WEDNESDAY, DEOHMBER 20, 1916.
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Hughes & Hough
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AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT..
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Brokers and Commission) Agents.
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Telegraphic Address *MONIKION" HONOLONG
PUBLIC AUCTION..
THE Undersigned have received in- Itructions to sell by Public Auction,
(102 10COUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
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FRIDAY,
the sand December, 1918, commencing at 11 am at their Sales Rooms No. 8. Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice Eouse Street-
A 'Number of Lots of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c.,
Comprising:- Carpets and Rugs, Sideboards, Dinner! Waggon, pic, Dining Tables and Chair, Arm-chairs, &c.,
Chesterfield Sofas,
Teakwood Twin Beds, Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Deable and Single Brass. mounted Bedsteada, da, Miscellaneous Furniture, Blackwood Waze, Pianos, a few lots Porcelains, S., Pantry, Bath Room and Kitchen Utensils,
&
Ka
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Full Particulars from Catalogus.) TERMS --Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
·Auchonsers.
Hengkong, Dec. 15, 1918.
PUBINO AUCTION.
1338.
MEE Cadersigned have received Instruo
tions to all by Public Auction, (For Account of the Concerned),
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SATURDAY,
the 23rd December, 1918, at 10.30 am, at their Bales Rooms,, No. 8, Des Vanx Road, Corner of Ico. House Street,
A Varied Assortment of IMAS TOYS,
And
A Consignment of IMAS CRACKERS,
Alas
Cho Doll's House Furnished,
ki. Terras:---Caab. ::
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Dec. 9, 1916.
1213
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Pablic Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CUSCERNED).
WEDNESDAY, the 27th December, 1916, at 11. at their To Kwa Wa Godowns, Salvaged Cargo o 8.S. "WISLEY,"
Comprising
About 400 drums of Caustic Soda. About drums "Napthalins* Flake. About 60 casks of Carbonate of Ammoria
About 20 cases of Oxide of Tran. Twenty Braiding Machines, "for corering electric cabica.❤" me Three amali Electric Motors. Eight machines and parts for cotton winding, these are suitable for use in knitting factories).
One Marble Switchboard.
One Starting Regulator in cast iron сар.
Nine direct current starting switches. Two Alimetera.
Fifteen cases of Spare parts for Over- Land Cars (Lesprings, arles, clutches, reller bearings, mudguards, wheels, do, &c.)
And
A lot of paro gear wheels, and be ings for the same mice of cam
Immediately following this cale the sadermentioned cargo will be sold on the premises of the Hongkong and Kow- lown Whart and Godown Cays, Ltd.
108 bezent Tin Plate
Undersigned pavo received "in-
THE CHINA MAIL.
WOMEN AND WAR.
WHAT THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND ARE DOING,
SAW HIT TAS USUAL caling her life"at, bomo.aven US FOAR daks his in-life-the-field--I describe the one of what is known as the danger zone. st. Woolwich,"
This section of the Arsenal is så som distance, from the factorless, and we drive to is in a factor car. The day ban closed
structions from Mr. Doo CHONG WORK IN THE DANGER ZONE AT in by now, the duchess has fallon, and KI, to sell by Public Auction,
Is
THURSDAY,
the 21st December, 1918, commencing at 2.30 pm at his premises "The Old Post Office Building" Queen's Road Central, ALGE ASORTMENT OF CHINESE PORCELAINS,
EMBROIDERIES,
KAKEMONOS,
CURIOS, &c., &c. Comprising -
WOOLWICH.
ENEMY FIRM'S ASSETS,
ACTION BETWEEN LIQUIDATORS
AT SINGAPORE.
the
the moon is rising."", "Wo travel over a kind of marsh to a promontory than stoms to Mr. Hall Caina any when the Imperial have the diver running abone it. The Chancellor opened the Felchatag the other long stretch of dark road is jaslously day he tried to account for the reveresgarded. At se moment the car stops of the German Amy by saying it had and the face of a guard, appears as the hod to face the whole world's output of window. Ha aska for any matches. | VAR. T. Reid, liquidator of the firer of
with us.
