SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918.
Hughes & Hough
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Applications may be made through the undernoted Banka from whom full
may be obtained :—
LONDON LETTER.
THE CHINA MAIL.
(From Our Own Correspondent.),
official attitude. It will be a shoek to hot it so fino a fish esenpon from the nek
THE PRINCE OF
OF WALES
The presence of the Prince of Laygas, Nov. 29.Wales at the Italian front, and the cordial conversations he has had with the Italian Socialist statesman, Signor Bisolutti, have done much to that England in solidly on her ado demonstrate to the Italian people
TUS YOUN GIRATEST OCMMANDERS. A well-known military authority is quoted as saying that Generals
Share, Coal? and General Produca information and the necessary forma Marde. Haig, Plumer and Birdwood and that of the democratio cause, I
Brükers and Commission
Agents.
PROPRIETORS #a-Wan* Ceal Storage.
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Telegraphic Addres *KION" HONGKONG.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in Ttructions to seli by Pubhe Auction (FOR LCCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
on
MONDAY
the 18th February, 1918, at 12 Noou, at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Vortx Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
The PERSONAL EFFECTS and ULOTHING, &c, &c., of the lato Capt. H. BUSSELL, including one 13-bore D/B Howling Piece, by. "Webley & Scott and a cumber of Cartridges, siso one Sextant, Sundry Nautical Books, &c., &c.
Terms usual
HUGHES & HOUGE, Auctioneers. Hongkong, Feb. 15, 1918.
PUBLIC AUOTION, ·
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION. MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.
War Savings Certificates
Value 5 years after purchase
2500 ..21
Furchace Price
LAST 10 O 16. 84.
FREE OF INCOME TAX. For every 15s. 6d. fent nowӣ1 will be paid in 5 years" time, equivalent to 5 per cent, so pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.
་་
Anyone, whatever his or her Income may be, can bay Wa
to a Savings Certificates up maximum of 500 £1 Certificates
In all or their equivalent. - Mennwhile the money may be withdrawn in full any time, with an addition after the first year.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS. (1) A Certificate entitles the parchaser to receive £1 for each 158. 6d. on the fifth anniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the sccumu- inted interest
(4) A Certificate is not transferable except bk permission of the Postmaster General fee of 18. will be charged in respect of each transferee. In the event
have proved themselves the greatest The Prince went, as a matter of fuct, commanders in this war. Probably in the ordinary course of his duty.. to-day he would add Generals Byng and Allenby.
35.
He is on the staff of Lond Cavan, and when Lord Caven went from France to Italy, naturally his staff accom panied him..
General Maude, whose great suc cesses in the Eastern fields of war
Even it Venice should fall, in spite have had such an untimely end, was of the desperate resistance, the piller- one of three Coldstream Guardsmen ing Runs will find little that is port- who were also scientific soldiers, fromable, unless they go to the extreme of breaking up architectural treasures. whom much was expected ab the All portable treasures have been Now they removed and such famous buildings beginning of the war. have all fallen. Colonel Marker fellas St. Mark's have been covered in November, 1914, co tha same day wherever possible with sandbags. There is an idea prevalent that Lord Roberts died.. Major
the new Austrian monarch has given Francis Farquhar, who commanded orders for Venice to be spared as the Princess Patricia's Regiment; much as possible, though what power. died some time age with a brilliant he will have ove the thieving record, and now General Moude has Germans if they get into the town is doubtful, remembering their devily gone too. His appointment to the
in Louvain and northern France. Mesopotamian command caused sorta A correspondent who is inually well surprise at the time, but he very informed, writes: It must be speedily fulfilled his.. great oppor-emphasised that the Germans are Those who knew him only making this Italian push to have túnity.
more in band before the Americans describe him as exactly the right take the field in huge numbers. A mixture of prudence and daring. He new Papal Note at Christmas with was prudent in risking the lives of his fresh peace proposals is anticipated in men, but he was daring when he saw many quarters. The real pacifists of a prospect of a great return for the world are the enormous bulk of the population of Germany, and the succese, and his judgment was excel-War Lords are acute enough to know that even the Hun worm may turn lent.
