SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1918.
THE CILINA MAIL.
AUCTIONS REPORT OF MINISTRY OF THE COM NG OF THE AIR
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Hughes & Hough Undersigned have received-in-
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Anctioneers Share, Coal and General Produca Brokora and Commission Agents.
PROPRIETORS. "Te-Kwa-Wan* Coni Storage.
Coder wed Bentley'1
4. B, C 4th & 5th Editions. A 1 Telegraphie Code
Telegraphis Addres **MEIRION" MONGKOND,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in-
structions to sell by Fublic Auction, {FOR ACCOUNT OF 181 CONCERNED),
on
MONDAY,
the 28th October, 1918, commencing t 2.30 pm, at No. 7, Torres Buildings, Kimberley Road, Kawicon
TE WHOLE OF THE
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD.
FURNITURE,
4c.,
&c.
therein contained.
Consisting of Sideboards, Dinner, Waggons, Table And Chairs, Cutlery and Glassware,
c., &c., Chesterfield Sofa and Chairs, Blackwood Cabinet and Table, Japanese Hatting, &c., &c., Large Double Ward- robes, Bureaus, Chests of drawers, Toilet Sot, t, Two Brass-mounted Double nad One Single Beds, Shanghai Bath and Bathroom Requisites, Cooking Stove and Chicken Coop.
Also
TWO PIANOS by METRIE,
structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR, ACCOUNT OF-TEL CONCHUNUS),
„TUESDAY!
the 28th October, 1915 3 9:30 pm
at their Salon Rooms, No. 8,
De Your Bond, Corner of
Ice House Street One CARINET GRAMAPHONE with Recorda (Robinson Piano Co.)
Nearly New -Cash.
Terms
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Oct. 28, 1918,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
INFORMATION.
MASTEFUL EXPENDITURE - AND. "NO CHECKS..
OUT-OF-DATE, LITERATURE,
Strong critical directed again the Ministry of Information . the re port of the Select Committee de National Expenditure, just issued:
It is explained that a Department of Information was constituted in Decem- ber, 1918, with Colonel Buchan Director-in-Charge, analated by an Advisory Committee consisting of Lord 571 Northcliffe, Messrs. Bonban Hoars. B.
Donald and O. P.-Scott-
THE Undersigned hare received the structions to Ball by Public
Auction
مه
TUESDAY,
the 29th October, 1918, at 230 p.m.. at their Sales Rooms, No. B.. Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Strock,
One 3-7 H.P. Twin Cylinder MOTOR CYCLE Indian'
Terma Cash.
in good running order..
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Oct. 23, 1918,
h
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received is structions to sell by Public Auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONGRENED}, "
FRIDAY,
ני
AGE
ORGANISING AN ** AIRWLY.” TO THINK? Ap
obtained
High specla, wych. ** in aerial travels are nga in themselves suficient. - We meat iso have safely and dependability. Can thewa bo sasured? The sewer is that, they can, but only, an rewals of the most efficient and careful mladin "organtastion,
One fine day an aviator merely rel quires a-ground from which to start and, suitable alighting point when, his jour ney is done. It is possible that his motor Last summer Lord Bearerbrook be-
fall while en spute, and that he mag member of the Advisory have to make a forde landing, but, even Committee, and shortly afterwards the so, with the athsphoro tulear and other committee and the department word placed under Sir Edward Carson Rupert conditions favourable, he should be able, vision. In addition there was already in as a role, to bring down his machine existence a department called War without accident: The question of asyi Propaganda Bureau, under the manage-gation, when the weather it fine, need ment of Mr. C. F.G: Masterman
not trouble him at sil; he has may and
There was also a bureaur managed by
Mr. Mair through the Home Office cut compass, and, should he be in doubt at
of an Emergency Vote which, the corny time, he can make a direct visual mittes were informed, was drawn from observation of the ground, and pick up the Socrat Service Yoto. Early in 1918 landmark which will tell him infallibly this bureau was transferred to the
where he is. Foreign Ofice.
