MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1917.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE DOVESÁENT.
General Anatiozeers
Share, Coal and General Produce
Brokers and Commission
Agents.
PROPRIETORS
•Te-Kwa+Wan' Coal Storage.
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Telegraphic Address.
"MEINION." RONGKONG,
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in- Custo all by Fublic Auction.
(POM & COOPT OF THE CONCEKXED),
Un
WEDNESDAY,
the 14th November, 1917, commencing at 230 p.m. sĩ their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of
ICE HOUSE STREET, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND -BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, TWIN BEDSTÉADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES,
ke.
&&
As follows: Upholstered Suites, Armchairs and Chesterfield Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Farniture, comprising Double and Single Beass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads and Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinzor Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes-and-Occasional Tables, &c., Dinner Services, truckery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toller Sets, de, Bath Booín Utama, Holl-top-Deská nad Writing Tables, sundry Electro-Plated Ware, ote
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood sed Tuskwood Screens, Black wood Furniture, including Large 4-Fold Blackwood Screen with 6-Coloured Parels, Side Tables, &c.
Engravings, Pictures, Teunis Poles and Nat, Iron Safe, &c.
Terkish Bath Shectá, Towels, Bingle and Double Bed Sheeta, Bed Quilta, &c.
1480
Bras Fenders, a few Fire Brasses, Old Bronze Vases inlaid with Gold and Eilver &c.
PIANO by Collard & Collard... --
Shiedmayer & Soehne,
Stuttgart.
π
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Berlin.
(Full Farticulars from Catalogue.)
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Nov. 7, 1917.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
9974
Talous to sell by Public Auction.
THE" Undersigned have received instruc
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNY"),
од
WEDNESDAY,
the 14th November, 1917, at 1.20 pz, at their Sales Rooms, No. 3, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
A Lakon QUANTITY OF
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, "all polished massive teak" and specially constructed to owners design-
Tex-Cant.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
Boogkong, Nov. 9, 1917..
9084
PUBLIO AUCTION.
Tundu sali by Public Anction, Undersigned have received in-
*FOR ACCOUNT OF THE COSCERELÚJ
FRIDAY,
the 18th November, 1917,
AUCTIONS.
POBIJO AUCTION,
1182 Cadersigned has received instruc
Tons to sell by Public Auction,
(rez account oF TER DOFCHENEDA
ON
WEDNESDAY, the 14th November, 1917, commencing, at 10.30 am, at his Sales Rooms, DUDDELL. SURZEN," A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF DANTON SILK EMBROIDERED CREPE SILK SHAWLS AND BEDSPREADS.
个
The above are being sold without reserva owing to the failure of a frm to take up the goods ) Alo
A Quantity of Gents' and Ladies Boots and Shoes in `brown and black leather.
•
On View from Monday, the ith
instant.
Catalogues will be issued. » Tarmaalt,
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer Hongkong, Nov. 6, 1917.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAR.
(Continued from Page 5.)
SUNDAY'S TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
THE ITALIAN CRISIS
الرب
NEW ALLIED COUNCIL CREATED.
ROME, Nov. 9. General Diaz, Chief of the General Staff, has succeeded General Cadorna.
An Allied Conference at Rappallo has created a Supreme Political Council of Allies for the whole Western "Front, assisted by a permanent central military 70 committee composed of "General Foch, General Sir Henry Wilson and General Cadoria.
PARIS, Nov. 10.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received in- structions to sell by Public Auction,
B
WEDNESDAY, the 91st November, 1917, commencing
si 11 am.st.his Sales Rooms, DUDDELL STREET, (For Account of the Conserned), A LARGE QUANTITY OF ELECTRICAL GOODS,
Comprising
6,000 Tunaten Lapps (5.30 ..p.)
Desk Fans,
9 Ceiling Fans ;
Also
The Temps states that the Allied Supreme Council will probably comprise
the Premier and a member of the War, Council of cash country. It will meet twice a month and examine the plans of the various State reposting upon. The Com- operations carried out. manders-in-Chief will still be responsible. to their respective Governments.
