by illness and the wear carrying parties, parties, with working by the trolleys rolling along one of the and tear of
these blood-making pills ma
maka good s material, engineers, generals and officers of inspection rank, parties with pick and behind the enemy front line. Every aumerous light railways which rum just
life ahoral, and many other ants of workers now and again, too, in silent pauses, the move along those roads. A little later on barking of dogs may be distinguished you many see them, patiently bending these are the German pets which they
koop in their trenches.
er en act the against the rising moon. Some of the carriers are so strangely silent they seem like ghosts
soles.
▲ CASUALIUT.
of men tramping acres the plain. only Two or three times. In the pighs the their feet go" pit-patter." pit-patter," whole horizon is of a sudden up by when they are quite near; these are the vivid flashes of our own guns, so vivid wearing long thigh boots with rabber that you may distinguish trees, and other objects against their background; then THE BUSINESS OF THE NIGHT. you hear a distant rumble, followed by And they have to hurry. For the mid-the tour of the shells and observe the summer night' is short, and between the quick glare as they burst on the enemies'. grey twilight and the rosy dawn thern is second line. but a space of four hours. God help hier who is cangat by the sunshine in an open place!
..
Strange figures come prowling through the darkness-you camot tell for certain
they are also obtainable 1 bottle for 1.60, 6 bottles 88/5 post free, from the Willams Pink File for Fale People, dealer can supply you i
you with Dr.
Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Rond, Shanghai
FREEA book of useful information tori
railing people is The Blood and its Yurk. Send postcard to day for a free copy to above address..
A SEAPLANE IN ACTION.
PATROL WORK AND SCOUTING.
The seaplane is the most useful and necessary form of aircraft for driving of air-raids on this country, t
whether friend or foe. Ever and anon And with the deepening dusk a new the star lights go up and in their cold for dying over tracts of water. It is As its name implies, it is used solely life begins in the trenches. The buzz of radiance you may ses taceo figures stand-identical in shape with the seroplane. the bluebottles and the crack of the ing still as statues. Yet they would be but with minor variations: It is con- saiper's rife give place to the chatter of better advised to throw themselves downsiderably heavier than the aeroplane in machine guns and the slow glare of the They are the covering parties and the weight, and is more of the formation of star-light. Shadow and mystery creep engineers moving out in front. Once the the boat, though following the sunie in where was the stark nakedness of man who fires the Very pistol can be "stream-line" principles as the aero- battered sandbags. Slowly, with many Germans, too; are out in No Man's Land. shall-holes, broken trees and tines of plaitly seen, and then you know that the
plane. exclamations, pauses, and much hard Once three lights go up in quick succes-150 horse-power, but the machine is The engine power varies from 70 to swearing, the working party moves along aion, and simultaneously two shots ring much slower in transit and in climbing the crowded trench. then out fate the out. These are followed immediately by even than several of the galler horse- sap. There is
a little narrow ridge load outcry close at hand, which show power land machines. The fuselage, or chain of enormous shell-holes. In these its work Oh! Ob! Oh! Gradually bows of which are the engine and the between the parapet of the sap and a that at least one of the bullets has done body, is like a fat bottomed boat, in the the water glistens. The men ze silent the loud erias sink into a pitiful murmur No Man's Land, scarcely 70 yards from lapses into silence. Pass the word down the engine are the pilot's and observer's now that they are out in the middle of of a child in, pain, and presently, this propeller. Immediately in the rear of the German trench. Only when one of for the stretcher bearers! They lay seats, side by side, and not, as in the them trips over the frequent loose strands him down in a shell-hole-it is an officer aeroplane, the one behind the other of wire or stumbles into a shell-hole you of engineers, shot, through both thighs. Again in place of the wheels of the land, hear a scule followed by a muttered They do not think he is bad, but the ing chassis of the aeroplane, are two
moon shines down upor
a face boat-shaped feats these are hollow in unnaturally still and pallid, and when formation, very heavy, and extremely the doctor comes he is dead.
fragile. When landing the seaplane on a rough sea, the part of the machino most liable to break up is the Boa
touch
of the control-
curse.
KATTELGROUND DIGGING,
THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY.
