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"Searchlights, however, cumung be used boo much, tor thọ reuem that they give » vessel's position sway, and au ezenty changing period of their lives that
always fees at then promply. It's often
English readers have been told vaguely somes between the ages of forty and
the best target he can fad. While the
that the Russian Zemstvos have played Bts, unuindiul of its treter.cious
ietety and ourselves were thus slamming The following description. Ey one who away at such other the elements during the war, and snow of them will mportance to their future health and
great part in the reorganising of Busala happiness Noc understanding the has been through it, gives a vivid picture and their war as well. The was still have noted that it was the prohibition bodies, they work beyund their strength, of what night fighting in a shostpuyer is washed us dirà, the wind'drove the rain by M. Protopopoff of the Congress of { functional changes taking place in their
often henk down, become nervous like. Such events are among the most
and shesa in upon us, but in the excite. Zemstven which stirred the last flerce wreeks, their bodies antering with trilling episodes of the war, though the
ment of the combat we paid little heed debate in the Dam say's the "Men. fatigue, and their weakened nerves
to these may matters, though they chester Caurdian." They will like to | trembling at every step. Often in their lunale official statenients which conseg didn't make our job any the user-know more fully and precisely what the
weakened condition, cupillary hemorrh
news of thou we usually as dry saShells, whizaki over Cur age becomes excessiva, this added drain compelling them to take to their bells mouthful of sawdust. from nervous exhaustion."
We were spinning along suy the What there women need is something that will instantly relieve the pressure arrator, it darkness no dense that one an the overworked, nerve centers and felt it wonkt be perdible to dig it away. give them the vitality to stand up under
Wonderfully hunks. A really dark pigir að svá and the grueling stráin. effective results are given in such loggy day at sea"ure two things of which corelitions by the simple use of Sargol ek pt Tablets, a skillful combination of six of only those who have experienced them the best nerve and strength vitalizing car cras any real conception. We old elements known to earn chemistry, se ahsobity zothing, but we telt plenty, These
little
tablets contain no dangerous habit-forming drugs and aro entirely and most of all the biting but wizi which harmless in their action but they quickly sweet our ducks as tough the Weather build up at strengthen the
entire nervous system by feeding directly to Clerk were moving across them with a the tire feritalized nerve sells, inkenly compered sethe. Rain and dying artificial form, the very peCESSATT elements of which nature is depriving per spray beat upon us Bercely. From the way these battered on our oilskins and us into our mes que might bit imagined that solleys of buckshot, were being feruatos from short range.
them.
Thousands us women could testily that Sargal Tabletsstrengthen the jaded nerves, revive the tired brain and put Ttructions to sell by Public Auction, the energy and courage into your body
Undersigned have received in
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCLENTV),.
27
WEDNESDAY,
te 4th April, 1917, at
* 4.30 pm., at their Nagles Rooms, No. 8,
Des Virux Raid, Corner off
The BocsE STREET,
1 SET OF BAG PIPES,.
by Henderson of Cissgow.
Fracticing. Chanter und Tutor with case complete, in good conditions.
Termos :-.Unal..
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, March 29, 1917.
PUBLIC AUCTION
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THE Undersigned have received in- ructions to seli by Public Anction. (poz account"oF THE CONCERNED},
WEDNESDAY,
the 4th April, 1917, commencing
that enables you to stand up under the unusual strain of the changing period.
All the leading chemists in Hongkong have Sargol Tabless for sale.
Don't worry take Surgol"
AUCTIONS.
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THE Undersigned as received in
ou to by Pubhe Auction on
THURSDAY,
the ath April, 1917, commecving at
2.3...
at No. 44 Lyndhurst Terrace.
