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Спа
FRIDAY,
the 30th March, 1917, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,-
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &C.,
Comprising -
AUCTIONS.
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(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
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THURSDAY,
the 29th March, 1917, at 4.30 p.m., at 58, Sathan Road, (top floor), JUYDAY"
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
therein contained, ((Full Particulars from Catalogue.) On,view from Morning of sale. TermsCash:
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, March 22, 1917.
THE
PUBLIC AVOTION;
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HE. Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF 'TER CONCHEFLD),
сп
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 27th and 28th Biarch, 1917, commencing each day at 2.15 p.m., et "Braeside Hotel," 23 Macdonnell Roud, Tar WHO OF THE
HOUSEHOLD
VALUABLE
FURNITURE, Jiy
therein contained. Comprising :-.
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Hall Stands, Large, Mirror in Bleic wood Fiume, Side Tables, Upholstered Doable and Single Iron Bedsteads, Blackwood Cabinets and Stands, several | Arm-chuirs and Sofas by Lane Crawford, Bidsboards, Dinner Waggon, etc., Exton-Carpets and Rugs (Axminster) including sion Dining Tables and Chairs, Chesterfield one large File Carpet, Paintings and Sofia, Arm-chain, &c., Wardrobes and Pictures, &, large carved Teakwood Toilet Tables, Cots, &c., Miscellaneous Sideboard, Trinner Waggons large and Farniture, Roll- top Desks, Blackwood
amall Dining Tables, Chairs, a large. Ware, including Cabinets, Wardrober.quantity of Table Linen, &c, Electro Stands, 2., Brass Fenders and Fire plate and Cutlery, including a number Brasses, & few lota Porcelaina, &c., Patry of Silver Articles, large and small Teak- «Bath Room and Kitchen Utensils,
wood Wardrobes with Mirrors, Double Also
and Single Bedsteads, Dressing Tables
Sole. Manuracturers: J.T. DAVENPORT, Ltd.,
London, S.E
INTIMATIONS
BED-COUCH FOR SALE.
A Rattan BED COUCA, false, also poles for mosquito-net; for sale at with mattress, pillows and covers, Messrs. Hughes and Hough's Sale Rooms.
Hongkong, March 23, 1917.
PUBLIC, LECTURE.
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LECTURE to which the
are cordially invited, on THE FOLITICAL BACKGROUNDS OF THE WAR", will be kindly given by Professor R. M. MCELROY Ph.D. Bead of the Department of Bistory and Politics, Princeton University, U.S.A...
the CITY HALL on MONDAY next the 26th March, at 6 15 P.M.
the Chair.
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THE FIGHT FOR BAGDAD y lavourable to 'surprise and the "Turks who had been tying up in the
scrub suddenly loomed out of the mist, OPERATIONS AT MAHOMED ABDUL like football crowd. Our, men werd planed into a trench from which it was HASSAN.
dinoult to use their rides, and their Eye Witness" writes from the backs Lowis gun jammed with dies, but "the small party hung on, cut of from all of the Shalt-el-Eaiton January 27th...
supports, and fought to a finish with Since we advanced on December 13th both and hayonet until they were Ito the ling we hold now beyond the practically exterminated; the Turkish Shait-el-Hai we have been gradually dead found on the spot next morning out. driving the Turk from his positions on the numbered ours. The wave swept on and caught a second party of the same regis right baik. At the beginning of operament on the dark, driving them back
on to the captured trench and was there
tions the enemy held two main trench egetams on the right bunk. The Best of held up.. thing” was, the loop of Mahomed. Abdul To tie zoedpwhile the Turks wête prèss- Rasen opposite Khaderi fort where a ing down the trench on our right. It was band swings the Tigris roued alast due bors that a small working party of north of Kat, the second a rough triangle, pioneers, a mere platoon under a young subaltern, found themselves with a hand. South and South-west of the Kut uninful of British troops in the crisis of the sula with its apex 2,800 yards down the action. They held the breach, built up a Shatt-el-Flai from the point where that block, and bombed the Turk Justily for channel leaves the Tigris, and the ends of its boss 6300 yards upstream and 1,100 yards downstream above and below Kut. Mahomed Abdul Hassan, the Brut of thaw positions", was finally cleared by us on the morning of January 19th and we are now slowly forcing the Turk back into narrowing ring within the second system jor trenches on the Hai------
SLOW BIT SERE.
