THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8-8 1917
Hughes & Hough
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"PUBLIC AUCTION. DARTICULARS and Conditions of the Letting by Public Auction Sale, boba held on TUESDAY, the 18th day of November, 1917, t3 P. at the Ocon of the Public Works Department, by Onder of His Excellency the Governor, of One Let
in
Locality.
No of Male,
Begistry No.
Particulars of the Lot...
Bonudary
Mr. (Appraisto.)
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THE CHINA MAIL.
PETROGRAD
VISIT BY AN AMERICAN PRESS CORRESPONDENT.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 20th. As the result of s month's negotiations, decision by Premier. after which
Keronsky was finally asked, the Associat.
bar work, designed to imitate a row of mediaeval halberda
the prisoners are confined at present. The cells open on corridor which fillows
"There," said the procuror, fanguish the harsgonel constraction of the build."
el, haliave, Peter's son Alexia before ing. On one side of the corridor ure he was tortured to death, and the next barred windows opening out on the court-calf held the beautiful but unfortunate yard, while on the other side in a row of protender, Princess Tarakhadof, whom Fred painted, iron bound cakan doors with adventurers web up as the daughter of
Empress Elizabeth. alots for peering and pigeonholes, which may be closed at will, for banding in food to the cecupants.
Returning the chancellery the corpondeat examined the fall of past captives, among whom wore the terrorist Gershuni, and the chemist assassin twenty-Ben years under suspicion et com- Nicholas Moroso, held in the bastion for plicity in the aasassination of Alexander
The In the roll were two other entries of a
It. striking character in a different war
From the condition of a vacant cell the correspondent gained the impression that sa long as the jailer behaves considerately imprisonment in the Troubetakoi Bastion involves no physical suffering white-washed cell was a large and clean one, paved with red senient. Tighted with an electris hump set into the wall and attached to which was a night light, enabling the warder to watch the prisoner.reads through the slot.
(
of OROWN LAND & Conduit Hood, Press correspondent was permitted the Colony rt Hongkong, for a term today to luspect the notorious Troubala, of 76 years, commencing from 3rd March, 1014, with the option of renewal atakot Bontion of the Fortress of Saint Peter Crown Reut to be fixed by the Surveyor and Saint Paul, the bastille of Petrograd, "TeEwa-Wad* Coal Sternge of His Majesty the King, for one further where during two centuries there have
term of 75 years,
been immured high born traitors, pre- tenders to the throne, assassins of Em- perors, propagandists of Nihilism and bomb throwers, and here today the most bated adherents of the banished autocratio
The cell was not damp and the anitary regime are awaiting the nation'a verdict.
Arrangements were modere. The turnt- In this bastion are now interred eight Geners!
☐ table ture consists of a good bed-and exalted calprits. They are.
screwed to she wall. The only defective Pengeskamp, whose record' as a military judge in 1000, during the attempted arrangement is the inadequate natural revolution, constituted hangman's lighting, which the Procuror admitted, progress "to-Siberia, clawed as equalling, saying that the Ave foot thick wall pre-
vents the enlargement of the windows. if not surpassing, the infamies of the
Yelale, From an examination of the prison notorious Jeffreys; formerly Diretor of Police and accom-regulations and the statements made by the Assistant Governor, Mr. Kurindin, the 2963 plices of agente primcateurs :, she reaction-
correspondent obtained an idea of the treatment acroïded the prisoners.
MEIRIONTM
PUBLIC
THE
HONGKONG.
AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction,
on
TRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 9th and 10th November, 1917, commencing rach day at 15 p.m.
at No. 23, Lyndhurst Terrace
THE WHOLE OF TUB VERY VALUABLE ROUSEHOLD
. &c.,
FURNITURE, &c.
Sec.
contained therein.
Comprising-il
"HALL-Massive Blackwood inlaid Side Table with Arm-chairs to match, Flower Stands, Flower Bowls, Purtiers! Curtains, etc!
DRAWING ROOM: - Tapestry overed Upholstered Suite, Settees and Chairs, Corded Silk Curtains Pier lasses with Ctsole Tables by r. Powell, Ltd. Aminster Rugs and Car pets, Engravings, Paintings, Old Bronzé sad Brass Vases and Bowls. Fire Brasses etc.
