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FLAMMERT BROS.
AVONOMIIKS, ÅFPRAISERS AND SURVETORS”
-Public Auctions-
THEN Undersigned have teesired intrus thons to sell by Public Auction,
ON
TUESDAY, December 21, 1920. Commencing at 11. Ball.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. A Consignment of High Class 'Ladins' and Gent's Boats And Shooa
A Selection
And
of Lalies
Cowtumes,
Dresses, Cloaks in St and other materials, (from Paris)
Ferme-Cast on dslivery.
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.
035
QVEDNESDAY, December 22, 1920, commencing at 12 a'clock (uson)
at their Sale Boots Duddell Street.
-35 cases Heidseick Extra Dry Cham-
parte, (qts)
15 cases Duc de lionaco Champagur,
(qts)
50 cases Salamander Brands,
4500 cases Salamander Brandy, No L
34 cases Australian Hook,
44 cases Old Tom Gin
.16 cases French Vermouth,
(in lots to suit all purchasers).
Ou view now.
Terms
Cab on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS
Auctioneers.
CTO
THURSDAY, December 23, 1920
commencing at 5 p.m.
at their Bales Roams, Daddell Street
A Fine Selection of High Class Cat Crystal Glass-ware. comprising:-
Bois Dishes, Decanters. spirit] bottles, scent bottles, vases-Al
etc.
On view from Wednesday, the 22nd
inet.
Catalogues will be issned.
Terms Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers
Hongkong. December 18, 193
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply to
LAMMERT BROS., Daddell Street."
MASSAGE.
Mr. HONDA and Mra. HONDA Trained male Macker. 12 years' experience.
Formesis of Tokyo Military Hospital. WILL VISIT PATIENTS RESIDENCES IF FEEFERRED No. 24, Wyndisin Ftreet. (Opposite to the China Maz)
INSTANTANEOUS WATER
HEATERS
For Gas and Oil Unlimited Hot Water.
EG.E. WARREN & CO., LTD. Nos. 3039 Des Tour Road Central.
Established 1900
THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of
refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than hen treated by ordinary ethods.
Our processes are thorough and zelíabia. Our facilities and re- urocs enable us to carry ont sil quickly and our charges are Lessonable,
rite for Frice Zist and See!
The Diamond Dyeing and
Drycleaning Co,
Agent,
CASSUM AHMED.
eneral Desper.
Wellington Streat
Phone 7461.
Nathan Road, Kowloon.
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM,
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PRICES are Very Moderate. los rection and Ecqnities are cordially invited.
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Sol Agents far:Hongkong and South China, 1
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Xmas Presents
Stamps, Albums,
Lucky Baskets,
and
Toys,
no cheap prices. Inspection invited.
GRACA & CO.,
DEALERS IN RELIGIOUS BOOKS, Toys, PHILATELIC "Goors, SEEDS, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box $20.
Hongkong-
JAPANESE MAKERS:
Every kind of Footwear.
MADE
TO
ORDER
CHERRY & CO.,
PEDDER STREET,„ Opposte Hoagkong Hote!
Telephone No. 49.-
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
MASSAGE HALL
Graduate from Nagmati Manige school. MAS. HAN INOKUCHI -
Phone No. 1
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1920
NOTICES.
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WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
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Sold by all Tobacconists
This Advertisement is immed by Eritish-Americas Tobacco Oo (China) Ltd.
ROBBERS I'VE MET.
"The light and the fragrance which our honoured guest has brought to our tents will now he soon taken
TRAVELLER'S EXPERIENCEE." away. He will stay with us many
SOME OF THE PALESTINE SPECIES.
days or at best until the next day." I was regretfully insistent that I had to leave almost at once. As in duty bound I added that I would leave my
heart behind. The chief urged very strongly that I should stay. I learned
1
OUR V.C'S.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
TASES TO WHICH MORE THAN 150 HAVE RETURNED.