À BÁLLANT KAUTIE,
hours. Is the evening we still hid this ground and drove the Turks. out of the sections of the trench. they had rèwip- tured. The day's work had given us the whole at Kut east mounds, part of the west side of the Mahomad Abdul Hassan loop, extending by 600 yards tho gap, we hell between the two Turkish position yards of the first line trench which lay on the right bank of the river, and 1,900
astride the band. We captured ofver prisoners, 1 other tanks, 2 mathize Our advance has been slow, but each. #trench mortars and 200 dead were counted is al commualuation, pranch 300 step has been aro sed deliberate yards long. Operations have not been complicated by the enforced rapidity of movement which
January 10th was a comparatively quiet made the attempted relief of "Kut so
day. We advanced qur line with little costly lust January. Ther we had to opposition and it seemed that the back of advance long distances over open and the Turkish resistance was broken. Batore unprepared ground without Dover and evening so had them pinned in a narrow with limited artillery preparation, against triangle on the river bank and most of us thought it was all'over. But the Turk well disciplined rite an inachine-gun was far from best. The gallant forants fire. The sitention row is very different of the battalion who taught on the 9th For the Just six weeks wa hage udvandsøl | had been withdrawn, and fresh, troops Bid four line step by step established ourselves been ferried over at night to take their within may jumping off distance, battered pleen. But owing to the,, serub end the enemy's trenches and gone in and nullahs and the steep river banky, it was clearyl them after an ample bombard.icult to estimate with what force the position was held, and the misty mora. mear. But it has been fur from being ing hampered aeroplane reconnaissure- walk over for the infantry. The Turk is † At 2 on the afternoon of the 11th we were his defened has shown the old. Flerna preparing for the final seene, when the, spirit. A Mahonex) Abdul Hassan with Turks counterattacked on both tanks and- his back to the swollen Tigris. no bridge,penetrated our line. They were held up by our rifle and machine-gun fire, and as and only few coracles and pontoons to they broke back became a target for our depend upon for communications, he held guns. They lost hearity, but it was oce his ground stubbornly, Gradually forced of the most gallant worties ever seen. back into a narrower urea, in which our burruge became more and, more con- centrated his trenches pounded into
In many ways the Mahomed Abdul Hassan bend was a good position to hold. The brushwood and Bellahs made" for
sticky fighting, and we would be mus nfused shanilles, by our guns, he tecopa in an area which was enfiladed ou emerged and counter-attacked with the both sides, north azil south, frans the atmost gallantry. And he did not quit 'other bank of the river. The Turks were until we had diven him into his last ditch.
ADVANCING UN KUT."
Operations may be said to have begun in the Mahomed Abdul Rassan bend on
Sir William Rees Davies will takeDecember 18th, when we began to throw
herly alive to this advantage and turned it to acpanat. They also realised that the capture of the loop would enable us to enfilace the fut peninsula in the same way as well as both banks of the Hai. The Ottoman, troops were ordered to hold on and they held on with their backsto the wall in a manner that compelled our admiration. Their position was hopeless. The end was only a question of patience. and gues War is not sport, and it was not worth while wasting troops an frontal attack. Tastead of rushing the position we threw forward our trenches gradually on the right bank. We extended our Half the area they held became o erumped that our concentrated gun fire position here "on the 23rd and gradually it atenable. Even so there were
H. E. POLLOCK, our net of trenches round the Turk on Honorary Secretary.
& wide front from the Hai to the Tigris. Hongkong Odd Volumes Society.
On the night of the and we occupied Hongkong. March 23, 1917.
1809 point on the Tigris opposite the S.E
nd of the Kut peninsula, driving a wedge, in between the two enemy trench systers
Worry!
ere
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO..
sortive infantry had to go in with the bayoue! again, büfer the enemy quitted.
À GIGY STA
and counter-attacks and o
We
(advanced' our line to Kut East mounds,
the northerly point of which was, held' by the enemy. This, we were established side-by-side with the Turk holding altër-
native positions on the same bank of the The remnants of the force slipped away riverTurk, British, Turk, British, in their bunta" and teracies on the night Die of us had to turn the other cut and of thứ 18th, 19th. They kept up the rise
of digging until the small hours. the odds were against the Tark with hit thought they were digging themselves in le namerons artillery and precarious deeper against our artillery fire. A 8 communications.
matter of fact they were barging" their Our infantry which had by then pushed dead. And in doing so they lied up their remeh, preparing their cemetery. forward to within 300 yards of the enemy, attacked on the morning of January 6th. and a strategical line of retreat at the On oux left an attack went in and cleared same time, so that our infantry had to Kut East muunds and 600 yards of the advance in the morning without cover, river freut. Here, there was, some exposed to the fire from the other bank..