In October 1917, the Committee point: But immediately weather conditions 866 out, afr. Robert Donald, a member of the Bre bad, or avon partially unfavourable, Advisory Committee (formed to assist the whole problem is changed. If a pilot the Department of Information, the title has engine failure when the air is misty. by which the Ministry was then known)
for the wind very high, be be unable made a report to Sir Edward Carson criticising sovertly the management of to reach a suitable alighting point, buil the department. In this Mr. Docald may have a bad crash. Also, an even quoted Sir Arthor Spurgeon's investig greater menses, he may lose his way in tion into the work carried out at mist or fog, or a side-wind may drift him Wellington House to the effect that this gentleman had satisfied himself that a large part of the expenditure, then at the rate of three-quarters of a million a year and increasing, was wasteful, and that wrong methods were often adopted, with which statements ho agreed
the 1st November, 1918, at 1.30 p.m.,
at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, -
Du Vatx Ro1D, Corner of
Ice House Btreat,
A Lang: QUANTEET OF, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c., much of which is nearly new,"
Comprising:-
Double and Single Wardrobes, Drea-
SHANGHAI, both in good condition, ing Tabics, Washstands, &e, Double and "one practically new."
ind
COSTLY BOOK RETING.
his course. Dad weather, indeed, and particularly the existence of mist, fog. or low-lying cloud, may turn a safe and simple cross-country flight into an ex- pedition of very considerable danger,
BLAD RATHER ALTENG Readers should not, however, jump to
the conclusion that an air service will
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Prices in "England.
· 1/1},:2/3, 4/6-**
Single Bedsteads, a quantity of Diningquiry into the publishing and book only be possible.on days, when, the weather is the greatest difficulty in for Aying
Room Furniture, including Dinner and Hlectric Fan, Hoster, Electric Lights.Tes Service, Cutlery and Glass Ware, and Banblinds.
N.B-This Furniture consists of nestely,
ail Famed Teakwood, practically
now, and of modern design.
Op view from the 27th.
Catalogues will be issued.
TAS:-Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGH, -Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Oct. 21, 1915.
THE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
257
THE Undersigned have recaívod izstrar- tions to sell by Public Auction,
'(FOR LOCOUNT OF THE CONCERNES),.
1
TUESDAY
ác.
Alio A quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, (Fall Particulars from Catalogue). Terms --Cash.
HUGHES & BOUGH,
Asetiommers Hongkong, Oct. 25, 1918.
TO LET
TO LET.
39.
SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon. Kowloon Marine Lot No, 48, suitable for Coal Storage.
Apply to- HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
·CO., LTD. Alerandia Buildings. Hongkong, July 17, 1918.
TO LET.
the 29th Oct, 1918, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Der Voeux Road," Corner of Ios House Street, "Bedspreads, Pillow Casca, Tray Cloths, Table Covers, Table Centres, Dressing! Table Cover, Single and Double Plain, and Hemstitched Sheets, White Batin Quilts, Pure Linen Damak Berviettes, Bath Towels, Turkish Towels Glass A
Cloths,
Termi:-Cash.
&
&c.
BUCHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Oct. 23, 1918.
"PUBLIC AUCTION.
667
THE Undersigned have received in- structions to call by Public Auction (JO CODE OF THE CONCERNED},
on
TUESDAY,
the 29th Oct, 1918, övementing at
: 9.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
1
Des Voeux Bond, Corner of
Ics Hover Brazil,
TEAKWOOD AND BLACK WOOD #URNITURE. ER-68 AND BRASS. MOUNTED DOUBLE" AND TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS,
AND AN ASSORTMENT OF USEFUL II USKHOLD GOUDS, As follows:- Chesterfield, oines and tru-chair(new), Folding Card and Occasional Tables, Upholstered Huites, & Bedoom Fur nitin, emprising Kram Twin Bed stande, Bideboards, Dinner Wagusa, Extension Dining Fables and Chairs, Fon Tables, dry Danse vervices Crockery, Flas fare, ookingwe, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, o., Bath Hisn Utensila, Sandry Beatro-Platex fre
Beetne Honding Lampe, Blackwood and Thakwood Murbens, gantity of Black wood - Furnitore, including large Black and "crwng Side. Tabica, Chairs, Cabirute, vel Engravings, Pictures, Brass Vases, & de Trants Potem andrete several Carpets dow and second-hand (ons 20 = 18)2;/
12 Boro Hammer Guns and 1 Book Ride,
Lady's Bicycla (new) juustoon
508
HOUSE in "Knutsford Terrace,
Kowloon.
