MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1917.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEMES TO THE GOVERNMENT.
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Sharo, Cokl and¿General Produce Brokers and Commission Agents.
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PUBLIC
AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR 1000URT OF THE CONCERNED).
TUESDAY',
the 8th November, 1917, commencing at 2:30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No.,8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
ica Hovax STEELT,
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD" FURNITURE, TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES,
dc.,
As follows:-
Jpholstered Suites, Apm-chairs and "Solas, Card Tables, quantity of Bod- room Furnitury, comprising Double and Single Brass-mounted Bedsteads and Twin Bedstends, Sideboards, Dinner Waggona, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs-Tea and Occasional Tables, &c, Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, &c., Bath Room Utensils, Roll-top Deska and Writing Tables, Sundry Electro-Plated" Wire, etc.
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood sad Teakwood Servers, Buckwood Furniture including
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THE CHINA MAIL.
AUCTIONS:
THE WAR.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTÍCULARS and Chenditions of the
Letting by Public Auotion Sale, to ba
(Continued from Pago 5.)
200 heavy and fiskt guns, 13 trench RETREAT OF A MILLION MA guns and 720 machine-guns.
LONDON, Nov. S.
On the right of the Meuse there were violent artillery actions.
On the Chaises Wood Front, be tween October 1st and 31st, 21 enemy aeroplanes were brought down by pilots SUNDAY'S TELEGRAMS. and two by antiaircraft gene, and 28 enemy machines were asriously damaged and brought down in their own lines.
bald er TUESDAY, the 14th day of Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) November, 1917, 168 r., at the Dances of the Public Works Department, by Chrder of His Excelency the Governor, of One Lot
of CROWN LAND Conduit ad GOOD WORK BY
in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term
of 75 years, commencing from 3rd March, 1914, with the option of renewal să a Crown Rens to be axed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 75 years,
Particulars of the Lot..
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He of Bale,
Righkey No.
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(Abone
9467
PUBLIO AUCTION. THE Undersigned hare received in structices to by Public Auction,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE DOY DICKE KH).
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TUESDAY,
NAVY.
NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE KATTEGAT.
LONDON, No. 3. 2.45 p.m.
The Adinimity announces :-- Our Naval Forces operating in the Kattegat have apparently been ea- gaged with enemy forces, probably patrola. The official information only intimates that certain of our vessels have been datached to bring it prisoners and are nearing their bases.
3.20 p.m. The Admiralty announces Our Forces, operating in the Kattegat, destroyed, an auxiliary cruiser armed with six-inch guns, und also ten armed patrols.
Sixty-four "persons were rescued" and made 'prisoner.
We suffered no casualties.
COPENHAGEN, Nor. 3.
A steamer has arrived with wound. the 6th November, 1917, commencing at fed on board from a German auxiliary 2.30 pm, at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Jeruiser, which was sunk in the North
Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Jez HOVAN STREET, TWO D.R. 14-BORE GUNS
by E. C. Green and E. M. Reilly & Co. --Terma-:-Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGA
Auctioneers..
Hongkong, Nov. 2, 1917.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Undersigned have received in- Large Foldstructions to sell by Public Auction, Blackwoo! Serech with Coloured Panela, Side Tables, &c
Engravings, Pictures, Tennis Fules and Sot, Iron Safe,
Turkish Bath
and Double Bed Sheet Towels Single Bed Quilts, Acc. Also" Brass Fenders and Fire Brusses, Old Drone inlaid Vases, &c., &o, and a quantity of Music.
PLANO by Collard & Colları.
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Shiedmayer & Soehne,
Stuttgart.
. W, Echoniên ít fan
Berlin. Popular Songs, de. (New)! (Full Particulars from Catalogue.)
TERMS:-Cash.
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, Oct. 31, 1917.
9254
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in The by Public Auction,
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 9th and 10th November, 1917, commenting cach day at 2.15 pim- at No. 2, Lyndhurst Terrace
THE WHOLE OF THE
VERY VALUABLE ROUSEHOLD
δε,
FURNITURE,
**
contained therein. Comprising -
HALL :-- Massive. Blackwood inlaid Side Table with Arm-chairs to patch, Flower Stands, Flower Bowls, Portiere Curtains, etc."
