TUESDAY, JULY 93, 1918.
AUCTION.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT,
General auctioneers Share, Coal and General Produce -Brokers and Commission Agents.
PROPRIETORS "To-Kwa-War Coal Storage.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in
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Bell by Public
WEDNESDAY,
the sith Joly, 1913, at 11 .. at their Sales Rcome, No. 8. Den Faux Road, Corner of Ive House Stroat..
A small quantity of STORES
Follows:
FLOUR, POTATOES, CURRYSTUFF, DRIED FISH, RICE, ONIONS,
$2,
Terms ---Cab.
HUGHES & HOUGH," Auctioneers.
Heckung, July 22, 1978.
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
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(zon ACCOUNT OF ZER CONCERNED),
on
FRIDAY,
the 26th July, 1918, at 10.30 LIN...
at their Bales Rooms,"No.. 8,
Das Verr. Ross, Corner of
Ice Hoane. Street, SUNDRY FURNITURE, &c.. Ramored to Salos Rooms for Convenience of Sale and MISCELLANEOUS GOODS, "
-And
One VIOLIN (fine tone).
Terms -Cash.
HUGHES & BOUGH, Austioneers
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FOR SALE
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TEAMER-Chinese Flag-Steel STEAL, Engines and Boiler, in good condition-Capable of carrying 050 passengers and 540 tons cargo. Speed eleven knots. Price $300,000 .. currency, prompt delivery.
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what cows may be tall laten op, but i the thing was done, and the omer world was thas made aware of our terrible. RESCUE AFTER THREE DAYS AND plight, That much we realised when we
MIGHTS.
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knew of the presence of divers about cur, craft. "What a relief. We had been
EMPIRE DAY IN BAGHDAD.
SPEECH BY GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING.
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lounties, practicat manuvawers being. The flowing is the text of a speech PHILIPS HALF WATT LAMPS
taken for our salvage, and that splendid delivered by the General Officer Cont prospect made us take in a draught of manding the Mesopotamia Expedition- i DARTICULARS and Conditions of thu. A great story many always be told how life. Artificial light was fast fail-ary Force on the occasion of a public
Letting by Bublic. Auction Sale, to
be held on MONDAY, the 9th day of simply, says the Daily Telegraph." in July, 1915, at 3 pr. st the Offices of supplementing be fuller details the brief the Public Works Department, by Order official note of an act of heroism which His Escaliency the Governor, of Eight Lots of CROWN LAND nt Aberdeen, over elaim a leading place in that in the Colony of Hongkong, for a ton of 78 years, with the option of renewal at ang til of moble deeds of well-wacrifics Crowd Rant to be fixed by the Surveyor that has been so rapidly, unfolded of late, of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 13 year
in told of a naval hero, Commander Fran eis Goodhart, who gave up his life in an effort to save his comitates imprisoned a submarine which þud become fass su
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the bottom in 38ft. of water.
ing. but hope was burning brightly, so gathering held at Baghdad on Empica
Day in all of the Red Cross.
what did is matter?
**Dus cleat as it turned out was hus This is the first occasion since the a young thing as yet; however. We had occupation on which the people "of ¦ still a long way to go. The day dmgged Baghdad and the British Army have through, and when we entered the met together for a common purpose. It silenes and uncertainty of the night weis Steing that the immediato reason of ware a furorn enough top. I can assure the gathering should be to assist the you: The nerve of the toughest of us Red Cross which stands for humanity was wearing thin. My few that it might socis independent of race or creed. take
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a suddenly all red was not real. It is fitting that it should
place on the 24th May which is kept bed, however, for we were given farther as Empire Day by the King Emperor'a alications, which nor practical vars were subjects all over the world. It is a day Placing not slow to catch," that the great work celebrated not only by the Anglo-Saxon in his belts small in cylinder with in- of rescue was well in hard. The contace but by all peoples of whatever creed and origin whe dwell under the Structions for the resetur, he went into sinal tapping of the divers outside protection of the British dag and live the conning-tower with the commanding a choring sound, and brought hope to their own lives under institutions suited those of a who, in the steadily increas to their own conditions. I am näch figer determined to allow himself to be ing stifle of the atmosphere, were now gratified to learn of the notable success which has attended the appeal to the (shut up to the surfer. But the grout breathing hard to live,
troops and to the civil population of fadventure misenrried, and the bere paid
Mesopotantia. The figures are not yet the penalty with his life, Those who had
complete and I am therefore, unable to the privilege of knowing Commander
announce them but it is certain that they are very creditable to the people of tilhart declare that he was as modest
telegraph the result to the headquarters DRAGON this country and I shall not fall to
will"
But rescue was long delayed, and in the early hours of the following day most of us wrote our best firewell tour loved ones-whart. tender
ressages served in peneil-and son at as nade
these
las, hetwas brive, and his fellow-prisoner will. Then, we“if “by: a miracle, of the Red Cross in London for submis reacber with admiration, the ecolness three strong strands in the ladder ofsion to His Majesty in order that
isplayed by him when i went forth to respe cans to is from above. Exactly may be known to all that the people of Musopotamia are not mindful of take the fention of a chance at achieving what manner this was made possit the cnims of charity nor unapprecu
I cannot tell you. We got ur, water, of the results already attained during his great purposes bying man. His in only the sallest pantities. the past year by the co-operation oỀ last remark to the commanding officer hat just enough to stir us into new life. British and sal energies in furthering the prosperity the country. I fully as Commander-in-Chief, how {waki," If Kaba't get up; the tits cylinder. That was a godsend as welerne as "the pro