In the Supreme Court at Singapors last weak the Chist Fration (Sir John Buckaill, K.) began the hearing of an action arising out of the liquidation of German Arms in the Straits Settlements, Winding Up Ordinance of 1914 The plaintiff is Mr under the Allen Enemies We Lowther Kemp liquidator Singapore branch of the Deutsche 7. Mr. P. Robinson, and the defendant, latische Bank, who was represented.
o of Penang for whom Mr R. St. J. Braddell appeared. Mr. F. Kilian, formerly manager of the Sings porn branch of the bank, was present in
MCOTL Robinson in opening said t tha"!
court
ammunition. Nothing of the kind. But if Gormany mass needs ignore" or minimise the gallantry of our soldiers in the Beld, and accound for. Its - lossen in terms of shells, les is know that it has not been the men of the neutral notions, operinous clothing for the night sit is case concerned two enemy firms wound at the worden of cur own Empire the have been this determining force in battering its trenches and braking its
legione.
cigarettes, and knives we may carry about Heg and Co. of
A moment latar wa are in the women's cloakroom with its many rails (all hal): for ovals and hats. Here we take off our war, and as a low footboard which is up under the lian Enemies Winding Up the boundary line of the safety and danger Ordinance of 1914 and the originating was than a liquidator under the ordin zone, put rubber shoes over our boots mon was taken by Mr Bomp Tho let the grib of the streetar should, strance in accordance with the powEIN CON- ferred on him. The question arising Bre from something within..........
was as to liability on eight bills of ex- change, Mr. Kemp had to realise the were these eight bills of exchange, which of the bank, and part of the assets become assets in the following tireum stances. The Deutche Asiatische Bank was a concern incorporated in Shanghal, branch was enabled to carry on business and under a special ordinance of 1911
A large variety of B-coloured and 3-coloured Vases and Plates, Blue and White Vases and Figures, & Old Bronzes, including Incense Burners of the Sung and Ming Dynasties, Pekinese
We have always been proudly conscious
It is a broad encampment of stall Cloisonne, Snuff Bottles, Mandarino whas the sons of Brital hare bean. Plumes, and Beads (Amber and Jade doing at the trean Eub is it not time we one storey wooden houses or hits separated stone) Carved Bamboo Wars, Old reneed, nos merely in seract phrases from each other by a liberal space, and Boochow Lacqueur Boxes, Silk Embroi- or yet definite Agures, but vividly, having wide streets between, with raised deries, Kakemonos and Wall Hangings, tangibly, and as by the evidence of our ways on either side. The moon is now shining, and, in the distance under Jadestone and Ivory Carrings, de, dc, own eyes, what the daughters of Britain, its slow-growing light, we see the shadow
are doing at home?
&c.
To do this we must get close to the figures at women workars in their khaki | in Bingapore. I think this law has been
The greater portion of the above stock has recently arrived from Pekin and Kiang-ai, and includes pieces from the mighty army of women in our minition factories, and we cannot do better than Ming, Kanghi Yungehing, Kienlung,take a first sight of them at their work at Katching and Towkwong Periods.
Woolwich. Though the vast Arsenal is ab cur own docrs foix of us who sleep in London under the broad shadow of le wings bava eny real sense of its colossed
1395 tremendons lorde in standa för.
(Full Particulars from Catalogis.) On view from Tuesday 19th inst.. Tes:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH. Auctioneers Hongkong, Dec. 13, 1918.
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
When
the present war began its workers word only fourteen thousand in all, without à woman of their number. Now there are seventeen thousand women within its high
walls and fifty thousand men besides.
gous and cape moving noiselessly about,
Hiko nuns
BRAVE AND FEATLESS.
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Dress Circle
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Soldiers and Sailors Half Price
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p.m. Sharp.
PARIS TO BE LIT BY CANDLES.
6 P.M.
Factory.
WANTED.
YOUNG ENGINEEE with a good
mechanical training for a Local
Apply
" TECHNICA C/O CHINA Man' Office. Hongkong, Dec. 11, rië.. 1314
after
say
repeated but I take it is doesn't affect the matter very much.
