TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917.
AUCTION.
Hughes & Hough
ADOXJONKEES TO THE GOVERNMKYË.
General Auctioneers
THE CHINA MAIL.
CLOTHES AND SWIMMING,
When disaster at es compels those.on board the making ship to take hurriedly to the water, probably nine people out fat ten would say that the individuals who divested themselves of the greater part. I their clothing upon getting into the water, would have more chance of saving
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULABS and Conditions of the
Sale, to of held on TUESDAY, the fth day of October, 1017, at dran, at the Offices of the Public
SIR ERIC GEDDES.
GOLE, THING- THAT MATTERS.
GET ON WITH THE WAR.
Sit Frio Geddes, Fist Ford of the Admity, and his maluru public apenes Cambridge before, an assembly of his
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ingenuity and sonder
and the Will the general publie lek us down ? !! If I may judge by Cazbrides I have K good answers. The general publia will not let then down (Cheers Of course, there he people who say we should bare grus ready all mund the cost and sero-
Coal and General ProduceWorks Department, by Order of His their lives than those who went into the constituents. Haraw.receival with much planes.waiting for the enemy. Where are
Brokers and Commission
Agents,
PROPRIETORS
i-Wan" Coal Storage:
Codies wond Bentley's ABC4th & 5th Edition.
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Telegraphic Address. PACELETON.”
HONGKONG,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction. (POR) 4000VNT OF THE CONCRANED).
FO
WEDNESDAY,
the 3rd October, 1917, commencing
at 9.30 pm at their Sales Rooms,. No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
In House. ŠTREK”,
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD" AND
BLACK WOOD
FURNITURE,
BRASS BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES,
As follows:-
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Upholstered Saites, Arm-chairs and. Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furat ture, comprising Double and Single 'Brass-mounted Bedsteads and Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggone,. Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, &c, Dinner
Excellency, the Governor, of Une Lot of CROWN LAND at Nathan Foad, Kow- loon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bont to be £xed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 76 years.
Locality.
Flegialty No
Nathan Road, Kowtonn
Particulars of the Los.
Boundary
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520
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water with their clothes on. Professor 3.enthcaissin, and said that stas not only Joly, of Dublin University, taken the his maiden sperch as au .P., but his first platform uttarance. Proceeding, he opposite view,
they to come from? From France, where the aeroplanes are the eyes of the Army, and where they care more lives la a day than they can here in months? Don't ask there from France Then they way build more. Well, if you build more by maritime disaster to take be the wear of the Admiralty or that I should you get fewer tanks. They both require
have the bonor of being the member of internal-eqnbastion engiués,
Statements, he writes to the Times have appeared more than once in the Press to the effect that sailors competed
have been ordered to strip before, com-
The
I had put the slightest idea, fourteen day, either. int. I was to be. First
mitting themselves to the water. This Parliament for the ancient and historic boroughs of Cambridge However, the direction is in most cases entit:ly com
unexpected happens, and I am here this trary to prudence. The chance of sur viving immersion of any duration and the evening, thought it will spenn an extre halt-day work to-morrow. I fear. power of exercising sustained muscular
Laughter.) You have been told I have exertions when Folding on to a life-
been railwayman, that I was once a booy, etc.-are alike diminished.
porter. Thas, is true, and I am very view that the clothes of the swimmer drag proud of it. (Cheers.) The railwayment him down may not be justifiably urged
ef Eugiand I hold in the highest regard. in defence of the under. In the case of and that regard has been intensifod. by the ordinary fabrics Immersed in sen
what I have seen of their work in France. water the force is negligibly smalt TheThe railwaymen out there have giver popular noting that it is great is probably movement: the Arty. Hused on the weight of the wet garmenta as experience upou quitting the water; obviously a misleading observation.
In collaboration with Professor H. H. TO LET
Dixon, F.... I have recently carried out MMEDIATE ENTRY. four very some experiments on the paires raised. desirable SEOPS situated in Ice The nature of these experiments will be House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel.readily understood by these versed in recently reconstructed.
For rent and other particulars apply such matters and need not be gone is to the Manager. Hongkong Ice Co.,Ltd. here. tidy, the faults show that au 48 Connaught Road Central
2003 undressal swimawer innersed in' water at Meg. C. (abuut 46deg. ) loses heas from
Bongkong, Angust 2, 1917.
-TO-LET
Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, CookingA FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon
Stores, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, de, Bath
Room Utensils, Rail-top Desks and Writing Tables, Sundry Electro-Plated Ware, etc.
Four roomed houses in "Kowloon
Apply to- HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO., LTD. Alemadra Buildings.
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Sercuma, Sundry Black- wood Furniture, including Large &-Fold longkong, "August 22, 1917,
Blackwood Sergen with 5-Coloured Panels, Engravings, Pictures, ete, etc., Tennis Poles and Netting.
Turkish Bath Sheets, Towels, Single
TO. LET.