DINING ROOM:Complete Suite in Famed Teak, Leather Seated Uhairs,
Silver Cabinets, etc. by Lane, Crawford & Co., two large. Dinner Services, Coffee and Tes Sets, Plate, Cutlery, Table Glass, Blue and White Wall Plates, Table Linen, etc.,
BEDROOM and BOUDOIR-Ex- quisitely Carved Cherrywood Bandeir Suite, Bookcases, Escritoire, Cabinet,and Teapots-Teak Mahogany stained Bed room Suite by Lane, Crawford & Co.,
1. Solid Brass Eedsteads, Box and Bair and Arm-chairs, Mattresses, Coach Toilet bets, Bed Linen, Blankets, Luce and Bilk Crepe Curtains. Persian Roga, etc.. Brass renders and Fire Brasse Coal Scuttles, etc., etc, Enamelled Bath, Large Teak ice Chest (Lane, Crawfordi
ake), Ritchen and Pantry Utensils.
Also
quantity of very fine Cut-glass, Antopiano by Kachels (Practically
New) with Records,
Cottage Piano "Moatrie".
Cabinet Victrola with Records (Practi-
cally New),
Two Cabinet Gramophones with Becards.
Combination Safe,
"
Treadle Sewing Machine "Singer"
nearly new,
Electroliers,
Two and Four Blades Ceiling Fans,
Table Ford,
#
Heading Lamps and Fittings through-
ost house
Terms: Cash
Catalogues may be had on application 10 the undersigned.
view from Thursday, 8th Jovember.
"HUGHES & HOUGH;" A petioners.
Hongkong, Oct. 24, 1917.
0225
PUBLIC AUCTION. HE Undersigned have received in THE
structions to sell by Public Auction (JO ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED', ·
un
WEDNESDAY,
the 14th November, 1917, commencing 31 1.30 pm at their Sales Rooms, No. 6, Dee Vox Road, Corner of 10 HOVER. STREET,
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS,.. CARPETS, PICTURES,
&c.
&C
As follows: Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Chesterfield sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double and Single Brass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads and Twin Bedsteads, Sidefpards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tabics and Chairs, Tea, and Occasional Tables, &c., Dianer Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, de, Bath loam Utensils, Roll-top Desks and Writing Tables Bundry Electro-Plated Wyre ata
Electric Reading Lampe, Hinckwood and "Teakwood Screens, Blackwood Feuere including Large 4-Fold Black wood Screen with 6-Coloured Pausia, Side Tables, di
zarina Pictures, l'eanie Foles and
Vet, Iron Safe, e
Turkish Bath Sheets, Towels, Single d Louble Bed Sheets, Bel Coilta, &c
aid
Bras Fenders a A few Fire Brasses Old Fronse Vases inlaid with Gold and Silver &c...!
PIANO by
Collard Collard.
Shiedmayer & Boehne, Start!
iculars from Catalogue.)
RUGEL & HOUGH
INTIMATIONS
MASSAGE.
MR. HONDA.
120%
Trained male Masseur. Ten years experience. Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital
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SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)
COAL
HE Undersigned having been appointed Avants for the COWIE HARBOUR JUAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quots prices fur best quality BILIMPUPON CUAL trimmed into Bankers at NEBAT- FIS or BANDAKAN (British North dorned
Steamers calling it SEBATTIK SANDAKAN exclusively for BILIMPO PUN CUAL (either cargo or Bookers; are exempt from -payment of all For charge,
3
Mr.