At home he was most happy. He when rendered desperate by prolong- married one of the beautiful twined underfeeding."
of death, the same rules will be applied sisters Taylor, whose advent into as in the case of Savings Bank Deposits.
or part therent in multiples of 158. Edhe was known, as "Joe," though will be repaid at any time, with an addition of 3d. for each 158. 6d. on the no one knew why, for it was not one
many
LABOUR ASPIIZATIONS.
(3) On written application (on a form Society some years ago trade a plea- The Labour party is preparing to obtainable at any Fost Office) being sunt sensation for their charm and put forward a very numerous body of made to the Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase prica, attractiveness. Among his intimates candidates at the next election, and Conservatives as well as Liberals believe that before many years are past we shall have a Labour 135 first anniversary of the date of purchase of his names. It was, in any case, finistry. This does not scare them
and with a further addition of 1d. per ] 156. 6d. for each month thereafter. an indication of his nature gentle as much as one might suppose, for (4) No person may hold more than and lovable, always ready to fight the sobering efect of official respon
HE Undersigned have received instrue- Tour sel by Public Auction.
"(roz ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNZD),
לייס
TUESDAY,
the 19th February, 1918, commencing at 230 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of
ICA HOVER STREET,
▲ CONSIGNMENT OF HOUSEHOLD LINENS, &
Comprising:-
Flaio and Single and Double Hem-stitched Sboots, Pillow Cases, Bed
Quilts, Table Cloths Pure Linen Damask Berviettes, Bath Shorts, Bath Towels, Turkish Towels,
&c.. TEX-Cash.
&c
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Feb. 14, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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AE Undersigned have received in atractions to sell by Public Auction, (30% ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERTID},
TUESDAY,
the 19th February, 1918, commencing st 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, Na 8, Des. Your Road, Corner of Ice Hoom Street, TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD TURNITURE, TWIN BED TRADE, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES, &c, D. LAO ASSORTMENT OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS,
As follows
Upholsterd Suites, Arm-chairs and Chesterfield sofas, Card Tables, &c., Bed-
room Furniture, comprising Double and
500 £1 Certificates or their equivalent.
The £1 Certificates (purchase price 15. 8d.) are issued in book form. The
Certificates for £12 (purchase price £t
hard, but never quarrelsome.
JAPANESE HOSPITALS.
aibility is usually soon apparent, and the men most likely to lead have had Even that a foretaste of it already. caustic Conservative, Sir Edward
I am told by a medical authority Carson, has given expression to his
Cs) and fos (purchase price £19 78. 8d.) that some of the very best war bot-vision of the coming of democratic are issued without books. The £1, £12
can never be the same again."
and 225 Certificates are on sale at local pitule are now in the bands of domination, and bus confessed, that Post Offices and at most Banks.
Japaneso doctors and that their work high wages will continue and "things Single Certificates for sams from £100 to £600 may be obtained on application is thoroughly up to date, skilful and to the Comptroller and Accountant beyond poise. I went myself some General, General Post Office, London application forms are available at all time ago to a large military hospital Fors Offices and at most Banks.
that was being visited by the King, If Certificates but, and the serial Aumbers can be furnished to the and found the surgeon in charge was Controller of the Money Order Departs cheery Japanese, and the men wera ment, new Certificates will be isased at land in their praise of his skill and
charge of ls.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
June, 1916.
(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates, see the other side.)
Examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates
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Single Bras and Brace-mounted Bed-ltiple of 154, td, up to £37 10.
tends, and Twin Bedstends, Sideboards,
Dinner Waggons Extension Dining
Tables and Chairs, Tos and Occasional
Tables, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery Toilet Bats, do, Bath Room Utensils, Boll-top Desks and Writing Tables, Sandry Electro Plated Warenk
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Tenkword Screen, Blick wood Furniture, including large & Fold Black wood Sercen with 5-Coloured Tanale.
Side Tables, E., Engravings, Pictures, & Teunis Foles and Net, Tron Sale,
FOR SALE
attention.
WOMEN SMOKENS. ·
This, and the interest to be paid on war: loans, together with the recon- struction charges, and the prepara- tion for the continuance for some years of shipping and food control, points to a long extension of the high cost of living, and the middle classes, especially the professional men and women, will have a harder time.