It is a question of digging a new french, Get them lited out quickly, quietly, three yards apart; let each man work his A fresh fealing is the air and a faint hardest to dig himself is. They the wis
lightening in the sky beyond the German Ita auprising how quickly they get inta The men have dug their trench, many are
1 regard to the actual dying of the where a mere
Capable
•of
it requires
•8eveloper to lift
be
da Follows ---- Soveral Carpets and Rugs Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double Brass-mounted Bedstead, Twin Bedsteads (Teakwood),Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and stremdesign have querived in Chairs, Tes and Decasional Tables, or Messrs. WITZ & Co. to sell by Publie etc., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass too; and put their backs into the task. lines suggests that daybreak is not far off seroplane up from the manœuvring thei Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery Tallet the ground considering the heavy apong resting on their spades, perepiting prozy seaplane off the surface of the.
the grip of a
a Sandow's Roll-top Desks and. Writing Table, etc. state of all this water-logged 'country fusely. They prepare to move affair with the aeroplane must aquantity of Electro Plated Ware Quickly they throw up the earth in front, Suddenly a machine-gun opens and one of the gentlest nature, considerable sen. Similarly, while maneuvres in the
always which gives a feeling of protection, even if a somewhat illusory one. Nor can the them sits down quickly cleaping his muscular force is required to bank (tura) A peculiar and horrible stench clings to matters, I'm his. It don's art hurtling the most difficult and linsk he considered in any way pleasant ankle with both hands. Goethe and climb the seaplane the ground, thicker and more fatid in unlaces his boot. Is it a Blighty one, but it is doubly so to land a seaplane. A comrade takes off his puttees and tricky performance to land an aeroplane,
delicate manevre in Bying; it is a} some places than in others, but all- pervading. It is the alckly stench of 50 think?" enquires the victim Should, the surface of the sent be the dead bodies. Strange and sometimes probably is, since he has been shot and the machine torning turtle, ne anxiously, and upon being told that i grove risk of the floats, breaking open, least bit choppy or rough there is a fearsome things are dug out of the ground. through the ankles he becaries quite diving down through the ses and pre- so that you could not recognise it as a All diab and muddy, yielding and welt, cheerful despite the pain. teman thing, the body of a German back, and so the men file once more slong
capitating the pilot to a watery grave. Soon the word is passed down to lend WORK OF THE HEAPLANE, There was no head, caly the trunk. the sap into the main tranch From the placed in two categories-first, work Somebody but off two of his buttons as woods afar off comes the call of a cuckoo from the shore, when land station, The work of the ezapline" may be a memento, another found his rifle, co and gradually the various points of the bordering ou the sea, is used as a bass; pictely rusted and anked in mud. Then Inndscape oppen. Everybody makes tea, craft is taken out on board parent they dug try a machine gun, risted too!
and
secondly, fying at sea when the and mud-caked, which must have been breakfast, followed by a long sleep. the middle of the ocea
and before long is, enjoying a heaty rossel
and lights. buried in the last battle. The curiou
edmmenced froth With regard thing about this is that it was evidently
te the former the work is for the most British gun conserted by the Germans,
Park of
s defensive nature, as
as that of for the lock is German, so is the barrel CHINESE ONCE A MERCHANT IS MALE The work desea in
Trading enemy cra
craft and Once cleaned, it will be serviceable again sad will be re-converted to fire English,
"One Electric Lighting Set, consisting af Highspeed Vertical Steam Engine, &&t. complete with Mountings and Switchboard, Marine Multitubular Boiler with Furnace, Bailer complete with all Mountings and Feed Pump Ono Horizontal Compound Non-Condensing Steam Engine with Pipe Connection Valves and Storage Tanks Several Double Geared, Screw Cutting and Surfacing Lathes, Bhears of varying lengths, 1 Planing Machine, com plete with Pulleys, shaping Machine complete with Shaft, Blotting Maching
complete, 1 porer and hand-driven Screwing Machine Shaft, Miscelaneous Assortment of Dies Ver. tical Double Geared Drilling Machine complete, One Double Filler Gears
Drilling Machine (equivalent
to two machines) by Appleyard & Co. Halifax, England.
And
One New Gent's Bicycle, 2.Typewriters, selection of Brass Jardinieres, Yases, Finger Bowls, etc.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue.) TERMS:-Caah...
HUGHES & HOUGH,
· Auctioneers,
Hongkong, Oct. 4 1916
1008
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received in. structions to sell by Public Auction, *(POR) ACCOUNT: SP. THZ, OGICIENTO),
ammunition
MACHINE-GEN 4 Swan
ALWAYS A MERCHANT
driving 00
marines..
coasts..for.
me for enemy-db. 14.principally scouting for the feets for a reaplane We observer at an altitude of 5,000ft has a grunge of view ten times greater than the A PHILIPPINE JUDGMENT bokant man of any battleship or cruise The night is a fairly quiet one Yet The status of Chinese
In this latter
are usually The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR apart from the stertorous brig
d-from the sen of having been established as that of a surface alungalde the parent ship, and the men labouring at their trono, the morehant he still retains the privilege when the craft are no longer in use they darkness is full of sounds. Now it is the of a merchant, so far as his right to re are lifted on. board, by means of a larg diamal wail of a stray wallet hungrily main in the Philippines is concerned, crane and stowed away
although be absequently becomes a constru
AN EARLY DATE
Das Double Column Steam Hammer complete with all connections, One Belte &c, vi driven Drought Blower for Blacksmith
Shop complete with connections, One Ore Washing Tank with
Glenc
Shafting, &c, de, &a: MORA ARONALAS
Pulleys, assorted Belting, a large
One coculting apparatus complete.