Mr. Robinson went on to say that the A Zeppelin might drop a bomb on this ordinance was in force
who had
been Boiseless place without doing much misfinance was in force at the outbreak NO ELECTRICITY OR GAS AFTER chief. But what of the peril within itself; manager of the local branch of the bank
PARIS, Nov. 10 became assets of the to how the hills and the courage required to work in it? for some years, would give evidence presence, its immense significance, the The walk along our causeway until weak and would that there were shoeasures of war eccnomy, especially come to one of the detached wooden huts permanent instructions From the Berlin to prevent a scarcity of con, and to The door is open (for fresh air is wanted) branch to buy bills drawn on Bug and conserve for the monitions and war and electric light is streaming out of it, Co. for the branch here. This material factories the greatest possible entirely for the Singapre branch's
a's quantity of gas and alectricity, the dozen women are sitting within at Business, and did nDE, con con! Any Profect of Police of Paris has decreed oblong tables, weighing and measuring other branch. Many such bills were that the shops and stores in Paris and out in little brass scales, like a chemist's, bought and sent here and duly accepted, the Department of the Salve By permision of Mr. Montagu, the quantities of bis de pocas, small sunt among them were the sight, bills biz o'clock in the eyeing not be lighted An exception is made for shops dealing Afinister of Munitions, and with his quantities of black, green, yellow and concerned in the case. The hills were all by gas, electricity, petroleum, or
blueish powder and then posing them accepted before the war but did not
confectioners, and tea- 3pproval, we enter the gates of the greaizto the open mouths of half empty shell until 'after war had broken out, the in foodstuffs, such as grocers and bakers, Arsenal. You are challenged, questioned, at stand upright by their sides.
first falling Que on August 28, 1914" The but pastrycook the order. Drug- portion of the bank before the war was shops are summoned to a neighbouring lodge to
They talk very little indeed, hardy that it was helder in due course. I had gists hairdressers, and tobacco shops debited itself in favour of the Berim or may, however, be lighted as usual. It prosent your eredentials and register your
as all. Some of them are wearing over the Hamburg branch with the price of should be noted that the shops are not they same, a guide is assigned to you, and you their mouths and nostrile light green. these bills, and had given value for them, compelled to shut at six but o'clock noon, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, begic on your tour of inspectioa.
veils that are like the veils of Arab women All the acceptances were genuine, and remain open they must find other means inyerted; others, in their indiference to Bug and Co. got bills of lading for the of lighting, auch sa candles, acetylene, danger, have tucked their respirators into goods against which the bills were at oil lamps their waist-bands, and are worlding withdrawn
The Chief Justice: If there had been no war there would have been no strils and mouths exposed, fond
difficulty
Mr Robinson: So. lord. Mr Braddeil: My lord, I am not sure abont that.
THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, (For Account of the Concerned),
on
SATURDAY,
the 23rd December, 1918, at 13
Des Yeux Road, Corner
of Ice House Street,- ONE MOTOR CYCLE “METERYA **
4-6 horse-power, fixed engine. Terms :-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Dec 19, 1816
MAKING DEATH.
Woolwich has a world of operations that are entirely suitable for women, and in a few minutes more we are in the midst of them. There is a new shop entirely It is not for long tre cau bear to look operated by womer, having been built for on a scene like this, so Tearfully charged them since the beginning of the war. with spiritual as well as physical wagedy The vast place covers an area which is, and when we step back to the causeway apparently as great ne that of Trafalgar cutside we breathe more freely. And it 1347 square. Two thousand women are hera is only an effect of the strained and and there is rooms for three thousand in perhaps disordered qunitions and all. Innumerable lathes, generally of nerves at sight of these brave and fearizes small size, cover the cemented door, with women Alling with deadly explosives the pulleys and wheels spinning in the air shells that are soon to batter down the treaches of the enemy who lies in wait above them.
One woman is turning hass plates for behind them to kill their husbands and Another is lovers on the battlefield, that as one stands a turret lathe:
PUBLIO AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction,
{FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
בס
AN EARLY DATE
&c. &c, viz:-
!
One occaiting apparatus, complete.
Circulez wiele lamps.
Spare burners. !
·Cylinders and wicks.
abella on
Fall
SOOTI
La Vile Lumiere last gleam, and 10 will be strange to see city vaunted for nights briliant as day lighted by candles. But in the past years Paris has gradually become more and more like a provincial city, its midnight streets bare and silent.
tarai
Mr Robinson sak the point he wanted The hours and lighting of theatres altered, but all such establishments have to make was that by a letter of April 30, and other places of amusement are un 1918, payment of all these bills was mantled, but the liquidator of Bus and to close one day per week. Co. declined to pay even those presented,
CAFES CLOSED ÄT 9.30, although the austs of the firm had been Another reform coming into force at increased by the value of the goods con- the same time as the Eighting order is corned. I there had been no war the bank would have had to do would the closing of cafes and restaurants at
d Free beginning the restaurants at nine, but
the warst
the cafes shut a tion was not have been to demand payment: Presents-half past nine in the evening. At the
eight and After
counsel had concluded his addreen
fter the rule was related, and now both Me Kilian, who gave evidabar at 1030 p.md Café and restaurant
necessary.
cutting copper bands for bells from in the breathless, silence of this sombre no bearing our counsel's statementsaners sto grumbling, saying that the I
In the course of his arguments for the lait bour is one of the best in the day defence Mr.R. St. J. Braddell, said that and asking why they are not allowed to
Hog and the real question was whether Ho Co. had to pay the bank now or was the remain open; as usual with restricted whole matter of the bills in abeyance another war economy talked of is the until the end of the war. It might be shutting of butchers shops one day a that the not result in the end would not
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tubes. Another is pressing the copper spot, one thinks one hears the low, deepence The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR bands into their places. Yet another is far off booming of the great guns across
rivetting brass plugs on to high explosire the sea.
