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TUESDAY,
the 29th August, 1917, commencing 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Dee Vreux Road, Corner of -
Ice Hocer STREET, " VALUABLE TEAKWOOD „AND BLACK WOOD FURNITURE,
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Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Solas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furni ture, comprising Double and Single Braun-mounted Bedsteads and Twin Bed stends, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs Tea and
Occasional Tables, etc, Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, &
Bath Boom Utensils, Reil-top Desks and Writing Tables, Sundry Electro Plated Ware, etc.
AUCTION.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Solo"Mansfacturers :: J.T. DAVENPORT, Lid..
London, S.Ë.
THE Undersigned has receiver in
the equator of Messrs. WITZKE & Co. in pursuance of An Order
of the Hongkong Government to sell by Public Auction, at 12 o'clock (Noor)
оп
MONDAY,
the 27th day of August, 1917,
this Sales Rooms, DUDDELL STREET, Hongkong.
ALL the piece of ground situate at Yaumati, Kowloon, in the Colopy of Hongkong and registered in the Land- Office as KOWLOON INLAND LOT-No.
293
In Une Lot.
THE CHINA MAIL.
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
THE WAR IN THE MOUNTAINS.
'म
A ̈FEW STEFS HIGHER."
it
INTIMATIONS
National Anthems. The Marsillaise”. was but a sucedid' estime, drawing a per fanetary shrapnel or so, hat when the band gave them and the whole secusing arch of Heaven the Brabaeon the BRITISH GOVERNMENT **I told you they had no taste," said WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
enemy were moved.
young taun on rockshelf; "still, it shows the swine bath a conscianos,**
But some folk neyer know when to top besides, it was time for the working parties to be coming in off the roads. So announcement was made from high over. head our unseen audience that the | performative was ended and they need not apply any longer. It was put a little nore curtly than this, and it sonüded exactly like my being boxed. The silence spread with the great shadows of the rock-towers across the snow: there at steklide für up the maintain- was tapping and eliäking and an cera-
side:"the aerial railway carried ou
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I presume, the parade-ground of the gurrison. If the cook dropped a bucket be had to go down 800ft. to retrieve it, If a visitor went ton far round a corner to admin the mirachious panoramas, ha became visible to, unartistic“ Austrians..
[BY RUDYARD KIPLING]
who propptly lowed off a shrapnel. A (this »ngle's neis of w world in two dimen- sions boiled with young life and energy. For a special job,, specialista; but for
as the planks and girders, and package all jobs, youth above everything! That portion of the, Italian frontier where men
of other aut care up the aerial, and the must-mountaineer as well as dimb is mountain show "beänes!" outward "over held with Alpini Regiments. The corps all, hundreds of fort set to the top.". is recruited from the people who inhabit. **Our real work" is little higher inp and know what is in this mind of the only a few steps," they urged, but Imountains men used to currying louis recalled that it was Dante Rimmelf who alog 18inch paths read thousand-to say how hister it is, to climb, up and drops. Their talk is the släng of monts down other people. Eides, tains, with a speelal word for every methiein work was of no interestó nyous and state of snow, ice, or rock, we keert the enemy round the corner. It the working parties, knocked off claborately particulez as a Kali's Talk was just the regular routine of these and piled tools, and the night-shifts when he is describing his entrle. The parts. They outlined it for the visitor.
began. The last I saw of the joyous wear a smash hat adorned with sue rageYou eliasis up a fissure or rock-chinares a furlong overhead, standing, for
children was a cluster of gnome-like after purchase feather (worn down to an honourable by halder or knee-ughk, such stup now); the maibe upon their hot meteers understand and at night resemble and and kept as sharp en theer cloice, because hi is the enemig fangs of walvis: their eyes are like one afrawen's eyes their walk on their own ground suggests, the set and a cheery sat of hard-hittes, clean-skinned, steady-eyed quae devils I have never yet had the humour to f
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there was no visible foothold, ou nothing
They sparteis and went, about theis" jebuf us single dots, moving up or sidewaya ou drops stones down the chimney, the lure of the rock till they disappearish
into it ke anta There real work last Alpiný company took a fortaigh; of winter nights to work up one such chimney, but observation-posts, the entries, the sup only four steps higher up," where the then they had to curry machine-guns, and ports, and all the rest. live on ground some other things, with them.
wonfared with which the babenstrack
and the mess and the barracks are level
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OUT
"By the way; sonie of que tamchines What do yo da?” I was foolish
guas are of Feruch manfucture, ennugl to denund of chem from the
Machine Gun Corps souvenir-pletve, security of a mess-rtake it, we want you to haw it-repre, jamong pines and stowse For the moment
mountain view..
