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THE CHINA MAIL,
BRITISH OFFICER STOLE ZEPPELIN.
plante. A score of high Geruma off. cars bade him goodbye and saw to it that Germany's largest Zeppelin got | away without mishap. Among the records in the office of The Zeppelin proceeded across tha the German Aerial Service is an German border and begun ber flight entry that notes the mysterious dis-across the North. Sea. A thick fog oppesmaco in 1015 of the largest Flanketed the surface of the water! Zeppelin existing at that time. The, up fio Bights were visible. Navigu. | huge "Zep," it is recorded, left her tion was done by compass alone. As base on a bombing expedition over a high altitude, the Zep" arrived the eastern part of England and ex. directly over the shore of England.
OST-From East Point, LIVER LET-Na 102 The Peak, 6 cept for noten of her tigin over the
ROOMED HOUSE at the Peak. LA COLOURED SPANIEL DOG Apply to PERCY SMITH, SETY & brown paws and pateb under tail FMING. Answers to the name of "PAN" Re word to finder returning dog to JOIN JOHNSTONE JARDINE, MATHESON & Co
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THE Undersigned have received lo
auction,
(For Account of the Concerned),
ON
TUESDAY,
May 27, 1919, commencing at 2:30 pan.,.at their Sales Rooms,, No. 8, Drs Vaux Road, Corner of Ice Huono Street,
A QUANTITY OF UREFUL HOUSEHOLD LINENS, DRAWN WORK, & EMBROIDERIES,
Comprising:-
HOUSEHOLD LINESS. Singla and Dable Plain and Elemetitched Sheets, Pillow Cases, Double White Satin Quilts, Pillow Case Serviettes, Glass Cloths,
Bith Towels, Face Towels, &c., &c.
DRAWNWORE:-Bedspreads, Fillow C&s, Tray Cloths, te de.
EMBROIDERIES:-Bedspreads, Table Covers, Tea Cloths, Runners 18 by 54 in. Also
A few lots of Sui: Cases and Attache: Casus.
(All new goods and small lots to azit purchases).
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue). Terms:-Oush.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctionser.
Hongkong, May 21, 1919.
For Account of the Concerned.) ON
TUESDAY,
May 27, 1919, cominencing
at 2,30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8.-Des Vaux Road, Corner of Ice House Struct,
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TO LET—A FLAT in Nathan Road,
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A Four-roomed HOUSE. in Gordon Terace. Kowloon.
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German border, nothing more may learned from German sources.
A few weeks after the "Zep's disappooranes with her commander and crew, the first of five mysterious Vitoria Cross awards was announced be the British War Office..
DROPTED TO BOMBS,
Restrining his crew of impatient “Geranne, who wished to leave a trail! cf smoke and flame beneath them, the British officer consioued to guida the craft toward the centre of Essex. The fog lifted suddenly and a group of lights in familiar formation told From a responsible authority, it bine that he had arrived at his was learned yesterday, the mysteri-destination. ous award of the Victoria Cros was Meanwhile nows of the Zeppelin's
Anti-aircraft bot
to so equally mysterious British va betayed by the whirr and ermy officer and the incident en- roar of her engines, was reported by ected with the award was the that the Estening post commandere on the of the German Zeppelin and her ground below. crew. The British officer, assigned HUMPHREYS STATE & FINANO to intelligenes duty in Germany some months before, had gained the confidence of the officers in charge of the raids on England and had lefs Gemany as connauder of the huge flying bout.
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THE Undersigned have received: Instrno- tions to mall by Public Auction,
(FOX LOCOUNT OF YEL CONCERNAD),
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THURSDAY, May 29, 1919, at 2.30 p.m., at No. 7 Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon,
THE SUNDRY Valuable Household Furniture,
&a
&c.
St
therein contaimed. including:-
or
No. 10 Nathan Road, Kowloon.
"INTIMATIONS.
we
SINGING & DANCING LESSONS.