NBA FA, Lyttleton Foach TO. 4. BASILEA,” Lyttleton Road,
and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quilts, etc., Quarters.
One Large Ball Clock.
PIANO by Collard & Collard.
Shiedmayer & Coeline,
Stuttgart One Fair Old Fekinese Brass Lions.
"Fall Particulars from Catalogue.)` Then :-Cask
HUGHES & HOUGH,
d'uctioneers.
Hongkong, Sept. 28, 1917.
PUBLIC AUCTION
9142
PEE Undersigned have received in- Tstructions to sell by Public Section,
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCIANID),
姐
WEDNESDAY,
the 3rd October, 1917, at 3 p.zi»,"
at their Sales Rooms, No. 6,
Des Vaux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
BIX JAPANESE CANARIES,
Two Months Old.
Termsas usual..
..
HUURES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Baazkons, Erpt. 29, 19:7-
PUBLIC AUCTION.
4148
Apply to-
Mesars LOWE BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Chartered Bank Building Hongkong, August 25, 1917. 2057
TO LET.
OFFICESAS Connaught Road Central
OFFICES in King's Buildings. HOUSES in Moreton Terrace "and Wong-aci-chong Road.
HOUSES on Shameen, Canton
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY Co., Las,
INTIMATIONS
WANTED.
EFICE ASSISTANT Portuguese, OFFIC
with good knowledge of Englist. Apply in own handwriting.
Box No. 198.
Co CHINA MAIL' Office Hongkong, Sept. 18, 1917.
-WANTED.
8115
£13,000 HOARD IN A BEDROOM.
MODERN ALADDIN'S GAVE" AT
FELHA
£9,000 18 GOLD
Eight thousand pounds in gold, £4,600 bank notes and Treasury notes, and Railways are over £100 worth of diamonds and jewel-
now qhead of the gas everywhere-lery were found in the bedroom cf. Era (Cheers---and, the work of the railway;derick Freeman, a Fulkan wholesale men has saved thousants and thousands grocer, tuhen be died recently. of lives at the 'sterifies of many of their
own 1 have been asked to tell you about myself. I have read in a local paper that a young man about whom you know very lule. 1 ever. 1. hope, was unduly proud, but if I was that look it all out of me, Laughter. There is not much to tell. I have worked, since I was 17..
the surface of his boy very nearly three have never played much or long, and fimes as fast as the dressed swimmer. As cove at all in the last three years, aripa
before.
in
From a humble beginning Mr. Freemar amassed a fortune of 20,000, but he unpretentious lived and died in a small, house next door to his busines, in Lant- dry-road. He was untharried, and bis solicitor, Mr. Cooney, who bas just proved the will states that he is unable to find
relatives living..
any
Mr. Freeman, though a highly success fül business man, seemed to have a
Daily Chronicle representative. “Hi
had a banking account, but this was only Fused for paying in cheques. „The bulk of his money over and above what he used
in his business he kept under lock and key in his bedrooms
I was
with him the day he died, and
how long he had to live. He said to me, be handed me his keys, after asking me
an approxiamte statement-yung from which have worked harder than over mistrust of bankskeid Mr. Cooney to a our results-we inay say that the dressed swimmer might be in water 17 degrees
What little politics I had I have for- colder than that in which the undressed rgolten in the munition factories was immersed and yet experienes but the France, in the dockyards, und with the same loss of heat in a given time. We Flerts. assone in cur, dritctings that heat is Brought to the surface of the body almost as quick as it is withdrawn from it; or, to the surface is as free as occurs in more accurately, that the trausler of heat mass of water contained in a vessel cooled from without. This may not be absolutely accurate, but the experiments certainly reveal a very large diference in the rase of heat loss. The dress used in our experiments euristed of a single layer of course Hannel, sochus spilors wear, covered by: u" single" Inger of the sun serge. The amount of clothing is not therefore, exageratedi..
The explanation simple cough Water is a non-w.oductor of heat. - Its Power of depriving the body of heat resides almost entirely in its mobility, it sbsorbs heat only at the immediate sur face of contact with the skin; but if it circulation is permitted this heat
That's where you't find the money,
adding wards a waerobe and a chest of drawers which stood in the room,
CARLOAD
OF GOLD AND JEWELS...
Before the war I had done sofiering in. India. At the beginning of the war, at Led Kitchener's just. I raised and corruanded one of the finest France. I went to the War Office and pioneer battalions that ever went to
had a hand at most things there, except shell production: Then I went to France. first to report and later to jo'n Sir Douglas Haig's staff. It was wha! I saw in France that gave me my determination that nothing mattered bus to go on with the war to the end.. To one who hax spent month in France, who bus wit nessed the wreckage of the most malicious retreat in the history of the world, with its wanton ravishing of the country and villages, one feels that the sole thing this matters is to go on with the war. I don't know that I have any hate in my, con position, but I am convinced that we have got to destroy the German military power and then I opened another drawer which
The day after his death I got the manager of my bank to bring an assistant, and we three went to the house. unlocked the wardrobe, and there, much to my astonishment. We found a huge quantity of gold and botes.