sry one-time Minister of the Interior, Mr. Makarod, who procured the election
All the eight prisoners, who formerly of a burglar to the Duta to act as a
were sempulli to wear prison clothes, apy: Mr. Sikremic, sceneed of serious
now wear their own," said Mr. Kurindin. offenes "an Chief of the Army Motor
We supply gratia the ration of a soldier, Supply Offen: the one-time Minister of
but the prisoners are allowed to purchase Justice, J. Chthegiovitol, whom the Inte
an officer's ration, which all of them do Count Witte characterized as the "mont
except Protopopaf, who, declaring that clever, mast corrupt man in Europe;
he is the cause of Russia's misfortunes, Prince Alexander Dolgorukoff, the cavalry
persists in eating a private's fare. sommander seized last week as » ̧60p- porter of General Kornlief; General prisoners friends, who amy sce Voveikoff, the deposed Emperor's palacenico weakly, are allowed to bring certain authorized foods, among which one may commandart, and finally Alexander Pro-
And caviar. The prisoners are permitted topopoff, ones classed as a patristic mem
to smoke, but are allowed no alcohol. ber of the Duma, text an uppressive Minister of the faterior, and last the y and slave of the mystic Monk Kasputi.
In company with the Assistant Procuror of the Petrograd High Court the corres pondent drove to the fortress. Before the main entrance the automobile, although An official cat, was examined by the woldiers on guard, who conducted a long erose-questioning of the octuparts, offer which they were passed" through the residential section of the fortress enceinte And on to the
prison.
The bastion, which is a part of the obsolete fortinention, is on the banks of the Neva, separated from it only by a wall from which a daily walute is fred at inid-day. It is a two story hexagonal Building, surrounding a courtyard, along five sides of which runs a double tier of low, arched windows, heavily burred. The with side in high wall.
According to popular belief the bashian cells are atoms, ancks," which, being below the level of the river, are able to inundation, but this idea is erroneous. The lower row, in which there are thirty- six cells, is at the ground level, but there are no prisoners here, and the upper störy, with the same bumber of cells, is out of the reach of the recurrent river floods.
'CHANCÈLLERY OF THE PRISON. Before inspecting the cells. the corros
NILIMPOPON COAL compare favour ably with the better grades of Japanses pendent went to the prison chancellery, Vary Lott or which lead two doors: Polating Goal and gives good results on
to them, the Procuror said, Insidy, are moderate oupauraption.
priacuers under examination. He open ed the first doct immediately, showing a stout, gray bearded man, who was Bieletaky, gesticulating to examining Fiel magistrate, while through the other door when it was opsted could be seen only a regular, aquiline proble silhouetted agains; a burred window.
At
Senattik Steamers are berthed along. side the Company's wharf where there is mmimum depth of 27 to 25 feet at low water Spring Tides.
Charts of Sibar Bay (Sebatur Haz- bour), Frites and all other information had on concerning the Port can be application to the Agents.
BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,
Agents Coris Harbour Col Company, Limited.
JAPANESE MAKERS
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
ORDER
*
That is Protopopof," said the Pro- euror elesing the door.
The correspondent was then conducted to the cells on the upper story in which
THEATRE BOYAG
YOR A BRUKT SEASON ONLY (7 DAY) Commencing Saturday, Nov. 10th at 9.15 p.m. EDGAR WARWICK
announces The Return of the Farourites
'THE
COURT CARDS
The
them
The first reads
1906, January 19th, Fleshkaf, Alesda Maximovitch. This is the rent name of The second eatty Marim Berky
Giliki sve identity uncertain, believed surname Mazantzel, handed over for execution February 7th, 1009,"*
XE. PROTOFOFOFT' CONFESSION. While the rall was under examination. there' occurred the most striking, incident of the inspection. After putting his fiend into one of the side rooms the procuror unnounced that the examination within Tato the the room had been finished. chancellery, with two soldiers behind him, walked, well dressed but collarless, a man of middle height slight figure, small features and a short, grayish beard, with eyes annaturalis bright and shwest expression of extra- crdinary refinement and dignity. Feverish and
That," said the procurer, "is Mr Protopopoff."
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The one-time Minister of the Interior stopped in the middle of the room.
Wo can speak English?" he began. at which the procuror intervened. "Please do not," he said
On this. Mr. Protopopof, with sale apparently intended to express KÜTAYEN and moving his head quickly from side to side and twitching his bands in nervous, feminine-like gestures, began speaking in Russian Asked regarding his health, he answered enigmatically: It is good."
Convinced that he would not be allowed to touch upon politics, the Associated Press correspondent inquired regarding the treatment the one-time Minister was receiving and as to whether he had any complaints to make.