We en afford to bear witness to our desperate hand to hand ighting with bayonet and bombs. A certain regiment enemy's it: it would be a poor compli of the Indian Army say red and trans-nient to our fighting mea if we did not. lated their vision into fict. Two hundred These were the best Ottoman troops, and Turkish dead were found within & radius the dowed" tenacity of the Turk behind 4 parapet je proverbial. As a certain of 300 yards the next morning. To com plete our objective on this deak it only private expressed it," Until he's got a remained to ban up and join hands crump on his cokemas the old Turk
A low lots of Brass Finger Bowla, Washstands, Toilet Sets, Bed Linen and Regulations which form part of the with a British regiment, which according doesn't know when he is belt." The
(Fall Particolare from Catalogue.)
Takka :—Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers, Mangkong, March 22, 1917.
THE
PUBLIC AUUTION.
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THE Undersigned have received in: stractions to sell by Public Auction.
1 (POE ACCOUNT OF 'THE 'VONCIERED),
од
MONDAY,
"the ind April, 1917, at 12 o'clock noon,
...at Kwong Hip Lung & Co.'s"
Ship Yard, bham Shui Po,
The Steam Launch
Length
YING LING="
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Дев Drift Compound Surface Condensing Engines Cylindrical Rotura Tabe, Marine Boiler, Speed about @ koota, suitable for towing purposes." WANA
For further particulars, apply to the Zaidersigned,
Launch; to, convey: intantling" pür-
"HUGHES & HOVCE:
Mongkong, March 22, 1917
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NOTICE: TEE special attention of the Publicvia directed to the under ineptioned Blankets Bathroom Utensils, large Ico Regulations made by the Governor in
to plan would be working down from the Turkish Commander seas a message tó Chests, Pantry and Kitchen Utensils, Council under Section 3 of the Electricity captured position of the Turkish line 400 the Offer Commanding at Mahomed including a large Cooking Stove, dc.
Supply Ordinance, 1811, on the 16th March, 1917.
yards on the right. This regiment had Abdul Hassan, congratulating the troops 33: Any person making any addi-attacked on a 200 yards front and got in for the steadfastness in holding their tion to any electrical installation with a few casualties, close up to our ground in spite of bloody losses during cannected to the Company rain barrage, before an enemy, bend hard to-day's berbardment in the mist." The without obtaining the written sierged from behind the parapet. The consent of the company thereto
Two Hanos (one by "Collard - nad Collard), Tennis Net and Poles, full size Croquet Bet, Lawn Mower, Garden Tools, Wire Netting.
And Avery Ans Assortment of Pot Plants, Falmec
On view from Monday, 28th inst
·Cataloguen will be instöd. ·
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Asciioniers.. Hongkong March 9, 1917)
FOR SALE
at their Sales Rooms, Fo
Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street
المطع
De liable to a penalty not Turkiah, trenches had been subjected. 20 exceeding 800 for every such more than one intense bombardment addition.
during the previous daye and were,
document was found on one of their dead;
The Corps Commander kisses the eyes
of all ranks and thanks them" was the expressive Eastern phrase. I too kisa
34 Any-consumer upon whose battered out of shape. They were slightly all their eyes and thank them
premises any auth addition shall held and I believe, nos by the pick of And now we are hammering away, at be found shall be liable to s
penalty not exceeding $100, for their troops. These wo were to meet the Turk again in the triangle opposito every day or part of a day during later. The garrison of the first line were Kut, and he is taking his punishme
twell. which such addition shall have bmken by the ums of metal poured m
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In this regula
tion "consumer" means the person
BECOND HAND CONTRACTORS 2
PLANE OLITE-AND-LEVEL culixa may be had from the
BUILTS & HOUGH
before the Assault. A portion of them a
whose name the contract for the surrandefed..
of electricity to such "premises was made with the Com
pany or if there be no such person, the rincipal tenant or person in actual occupation of the premiser. In which "escb addition shall bu found?
Having regard to the possibility of a "breakdown of the Company's prezent plant through unenthorised additions to existing Installations the Public caveatly requested to the Company/by/bringi "pany's tiotage:20)
aboy & regulations.
Dated this 2015?
GIBE INCE
COUNTER ATTACKS
Once in the enemy's first line bombing parties worked along the tranch of both flanka-on the left to join up from the river, on the right to extend the position Ines another 500 yards" wody there form block, while
ta points in the
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