M. and MDE N. G. DORROS
prepared to give. Singing and Dancing Lessons to Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. For terms apply c/o CARLTON HOTEL
SIEMENS CZINA ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPANY,, (HONGKONG) LIMITED, SIEMENS CHINA CO. BERLIN FRANZ EMIL AUGUST EHRHARDT.
Large Extension Dining Table and Chaire, Mahogany Sideboard, anely carved Blackwood Settee, Stands, Pic- tures, de, large and small Bedsteads. (Hair Mattress Wardrobes, ToiletREDITORS are required to sand Tables, &c.
́in their claims against the above. Large Ice Chest, Pantry, Kitchen to the undersigned Alexandra Build
inge, Des Yeux Road, on or before and Bathroom Utensile.
SATURDAY, the 31st May, 1919.
C. BERNARD BROWN,
Liquidator. Bangkong, May 20, 1919.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF" AKWOOD AND BLACK WOOD FURNITURE BRASS AND BRASS.
DOUBLE
TWIN Pisne by Robinaon Piano Co, Elec- MOUNTED REDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS,tric Fittings and Fans,
&t.
AND
Comprising:- Chesterfield Bolas, Arm-chairs (new) Felding Card and Occasional Tables, One Upholstered Suite, Bedroom Farulture, comprising Teakwood Twin Bodstands, large and small Wardrobes, Drosing Tables, Washstands.. &c. (lamed Teakwood) Bideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, &c. Dinner, Services, Crockery, and good Class Ware, Cooking Stoves, Boom Utensils, Callery, &c. Bath Electro-Pinted Ware,
Electric Reading Lampe, Black-
Teak wood wood and
Screens, a quantity 0% Blackwood Furniture, Blackwood Fire Screen, Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures & Paintings, Several Carpeta new and second-hand.
Also
Collard & Collard Piano (good tone), and Croquet Set, &c.
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue), Terms :-Cash.
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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hocgkoog, May 01, 1019.
(TOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
ON
THURSDAY, May 29, 1319, at 10.30 a.m.,
at No. 8, Mountain View, The Penk. THE SUNDRY
Valuable Household Furniture,
$20,
dc.
therein contained,
Comprising -
Large Teakwood Hallstand, Morocco Leather covered Sofa and Arm-chaire by Lane, Crawford & Co., Carpete, Teakwood Cabinets, Sideboard, Dining Table and Chairs, Mirrors, &c, and a quantity of SUPERIOR TARGE GLASS-large Bodsteads and Cots, Wardrobes, Wasbatande, Toilet Tables, Jo
Also
Electric Fana, Enamelled Batke, Filter, Ica Cheat, Ships Lavatory, Wine Cabinet, and a number of lots of Fut Plants.
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue).
On view day of sale.
Torme,
Cos).
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, May 21, 1919,
Also"
And
A number of Pot Plants. (Full Particulars from Catalogue). Onview day of sale. Terms ---Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers
Hongkong, May 22, 1919.
(FOR. 1000UNT OF THE CONCERNED).
013
FRIDAY,
May 30, 1919, a: 2.30 p.m., at No. 23 New Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon, THE Valuable Household Furniture,
46.,
Sec. therein contained. Cocoprising:-
&o.,
EELPED SOLVE RAID PROBLEMS.
teries in the ricinity were manned and preparation na nade to receive the raiding visitor with the proper sort of reception.
The Zep was maneuvred and fically started toward the ground. She passed through the fire of several guns and kunded in an open field| nearn sinull town. No troops were The story of his experiences in in the vicinity and the confiander.. Germany and the successful accom- telling his crew that the steering gear plishment of his tasks is even more was broken, advised then to suren- | thrilling than the recital of the bare der. They agreed and a problem facts would indicate. And it was his pesected by the absence of Bibish success in making of with the most troops www solved. modern of Zeppelina tixit went fur He marched then in military towal helping the British War formation along. & road that he knew Urice elve the probleme presented led to the village. On the way, an by night bombing niks over the pronged "coustable was encountered. vincial towns of England.