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-DRAWING ROOM - Tapestry- covered Upholstered Suite, Setteyx pad Chairs, Cordel Silk Curtains, rier Classes with Console Tables by Wm. Axminster. Hugs and Car Powell, Fels, hingavires, Paintings, i urvaze Valves und Bowls. Fire and Brass
Brusses, etc.
DINING ROOM Complete Suite in Fumed Teak, Lasther Seated irs, Silver Cabinets, etc. of Lane, Crawford & Co., two large. Dinner Services, Coffee and Tea Sets, Plate, Cutlery, Table Glas Blue and White Wall Plates, Table Linen, etc.
BEDROOM and BOUDOIR —Ex- quisitely Carved Cherrywood Bouloir Suite Bookeuses, Escritoire, Cabinet and esport-Tenk Mahogany stained Bed- room Suite by Lane, Crawford de Co., Sulid Brass Bedsteads, Box and Hair Mattress & Couch, and Arm-chairs, Toilet sets, Bed Linen Blankets, Lace and Silk Crepe Curtains, Persian Rugs, etc., Brass Fenders sud Fire Brasses, Cest Scuttles, etc., etc, Enamelled Bath Largo Tenk ice Chest Lane Crawford kel Kitchen and Pantry Utensils.
Also
A quantity of yery fine Cat-glass,
Antopinu by Hachais (Practically
New) with Records,
Cottage, Pinnu-Moutrie"
Cabinet Victrola with Hecords (Practi-
cally Now,
Two Cabinet Gramophones with Beconds,
Lolabination Safe,
Trundle Bewing Machine "Binger
nickely now,
Eléctralien,
Two and Four Blades Ceiling Fans, Cable Fans,
Kerling Lamps and Fittings through-
be hid an estion
(POK ACCOUNT OF TEX CONCİENZD),
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THURSDAY,
the 8th November, 1917, at 9 p.m., at their Sales Rooma, No. 8, Des Vaur Road, Corner of Ice House Street, MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
Comprising
Blankets, Counterpanes, Sheets, &c., Dress Materials including Blue and
White Serge (good quality Prints Holland, White Linen, Long Cloth, Drill, Flannel, Flannelette, &c, Handker- chiefs, Gent.'s Silk Socks, Boys Suits, Torais, Toilet Soap, Perfumery, White Lace Curtains, de,
Abo Eitit Cases and a few pairs Gent's Bouta and ShoeS.
TERM Casi
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Auctionsert.
Hongkong, Oct. 31, 1917.
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LESSONS IN CHINESE,
Sen,
LATER..
It is stated that the auxiliary cruiser Aunk was the Maria of the port of Flensburg. She was a whip of 1,000, tons and had a crew ora The fight hasted only 15 minutes.
ANOTHER GERMAN SHIP DESTROYED.
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THE BRITISH FRONT.
LONDON, Nov. 3. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Huig reports:-
Hostile artillery was more active in the neighbourhood of the Ypres Staden railway.
Our artillery setivity on the battle front bas continued.
A pilot flew through clouds at a height of only 200 feet and dropped two heavy bombs on the Goatrode aerodromo on Thursday.
A drizzle and heavy anti-aircraft fire prevented observation of the results being taken.
Mr. Wand Pries, a Press Cor respondent, telegraphing from Italian Headquarters, says confusion was inevitable in the retreat of a million men from positions they have held for over two years, or a front of 40 miles, down the steep twisting roads, ncross several rivete to the Taglin mento, where there are only three bridges on which a vast mass of men and material had to, convergs.
The General Staff had reckoned that it would require à month to withdraw the Army under normal conditions, and they had to do is in three days.
Tha principal Italian line of de fence, on the Isonzo, was the so- called Plec line, and it was the breaking of this line, owing to the want of resistance which is still not explained, that enabled the enemy to capture the whole valley between Plezzo and Tolmino, to eub off and surround· Monte Nero and other mountain positions and secure Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig series of easy roads leading to the
plain. reports:-
Had General Cadorna delayed for We took faw German prisoners
an hour in ordering the retirement during a patrol encounter, to the west of the Third Army from the Carso, of La Bacses.
on the collapse of the Second Army. the Third Anny would have been. captured.