General Dias is 56 years of age and is said to combine the brilliant intellect of the South with the solidity of the North. He was a Colonel in Libys and had commanded an army corps in Cario General Badoglio and General Giardino have been appointed to assist
him.
The Giornale d'Italia states that the Silk Flexible Cord, Lead fuse and
supreme command is no longer confided dynamo Wire, strip fuses, poreskin to one many but is shared by three cleats and isaulators, button insulators, General Badoglio is 47 years of age. He lamp holders and lamp locking rings, participated in the campaign in Africa porcelain pushes, plugs and sockets,in.1895 and 1907 and in Libya He table lamps, brackets and fittings, meter boards, gauge screws, fuse bodies, gauge rings and cartridges, are lampe, hand lamps,
bulkhead fittings...globes enamelled and glass shades, etc., etc
On view from Monday, the 19th inst. Catalogues will be issued.. Tex-Cash on delivery.
commanded an army corps in Bainsizza. General Giardino is 55 years of age. He was for some time Minister of War and has been descrsted for valour. He has served mostly with the Bersaglieri
THE SITUATION: IN. RUSSIA.
·M. KERENSKY'S "ACTIVITIES.
Been equalled by the deeds of their British comrader Casars),
Mr. Boner Lawreviawed the gonera! military situation and amphuised that Germany had secured complete control of the armies of her Allies. Such contral. hid not exist and could not exist to the Lovboy, Nav. 9. same extent among our Allies because we The Petrograd Telegraph Agency had just been taken which would make were a league of free peoples; but a step states that the Congress of Work-cooperation closer than it had ever been. (men's and Soldiers' Delegates of alt Today an Allied Military Stiff of France, Russin has practically unnaimously (Cheers). It would sit permanetly to Great Britain and Italy had been treated made an appeal to the workerstudy military problems as a whole, and
demand peasants of Russia, the reault of its creation the whole stating that the parties of Korniles,front from the Channel to the Adriatic Kerensky, Koledri and others are could in future be treated as one. The ondeavouring so move troops tonamy's great advantage was that he Petrogrid; but several detachments could move on internal lines while wo had to move not across a diamater but of Keransky's troops, have already across a circumference. He refused, to sided with the people in revolt. prophesy regarding Italy, but he believed The appeal urges soldiers actively the Italians would be able to hold the to resist Kerensky, who is a partisan enemy until all came from her Western of Korniloff; also an appeal is made Allies. Be thought the German attack to the railwaymen to stop the forces on Italy was partly actuated by hope to which Kerensky seriding to Peto divide the Allies and partly to keep up gind.
the spirits of the German people bu Germany would nover win this war until they defeated the Franco-British Armies in the Wast. He did not see say prespect of an 'early peace. It was now a question of norre and staying power. All the beligerents staggered beneath, a load. It was the question of who was going to fall. He knew the hearts of our soldiers and milors, and, those of our Allies would not fail them.
Cheers)
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THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.
SPEECHES BY LORD CURZON, SIR ERIC GEDDES ́ AND MR. BONAR LAW.
NO PROSPECT OF EARLY
PEACE
LONDON, Nov. 10, The Guildhall Banquet was held to-night, 400 guests being present. The banquet was of most modest proportions
1
THE AMERICAN MISSION.
| CONFERENCES WITH-BRITISH AND FRENCH.
LONDON, NOV. O.
It is officially stated that the mem-
as regards food. Except for the turtle bors of the American Mission have soup, the same meal could have been conferred with Anglo-French repre- had anywhere for 3/6. The wine was sentatives on economic questions in consonance. A bottle of champagne connected with the blockade. There was shared between half a dozen. Its every prospect of complete agree.
inent. Eurther conferences mesi lasted forty minutes.
pending
The
Lord CURZON, as a member of the War Cabinet, toasting the Allies, Baíd it was only by the combined, con ceatrated, harmonious and unselfsh action of all the Allies that we could. obtain victory and world-peace. Allies now really comprised seventeen Sates, while an additional nine had broken off relations with the enemy, These peoples had been drawn together The Minister and War, in a letter to he would not say to crush the German General Diat, says he has always sovereign, and people, but to crush the recognised his very high civil and mili-spirit of overweening military arrogance tary qualities. His army corps had and material force in its most brutal, always been brilliantly led in good and crude, organised and scientific form 9971 ill fortune, and he adds: "I send you which animated them. He referred to greeting in the name of Italy which to the day when the United States waits and hopos."
troops marched through the streets of London, and to the day when they received their baptism of fire in France
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
dustioneer.
