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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, AFFRAINERS AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions-
THE
THE Undersigned have received in wtractions to sell by Public Auction,
02...
TUESDAY, August 3, 1930, commencing at $30 p.. at No. 8. Middle Road, Kowloon, A Quantity of Valuable Household Fornitura,
Comprising
Tenk bateandblackwood music net, stools & tempors, Chesterfield hes & armchairs, curved cherry- wil card table, teak desk & bookcases ailk embroidered pictures, tapestry curtains, carpets, rugs, electric Sitings Felc., etc.
Teak extension dining tablet chairs, reak sideboard, teak dinner waggon, toak ice chests, tea tables, teak flower! stands, dinner, service; etc, etc.
Doable & single teak & iron bedsteads,
doable & single teak wardrobes, teak
dressing tables, teak chests of drawers, enamelled baths, pateat basins, etc, etc. Also
Pantry & Kitchen Requisites,
Izd
1 Victrola with cabinet & 40 records,
1 Singer's Sewing Machine with elec
trical attachment
1 Aviary with 11 caries.
N. B.--Most of the above furniture
were made by Messrs. Wm. Powell Ltd.
On view iron Monday, the Pai August.
"Catalogue will be issued.
Terms: Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Jaly 29,"192"
PUBLIC AUCTION.
S. S. "WING HANG"
NO THAT
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE STEAMSHIP →WING HANG" as the lies Dear Shamshuipo in the Harbour of long- kong. Will be sold by
Order of the Mortgages by
PUBLIC AUCTION,.
TUESDAY, the 10th day of August,
.1920,
at 12 o'clock Yoon,
by
MESSES LAMMERT BROS.,
.Auctioneers.
at their Auction Rooms in Baddell
13
Street
The Ship is a Chinese Ship register-
"ed at Canton.
Her dimersions and tonnage are approximately as icllows,
Length:-140 ft. 1 inch REGISTERED
TONNAGE:
Cross-127
Net 204
Breadth 25 ft. 3 inches Depth: 5ft. 6 inches alher speed is about 10 Knots.
Fr farther particulars and condi-
sick of sale apply to
Messes. WILKINSON & GRIST,
9, Queen's Road Central,
OC., 10
MESSES. LAMMERT BROS.
Duddell Street.
Auctioneers.
HE Undersigned have received in-
Tatructions to sell by Public Auction,
од
»FRIDAY, August 27, 1920,
at 12 o'clock (moon),
at their Saice Rooms, Duddell Street, (For Account of the Concerned),
The Wreck of the
8. 8. "CHIYO MARU," as she now lies off the Lema Islands.
Terms: Cash on fall of bammer when the wreck will be at parchaser's risk, LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, July 30, 1930.
Burglar and Fire-resisting
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KLUCK'S APOLOGIA.
GERMAN FAILURE IN 1914.
HIS DIFFICULTIES.
Armies retained their cobesion, and by timely retreat were enabled to play their part in the Battle of the Marne.
BAD INTELLIGENCE.
in
BROKEN NECK CURED,
Arising out of the Tonbridge mixed-bathing controversy is the fact that the secretary of the Tonbridge Swimming Club, Lieutenant R Leonard, has a broken neck, writes a correspondent of The Daily Mail,
He told me this remarkable fact! himself. Physically, except that he cannot more his head sideways, there is nothing to show that his secord vertebra was fractured at Gallipoli He is a robust, strong-looking man of 35, still in the Army as a records officer.
Beyond the fact that he suffers from constant noises, resembling the drone of machinet, in his head. Mr. Leonard told me that his broken reck worries him very little. He can swith (breast siroke only).
The doctors say that he may hope to live as long as any healthy man of his age, provided he takes care of himself.
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Though he is regarded as interesting case," they have pro- nounced him "cured,”
Liest Colonel Repington fas con The Germans appear to have cos. at the end of August tributed to the Morning Post the fol- cluded lowing review of "The March on that they had nothing
of them bat routed Paris and the Battle of the Marne," front
Armies. Their information from by General von Kluck:--
General von Kluck seemed to our Paris was bad. The French railways public at the opening of the war the had done splendid service, and by Commander of all the German bringing up troops to form the Army Armies, because his Army fell upon of Maunoury enabled this General to our Expeditionary Force almost launch on September 5 his attack on isolated at Mons, and overthrew it by the Oureq. Von Kluck had at this dint of superior numbers and arma- time two different and conflicting ment. Actually, of course, von Kluck missions. In the wheel to the south only commanded the First or Right east he bad to follow in echelon German Army. To him fell the main behind the Second Army, and to be operative task during the Black Week responsible for the fank protection of August 22 to 29, 1914, while at of all the Armies. The intention of the Marne there fell to him the task the German Supreme Command was of resisting the attacks of Maunoury to drive the French in a southeasterly and the British.
