SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1918.
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Sold by all Chemlats,
Prices in England.
1/1), 2/9, 4/6.
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
Hughes & Hough THE Undersigned baro received instruc
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Auctioneers bare, Coal and General Produce.
Brokers and Commissies
“Agenta....... --
PROPRIETORS
-Wan Coal Storage.
Codes used
Bentley's
c. 4th & 5th Editions.
A 1 Telegraphic Code.
Telegraphic Address *MEIRION" HONGKONG..
PUBLIO AUCTION. " HE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCURED)"
on
WEDNESDAY
the 22nd November, 1818, at 2.30 p.m., at No. 1 Canton Villás, Kimberly Baid, Kowloom.
KUNDE
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
contained therein,
Consisting of
#!
Unpolished Teakwood Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Chairs and Table (Extension), Dinner Service, Crockery. and Glass Ware.
Three Single Iron Boda, Two Ice Chests, Writing Table, Bookcase, Bhang- kai Baths, etc., etc.
Also
All the Electric Lights and Fittings, And Rubber-tyred Rickshaw (in good condition).
On view from Tuesday 21st inst. a
noon.
Ostalogues will be issued, Terma-Cash.
BUGHES & HOUGH, ngeducisonecra
Hongkong. Nov, 14 12160) 1243
PUBLIO AGUTION,
(PUR 200DUNT OF TES CONORISED,
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to soll by Public Auction;"
„{FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
on
"MONDAY,
the 20th November, 1918, at 30 p.m., ́at Messre. Hughes and Hough's Coal Godowns at To Kwa WAN, THE FIRST AUCTION OF SALVAGED CARGO
01. §.9. “WIBLEY * -
Corprising:-
About Six Hundred kegs of Wire Nails. About Fifty Sewing Machines, and s
numbor of cases of spare parts. About One hundred Remington Type-
writers with Rawalan characters and cases of Ribbons for same. About Seven hundred rolls of Roofing
Felt.
About Twenty large rolls of Linoleum. About Forty-five Cotton Braiding
Machine
Millso
A quantity of Sole Leather, sundry spare parts for Motor Cars, &c., &c, and everal lots of Files, Spanners, Leather Punches, and Old Iron
Dates and particulars of further auctions will be notified inter.
Sofa Manufacturers: 1. T. DAVENFORT, LIG
Laadon, B.E
FOR SALE
FOR BALE.
AS A GOING CONCERN......
THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS FROM HOME.
(From Our Own Correspondent, )
LONDON: October 14. ALL GOES WELL.
There is no doubt about it, in tha
within 48 hours, having mes, fourfor fire notebla öffelals, and-having alo had all his letters censored: He new no more at the finish than that we were determined, with unflinch-! ing grimreas, to see things through. That sort of thing has made an excel- land impression on the Continent.
And
It is a
Still the German propagandists are buss. They have spent millions in opinion of those in a position to judge America, in South America, in Spain.
all goes very well indeed. Not Bulgaria, Greeco, and Chins. perbapa, ao faak as some would-like, they contrive to get little rumours but steadily against the Hun, and foot that wander into the papers even of the Allied countries. Ther the latter is beginning to admit the bad one last week that the Russians sequence of defeat. He can no longer were about exhausted, for their conceal the huge losses on the fammunition was giving out. Somme, and the failure of his picked big lie as they know to their cost. troops to force their way back to the The close relations between the French and Russian Governments are captured territory,
proving of great value in these: Neutrals who have just come out matters, foe Franco is able to destroy: | of Germiany tell me that the Germans rumours designed for Ruasin or the know they are in for a licking and other countries and turn their baleful they have made plenty of peace over. vapours back upon the, fiction It is a great tures by subterranean means, but mongers of Berlin. they have failed so significantly that invincibility of the German army, is game, but just as the illusion of the they are now truculent again and disappearing, so is the illusion that protesting loudly that they are the the Germans are of all people the ones who will not talk of peace until most clever. they have beaten, England. Well, they are being pressed back by Eng- land's 'contemptible little army and bottled up by England's feet, and smashed up by England's serial feet, they are a long way from their ideal yet.