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pavomicat,
of
Those rounds must be taken in every weather and light that is meat 11.0 feet, with death for company under each the forest cat, if the opprysiom of the synts the heads of Fráneo und ftaly" aids foot, and the width of a foot on each side, at every step of the past inerent. ful round. Frost-Based rock where a And when y emerge from your blunt-nailed bowe, slips once and no more; ** tili,, entas and see,” said those joyous
chimney-which, it is best to daʼin stortn mountain-blasts roud that corner of children. We are working p few"steps
for galegosiner mailed boots on rock make edges before this holy is braced to thent higher up the mind. It is only a few
La nuiwemyon frid either that you eat..
a kaob ut rutten shale erambling beneath
· steps,"
the band: an ankle twisted at the bot.
tom They took me he ear above the titulor and the enemy's just on the top, in
a ninety-trift: rearing which caer you destroy thes or cut hirescent of stus loosened by wow from line on the edge of the basin, to the stopp from supplies by guaning the only some corner the sun has undermined font of á dominant rock wall which i
gras-paili that brings theint or you find Brough the day, the ure u few of the I had seen approaching, for heart buchi, the enemy zommands you from soITH"
risks they face going und returning tu Kiong the mod, Swenty or thirty miles
was the pillared mass, of it had fakedected rice or surb of mack, Then you go down aquin—if you ear→→ and try, elsewhere. And that is how, it is. done all along that sectíma of frontier where the ground does not let you do otherwise.
no more than implacably hostile traine-ly Bal Monk Plane looks from, the lake, Coming, Heaner it had grown stieper and
a wilderness of wrathful drags and fissures I had revealed theinselves. At eleven, range
Special work is somewhat diferents,
WE HAVE This Day REMOVED from alcrst directly below, the ion select a mountain-top which you have
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our Office from 3rd Floor, Hotel - Mansions, to 4th Floor, YORK BUILDING. Chater Read.
.S. C. ISMAIL & Co. Hongkong, August 24, 1917, - 1054
WANTED.
RICKSHAW, Serend hand." Reply,
quoting. price, to
Box No. 099. C% China Man” Other. "Hongkong. August 9, 1917. h 2021
WANTED.
The property consists of piece of FOREMAN Applications with
ENG TANGINEER, BRITISH, as WORKS ground abutting on Battery Street and copy of References, in own, writing, Fourth Street (near the Prays) in Kow stating age, experience and salary loon and contains an area of 4500Square required. No other applications con- Feet.
sidered.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD. Boogkong, August 6, 1917.
The Lot is held for the unexpired re sidue of term of 75 years crented therein by an Indenture of Crown Lease dated the 4th day of May 1888.
The Antiual Crown Rent is $60, For further particulars and conditions: of sale apply to Messrs. HASTINGS & HASTINGS, zolicitors for the Liquidutor or to the Undersigned':
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GEO. P. LAMMERT,
stuctioneer, Hongkong, May 23, 1917,
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KING EDWARD HOTEL
Central Location
4 Kloutric Lifta, Fans and Lighting, LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pas Entrance, European baths and Sanitary Fittings Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Bost of Food and Service.
TELEPHONE 873 TazzoAPHIO, `ADDRESS:
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antal, a few Engravings, Pictures, etc.,
etc., Tennis Poles and Netting.
A few lots of Turkish Bath Sheets, Towels, Bingle and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quilts, etc.,
Liao
PIANO by Collard & Collard.
Hosenkranz.
Shiedmayer & Foehne,
Stuttgart.
(Particulars_from"Cammiegus.)
--HUGHES & NONDU, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, August 22, 1917.
2055
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HISTURE... NOTES ON WILD LIFE "IN HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA (by Roy." G. A.
by M. And
Part. I---ßlammonis sad. Birds"
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Bished E THE MISSIONS ETRANGERES (History of the Eastero Charabeo)
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reason to believe is filled with the chemg and all his works. You effect u loignem there with your teeth and toe-mails; yan mine into the solid rock with conipressed air-drills for as many hundred yards you exdenlate pay be necessary. When, you have finished, you hit your galleries with nitroglycerine and blow the top.off the mountain. Then you occupy the erator with iner and muchice-gins as fast as you can. Thus you wear your dominating position from which you can same mean. gain other positions by thes
one, perceived, went up, sheer, where it. | did not bulge outwards, like a ship's side | at bumebing"-Every tuvustrous slętail;où- its. furg. tched by sunshine hugh utterly clear air, crushed upon the sight atone; overwhelming the mind us s now world night, wearying the eye us gigantically enlarged photograph dose, It was hidden in by a snow panel, wide enough for a vehicle and two mules. The tunnel' was dingy brown where its rhof was thick or lighted by an unearthly blue glars where it wùs this, ritt ir hroke inte blinding daylight, where the Max.