Hongkong,. Now, 6, 1912,
TO LET
TO LET.
Broadwood Terrace.
HOUSES ou Skameen, Canton.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
PRISONERS TAKEN IN MESOPOTAMIA.
are
LONDON, Nov. 10. An official pessage "from Mew potamia statee that the prisoners taken since November 2nd, number $10.
RIO DE JANEIRO CLOSED.
KIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 10. A decree has been issued closing the port of Rio de Janeiro.
TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF ITALIAN as historie, both in the annals of the MR. MONTAGU REICHER BOMBAY.
FUGITIVES.
RESIGNATION OF DR. HELFFERICH.
war and of the history of two peoples Allading to Bussia be offered our respectful sympathy in her hour., of
LONDON, NOV D. LONDON, Nov. 9.
trial and trusted that Russia would still Hon. E. 8. Montagu, Secretary Reuter's correspondent st Italian pierre the sombre gloom momentary of State for India, tas arrived at HOUSES in Moreton Terrace and Headquarters graphically describes the hanging over her. Italy's heart had Bombay,
terrible plight of the fugitives. Owing not been broken. She was now," with to the evacuation of the Tagliamento, re-superb self-control, bracing herself fugees from Gemone are cansing a fresh to meet the invader. The presence fight from Pordenons to Triviso. There of M. Fainleave and Mr. Lloyd George were babies asphyxiated in the crushin Italy was the best guarantee of what and mothers suddenly became demented, the Alliance stood for. "The Allies bave Aeroplanes attacked the trains, which been fighting for three years with one took refuge in tunnels, causing dense heart and one mind. Shall not the that the Kaiser has accepted Dr. smoke clouds swamp the packed open fature find them more and more with Helfreich's resignation as Vice.
Children collapsed and frenzied one strategy, one front? Out of all Chancellor. mothers were unable to resuscitate this commotion, may there not arise a them. Many officers and soldiers got greater unity of direction and control, A Sicilian soldier arrived barefooted and instrument!"-(Cheers). through the enemy lines by strategema rendering the Alliance a more effective ragged, having walked from. Gorizia...
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Four roomed houses in Kowloon.
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Hongkong. August 22, 1917.
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TRIBUTE TO GENERAL CADORNA
Replying to the tomat of the Imper
fal Forces, Sir Ric GEDDES declared.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9.
A Berlin "official message states
GREAT FLOODS IN SIAM.
BANGKOK, Nov. 10. Unusually great floods have occuṛ-
that on all questions of broad, Naval red, seriously damaging the rice | strategy there was completo agreement crop. The railway also bave
between the Admiralty and the Comsuffered. amander of the great Navics afloat. Submarine warfare had not Been defeat
THE SILVER MARKET.
Boys, Nov. 10, The Minister of War has sent IMMEDIATE ENTRY, four very letter to General Cadorna emphasised, but for the present it was held, and desirable SHOPS situated in Iceing how deeply the army and the would finally be defeated (Cheer); but House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel recently, reconstructed.
country will feel the change. The he did not wish to all the country
LONDON, NOT. 11. name of Cadorna, he said, is a sym-into a sense of security or com The silver market is quiet and to the Manager. Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd.bol of skill, bravery, firmness and placency. On the contrary, he urged steady. 46 Connaught Rood Centrál..