ROYAL SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT:""
Princess Mary has all the advan- tages of having a special correspon dent at the front, for the Prince of Wales sends her regular letters, written in a bold, round hand, telling of his experiences and observationa with the army in France. Theso It is not easy to prophesy in this letters are not subject to censorship, war, but one thing is safe to say, that the signature on the corner of the envelope being sufficient, and I hear boro will be no such lull-this-winter-that-the accounts he gives-are-most-
looks forward to receiving them with keen interest.
A POPE STORY.
"
as last. Much has been learned interesting and that Princess Mary | since we were lying in trenches last year, and much ingenuity has been expended in the meantime in meeting
A weekly paper quotes D person the need for equipment and in mak
ring retirement, who was in close ing preparations for winter wariare, touch with the Pope until after the This we will pursue, and the Buna war was declared,” as the authority will find no rest for their heads or, for the story that the Pontiff, when hope in the Christmas season. In asked by the Emperor of Austria to the meantime, the operations from give his blessing for the "success of Salonika are ripening fast. The Austrian arms, replied that, although pincers are closing on the foe, and he gave the Catholic soldiers of every past, west and south things are not nation hie blessing, he refused to give rosy for the aggressors who brought it to him who declared the war. this war about..
GERMAN SUSPICIOS.
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Our censors have at last got a firm The nervousness, of the Germans grip on the situation. At first we as to what may teak out from their were rather easy going, then rather country is shown in the precautions foolishly over firm, and now we are they take at the frontier. Neutrals
FIRST CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL firmly cautious. It was found that especially are put through a most Acontaining
magazines and books were being sent stringent examination.
42 Bed Rooms, 23 Bath Rooms,
Halls Lounges Reception Room, Private Dining Room, Self contained suites of apartments with Bath Rooms attached. Dining Room with 4.ccom- modation for 100 persons. Store Rooms, | Library; Servants' quarters, etc., etc, etc.;
Hot and cold water laid on throughout Approximato value of Furniture, etc about $30,000:«.
A large stock of extra. Linen and Crockery all new and high class recently imported from
from England
Electric light throughout
The Hotel is centrally located being only a few minutes from the leading Banks, Post Office, Terry, &c.
To be sold as going concern with good will, Bang
Farther particulars may be obtained from the Undoraigned.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Avetiones. Hongkong, Oct 19, 1915.
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FOR SALE
structions to sell
Launch to convey intending pur. Undersigned have received in- chasers will leave Blake Fier at 2 p.m. sharp on Monday the 20th inst...
Touma ---Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, Nor: 13, 1916.
-1819
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (AccouÂT OF THE CONCHEKED).
WEDNESDAY,
the 22nd November, 1918, commencing st. 10.45am, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, De Your Road, Corner of Ice House Street, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD D. BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
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including a small consignment of Tonkin Inlaid Trys
As Follows S
Ond Suite Blackwood Furniture Upholstered Suites, Armchairs and}
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), One Two-Seater. TRUMBULL MOTOR CAR, recently overhauled and in good running order. Full particularz be obtained from the undersigned, b
EUGHES & HOUGH,
Hongkong, Nov. 10, 1916.
FRENCH
were
t
For exam-
to prisoners in the camps in Germany ple, a lady returning recently to that were designed for the eyes of Holland had her back rubbed with officialdom first, so lines
alemon, in order to wash off "any- marked, or a hole was cut in the thing that might be written on it. centre and whatever was wanted to all women have to undress and take be sent was inserted in the cavity down their hair and all children. Now Lothing but new books can be even infarts in arms, are undressed sent by publishers to the camps, and and examined with the utmost other precautions have been taken to thoroughness. stultify the work of the spy.
THE ZEPPELIS COAT.
GERMAN DYPA
A well known Nottingham, firmit Never mind the Zeppelins: we has solved the secret of the German can build them as soon as we wish,"
said an officer in the country the forth the superiority will vanish: superiority in black dyes, and hence other day They have the German. The matter reminds the scientists of model captured all complete in the great efforts made by the Ger Essex. I hear that it costs £200,000 rnans to discover the formula for the to build and equip each super- aniline dyes "discovered" by Professor Zeppelin, and each trip to England Perkins. On oua occasion a German Posts £16,000 The German public, was found hiding in the chemical hypnotised by the Junkers and filled works, and he was promptly plunged with false stories, are so blind in their into a vat of magenta. It was bate towards England that they are many weeks before he looked demanding a wholesale raid on, these tumas, says the man who tells the islanded: Therefore they are out to tale.
hit their own pockets hard, for we bring a proportion down every time, and moreover, the crews are usually killed as they descendan raportant thing, for the crews take a long time to train.