A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE... Chanprising ---
* Underfoot every place was no slippers that was diticoh mykeep foiled, and it one dest, mis taco was a chance of being washed overboard like a stick of wood, as the g were breaking over our hout just anyhow. And it was cold.. Bahelays helaets, sou-westers, gilskius, lets,, aut thick tothing." could's swara:, neither could they keep (ne dry. We just had cochang on, get wou through and trees. fs is not eaten that envy the fellows doing the Shadrach, Mashen and Abednego Business in car cugay-rooms and sichchid, but I did that
besar. vile
skinned just over the deck without hitting anybody, and others fell short, for we ould hear them splash into the water
lin
TDATEDOZA CHETSEND AROUND
Esery now and again a torpedo would bowl, and, of course, we didn't know when one of these unwelcome us there were plenty of the cruising tresssengers from the enemy might reach
about. I saw one brick water rigs astern of us; too far behind to us any harns and too far ahes of our next in to hert, her, which was inky Catching a salvy is bad enough, but getting a torpedo it you means a klock. us for the boat and Kingdon Cache for good many of her re-probably the of them. Her consorts may try their best to save life is you may nagino thelifoulsy of picking up mory from the water in circuristazers such as those I i am describing.
work of the Zeinstvos has been, and perhaps raw their own inferences as to why the Zemstvos have not found entire favour in the eyes of the Russian Government. This opportunity is now provided by the publication in English of a report of the General Committee of the Russian Union of Zemstvos. Zem' tros are county councils. The first
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NEW TURNS,
NEW TURNS.
CHILDREN HALF PRICE AT ALL PERFORMANCES.
Union of fanstvos was organised during MATINEES.-WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS at 5.80 p.m. the Russo-Japanese War for the relief of the wounded. On July 30th, 1914 the eve of war, the Mosew, Zemstvo resolved to organise a union of the Zemsters for medical and sanitary work Apgust 22th, the Unione was formed joined by all the Zemstrcs except It is governed by a general com one. mittee and a president, Prince Lvov.
WAR WORK..
The original idea was that the Union should ennfine itself to the relief of the sick and wounded brought freca the front into the Interior, while the Red
the Red Class prices, there's always the enemy to Society and the War Office were to attend thank shout. He's ever willing to stand to the thing line, the collecting, dis easy in order that rework may be The War Office and the Red Cross Society,
tributing and evacuation of done. Legally chess eight engagements however, prosed unequal to their task, between destroyers are short, and aburp, which was in large measure tarned over ns this particular one was. Pretty soon
to the Union of Zemstvos. It equipped it had resolved itself into a chase with 1-3,000 beds, furnished baths, Inbora- Afty one hospital trains, provided the enemy nursing for home and stories, isolation hospitals, and took over pelting an atter im hanging into trim much of the work of supplying Russia. all the time..."Owing to the impossibility with medicaments and surgical instru making accurate observation it's dit.ents. Its success in these enterprises calty how much damage you do to November, 1914, it had, at the request of down uper it other duties. By the enemy on such occasions unless, so the War Office, supplied winter clothing 1914, the War wffice gave it an order then to with some of his craft outright for 213,060 serbian soldiers. In October for 7,500,000 sets Of underclothing. In
1016, it
was entrusted with the the army, 24,000,000 pieces. It makes tanning materials and tans leather; it greatconta boots gloves, socks; it makes has its own shops w.
where is
eit monkey camp kitchens and repairs its own trains.
T It tock
over the
A thing like this can be seen, but s
night, for they were at least wuri. in destroyer might be ever so badly knocked January all the warm clothes for!
about and have had the crew lain but
thet, while we on deck were used of and freezing, tiuse below were half rakad yet get awas under cover of the dark
ness, without her opponents being able and ueurly melting. But it's often that way in a destroyer.
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at 30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 3 with mirrors, Canton blackwood tables aguiz wo should get through the night four fotilla seffend little. We chased the feeds the 300,000, rien, who
Des Voeux Rond, Corner of...
ICE HOUSE. THIXT, '
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
*.