Can shell bodies. Some are drilling the holes. For centuries the spirit of mankind has through the six-inch shells. Others are knelt at the feet of its great creators, in And Miltota and its Dantes, in aws of their rough turning the shell surfaces. yet others are gauging, and pasting off the awful imagininge. But what are the muke the difference of a row of pins, but week, not because any shortage of stocks bodies of the huge eight-inch high highest ranches of the imaginative mind they had not got to that happy state
the realities of that yet Counsel ruferred to communica compared with explosives.
tions that had passed on the matter be mightiest of all tragic poste-War?
tween the liquidator, the Attorney General and Mr Saunders, and said, he need, hardly point out that every con tract into which the bank entered was for the benefit of people com
carrie. business or being in the
procedure criticise
Incandescent Petrol Lamps, and appurtenances.
And
All the women wear the same uniform, A quantity of gear pertaining to a khaki-coloured overall girdled at the Mooring Buoys,
waist, and a cap of the shape of a bathing cap. This is in the interests of story, less the dress or the hair of the operator should be caught in the pulleys and belle
+
Also
A number of Locomotive wheels and Axles
Further particulars may be obtained from the undersigned. Texins:as usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers Hongrong. Ang 24 2928.
JAPANESE MAKERS
PURGING BRITISH TRADE.
of the machinery; but it has the farther EXCLUSION OF ALL ENEMY ALIENS He proceeded to
and not altogether źegligible advantage,
PROPOSED
that had been f
the
causing anxiety, but for the country's locks and herds.d
The decree regarding lighting, which is a winter measure, will certainly be revoked in the spring-Reuter
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RUSSIAN INTERNAL- SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1918 FOR "FOTON" ROUBLES 3,000,000,000
THE Subscription to the above LOAN
bill be Opened from 14th November
to 26th December, 1816, 20
The price of issza 18 95 per sech,
The Loan is entirely fios of Insura
Par and other parations in
The Loan is redeemable at per on 1645 October, 1925, without option for the Sian fevernisens to convert 16 að am
enemy induence, not for the period of ordez Pecpliarite.in that case, added hi Opera, Opera Comique, Francais; (mask:† siklier date.tv
Cotipons are payable half yearly on the
As interest on the above loan, runs 14th April and 14th October,
followed. lordship: Could the labor of PEOPLE IN EVENING DRESS NOT ADMITTED? A PRE in the eye of the male creature, of being
prolapsed very extremely becoming.
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce the bank, bring an action against s
British company! I suppose he could..
The Secretary of Fine Arts Depart Their hard work does not seems to be wil, says "The Times," be invited by Mr. Braddell :- L would not likes to 964 doing much harms to their health, for their its board of directors at a special meeting that he could, niy Tardi
Bis lordship: I rather think that he mente sumptuary law barring all persons eyes are bright their cheeks are fresh, to give a lead to the country by purginould the the 25 Beds Lain evening dress from admittaner to the and there is hardly any evidence of fatigue itself of all German, Austrian, or other The
That it.
szother alien Ddeon is considered among the Was that Wes
the mark, to have rather overshot among them. Kun
enemy who was sund, and the money You realise that the lure of money the war only, but for all time.