A cab way "procured, and all carried down to it as much as we each could kit, and then the bank rer stayed in the
manager cab while his Badjstant and I went up for
more.
Three times we tunda this journey.
carried away and a fresh layer of cold Cheer) and I am convinced that we found full of jewellery, mostly dis
dr dilies are doing more you to monds, of which, I should think, he had.
water is brought against the body. This
is the manner in which the stripped destroy that power by advancing a last quite the sand pounds warh swimmer lases heat Fabricz placed
we can ley railways and roads to curry
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against the skin stop, the circulation. the traffic. Sir Douglas Haig has often With suficient clothes it should be said to me" If the people at home possible to keep, warm even in very cold would only understand that an advance of water So far there is nothing to be said 1,000 yards may mean more that in favour of taking of clothes preparatory to immersion.
A A experiment was also made upao the downward drag of the clothes. If the sallor wears two square metres of esch material-fuel and sert the maximum downward force in wes water
fifteen-mile advances it did at Via Ridge, for example. (Cheers,)
HOT WITHIN NIGHT CV THE ESD,
The destruction of the German army is what matterr, and it is going on daily
TOUNG MAN with experience a THE Undersigned" have received in-YLYFIST and STEN DORAPHER stractions to sell by Public Auction, required by chipping Firm. State
is the weight of 401. This result was Their moral is going very fast. I do not (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), previous experience and salary required only obtained after all the air had been think we are within sight of the end of
Apply
Box 450 expelled from the materials. Under the war, but you have got to go D. Jou "CHINA Man" Offcn.ictual conditions the downward drag Hongkong, August 1, 1917.
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TUESDAY,
the 9th October, 1917, commencing at 4.45 pm at their 'Sales Rooms, No. § Des Voux Road, Corner of:
Ice House Street, De A LARGE CONSIONMENT OF
VALUABLE POSTAGE STAMPS, including many rare varieties", Catalogsins Will be issued. " On view from Monday the 8th October "Terung --Cash."
HUGHES & HOUGH,
"Auctioneers," Hongkong, dept. 18, 1917.
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CHINA MAIL
ORLAND EDITION.
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
-1907 wolld for long br less, and for an apps. can't stop now. Any peace we could ciable and important interval after immer get to-day is to good at all. The Germaur sion would be replaced by a sustaining military power has got to be bebsen before force.
we ein get a heuce worth having. (Fear What can be aid in favour of stripe When I went to the Admiralty ping? It is evident that to a swimmer or to a man holding on to floating object I thought I knew all about the deeds of the box does not signify, Muscular the Navy, but I didn't. I have now, BORD exertion is largely netted by blood the records and reporta-something that supply. The zumbing influence of cold be
WEO ESALE Ladents promptly exsented at inwent cash prices for all British and Continental goods including
Books and Stationery... Boots, shoes and Leather, Chemical and Druguists Bondries, Ching, Farthenware and Glenware, Cycles, Motor Cim and AccesGOTIOS Drapery, Millmery od Piece Goods, Fancy Foods and Perfumery,
- Ha dwars, Machinery and Motala, “ Jewellery, Plate and Watches,E 2hobigraphic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Olmen's Stores,
Comentarion 23% to 6ZSAR Trade Discmanis állared. Ignacial Qrications on: Domvend
vphy, Okata frozen E10 sepsardze
nenty,
SWTGLIAM
VILSUN & BONS
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The
must for outbalence any possible advan you can't put into the papers. tage of freedom of motion gained by dis officers of the Navy are the bravest di
carding clothes. Only under one endi
Mr. Freeman was by no means a miser,
and many instances of his generouity to various people were sted by Mr. Coney
He owned a number of houser, and from some of his torants, whom he ones found in poverty, he had taken, ad rent for three years. He left £8,000 to charities, and rewarded the service of some of hisi employees with amities of from to
at a week. It is said that he never öste receipt. because it would cost
penny, though by keeping his capit
at home be lost the interest which
would have earned, amcunting to several hundred pounds a year.
WHAT TO DO WHEN
NERVES GO WRONG
A Physician's /dvice
EN and women who suffer from weak nerves, who tireeasily, can't sleep hava bra lag
mew, but they mayase don't teigenem weariness, loss of strength, tion does stripping appear to be stified all our exploits at ses, and, the reason mbition, lack of will power, er
if a short and rapid dwins will place you have not far to sek the swimmer in balets
The Man Who
Gets There
blood
Bentember
those symptoms that so surely arise frem "poor" unsteady.. unstrung nerves or Captain Fryatt (Cheer) It w reveal nerve force ren low should try taking.
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the down
prepairs" on
your bac
the goo
down and men Here
time you
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