As follows
&
One Upholstered Suite, Arm-chairs
Silk tapestry, and saddle bag up holstered armchairs and Chesterfield couches. tenk and gilt overmantles with bevelled mirrors, console tables
und, tower, stands, Steel engravings, Sporting prints, Cherry wood desk and without meeting anything worse than chair, Cherrywood buffet and card table, chilly drenching. The end redeemniak Teak card tables, Bronze figures, Porce-feature of these midnight cruises is the lain, White lace curtains.
pensibilities they hold. You never know &c., 'di.
what you are going to meet with. It is Teak extension dining table and chairs,
amine, so much the worse; it it's
Ac..
and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Tenk sideboard and dinner waggon, Furniture, Brass-mounted Bedstents,
tau set about doing the job a "sailor's puid and that is sloping the low wherever you had them,
job of building an entirely new network of hospitals when Poland was evacuated. engaged in construction work behind t fighting line. It builds bridges and the roads and dig trenches. It is impossible with the work of our own Red Cross to compare enterprises so multifarions Society or any private organisation here. The plain truth is that the Union of Zemstvos has to make good deficiencies of the Russian Government such as our own War Government, whatever its
PRUNCK LVOV POINTS THE MORAL. What is the moral to be drawn from this fine record of work when contrasted
Twin Bedsteads (Teakwood), Sideboards. glass and crockery ware, Cutlery, File themy.. so much the better, for you can the monotony of basting through a gale faults, has not revealed, fo Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining carpets and rugs, Eletric table lamps Tables and Chairs, Tes and Occasions and lamp fittings, ceiling and table fans, Tables,
etc., etc. Dinger Services, eth,etc. Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sots, &c., Bath Room Utensils, Foll-top Desks and Writing Tables, Electro Plated Ware, etc..
Piano in good condition Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and leak: wood Screens, o quantity of Blackwood Furniture, Engravings, etc.
MmING INTO ACTION.
Double brass bedsteads with wire and hair muttresses, Içak double wardrobes with bevelled mirrors, Teak bureaux
**Rowing that whatever comes will with bevelled mirrors, Marble top wash-coms without warning, you always keep stands, Toilet erockery, Tapestry, Easy on the top hire ready to set inanmediately, things, et, ete
Well for us that we were so, der we just Pathroom and Tuntry requisites: tumped into action. I don't know a Anierivan ice chest, Steel safe, etc.
better, way of expressing wint occurrısı. copy could not petually"bes them cleurig,
z.
1 Auto Piano (Nearly new with
Teunis Feles and Netting, &, Brass Finger Bowls, reverul Carpets (New and second hand), Child's Cots, etc.
And
One Bed-couch, Mattress, Pillowa etc. '
(Full Particulars from Catalogus.)._ Tax-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGE"""
Auctioneers Hongkong, March 28, 1917.
-1652
PUBLIO ACCTION.
HE Undersigned have received in- Tutions to sell by Public Auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONGIANED),
On
THURSDAY,
the 5th April 1917, at
11 t at their Sales Rooras, No. 8,
Des Voeux Road, Corner
of Ice House Street-
SUNDEY
VALUABLK HOUSEHOLD
c.
FURNITURE, &c., kc., "Removed to Sales Rooms for Convenience
of Sale.).
#
Terma-Chah..
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 2, 1917.
FOR SA
SALE.
at the Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street
SECOND HAND CONTRACTORS,
"PLANT,
#
THEODOLITE AND LEVEL. Fall particular may be had from the nadersigned.
Terans' usual
#
HVOURS & HOUGH, pictioneer
Hongkong Feb 1017.
1474
1 Upright grand piano:
1 Victoria and 1 gramophone.
of
see how much she had sufered. All ono can do is to make it as is for the enemy as one can, and our chap always do that. relieved the refugees, For a long time we weathered it in this fashion, and it seemed that once
**During the bruslí. I am speaking of
chemy as long as we could (we had to heware of getting drawn into his fine feldar end gave him he did strong all the way. As to what damage wê did to him will only say that it was doubtedly a fou more tile he did to us.
While the setup lasted it was a lively enough set-to, quite a welcome break. in on night patrol. And though I've done my best I'm afraid I've not managed to convey a very Palistic idea of what night fight between distinyers in this with the failures of the Bureaucracy 1 wintry weather is like. Really, Prince Lvov points to it"The Unions thing that cannot he adequately pictured work has acquire all the significance in words not an eanvas ether. There it it really is
of State work, for State work would be all blacks and reds. Only by and women in large numbers have Public-spirited men' going through this experimen can anyon
juined the Linion and are partici pating in its work. understand exactly what it's like."