Apply ta
THE BONGBONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.. Hongkong, Oct 2, 1916.
TU LET.
HOUSES on Sharises, Canton."
Apply to-
796
THE BONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., IND,
BANK
THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.
{{TAIWANGINO).
INCORPORATED BY, BEZOTAL IMPERIAL. CHANTEK, 1809.
Capital Bubscribed... Ten 30,000,000. Capital Paid-up Reserve Funds
29.500,000
Mr. Donald further stated that his buying system adopted by the Depart ment of information showed that no effort was made to check cost, and that no uniform principia was followed in buying booka, which were purchased at prices fred an various bases, and on the whale on less favourable terms than an average bookseller would obtain and that the publishers were subsidised quite unnecessarily,
is fine. This would be the case, it is tree, if a pilot was simply told to leave no aerodrome, neur London, and attempt to reach another, near Paris, without any ground organisation to help him. But It is precisely in this matter of ground organisation that bad-weather flying will be made possible. Aerial transport.com-
1. T. DAVENPORT, LARSS London, S.E
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS
bend
DIFFICULTIES OF FOG FLYING, But, even this being the case, there is the question, of course, of landing. This Getting away presents no real dificulty: nor does navigation above fog, provided a there are the guiding balloons, which would be illuminated as right. But AGAIN when a pilot-bas ident fied his alighting point, by means of the balloon flying above the fog, he must then dive down brenge the fog to make his landing, and
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cult for him to judge the exact momentg with a PROGRAMNE naver before witzeased in Hongkong
if the fog is very thick it may be dia.) The Bab-Committee to which Mpanies will not organise for fine weather, of his contact with the ground. Already, Donald's report was submitted, also ex
What they will organs for bad however, during the war, experience has amined Sir Ernest Shackleton, who was weather for the maintenance of a ser been gained as to this problem, though tent abroad, by the Department of in- formation, last Uctober. Sir Ernest cod, or a gale of wint
vice even when there is mist, rain, fog.it is obvious that such data; esnrot be Shackleton's evidence confirmed the triticismns made in the report of Mr. R Donald and Sir Arthur Spurgeon as to the inefficiency and anauitable methods adopted by the,) Department at Welling ton House in
mentioned here. But what may be said
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It is in this preliminary organisation, a that, though there is controversy as to that much might be dode, even while the the best type, colour, and position of the wir continues.. Pilots and machines csalight used there is no doubt at all that distribution. ng propaganda for not he spared for any experimental.com it wil hê possible to devise lighting |
gave an instance of mercial service ste Air Ministry has system which will bring a commercial having found 200 balen of from 50 to 80 ordained. But time should certainly be aircraft to a safe landing even when tini lbs, each in weight of literature lying spared by the Ministry, in collaboration ground is heavily obscured by eg, while in abeds and warehouses, so that when with the industry, to decide at once on they were distributed they were out of
science may not find it impossible, over date.
certain routes, and then to put in hand the limited area of an alighting ground. Although there may have been inse the ground organisation which will be curacies and errors in Mr. Donsid's and accesary before ary day and night air
to disperso a fog altogether,
Ja commercial night-fsing, a chain of Sir Arthur Spurgeon's report, the Com mittee are of opinion that there was vice can be run over such routest landing grounds will be imperative. Each considerabis foundation for their criti-will be noted that E bave mentioned night will be lighted at night, thus creating ciams, especially with regard to the lacking. This will be essential in the anlaminated aerial way, along which of fiancial contral and wasteful expen transport of mails. It should be possible pilot should without difficulty steer his diture.
to carry the night mail from London course. On high ground, also, there will £128,000 IN CABLES.