He received the surrender of the men For obvious reasons, the officer and the pseudo fïerman captain. who related the account of the onter- || TOOK EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.**
stole the airship. So ineensed fet his captives proudly to the post (prise withheld the name of the man Once in the villige the constable,
were the Gesian authorities over the office. To the woman postmaster, disappounce of the Zep dat it he announced his capture of a Ger is possible some of those who were, an expeditionury force. held responsible might seek him out and try to do him harm.
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Here he was interrupted by the *** I'd commander of the Zep." Seven years before the war bega. like to telephone to my wife," said the officer was assigned to intell the latter. gence duty. Between that time and. The commander was refused the the day the danger of war bestiane request, but after delibemtion, the apparent, he had been in Garmacy stle agreed to permit him to nuch of the time studying aircraft sand a telegran While the tele-:
The army
production and particularly, the dere was being written." the con kopment of the Zeppelia. Needless stable made a great ceremony of dis- to say, no German ever got an op- arming his prisoners. portunity of learning who the student po nearby was notified of the kind. of airuaft design really was. ting of the great airship.
The day ur was declared, the As soon as the disarming, process officer enlisted in the Germany army, was completed, the "Zep
com-
His optitle for airplane work and mander and his men were locked up. his seeming willingness to put his But the telegram to the command- shoulder to the Kaiser's whoel soon "er's wife, sent her burying to the
She notified the com guined for him the confidence of his telephone
manding officer of the troops in Eser immediate superiors.
of the Zeppelin commander's iden- city.
USED SABOTAGE OCCASIONALLY, He worked tirelessly and witla,
When a thorough identification eciency that was seldom seen-hud been made, the officer was lur- the Gemen officers thought. Occured, to London in en automobile. sionally, it is understood, he man-
aged to delay important work. A At the War Office he made his re- the time he lived under the strain of port. Congratulations were shower: Knowing that German Zeppelins were ed upon him by some of the highest
officer in the British army. almost nightly raiding Englund's, small towns and that his own wife and children in their home, in Essex, might be killed.
LEARNED GERMAN SECRETS.
Meanwhile, the Zeppelin was being eared for. It was dismantled and
But the British War Office had taken to the British army's aircraft!
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assigned the task to him and lie museum, wire ten of the firing JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., No the TWENTY FIRST OR Hnt plugged on. The frightful strain parts. Its engines were taker, down
service made examination of its
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ARY ANNUAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the Offices of moment, he knew, some German and inspected for new devices. It Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, intelligence officer who End been en icient to say that from that on THURSDAY, the 29th May, 1919, duty in England might enter the at 11.30a.m., for the purpose of receiv Zeppelin plat and recognize him se ing the Report of the Directors together a British officer. He would be de. with a Statement of Accounts to 30thnounced, tried by military court and April, 1910.
REGISTER OF SHARES of the shot. The Company' will be CLOSED from FRIDAY,
One day, soon after he had de the 53rd May to THURSDAY, the 99th monstrated his expert knowledge of My, 1919, INCLUSIVE
Zeppers, he received an opporta
Well made Teakwood Dining Room Suite, large Dioner Service, Glase" Ware, &c.
W. S. BROWN,
Becretary. Hongkong, May 18, 1919,
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
Zeppelin, the British flying men thus Fearned more than they ever knew before of German aircraft develop-
ment.
It was the British intelligence, offi- cer's report of his discoveries in Ger. many that revolutionized the air defence work in England. Thereto
By Order of the Board of Directors,nity to try for a cominission. The love the military authorities. hud de- Gemoen air service was being depended solely upon listening posts pleted rapidly and anoce officers were, and airplanes for driving off raiding" needed. He took the examination Zeppelins. With the data the Bri- and passed it. He was complimented tish were able to devise new methods.
His commission enabled him to of coping with the menace.
