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Tafructice to sell by Fublic Auction, PARTICULARS and Conditions of the letting Public Auction Sale, to bo beid on MONDAY, the 9th day of January 1917, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of One Lot of UROWN LAND at Kennedy Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 70 years, with the option of renewal ab x Crown Rent to be Ezed by the Surveyor of His 31ajasty the King, for one farther
the 3rd annary, 1917, at 11 a a 34 Wyndham Street, (Ground Floor),
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trick ancoeeded!" The Canadians in the the Dutch Anti-War Association, hau been particular spot where they were placed, in, Berlin, and reporta nä follows In hearing these German cries and taunte, authorative German cirulew thers, in ka repled in kind, slanging the Germans. lively consciousness that an organisation International · law is necmary. Farthor, according to rellabla.deolsistícës, a peace is now already pewaiblis on the Why, trouble to ascertain what are the baels" of the independence of Belgium, The old-fashioned spy balaved by
particular regiments, opposed to you! Serbia, and Montenegro." Another agent movallate is almost se much out of date For many reasons. In our own army of the anti-war langue has been taking as is the hansom cab or the coach and each section his te own methods of a trip to Scandinavia and has discovered four. He la atill used sometimes by both fighting. So it is with the enemy. Tas than Prince von Bulow book, with "itu sides, but in trench warfare the work Germans know the record of the Wost insistence upon the decadd for territorial" formerly done by the epy is new accom. Kurts of the 4th Eighlanders of Toronto, acquisition east and west, has created plished by a process of minute observations well as we do, may be better. They an exceedingly bad lospression," but he probably have a card index for each of is able to aseers on the ground of and by intelligens deduction.
eur colonels, and certainly have a domuler" information received from several for each of our generals. The Bavarian sources in Germany that von Below's has different methods em the Saxon, terms only represent the ideas of a part and the regiment from Hanover will not of the National Liborsie that is the always do the things that the men, from big industrial party.. Bartin will sink to. When we discoves: that regiments yesterday at Verdun are now brought against us, the fact has great significance for both the French at Verdun and pursales.
onesel for the time, were it not for the
one thinks the worse of him for that.
(This
Both the Germans and ourselves use Tory much the same methods in obtain ing knowledge on the front lines, and so I am giving away nothing to the themy.
Prince Wedel, nicknamed the "tail- They call the work Intelligenes now
wagger." is equally busy with pre- daya. Each army corps had its own
ragands to cover all Germany in-favour One of his Intelligence Staff, housed usually in a
of a Hohen-Finow pence, apokesman, Professor Delbruck, thinks the separate set of temporary Bulldings which
Trickery goes on all the time. We do submarines Lione will represent, af could be burred up with all their contents. They do it. The sniper has the most suficiently tangible guarantee in the in a few minutes il recessary. Hore one ingenious devices to deceive the enemy west. Only in the last will it be neces zotes an army of clerky as work.
Type as to his position. The brigadier valves sary to extent the old froutiers. writers rattle at full speed all day long; guile to hide his intentions. Presences has to be granted by any conceivable the mimeograph is kept busy producing traps, and deceity area necessary part of German Government because at the real basis of this war is the fear of the East duplicates of circulars and reports. war
It might be thought that the prisoners Prussian land owners that sooner or later Newspapers, including onemy papers. pour in The post is a hrary ans; the would be the most valuable source of their huge estates would be 'swallowed telephone is ever ringing, and the tele Information of any. I doubt if they are. by the Russian tide.) graph clerk has ittle st. Looking at The average prisoner-particularly the You Bethmann-Hollweg believes, prob- the outside room one might imagine average officer-says, little or nothing. No ally rightly, that he can formulate terms
ot" peaco more ** intelligently
and cleverly, this la more deceptively than Raventkw the Ruthless and Hotspur Heydebrand. Even now the Chancellor's party in their purely academic discussions of possible peace terms are pursuing what they suppose to be a diplomatic plan. They want is to be understood that with France, Germany has hardly any quarrel. because they consider that for many years to como she will not be dangerous. Nar do they (openly) wish to emhitter further English Radicals, so they suggest that a restoration of Belgium is by no metaa beyond the bounds, of possibility, while Serbia and Montenegro are now included within the bends of their generosity. by such arguments they hope to weaken. the-bonde-uniting the Allies, and even to weaken the pity of Britons among them- selves. And that is the bist conveyed to Germans in the single word "Divide " "which header one of these peace article:- The peace trisk has been tried several times in the last years. It is always a sign that some part of Germany's originally extravagant ambitions has been
khaki of the clerks, is a busy City office.) In the temporary buildings behind the Here the problem of obtaining news, of lines all the information gathered from the enemy's extents is solved. How prere source pours in. Here the essential In trench warfare on the western front details are classified. Here shrewd beina there are certain things that must be deduct the vital truth. These are knows if we are pot always to be no the promptly circulated throughout the army mercy of the epeiny. Who are the troops corps on an established system. Each opposing us ut each particular point army corps exchanges information with What is their character? What is the others, and I presume that behind the record of their commanders? What guns army corps there is szother central have they? Where are these guns placed?organisation which collates and reviews Are they preparing new blows against us? | the whole..
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How far back do their entrenchments go? The old-fashioned spy -vaa 匿 Are they digging fresh mines against us? uncertain factor. The new fashioned On the answers to these questions depend our'success in defending ourselves against the anemy or in starting attacks on him.