Why ask me a question which sawers itself replied Mr. Protopopot. "How could I maks bomplaints,?."
Most of the prisoners, continued the Assistant Governor, among whom are three of Russia's most cultivated citizens, read all day under no restrictions, except They that newspapers are not allowed. bare little notion of the events of the last six months in Russia and the outside world. They receive letters and may write them three times a weck. Th letters are examined by the procurer, but after the revolution the prison administrativod tion ceased the practice of testing for invisible ink, which had been in vogue continuously since the reign of Peter the
Great.
PRISONEDA EXERCISE.
оде
**I do not mean on the score of your icprisonment or trial, explained the correspondent, bat na the score of the conduct of the prison officials.
I have no complaints of any kind."* wered Mr. Protopopoff. and he cou
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Would any of you Americans.com plain if they knew they were desperate criminals 7..
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Here Mr. Protopopoff smiled, again apparently in sarcasm, and the corres- pendent, thinking the words were intend "The prisoners. exercise in the cotta. fed as an oblique protest against his treat-, yard twice daily, with only their guardsment, said "You mean that as irony." for company. They, Raver, see' another. The doctor goes to each cell day, hut in case of serious illness the prisoners are sent to hospitals outside, us were, for fontance, the late Premier Sturmer and the former Empress friend, Mille. Virubos, as there is no hospital within the fortress. The prisoners behave extremely well and are never. quarulous now. Immediately after the revolution," however, we hau of the Black. Hundred Jowaiter Orion, who raised trouble daily. The saly request we received lately was from General Rennerkampf, who, being afraid of lynching, begged us not to transfer him to another prios."
The correspondent next spected the prison guards, who are of two classes. The first is a regular military unit, posted in the periphery of the bastion. The second is composed of two representa tives of every regiment in Petrograd, who are stationed inside. These men jealously watch the prisoners.
Governor Kurindin declare i that escape from the prison was inconceivable, and that none was on record in modern times In the library the correspondent found volumes in Russiati, French, English; Gecman, Italian and even in Finnish, the Just for the weo of the Finnish patriots who under the one-time Premier Stoly Fit's oppressive equality law, were tried and imprisoned in Ernia.
BE
dook to sell by Public Auction,
designed has received instruc (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE DONCERNED),
on
WEDNESDAY,
the 14th November, 1917, commenting at 10.20 am. at his Sales Rooms, Dedeell STAT, A LARGE CONSIGNMENT. OF CANTON SILK EMBROIDERED CREPE SILK SHAWLS AND BEDSPREADS.
(The above are being sold without' reserve owing to the failure of a arm to take up the goods),
A Quantity of Gents and Indies Boots and Shoes in brown and black leather
On View from Monday, the 12th instant..
Cut-bigues will be issued. Te-Cash
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Bongkang, Nov. 6, 1917,
2270
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned bus received in structions to sell by Public Auction,
CIEL
WEDNESDAY.
the 1st November, 1917, commenting atiam, at his Sales Rooms, DUDDELL STELET,
(For Account of the Concerned), A LARGE QUANTITY, OF ELECTRICAL GOODS,
Comprising de
20.
The courtyard, in which because of the rain that was lobing at the time no one. was exercising, makes an incongruous impression because, although overlooked by the forbidding bareed windows, it can be reached only through a metal cage in which the prisoners wait. The yard itself a's green paradise, overgrown by now Bowerless jasmine and, like hishes and shaded by tail lines oft poplars, espens Silk Flexible Cord, Lead use and and maples. It Yarimmed with a broken dynamo Wire, strip fezés, porcelain pavement, from the crevices of which tise cleats and insolators, button isolators,
6,000 Tunsten Lamps (5.50 c. p.),
40 Desk Faas Pe Ceiling Fan
wild pingis and untroden ranges. Under lamp bolders and Imp locking rings, porcelain pushes, plags and sockets, tinky meter s towering tree in the centre of the yard. table lampa bruckets and batblouse uard by the boards, gaugo arrows, Zuss
Incongruous rings and cartridges are amps, hand
INTIMATIONS
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