The intelligence officer related the work with even greater «nocess. "He had necess to records and drawings, great fear of Germany's Zeppelin und he never let an opportunity of commanders that some thoughtful
cizing important details in Ger- Briton would realize that the Britis any's plans for aerial development. airplanes could not climb quickly of-the above Company will be held at
planes were needed as well as an tmined that ire was a living en-
inflammable bullet. the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 29th May, 1919, at Cyclopedia of German aeronauties. NOCH, for the purpose of receiving the The inost secret of the pluns sooner! Report of the Directors together with a or later passed before him and were Statement of Accounts for the year photographed on his brain. ending 30th April, 1919.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the ANNUAL ORDINARY
Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large and GENERAL MEETING of Shareholdera So thoroughly had his memory bear enough and that fast climbing air-|
amall Wardrobes, Toilet Tables, &c.
Singer Sewing Machine, Electric Fittings, Pot Plants, &c.
(Full Particulare from Catalogue). On view day of sale. Terms -Cash.
1.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers Hongkong, May 22, 1919.
TAIYO & CO.
IAPANERA BOOTS AND SHOES
MADE TO ORDER.
Ko, S, Wadhwan st
MARTIN'S
APIOL & STEEL
SPILLS
K. French Machody ina ulj Levučn!netiion. Those ei kadint always kungi a bez, of Hard's in the bou be had on the ind
merly of the Sym
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Chart thread then, hafal that man mw m 40 Chephe Throughout the "Wild, "or" pon kenn MARTIR, Gonds, Toribinglen, Radi
MARTIN'S
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LEDPILLS
HIB TIPS GET MESCLTÄ. Both the fast elimbing airplane and the inflammable bullet wrere per- fected. The next Zeppelin that tried COMMISSIONED A CAPTAIN,
to bomb over Eng and was brought! The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Again, for reasons best known to down in flames.. Company will be CLOSED from the the German officers, the British in- 26th instant to the 31st instant both telligence man was the recipient of engine," which was nothing more or days inclusive.
,
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
"General Managers. Hongkong, May 19, 1919.
LLOYD'S REGISTER OF
- SHIPPING,
NOTICE.
The Germans next tried the "silent
bogowe.
less than drifting over England with "You are hereby commissioned a the engines lenced. That proved captain in the Emperor's air ser-unsuccessful on the first attempt. vice," said the commanding officer The Zeppelins, five in number, drift- to him one day at headquarters. ed over England at night," were still Thank you and the Ad High. there the next day because the en- gines had" frozen and the crews est," replied the Briton.
That night the German commander were unable to start their. The five Over France sent for him: The two were closeted continued drifting, together for several hours in the they went, to be attacked by "French coromanding officer's quarters. When and British airmen and brought the British officer left he carried or down in flames.
ders pacing-lim in command of a That was the last time the Ger Zeppelin Several practice flights mans tried to toss bombe down on THE
PHE Undersigned JOHN LAMBERT and cruises were made before the women and children and it was the SRIP and ENGINEER SURVEYOR Germans felt that the now captain nerve and resourcefulness of thei to the sbors Society being transferred could be trusted with the command British army officer that spoiled their to Europe, the surveying duties will in of the finest Zeppelin the old Count carefully arranged scheme.-Japan
Advertiser. the future be attended to by Mr. J. S. had yet designed.
GARDINER, MIN.A., Bhip Surveyor Officers who had been on murder.
and Mr. T. 8. MORRISON Ship and ing expeditions over England showed FOR A LAME BACK. Engineer Surveyor appointed from him how the bond releases worked THEN you have pains or lamenean in New York to this port.
(Sgd.) JOEN LAMBERT,
Loyd's Register of Shipping,
Alexandra Buildings
May 23, 1919.
Hongkong,
and gave him tips on air currents and anti-aircraft batteries located along England's conet,
W the back batho the parts with Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice a day, massaging with the palm of the band for five minutes at each application. Then dampen & piece of Bannel slightly with this liniment and bind it on over the ing expedition over England. He set of pain. For sale By all Chemisto was ordered to "bry for raitions and Strekce pers.
Then come orders for the new captair to undertake his first bomb
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