Many things. which the Government was unable to do were accomplishel by national strength thas organised. It has beem proved over and over again that the nation participating in a great national work displays a great latent power, and tiuit the Governmental machine is
the inadequate to London February 23.
living of the country. The moral is At the London School for Economics fuld; that the Russian people is capable on Friday, Mr E. Hutchcock (of the Raw of remarkable achievements in
i swift Material Brunch of the War Office) rear and effective organisation that the
paper on the importance of we challenged; the reply wool. He sud the War Office Fade Russian bureaucracy left to itself has since once again failed and that it is only by 1914 contracted for the supply of woollen the co-operation of a reformed Govern wis unsatisfactory, and instantly the 191
goods exceeding in value £100,000,000, meat and a people that has demonstrated serup began. There was no prelimin besides purchasing colonial clips. France its ary feinting Blow fellowed word almost was now able to make all the military capacity and its right to share as soon as the word was spoken. Know-clothes she required. He predicted that responsibility that Hussin can throw her ful weight into this terrible struggle. after the war there would be & Fren The Union's record, therefore, hus ing that we must be hostile, there existed shortage of wool, a great demand, ad moral which points to politics. It is no need for the enemy to speak before high prices as the world's supplics of inevitable that work well done set over he truck. Add he didn't; be les dy at
textiles were cleured. Therefore, it was against work ill done should point such necessary for us to reserve all the us instantly
mon. We may, therefore, guess at Empire's raw material for use after the the quite human motives which made reactionary officiala suppress Congress Mr Mussey (Premier of New Zealand) of Zematvos and which inspired them to who president, said that the arrangement hamper the Union of Zemstycs. But we between the Imperial and the New Zea can also see that that is not the way to land Governments was much better than do Hussin the service she needs in these allowing the wool to find its way into critical mouth 46 speculators hands. He endorsed Mr Hutchcock's opinion that prices would. berdintained after the war, as there would be fewer sheep in the world, and the demand would be likely to exceed the supply,
but by the sort Bt instinct which destroyer crews acquire by long practice we 'sensed"
On view frem Wednesday the 4th april that ether cruz were about and guessed Catalogues will be issued.
Tzz-Cash on delivery..
GEO, P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hougkong, April 2, 1817.
BOY MARTIN'S
APIOL STEEL
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Martina Jhiaku 15% houm, je kaken to SEA
SMARTEL puderen
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father shan discerned the Isint loom of a mil in the kickness,
Fromptly
First blow often wounts heavily, and the enemy. wisely tried to get it in. One Maple danske bankstown way well-placed salvo is usually as much as a destroyer. can stand. Nine tiines out of teu la will put her out of action. But shooting in the dark can shooting at random to some extent. And the difs eulties of it are increased by the fact that both shooter and shot-at ccntinue moving at high speed. To slow down-would be fatal. In these cicadistances one may have the bad luck to catch a salve or ona may have the good luck to miss it,-
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They began shall be able to read the volume on India Yapping practically as soon as the which Lord Curzon wrote, and which he enoiny's did........I say yap because that disposed of fog a sum of £2,0007 cells a word best describes the noise o destroyar London paper. This was in the days quick-ficers cake. It's sort of sharp when be represented Southport. When ear splitting deponation which pierces the book was in type, and ready for im right through one's head. All around us mediate publication, he was appointed this noles was now going on. We could Viceroy of India, and simultaneously 150 sen- the gun-flashes both from our line there was a notice of the forthcoming and the enemy's making bright yellow issue of the work." This will never do," Lorents in the black curtain of the night, somebody in high authority said : a book then suddenly disappearing. Now and on India by the Viceroy was unthinkable. again the beam of a searchlight would cut | So the book was left to the dust on the a' brood, bright. swathe through the dark publishers, lielyes, and there it remains ess. Instantly many guns would be to this day. Will it gyar seo the light ?.
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