through to Italy and by doing so, to be lighthouses, each showing a distinc During the last financial year about save a whole day in the delivery of such five beam, while min serodromes will, 2188 000 was paid for cables, mistaly tos null. But night flying, except in idea of coures, be specially identified." Beuters Telegram Company Limited weather, will be impossible without the This was gefticised by Mr. Donald, and the Committee think, rightly 40. It
fullest organisation.. antored in written agreement was The keynote of organisation, on a de understood that steps are now being a chain of emergency alighting grounds into with the company, but it is fined aerial route, is to arrange along it takes to place the matter on a proper auch being so near to its neighbours that, basia. The position of Sir Roderick
What, it may hare be asked, about gales of wind? Will not these provent
exceptional severity as sometimes, in win ying? The answer is that they will not, unless thero should be a gale of such
ter, interrupts communications with the
Reuter and also high official on the he will be able to glide down to 2 wale war, will do more, than delay the multi- Jones, who is both managing director of provided a pilot is dying high enough, Continent. No ordinary gale, alter the stall of the Ministry of Information, is, they say, on
GATEciple open to njection landing, ou cue or other of these rounds engined aircraft, developing thousands of
saxistant-director in any moment during a fight should horsepower, which we shall be using on the main commercial fontes. As to any
charge
of finanes and establishment, a his motor fail. As to what this would permanent civil servant, formerly on schuslly entail in practice, it may be
the staff of the Charity Commission, was mentioned that, if a plot maintains the also examined by the Sab-Committee. He is now responsible to Bir. Stavert, late. director of the Bank Montreal,
ok of
reasonable dying height of about 3,5001
landing ground every ten miles along
peril from winds, any risk of machines
being overturned or rendered, uncontrol
table, this will practically cease to exist. Power, weight, momentum, all will come
who has recently been appointed route would ensure him a safe and to the aid of a multi-engined machine, accounting officer
ing, even shotid his motor break down The bread fact, indeed, which is now The nomer of oficials and staff is when he was exactly midway between established, is that wind, unless it risea 185. The Bu-Committee were informed
two grounds
to something like hurricane, will not
that many of the principal officials gave the advantage a cham of grounds, their services free.
the
if such a wind is a direct head-winda it
Mr Thoarea's position did not require apart from moving the danger of bad present an air servien being run; bough bim to report excesalve expenditure to landings and the breakage of machine may lengthen appreciably the time taken
Treasury but to the heads of the wil be shown also in the following way. Tarinue departments, who decided whe
of any river or not the expenditure was exces. Each ground will be numbered and win by a fight. In the case, however,
contmercial time-schedule, allowance. sive | Unly in cases requiring. Treasury, have a telephone; also, in the case, say
is always made for adverse winds sanctain la reference made to them. He of an express mail servico, relief machines setimated experliters for the current be placed JAPAN--Texto, FOKORAMA, KOSE, ONAKON 21,3000, and 18 ky to conto. Therefore, aseming a pilot whe
somewhere Beton-0000
points along
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we mails descends through angina failure on one of the numbered grounde, The Sul Committee were informed
ho will go at bnce to the telephone, ex- that in some cases the heads of repar
plar where he is, and if his erat menth are often pren of high not be repaired Immed stely huxinesa position, giving the services
will be sent which offrored to having the "voluntati va
mail and contande this ISTIOs they slesire to pa hy the Tran, y, holding the opinion that they were better qualified to bu tað he amount of salary" which
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The Bank had Uorrespondents in the Commercial Centres in European Con“ tinent, Rosjik, bianchuris,
Chosen, Japan, Indo-Cinna, Philippine Islander
Dutch
Africa, &c.
ampe la bo sold Intereat allowed od
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"OUR DAY"
PERFORMANCES
"THE BARTON MYSTERY"
appoflo fantasy in 4 parts by Walter Hackett:
THURSDAY, 7th November AND
SATURDAY 9th November
AT 9.15PM
There will be no private booking sovance tickets, so t at it - will rest en the public to secure good "sents,
For the FIRST NIGHT prices will be as follows:
Block, Dre
$10.00
COND SIGHT.
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