LATER.
There was great hostile artillery, during the night, to the east of Ypres,
AMERICANS 'CAPTURED..
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LONDON, Nov. 3.
& German official message states:— While reconnaitring we took some North Americans prisoners, on the Rhine-Marna Canal.
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THE POSITION, IN
ITALY.
BIGGEST BATTLE IN
HISTORY POSSIBLE,
LONDON, Nov. 2 Reuter's Agency authoritatively learns that the Italian situation, while exceedingly grave, is by no means
desperate.
The Italians, who were autnumbered LONDON, Nov. 3.
and outgunned, had to fall back cas The Admiralty further accounces line at the Tagliamento, and the poor that an electrically-controlled high-sibility of having to fall back further speed bout, attacked our patrols on should be faced with calmness and con- the Belgian coast to-day.,
fidence.. "On the other hand, it is evi- The attack was defeated and the dent that the Italians are playing for: bout destroyed.
time. The best brains of the Allies are new toerssed upon the Italian front.
It is possible that here one of the biggest battles in bistory may be fought,
A
It was eleven o'clock at night when the infantry of the Third Army left the trenches and with such 'good heart that, failing transport, the men hauled the guns by ropes for 80 miles, to the Tagliamento
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Some heavy guns had to be aban- doned but they were first destroyed.
ENEMY PRESSURE" HEAVIER.
LONDON, Nov. 3. "
An Italian official message sintes:. The enemy pressure is heavier, on the left wing, on the Tagliamento
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THE POSITION OF RUSSIA.
REASSURING STATEMENT.
»FRENCH WIR MINISTER AND
CIG. VISIT ENGLAND.···
LONDON. NOT. 3.
The Press Bureau announces that-M. Painleve and General Petain bave With regard to the statement author returned to France, after a brief visit
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.
We detained attempts to reach theised by Mr. Lansing that it could not be to England.
said that Russia is about to quit the (2 'right bank of the river.
LONDON, Nov. 3.
war, M. Landing's own advices, show-NEW-SPANISH CABINET FORMED
MADRID, Nov. 3.
A new "Calinet has been formed
TROOPS CHEERED AS THEY PASS. that the Provisional Government at Petrograd is attacking, - with great energy, the problems confrontingit. M. Kerensky and his Governmert are far from Fielding to disconragement and under the Premiership of Senor Garule are still animated by a strong determin-jeto. ation to organise all Russia's resontcas for a whole-hearted resistance and to carry the war to a victorious conclusion.
The Daily Telegraph's Milan Cor respondent, describing the patriotic stirring up of the people as the extent of the disaster becomes known, mentions that the troops are cheered as they pass.
WILL THE ENEMY ATTEMPT TO CROSS THE TAGLIAMENTO ?
Lesnos, Nov. 8,
A telegram from Rome states that
A FRENCH VICTORY.the Allies now having an opportunity of it is not likely that the Austro
GERMAN RETIREMENT AT
· CHEMINS-DES-DAMES. ·
AN ENFORCED ABANDONMENT.
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PARIS, Nov. 3.
at
A communiqué states:-: The results of our victory Malmaison have not been slow in showing!
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GRAPHIC PICTURES OF THE RETREAT.
of the retreat..
con-
At the same time, the United States, and the Allies, also, are tendering all possible assistance.
THE KERENSKY INTERVIEW.
burden. 2.
FULLER DETAILS.
SOCIALIST CONSPIRACY IN AMERICA:
·GERMAN LEADERS HEAVILY SENTENCED,”
*"“ LONDON, Nov. 3 --
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 August Friedrich, the leader of the socialist conspiracy to obstruct the druit for the Army, has been sentencer, at Sionx Fails, to five years' imprisonment dealing the Central Powers a crushing, Germans will attempt to cross the
NEW YORK, Nov. 3. and $1,000 fine. Twenty-six other blow in the open, the first conditions of Tagliamento, where they are
Details of the interview between M. | Germans inre been sentenced, from one which being that the Italian Army fronted by the bulk of the Italian Keransky and the Associated Press to two years imprisonment, in addition remains intact.-.