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One of the problems will be the A warm debate has been started readjustment of labour, having regard of eye strain you should us. We test this week on whether women should undertaken work that has been done
to the extent to which women have consult E
not give up.
their increasing habit of by men Thousands of them are eyes scientifically and fit smoking as an evidence of their sin. unwilling to go back to their pota glasses to individual re cerity, in wartime economy. The add pans. Mr. Winston Churchill, has set up & committee of women's debate has gone for adrift from trade union representatives to advise economic lines and now it is being the Ministry of Munitions. This hotly argued on wholly other grounds, step, of course, immediately con Men are alleging, apparently with cerns the war work of women, but good reason, that most women smoke there is every paspect of the com- mittee being continued afterwards, merely as a pose and as part of the to advise on the coming problem current eraze. They do not seem to Churchill's idea primarily was to HONGKONG & MANILA. get the calm sense of comfort out of present disputes. He set up a simi- it that a man does, but flirt with is lar men's committee, and that proved very successful in oiling the indus- under the impression that they are trial machine. Then, as nisny differ being good fellows' especially in ences arose as to the condition of sets where officers and men congre. women's work, the women's com
The women, on the other mittes was set-op. There has beef such a multiplicity of orders regulat hand, angrily dispute the masculine
ing the work that there was urgent criticisms and declare that if smoking need for simplification. One of the is right for men it is right for women, chief tasks of the committee. is to I shall never believe that women! grade the work, so as to expedite like smoking, writes a doctor, "until just payment being given. Women they take to pipes a remark that engaged on men's work are difer has sot them off on further ungry entiated in payment, according to the class of work done, but no such dis- exclamations. The fact is, in any case, that since the war started the finctions are made for women's prevalence of smoking among women work, even though it differs greatly in public has grown a hundred fold in skill and importance. When this I saw two flappers in a theatre yesters, been set right it is believed that a fruitful cause of discontent will be. day produce their cigarettes and pro remedied. One of the chief planks ceed to put away like steam engines the Labour platform is the demand
AFTER WAR TRADE.
for equal pay for women who do Germany, I hear via Amsterdam, equar work to e man -hoping much may turn to ber advantage from the political troubles
gate.
TO LET.
-LARGE ROOM in End
-Princes Building
Apply to
EMH. NEMAZEE Hongkong. Feb. 2. 1918. .
TO LET.
119
TURNISHED HOUSE at Mount Davis, Pokfulam Road, for Febru ary, March and April. Hent moderate
Apply
HE GOLDSMITH, P. W. D. Hongkong, Jan. 14, 1918
TO LEL
FFICES in Yerk Building.
HOUSES on Shamuen, Canton,
Apply to
As I write, skilled physicians are in Peking. She is greatly disturbed fighting to keep aliye Sir Sr by the prospect of after-the-Janesan, whose exploits in South obstacles of trade, and her leading Africa as Dr. Jim, of Boid fame, [ business, men feal in their hearts that all to mind surring times of the TBS HONGKONG LAND INVENT nobody, the wide world over will Cape crisis and the stormy developUKARMENT & AⱭENUY Con Late JOR SALE,
attach much importance to a German ments that, led to the Boer War
TOLET siganture to an agreement hereafter understand that the trouble le with Undersigned have received in There may not yet be much evidence his lungs, and the damp weather of
TMMEDIATE ENTRY, structions to sell at their Sales of it, but the intention is firm here the past how weeks has been bad for desirable BHOPS costed in Ice Booms, No B. Dos. Vorax Bond, Corner to bomo. German businesses hind His condition has been cri- Bouso Strest opponits the Grand Hotal, of Ice House Stivet,
use Sir Edward Carson's phrase, and tical, but to-day he is reported to recently reconstructed. China will, 1 understand, receive be much better, perhaps as a result Fattention as well as the rest of dio of the cleaner dryer air
MOTOR YACHT: Built 1916, had very little dage,
Length, water lide
Carpets, Braus Fenders, a few lots Hull Fire Brasses, &c.
Two FIANOS
And
„Three No. 5 ROYAL TYPEWRITERS,
be sold without reserve.
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world.
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squeezing the Chinese in come and the declaration of sgainst her was a hard blow equalled by the revolt of Amerienă și sentiment against:
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