Dusty Telegraph a matter of fact Mr Braddell observed that there may (wages vary trots £1 to £7 a week is not it is proposed that, by an amendment went into coelpocket-tempurnelly marks, the Paris correspondent to the the sole, or yet the chief, inagret that of the articles of mascuation, the fallow have been the idea at the back of Mr. very few men have dressed for the theatre 14th October, the interest scurved. draws women to work for the war when ing classes of persons and firms shall Hed's mind that if he had to pay out in faris since the war. As for ladies, date of emiption must be take you leave the immense workshop for the henceforth be excluded from membership £1,100 add there would be that much they often wear at afternoon tess almost
divide amongst
Co's decollete dresses which the ordinary internalderation and le to be added to less to
Hug and Cos the attendant may have some diffi- the price of lane worden bestod for me a ainleter-looking sheds in which the of the Chamber:-
from evening The Rio-Aitatio Bank in Hongkong finished shells are filled. Everybody "Any German, Acsizioa, Bulgarian, or His lordship: Supposing they are culty in distinguishing
Moreover, will, ladies be compelled to ready to accept applications for the knows that ́s abell is not merely a lump "Turk"who has not become a naturise BraddAls ORDER puude which have been brought "Any arm, Corporation, company, wasting time we enter theatres with hats on in order to ove zamed Loan, mod
been no war. Do you say that the local dress, and be immediately afterwards for Ruming Exchange of bageful Vibr
Payment may also be milde In Lo from the bowels of the earth and transacciation, or society, or any representa His lordship Supposing there had show that they are wearing afternoon Special favourable rates will be quoleč
to allow the spectatora babini them to formed into "terrible explosives, Every tive of firm, corporation, etc., in which branch could not sue Eug and Co. on compelled to remove their bat in order
Applications will be wired to Petrogrila body knowe, too, that somewhere die an unsturalised German, Austrian the Bradag considered, that they see the stage his problemetry of free balegraphis charges and commis.
these balles
been solved by y the Under-Secretary of womb at the shell has to be loaded with Balgarian, or Turk is a partner or director
or (in the ease of an incorporated asocis could and any party that the endorses State of Fine Arts: They general feeling on.. the deadly charge,
could sue. That was to say, they could fion or society): a member
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
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REDDZE Opposite #dogkong Hobel
Hongkong March 20, 1914,
LESSONS IN CHINESE- LI HON VAN, a Uninowe graduate versed in Materias Mas been hardton Oticla, and Murchants in Vids Oclony for tax year
har Food method of tralal tec Įpant in sin) Chinose examinasion, wit
to
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100 casch of Black Plates Fem kararlo No, to wington Birort, medöd koerache
10 case of Lacing Hooks for Bots
and Eboer
The To Kwa Wan cargo will
view from Monday the 25thirsty and inspecting orders for the
Wharf & Godown Cots
obtained from FI
Tamien
Endi
the 57th at 10.80 Warbs,
miley car that
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of dead steel, but, a living reservoir of British subject.
THE PANCER ZONE
Mr
"Then we
sue Hug and Co, but only because they here is that the question, might more 30 per cont, only of the cost of the wara endorsers on perd dit wisely have been left to individas: dis.
Counsel, osmented on the sturdity oratione Very few women have had the demey be paid on "applins of the point of view of the law by which bad taste to overdress in Paris, theatres balages to be paid on roody a man could be, both friends and an upce howar. The other night at the re- Bands
and was done in order to settle serta nombor of ladies, of zouttallity to subscribers in the
perhaps some wives of vance against the enemy. It was a concaption of the legal opening of the Faris Opera winter senson The Bank le des ready to give
trind
countring And
pointa as to rights and datice Themar profiter did sippest in dresses and,
"Any corporation or company in which Therefore thers, ought not to be as one fifth or more of the leated stock or question of exiting public alarm (there is share capital or of the debenture or loan no reasonable canse for it), orang foar of apital in bald by or for the benefit of any betraying a secred to this enemy (it's no innaturalised German, Austria, El secret): i-as edidence of he moral and garian, or Turk.**** physical courage at the daughter of In addition to this abadilute exclusion of arose in ordinary the six time, of jewellery quits, workby of the Fayet the Oper Britain and as an example of the bravest enemy subjects and interests it is pro- they came to spend by over time he was this display at
war, they found themselfor": single thing woman does for the war posed to place restrictions on the adults the proposition that a man could be both that shocked the Fine Arts Department sion of persons of, German, Action, enemy and a friend The man in the and prompted its new sumptasty decred Bulgarian, or Turkish arigin, who have street, confronted with that proposition. The immediate result, to far as thedres become saturalised, under British laws.id that that was housenst and most making pridi cofferned, teams to Sech perbes will be requited to deurver be cut out and he brought-pressure have been that couterier bare put their bear upon his representatirs in Parlia brains of once to work to devise the
Mabonnera from the Opera ia te to the Secretary of the Chamber a written me, and it was eat cute pits Toses newest things far aftornoon drenice, flat
will not
thur doubtful latement at the full facts of their cash,MA
overing whether this inensure, at all events, will maise for sogna
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