Ent surely you know all about, this.. heat had melled out the arch of it. You've seen the Castelletto." someone there was graded gravei utiderfoot all the suit. It word outside in the sunshine, a way, and willing patters curried off the
grifted bastion crowned" with peaks like suow-drip on either side. Ja tha 'the roots of molar-teeth. The largest
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or je the dufk Italy makes but she kind peak had gone. A chasien, a crater, and of rond.
a vast 'bek-slide took its place. Yes, I "This is mir new road," the joyous had seen the Castelletto, for I children explained. It'te interested to me the men who had blowx
Anished
so if you'll sit on this mule, we'll take you the last few steps- YOUNG MAN with experience aa
TYFIST and STENOGRAPHERnly few steps higher." required by Shipping Firm. State previous experience and salary required,
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IMMEDIATE ENTRY, four very desirable SEOPS situated in Ice House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently reconstructed.
For rent and other particulars apply to the Manager, Hoogkong Ics Co., Ltd. 46 Lonnaught, Bood Central.
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the fee and the gramophones at the aqa - in the ordinary discharge at their dutie
A turn of the downward read what them and their world from sit
to be seen again by my eyes. But the hot youth, the overplits of strength, the happy." anamsidered insolence of it all. the gravity, beautifully maintained over the coffee cups. byt, relaxed when the band played to the enemy, and the genni, ish kinduw, will remain with me. Yes, behind it all, fice as the sterl-wire ropes, implacablé asi the maua. tein, ane was, cuestions of the hardness of their race,
Dont Worry!
in here
KEATING'S
KILLS
BUGS FLEAS MOTHS
BEETLES
TINS 36°1-
REGAL
EDGO!
RECORDS
ACCORDEON SOLOS.
Oh, he did that. "That's him."
A man with the eyes of a poet I looked up again between the towering
invisalan laughed and nodded. Yes, he snow-banks. There were nut even wrinkles on the face of the mountain owned. he was mixed up in the affair of snow : but horrible, smooth, honey-colour the Castelletto-haduwritten a report an ed thumbs and pianodles, clustered like it. to. They had used thirty-five tons candie-droppings round the mala core of of itro-glycerine for that mine. They haffected mck," and the whole traming had brought it up by hand-in the old of it beat towards me. The road was a days when he was a second lieutenant and greek of gravel stones and working parties. en lived in tenta, belőre wire-rppè raili | No one hurried me; no one, goat in bis weys were made-u long time ago,
neighbor's "way there were very
“And your battalion" did it ail" "Few" orders, but even as the piule hoisted her- self up and round the peried out turas of it the road seemed to be drawing itself into shape." There are
little engine-houses at the foot of some of the Swiss bob-rups And this mining business still gões which, for fifty centimes, use? to hoist ba?" sportsmen and their bol-sleighs up to the Yes, I might take it that the mining top again by funicular. The same business did go on. And now woud I. arrangement stood on a platform nicked please come and listen to a little masi out of the rock, with the very same smell of raw planks, petrol, and snow, and the some crutch of crampons on slushy ground. But instead of the cog-railway, a steel wire, supported on frail-struis and carrying a steel-latticed basket, ran up the face of the rock at an angle which Given a rockwall that eurven over in a need not be specified. As a railway it was sounding-dard behind and above nothing the merest grocery-line, they zealous band, to omncentrate the melody.. neither aide to shoot the explained--and, indeed, one had seen and rock ribs on larger and higher ones in the valleys une down thousand feet on to hard" lower down: hut a certain nakedness of now fields below, and thunderous echoes
from every cranny and cul-de-ste along? rock and now beneath, and sideway half a mile of ressant matiniain-face, the be of air ont of funnels and rifts that result, I do assure you, reduces Wagner we, slid past, made it interesting
to a whisper. That they waked Austria At the terminus, four or five hundred was nothing she was only just round
the
corner bat ib seemed to me that feet overhead (we were more than 2,000, Italy, must hear them across those above the mess-hase in the pines) there gulfs of thin air. They braved, they Was system-it suggested the marks heighed, and they roared, the bandsmen's faces puckered with mirth behind the a walk after you bragues and the mountain altully off-of ledges and paths of Blushy, trampetíni, forth their insults (all over. mh did not pro- racks, ain
the enemy
Lady Mary Bamsay Highland Fing No, not all, by any means ne bafore we'd finished with the Castel-
(Scottish Medley letto we were miners and mechanics and 6063 North of the
Crampians all sorts of things we never expected to be. That in the way of this war,"
frazpe
G. MOUSSION.
Haon Hill Road. the
from their band, It lived on the rocky edges out it would play the Regimental and the Company March, but one of the joyous children shook his head sadly-
the Austrians are not really musical. Near for music at all."
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