Army burning to assume the offen-Representative show that A. Kerensky to fines. At present the Italian Armies are sive in co-operation with the Allies. laughed when the Correspondent sker unbroken and undaunted.
It is surmised that the enemy if Edasia was cut of the war, and said BYE-ELECTION IN LANCASHIRE. may fortify themselves in the occu-That is a ridiculous question. Russia pied area.
is taking an enormous part in the war. The presence of British and French Sta was already fighting while England troops on the Italian Front is con-was only preparing and America only In the Lye-election at North Falford, LONDON, Nov. 8.sidered exceptionally important. nt observing. Russin, at the beginning, Mr. Ben Tillett (Independent) was Reuter's Correspondent, as Italian length achieving unity on the Front bore the brunt of the fighting, thereby elected by 2,822 votes to 1,545 poller:
LATER Headquarters gives a graphic picture on an unbroken line from the North saring England and France. We are by Sir Charles Mallet (Coalition)
Sea to the Adriatic Sea depriving the worn out and entitled to claim that Threatened on his, right, pressed
The Staff at Headquarters worked Austro-Germans of the airantage of the Allies take the heaviest part of the by our infantry, and crushed by our all night on October 26, packing attacking the Allies separately.*
MKerensky emphasised the need of artillery, which have unceasingly documents, destroying correspon
America, sending to Russia boot leather, bombarded his organisation south
dence and tearing down mups from
iron, and especially money, of the Ailette from our new positions, the walls.
CONFIDENCE BEFORE the enemy has been compelled to The exodus of the population,
THE ATTACK. Chemin-des-Dames, to which became alarmed at the reports which he has been clinging for the of fugitives of the nearness of the
Loxpox, Nov 3. puss, six months.
Mr. Macpherson, Parliamentary enemy, began the previous day and On a front of twenty kilometres people of all classes poured on to the Secretary to the War Office; in reply a point road to Treviso; some in motor cars, to a question asked by Majer. Lane east of Craonne, our troops, descend-others in carts, drawn by oxen, don Fox, says: "No doubt was expressed ing the zorthern slopes of Chemin keys and multe, handcarta pughed by General Cadorna or by the Italian des Dumes, occupied the German by their owners, piled with baggage, Government to the British General positions to a depth exceeding one women carrying babies and others Staff of their ability to meet the kilornêtreat certain places. weeping over their children who had attack which they knew was about the north of Hustyn, Laking som
The villages of Courteron, Ceray become lost in the confusion. The to be made on them. "No request prisoner en-Luopuis, Ailles and Chreux age, wounded, aged and sick were carried from Italy for help to meet this, in our hands.
Putrok, keeping contact with the enemy, reached the Ailette, between Braye-en-Laonnis and Cerny.
abandon
from Froidmont Farm, to
ITALIAN
"THE NECESSITY TO SPEAK
PLAINLY.**ij
in the arms of their relations and it attack was made, before it took was strange to see occasionally, men place.** and women in evening dress hurry ing through the mud, all jambed in among the mass of infantry and artillerymen, plodding wearily amid an interminable procession of lorries, ambulances, tractors and gun car riages.
These aften fell in the It is semi-officially announced that ditches and had to be dragged out
THE FRENCH ADVANTAGE. S
PARIS, Nov. 3.