vigo. The King had decreed the that there had been an moment in the
Messrs Montagu and Co. e Report Hongkong, Angust 2. 1917. 003aacrifice in ordet. that. General war when there was greater need for
Cadorna might make still greater steadfastness, courage, determination A certain amount is offered contributions to the task of Italy and solidarity. Our losses fa akipe bad daily but the tone of the market is been very heavy, and although being heavy, a buyers are shy. Ching steadily reduced they were still heavy exchange also shows a wenk ten- hence the great need for reduction dency. The ret imports of silver of imports, increased home produs in India in July was 6,400,825 tion and increased shipbuilding. The ounces. For the period April to
TO LEASE
10.43 a. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8 QUITABLE Firms may obtain OFFICE
Das Voux Boad, Corner of Ton
House Street-
8 UNDRIES.
Comprising:-
Binglets, Caps, Umbrellas, Boots,
Blanketa, &c., &c.
Linc
A number of pairs of ́Cent's. / Boots. and Shoes.
Karma Csab
HUGHES & HOUGH;
Auctioneers. Hoogkong, Fov. 9. 1917.
9985
PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Underalynod have received in
structions to sell by Public Auction, {ros aucdexz OF ZER CONCERNED)},{
... on
FRIDAY,
the 16th November, 1917, at 10.45 m
at their Fales Rooms No. 8,
Don Vaux Road, Corner
of Ice House Street, MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
Comprising
Blankets, Cuntorpanes, Sheets, din “Tiresa - Materiala. including + King fand White Serge good quality) Prints, Hole, White Laden, Long Cloth Drill annel, Fonelette dc, Handkerchiefs, Good's Silk Fucka, Boys buits. Tupla, wToilet Faso, Perfumery, White: Lace Curtains dej
Finglata, Umbrellast Blankets, &c. &c.
ROOMS in Missions Building, The Bund, Canton. ~
Apply —
JACOB SPEICHER,
and the Alliés,
THE WESTERN FRONT.
Secretary-Treasurer, ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON BRITISH
Missions Building,
Canton.
The Bund,
"Hongkong. Oct. 25, 1917.
$998
FRONT
LONDON, Nov. 9 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Halg reports:-
There has been considerable activity on the part of hostile artillery north eastward of Ypres. Our guns carried THEATRE ROYAL, R
out the usual counter-battery work and TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT 1}; } || bombardment of the battle front.
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sky was momentarily overcast. A great June inciceive it was 38,702,620, of of all kinds, especially for shipbuilding storm was sweeping over the Russian which the Raj was responsible for and degeering works, Largest and sky, a passing aloud was obscuring the 80.572, 487, which we mintable into bost assorted stock in the Colony, P Italian aun; but the cloud would, pass, 890 lakhs, Moreover the enemy was suffering from shortage of essential supplies, went and disintegration. It was a significant fact that the enemy was constantly initiat ing peace talk. He had been caused of optimisto, as if optimism were a
WINTER RACE MEETINGS.
Loynoy, Nov. 10, The Railway executive is favour
crime. Picture to yourselves a fight ably considering a scheme to permit ing bulldog, his fangs fixed in bisa limited number of winter race enemy 'a' throat, body braced, tail wag meetings.
gling. Ia be a pessimist! No, he is an
optimist, born of determination, confi
dence and courage. So it is with our ME, HALL CRINE'S WAR WORK. (Cheers). But we must provide fors long war and conserve our resources.
LONDON Nov. 10,
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hope
National War Aims Committee, for TTK HANDAKAN. (British North Low flying machines on Thursday Lord DEBBYho also replied, said the purpose of acquainting the ublic Barned fro co-operated with the infantry in raids the morale of the army was paver higher with the issues at stake, fa on the trenches. They fred many than to-day Brounds at troops and machine guns. Mr. BoNAE. Law, replying to the Numerous bomba were dropped on toast of the Ministry, and speaking of trenches and bijles during the day, the temporary lowering clouds, said the with good results. Unlavourable future of Russia was sealed book bu weather rerente night bombing we need not despand nation eve Fourteen machines were brought down wou or deserved freedor and six drirea down. Ten of cors are prepared
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