was unexpected. And we bud mot t
TL incom entences
i:༥:es• wait for the opening of our prison sarily imposed on the civil topulation PUREE DAYS AND NIGHTS,
door. When the details of that libera by military exigencies. Restrictions The circumstances akich valled forth
tion are given it will use surprise and of "nvenients, restrictions of trade, are anavoidable in time of war and it is this signal hemisu ning rugs be referred congratulation everswhen, is verges on restrictions of liberty, all
There are displayed in the narrative, the miraculous. When we seralabial into elygems of aurige, rescure, and during we were a dazed and duken of of men, but I' warrantiran our hearts that grip the indigination. A representa were full of gratitude to Gol the saving rive on the Daily Telegraph, who has mercies. had an opportunity of conversing with one of the rescued sailors, who swed his te to the gallantry of the submarine's Cofianding Officer, writes: £ coife- that it was a hard task to breuk rītaugh that thick
of taciturnity behing
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For the ittle bordenone as is possible consist ently with our military ends, present I can only advise you to have patience and to remember that these restrictions probably press less hardly
OF
than Mesopotamia the people the people of any belligerent country. On the occupation of Baghdad, my saor announced in distinguished piedecessor the King's name that it was our inten- tion to establish institutions under which the people of the country might develop and prosper along their own lines and invite you participate The Hon. Mr., K. C. M. Kindersley, in the management of your civil affaire. which our sailors' so consistently hide
ir hyst qualities, "The men who do Chairman of the Planters Assalation A year has now passed and we buvo the advanced far beyond Baghdad, and Tetor Lo
thongh the end of the war is not insight most generally sptak least. I got a ver Melay Mail, aurka direct I think it may be fairly claimed that the sion" of the story from one of its central peut to planters. Not to put to fide ideals set forth in that proclamation are
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figures in reluctant sentences, One had a pint on it, he invites those planters being fulfilled wherever we are in Panama. Pacific
help which the military falmost as sein hare spleezed water from of A Cass still retaining is the country cupation part, thanks, in no small deproc to volunteer for active service before they to thestration has rectived from the International Exposition.
administration a stone, hus de big, hard-hair manisan are souscriptel. Aga lis appeal is inhabitants of the land. We may rejoice, SCIENTIFIC EYE EXAMINATION Edomitable spirit vncased in a frame of dorsed by the General for Command under 'rovidence at the prospect of a general prosperity nnexampled in any strel-gave me ultimately the grim tale ng
Commenting on the letter our Knais other country in time of war and scarcely Frames Lenses, and Protection glasses.one of the grimmest in the anuals rá
equalled in this country in time of peace. elsen.
He told me from he had Lumpur temporary says:-Rubber, we The methods by which this has been all know, is mu«essential war industry.attained are an earnest of our intentions bserved in a doug life quest that shit it. But the pains which Mr. Kindersley and a happy cmen for the future. Once was the unexpertel thing that almost urges is that, in view of the large stocks wasin I thank you for your liberality' falways bulged the biggest."
pf, mibbre held in Londy and elsewhere and trust that many opportunities will arise in the future for similar fraternal And surely," he added, "this affair and the possibility of aut in the mar-gathering. was the mist unexpected and the biggest ket, production can be safely restrictril and many platers thus released for pctive that ever Fute forced the to have a hand rice. Their release, might set to the in. What exactly happened, to our craft detriment of individual estates, but no ta submarine) E're not going to stay lo the industry as a whole. And in any tell you, for the simple reason that "I case the verifice wild he stall safeom
pared with the which our hinsten at don't know mysell We were a goodly Home have nitendy nude. Mr. Kinders company on board that gwechanical Whale ley is against a compulsory scheme of - handsone fish, I can assure you— peuting supervision, but kohls that neigh ami no man of us even dreamt of the trick she was to play us. She made us wonder, and, ineidentally, tennistormed
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may find two or three men on five hun is far greater than is really supposed.
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fish three days and three nights. We altered circumstances will be able to
did not exceed his record, but run it persuade directors or agents to release close. We were in the belly of our them. But, as we hace remarked before, we think thut the TLS. have been whale, Ising fathoms deep, part of three ked dry of willing recruits. Fractic days and part of three nights.
ally all who intend to go have goze.
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Numbers of workers are constantly sent back to their homes as unfit, and re- placed by fresh recruits.
Following the news of the recent de portation of the Burgemaster of Ghent and of one of his aiderman for their loyal Louis Franck, alderman of Antwerp resistance to separatist intrigues, M. and a member of Parliament, has bear Tested and sent to a German prison
M. Franck, who was one of the Then the smile on the mariner's face We calcolate that to date the Federaleaders of the Flemish movement before tion has supple some twelve hundred the war, was arrested for refusing to allow the enemy to use the warehouses men to the Imperial Forces, the bulk of of Antwerp and to requisition the "Buch three days and three bights them planters and nearly all of them labour jatt ched to them. This brings Coffear. The core streauds up to 18, the number of burgomáaters have never passed over my head before," now he said, slowly and reflectively. They games are practically dead locally, erf- and aldermen imprisoned or deported
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