PEACE.
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Remainder of House
FOLLOWING NIGHTS:
Dress Circle Stalls
Fit
Feldiers and Sailors Half Price.
KAIPING
INDUSTRIAL
AND
- FOR ALL
COAL
HOUSEHOLD
PURPOSES
AND SMELTING COXE
FOUNDAY
FIREBRICK. AND
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The negotiations that have been set afoot by the Dublin Corporationi to secure a loan from America for the rebuilding of Dublin are never likely to get to maturity. The loan. made by American financiers to the I have written above that the Municipauty of Paris has completely. Germans have become truculent spoilt the market for similar loana Again. But they have been making in America, the best terms now pro desperate efforte, to get intervention, curable being a six per cent. issue 1213 in the interests of peace, and they on unimpeachable security..
have been armly told that they have AN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, not swallowed half enough sand yet. Some of the leading American There were some politicians who firms with offices here are taking whined, when the Lloyd George steps to establish an American interview appeared the other day Chamber of Commerce in London CONCERTINA
H LESSONS that mon to which has
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mprising Double Brass-minted-Bod- stead, Twin Bedsteads (Teakwood).
(PUKLISHED ANYTÁNKY TISABLES traders throughout the Worlds
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The Undead by Public Auction, Sideboards, Dinner, Wegevus: Pater to communicate direct with English
ructions to sell Diang Tabies and Chnics, Les zad Occasional Tables, eta, oto, Dinne Bervices, Crockery, Glass Warn, Cooking complete commercial guide to London and
in each class of goods. Besides being The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR Stores, Cutlery, Toist bets, de Eathite suburbe, the Directory contains lieta
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Gisealer wick lamps
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Room Utensils, Large Holl-top Desk EXPORT MEEQHAN TEA and Writing Tables, etc., quantiy with the Goods they ships and the Colonial
Electre Plated Ware
Piano, in good condition, Electric
Heading Lamps, Blackwood sad Tesk-
wood Serpens, & quantity of Blackwood
and Foreign Markets they supply
potepec
ZASTEAMSHIPPALINIS
ringed under the Portato which they
Furniture, Pictura Engravings, A and indicating the approximatel
Gent's Bicyclia (new) Stereoscopic. Cameras
PROVINCIADE TRADE
loading bisnuloturers. Mercan
ceribrer of the
finish, that Mr. Asquith would act successful in Paris. They think they approve of any such talk. When can be helpful to trading interests Parliament opened this week, Mr. both here and America and by Asquith himself made a speech with combination they hope to exercise aur all his usual weighty utterance, fa, important influence. Of edirse many the same effect that no shameful, of the other nations have Chambers ef Commerce here alredy, though iconslusive peace would be toler: j ated
some of them hava suffered consider- This adds interest to the fact that able disappointments during the war. an important neutral amved in Los don récently with the intention of seeing how the land lay. He left
COUGHING INTO - CONSUMPTION
bet you stop
while W.ONLY. Cough
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THE Undersigned having been appointed "Aar' for the COWIE HAREOT COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quot prices for best quality SILIMPOP C&E taimuted into Bankers At SEĐAT TIK OF SANDAKAN (Trinh, Ft. Barneo
comparey
SILIMPOPON COIL thly with the belier, graden of Japanese Coal and gives good results.
Sempre calling at BER HANDAKAN alusively for BIL PON COAL (either ouge or Bunkém) are axenyt ima payment, aft charges.
Au Babattik Steamers are berthed along side the Company's wharf where there f minimam depth of 87 to 28 feet at low water Spring The RPSMA MORA Charts of Sibuko Bay (Sobaltik, Har bour), Prices and all other information concerning the Port can be han
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National Emblem March 700aberty Bell
Canapes Folka-
a house in London. He was living 2009 Chicaga Barn Dance
In Beirut when the way broke out;
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and had been taking an interest in 7013 Medley of Harry Lawler's Bongs
German plans in Mesopotamia since: twenty years ago This house which he took in Londen had been occu pied by a German who had been
interned
In one of the rooms the Caper found a globe map, made in, Berlid
the com
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