ROME, Nov. 3. The necessity to speak plainly; almost brutally, of the Italian situs tion is everywhere emphasised
The plan of the enemy must fall,
the enemy's evacuation of Chemins by oxen, or abandoned. A heavy des-Dames means that they have rain came on adding to the miseries but it is a dangerous illusion to think abandoned the heights from which of the scene. As the crowd increased that it has already failed, Formid
IN WAR, AUX-Devs Ersanenc versed in they had a view of the French back the civilians streamed over the fields able batties must be fought, Buraine, has been char to Marylines and have taken up positions in on either side and such was the jamb
Unieinis and Ziurahanta in tids Uplong for kan feas
He has rod authod of tenising Zoneopošan
pany in the Calzava emminating, sad, še postean,
The Italian plans of reconquest will the manby region of the Ailette that pedestrians progressed quicker be slow, and great patience and of a se rate ritenin ta - Chinese teacher, lie which the French dominate. More than the motor cars. It took the military endurance are essential, and, hne zee good knowing the China Lurunda over, any serious energy attempt at Correspondent and his colleagues six if necessary, the Italians must retreat
Frejusted to write a MMI Ofing of an offensive on the Aisne Front in hours to cover six miles and when further
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WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL? COMPOUND
makes
$1367 the future, will be out of the ques tion, while the defence of our posi- tion in this region has become gaster and will require very few inen.
FRENCH ADVANCE.
LARGE CAPTURES OF GUNS.
LONDON, NOY: 8
ENEMY CLAIMS 200,000 PRISONERS.
LONDON, Nor 35
A German official message states Our Italian prisoners are now 200,000 and captured guns 1,800
The return of Mr. Ben Tillet, for North Salford, is surprising, a Sir Charles' Mallet's campaign was much better organised and the views of lath Es regardh a vigorous prosecution of the wer were practically identical ́: Mr. Tillet, however, who was supported by the Trade Unioniste, announced his RUSSIANS FRATERNISING WITH intention of warring against profiteers
THE ENEMY.
and urged a further increase in the pay of soldiers and sailors.
Speaking after the poll had been taken, Mr. Fillet anïd the result showod that, the country, wanted more strenuous Parliamentary representation to give confidence to the army and
LONDON, Nov. 3 A Russian official message states Our soldiers fraternised with the enemy on the Vishnoff Lake sector.
We successfully carried out a rail to
GERMAN CHANCELLOR-
SHIP
·MEANING OF THE NEW
APPOINTMENT:
PEACE MANEUVRES.
LONDON, Nov. 3....
The Times states that Count Hertling's appointment means that Germany is about to redouble, ber efforts to use the Fope as tool for peace manœuvres. ( The Times Rome Correspondent any that it is practically certain that a peace offer to Italy is a matter of weeks if not of days
ENEMY'DESTROYING WORKSHOPS AT, LIEGEZ
LONDON, NOT 8.0
navy,
NEW MEMBER OF ARMY COUNCIL.
LONDON, NOY, J Major-General Salmond has been, ap pointed a member of the Army Council,
A COURT MARTIAL AT CORE.
LONDON NOT. 3.-- A Court Martial at Cork has sente no- "ed two civilians to six months' imprison- ment for wearing a military umform, nuother civilian to nine months for the
same offence and also for carrying a bayonet, and another to a year's im Prisonment for doing military drill.
The Commander-in-Chief remitted party of the sentences in two cases.
"THE HILTER MARKET.
LONDON NOV 8 Silvert-in 4514. The market dull
PARCEL, MAILS LOST.
LONDON NOY.
Reuter & Agency is informed that The Post Office announces the the Germans ere feverishly Binishing through enemy action, of the the destruction of workshops in the
they reached Pordenons, they found nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep The Correspondent says he was the last to leave Udine, which was evacu ated on Oct. 27, the Austro-Germans having taken Caporetto and Plezza on the right bank of the northern portion of the Isonzo and wers about to cross at Banta Lucia and Santo Maris, to the south-west of Tolmino.
The Military Hadquarters were BRITISH ATTACKING GAZA. Elege district, A French communiqué states stripped bare, before the departure. During the night, we continued to Information from the battle one advance between the One Canal and told how the
had forged TURKISH FIRST LINE CAPTURED. the region of Corvaly and reached their way through, by
Bight the southern bank of the Allette of numb The Italians were out. Along the entire Front, the enemy cambered en by 20 to 1 and fell back on the porthern Front, the in-guns, bridges and passages to which have
with
London, Not. S official despatch from;#Egypt
Special attention is being paid to follo the well-known Cockerill blast
furnaces,
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the undersigned.
BUGHES & HOUØH,