direction from Paris, and as von Kluck thought small things of the Paris gar. rison he had at first the operation to Based on Dusseldorf, and having the southeast much more at heart for his first duty the defiling of his than the defensive flank guard role Army of 200,000 men through Aix-la- which was also committed to him, Chapelle in long and swiftly moving He therefore passed on to the south- columns, von Kluck was at first in east with his best troops, leaving in Hentesh personally, he would have dependent, and we can well admire adequate forces to protect his Paris raised strong objections to the retreat, the good Staff work which success. fully overcame the preliminary diff-flank, and, indeed, instrad of remain Von Kluck was evidently a strong izg in echelon behind the Second man with strong and independent culties and launched the Army north Aray" he was almost in front of it. views. He rarely saw eye to eye
the Meuse upon its historic and
It was not till 7.15 am, on Septem with thé most important mission. But then ber 5 that he received the direction to which appeared to him to lack we see the difficulties under which remain between the Oise and the coherence in its ideas, and when- the Commander laboured. He was Marne facing the eastern front of ever he was placed under von placed under General von Bulow, Paris, but von Kluck was still set on Bulow he usually objected to any commanding the Second Army on his southeastern mission of pre orders received from him. But it is von Klack's left, and Bulow was ference, and he determined to force certainly true that be was badly more concerned to secure the support the enemy in his front over the Seine informed of the situation of the other of the First Army than to allow before turning back to carry out his German Armies and of the enemy.
to go on the great strategic
now clearly appointed task. Only and the hold of the German Supreme. mission to which von Kluck con-
on the evening of that day did there Command over its Armies appears sidered himself destined. Bulow also deprived von Kluck of reach him from Luxemburg news throughout to have been somewhat of the strong concentration the feeble after the first impulsion which enemy at Paris, and the same night had been studied quietly in time of came the report from his own troops peace. of the presence of, strong forces at Von Kluck speaks in generous Dammartin.
terms of the fine delence of the
it
Von
Marwitz's Cavalry Corps, which was
:
Supreme Command,
MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1920,
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really indispensable for covering the front and flanks of the marching wing, and he constantly acted as a damper upon the energies of the First Von Kluck was largely responsible Brish troops. He is probably Army. Von Klack himself was not for his own difficulties. He bad not right in his estimate of his pro aware til August 22 that the British obeyed the directives of the Supreme per mission in Belgium. At the were in front of him, and he retained Command in the letter or the spirit, Marne he cannot escape criticism, throughout the obsession that the and he was now compelled to draw but to suppose that any failure of British communications led to the back all his troops to the north of his was the real cause of the French Channel ports. The result the Marne to meet Maunoury's at failure of the mighty gar'de would of all these hindering circumstances
Once the Anglo-French was that both the Belgian and the tack, leaving in front of the British be unfait. British Armies escaped him, and that: at first only rearguards and Marwitz's Armies shook themselves loose after while he gained tactical successes by Cavalry, and, what was worse, lay the first misfortunes of the war, pre- sheer weight of numbere, he failed the gap of a whole Army front served their alignment, retained their in the strategic envelopment which between himself and you, Bulow spirit, and held together without stood at the base of the whole plan. penetrated, arid had You Kluck dewhelmed, the great blow failed.
Army. Into this gap the British suffering themselves to be over- In the distant haven of Luxem layed his retreat to the Aisne for 24
Yön Kluck is correct in asserting, burg the German Main Headquarters hours it is nearly certain that the as he continually does, that the Gerous were too far away, to control the German Armies would have suffered man right, was too weak on the Boda operations, as the great Molth
a disaster.
Marne. But he held up Mannoury would certainly have controlled
when he had recalled all his troops them. Directives were few and far between, and they took long to Colonel Hentsch's message from the to the Ourcq battefield, and to that reach the distant troops. There was the Supreme Command, delivered extent carried out the real mission at this time no system of Groups of about midday on September 9 to which was given to him. It was Armies, and the higher direction of von Kluck's Chief of Staff, was the rather a general than a local want of the strategy was faulty. The original immediate cause of the retreat, and superiority that brought abut the plan was sound and bold, even if as von Kluck himself considered the defeat, and over all the strategy of diplomatically indefensible, but, in position of his own Army at this the time there hovered the Russian effect, if Sir John French and General moment to be "thoroughly favour menace, and the absolute necessity Lamrezze were heavily smitten, their table, it is possible that, had be seen of making a quick end in France.
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