The
The first means med is observatica trom abot from stationery sausag balloons and from aeroplaner. observers in the assage balloons, which are planted all around our lines, have probably the least enviable taak of any men in the Service. I am not think- ing here of their liability to attack from euamy aircraft; that is comparatively a minor ill. But la sauciese is the most uncomfortable vantage spet on earth A it enge'ai iza ropes it oscillates in a slow. twisting movement, which upeats, ever those who can stand the Bay of Biscay or
the Black Ses without a tremor.
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Intelligence officer has brought science and modern business methods to his aid and reduced the art of learning what the ecemy is doing to an act business."
A SLY CHANCELLOR...
BETHMANN-HOLLWEG AND His brown overboard, but it is not even now
a sign that she has had her full
of "PEACE" SCHEMES.
fighting.
That is as far as the peace terms dia pate in Germany really concerne the Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of the Allies. The Chancellor's moderation is
many years
German Empire, bas been know these a. the Philosopher of From the sausage balloon a general Hohen-Finow," which is his family estate watch on the enemy linca can be made an hour or so from Berlin. Beccse of his and considerable movements in any way any form and the suppleness of his reported. The seroplane observers who backbone it has apparently become the goorer the enemy lines bring back what
more valuable than personal custom to connect his name with a grin, reporta-exact photographs which record as though such a successor to the former every detail of the enemy's trenches. Chancellor, to Biscarck, of Hohenlohe, Photography from the sky has been for the arch-diplomat von Bulow, were For further particulars apply to the brought to amazing perfection.
really rather a laughing matter.. undersigned.
When news comes from one point of f
But the philosopher of Hohen-Finow is Terra:-Cash.
our lines that the great 10in. guns have j ceased to worry them, and three "days cleverer than his critics. He has a good 1979 afterwards news comes from a different portion of the slyness which makes up for
part of the line a little way down thas a want of wit in the mandy village fresh battery of 10in guns has opened Brandenburg, and he is not so dour as out on It, it is a very natural deduction he pretends.
Vessel quite recently.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneert. Hongkong, Dec. 29. 1918.
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Piano in good condition, Electric Beading Lamps, Blackwood and Tenk- wood Screens, a quantity of Blackwood Furniture, Pictures, Engravings, det Large Magic Lantern,
Alio Gent's Bicycle, (new), Tennis. Pales and Nettings, &c, &c., Brass Finger
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(Fall Particulars from Catalogus.);
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HUGHES & HOUGH,·
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this one: Tra Tageblatt" thinks blott," is intended to follow closely upon apparently that Hinderburg is being kept in reserve (stored up," as Wold calls it) for the next offensive, but there are others who believe that the ** liveliness" of submarines, destroyers, and minelayers in the North Sea is a better indication. swift disillusion will overtake iny who put their trust in the Philosopheta Pesco.
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Now that I have been in England for someweaks it is easy, mizing with people" "bere" as freely as I did in Germany, to compare the comparative losses of any particular class of society hore and in Germany, mys a "Timer"
that the Huns have moved the guns from suppls, and yet he is act mersly a political one point to the other. Then it is for the contortionist. Bluntly written, he is not trained brain of the men behind the Aray such's foot as he sometimes looks. It is
unwise to make too
sure of the to decide why the guns are moved.
Philosopher Chancellor.
Baventlow, who, being really a mild-
Referring to the many paragraphs correspondent who has returned from kind [oyed scribo, pictures himself as a Above all, we must find eat who the of Tentonic knight sinughtering the which have recently appeared in the Germany. What applies to Germany men are against de The infantry on the English with a huge two-handed sword; Freas as to the measures being taken by applies also to Agstria, except that opposite lines we concealed in their the portly Bassermann, who ex-communi-German shipowners for the continuance members of the Austrian aristocracy trenches. One may live for a month in cates us by bull, book, and candle: von of at or bushes after the war. I think have taken little fart in the war, being and that perhaps due consideration has not employed for the main part in the sale one particular section and scarcely obtain Heydebrand, the Conservative a glimpse of a single German: iry as one Agrarina Holpur, who would like to spit been given to the present actual position task of guarding bridges, far from the will. Sometimes the enemy obligingly as with a stablefork, are disagreeable of most of the larga German ship make a raid and lose a number of men. people: but they are almost painfully ping Companies. The largest of all firing line, and at office work in uniform Take, as an example, the legal pro Where the enemy will not obligingly honest. When they say they are deter the Hamburg America Line, are confession. I saw a good lot of it in Berlin, zaid: as it is often necessary for us to rald mined to have all Europe and hall Asis monly supposed to have invested a sum and I have seen some of it hers. Lawyers
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Ponn that hot Augut day did. I meet Emsian "Ally it should be und honest. The moderation of Bethmans various banking magnates and tron mag with the printed phrase which at that their great list of prisoners me Hollweg just Factification of frontiers nates, such as Krupp, have been admitted f
Length the German have had to maka many entire regiments with their eastwards. Folanda buffer Bete, and to the mangement of the concem, must prominent Go quietly everywhere, for ammunition, and, westwards-well, we only wart something surely be construed, so far as the old the wounded are in all parts of the city." who have surrende that will guarantee the peace shall and we shall not ... Vinizodaiafer * is "dangerous, because in essentially dialioneut.
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