Circular wick Lamps
08paro barhets
Cylinders and wicks. Incandescent
goantity of Miscellaneous Material appartenances
Tools, &c., Tubes and Piping, Steel Bars,
Wrought Iron, Steel and Cast Iron, quantity of gear pertaining to
A large and varied assortment of Brass Vlves and Cork Brass Rods, Machine Berewa, Copper Pipes, Copper
And.
SUNDRY OFFICE FURNITURE, &c. (Full Particulars from Cataloguey On view from Monday 2nd Oetober
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Hongkong, Oct 4, 1918,
PUBLIC
(104
HE Undersigned hare received inateno
lous to
Mooring Buo
A number of Locomotive wheels and Axles
Further particulars may be obtained from the unde
Terms
TOOBRA & HOUGH.
Hongkong, Ang 24 191
TANG YUK, DENTIST, SUCCESSO
the Into STEN TING,
seeking billet. Now it is the clickabourer Thus holdi Class-clack of the machine guns chatter Court of the Pale ing to each other, Bika demona to Hel tevoked the detamor Ous of these tweeps round-
Customs, affirmed by the verses, the
tance, decreeing thin DeChiar and ordered. released from custody..
*ža: Supreme Court Collector of
PUBLLO AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the Letting by Public Auction Sale to! hold on TUESDAY, the 10th
964 October, 1016 at 37
of the Eublin Works
Order of His Excellency the
oOne Lot of CROWN LAND
to Img WA, in the Colony of Ho
for a term of 15 year
Particulars of the Lot
mission chautba
of his aut
LOS
resident
Supreme
Fron
INTIMATIONS
The Ideal Reconstructiva. Narr
Kanaphos,
For Nerves and
Brain
To restore your physical fitnesa:
-To restore poise of the nerro system
To copair the results of wearinees and overwork
take a glass of Salluphes on rising, at mid-morning, mid- afferucon, and on going to bed.
You will feel distinctly the beginning of the undeniable beneft that Sanaphos gives you,
within ten minutes.
Sanaphos
Any time when you can sleep, when pon wakes up sized, what you can't think,-) when you ll hausted when your tenor by physical baith le deranged, take Saaxphos, and note the restatze. You will be convinced as once.
Yer Samphos lapot to be confused with the harmful dinnulaute or drage which only, aku mafters, worse. It is not a stimulants, nos drug. It i simply an nargising" food which a
strength to your decrea and to some body, --Senaphos am Soda Berse age la hot, weather, is superb, and far betterotham my drink (chsenfying alcohol. It gives graet conrgy withour heating and withons taxing the digestion:
two tablespoonfuls.of water add about Two sitnit jerapoonfala of Samples, stir zapidly with spoon..fork, and; All the tumbler with soda water),AN CAN
• în convalescence "and" natVONS" "BE" most instantly begins give - now. I hanatica Sanaphos works-wonders..
If rir chemist has not Sanaphos write fake a from sample, mentionént his name, jak z trial package wil be sest to you free and post-pait. Supplies ean da obtained from any, the following: Whois Agents Fletcher & Co.. Hong Kong: The Green's Dispens *Hon Kona
Whole Distributors for Iulia sad Fiz Karui. Dakin Brochurk, Lak, Middlejer Street: Loudon, England.
Variety of Uses.
The uses to which LEA & PERRINS” SAUCE can be put are innumerable.
At Luncheon, Dinner or Supper, it is the ideal sauce for Roast Meats, Fish, Game, Cheese, Salad, etc.
In the Kitchen, it is indispensable to the cook for flavouring Soups, Stewt, Gracias, Minced Meat, de
In India, s favourite "Pick-me-up" is Lex & Perrins Sance with Soda water-
Lea Porrine
The Original and. Goodie
WORLESTERSHIRE.
HORLICKS MALTEOMIL
HORLICK'S C
MALTED MILK
THE BUSY STRESS
Horlicks proves a veritabl belge nature-to impart life and
overished blood and
11/20
ITISH TRADE-WIFE-INDOS
Board of Trade
the Fare
tah from adii
reporting
by the Frodeh "the period of the
TERMS
EET MODE
FRENCH LESSONS