Unknown, you may at any moment of to-day be rubbing shoulders with
says a home paper.
one of the V.C. heroes of the war,
There are now more than 150
afterwards from the interpreter that the position was that the tribe had been raided the previous night and winners of the Cross back in their the sheep intended for eating carried old civil occupation in this country. away the chief was anxious to kill They are unknown heroes except to a sheep in my honour, and a day's their immediate circle of friends delay, would have given him a chance doing all manner of work in any to raid some other tribe for one.
number of different towns. At Ludd I was to catch the train
are
few of the tasks by
Z
Here
batter:-Plamber, furniture dealer, van driver, milk seller, merchant, docker, farm worker, general trades, policeman, tobacco salesman, stock broker, shop assistant, railwayman, commissionaire, cotton Labourer, spinner and sailor.
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Fort Said Passing along the Street of David in Jerusalem, I paused a second in doubt as to the turning which led to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, says a special correspond ent to the Morning Post. That second was sufficient. A youth with the face: of a Fan Lippo angel was at my side. You desire to go to Church of
he murmured back to Egypt. From Jaffa to Ludd, which VC's earn their bread and Saint Sepulchre,”
a distance of about tight miles, the He "I will go with you.” gently:
way was by a little light railway a was of a serene and gentle beauty. IDecauville track such as that by felt it as something of a privilege which we criss-crossed the way up that I was to accompany him, to his to the trenches in France. By rising devotions.
at 5 am. I got a place on the light! Entering the Church he led me to railway, and then learned that a a-shrine, preseried me to its guar- breakdown on the line made it doubt- dian priest and urged the claims of ful whether the main line connected There was still holy charity. I parted with tea could be made. piastres. He took me up some steps time to catch the Ludd train by a to a group of priests and I was horse carriage. I engaged one. A provided with a taper. I paid ten fare of 150 piastres was insisted more piastres. That gentle lad then upon in place of the proper fare of led me to more shrines than I have 30 piastres; the driver knew the rail- since been able to rediscover in the way position. I took on with me a church, and at every one I paid out. Syrian railway employee who was Finally we arrived at a very shabby anxious also to get to Ladd quickly, place with a very shabby priest in and who spoke English as well as charge of the collection plate. By Arabic. Half way to Ludd the driver this time I had misgivings as to my stopped and said that he could not homeward viaticum, and my con catch the train unless he were tributions had tallen to a five piastre promised another 50 piastres. basis.
"You had better promise it. You This is the Armenian church, a need not give it at Ladd," said may very poor, a very unhappy church," fellow-passenger.
Will you tell him exactly what I said the young angel reproachfully,
as I fished for a five piastre note, tell you now?" Mortified with shame I paid over
twenty plastres.
The Syrian promised.
"Tell him, then, that if be does Then our devotions ended and the not whip up his horses at once I little saint led me out to the street. He offered to conduct me to some other church. But I felt that I raust not fall into the ways of the Pharisees and be ostentations in religious practices. Besides I was by this time barely solvent. So I refused.
"It is twenty-five plastres," he said in a voice of gold.
So he was a guide after all! I paid ten in the hope that he would swear. He took it with a sad resignation as a just man takes the taunts of the wicked. I learned afterwards thai
will take him by the scruff of the neck, tear off his ears, throw him out, drive his show to Ludd myself, and then turn the horses loose." I tipped the hilt of my revolver for emphasis I am conviced that he interpreted faithfully, for those horses got an astonishing move ond.
Hardened, as I was by the foregoing, Moses simply had no chance. Moses was a priest in the vicinity of the Sphinx on whom I was paying a call. "I am Moses," he said; "you are" goverpor man, a big man. I tell
he would get 50 per cent, commission your fortune.
on what I bad given to the priests, He made astrological, cabalistic
The following list shows the pre- sent occupation of many of those whose names were on every one's lips at some period or other of the
WAT ****
Captain G. H. Woolley, late of the! Queen Victoria Rifies, the first Territorial officer to go in the great award (at Hill 60 1915), a school- master. He is at Rugby.
Major Cloutman, in business in the midlands.
Mr. A. F. Saunders, a Territorial V.C., in business at Ipswich.
Sergt. John O'Neill, of the Leinster Regiment, and Sergt. J. R. Ockenden, of the Dublin Fusiliers-either may be seen passing to his work any day. in the streets of Portsmouth.
Capt. C. H. Frisby, an officer of the Coldstream Guards, who won the V.C. in 1918, is now back on the Stock Exchange. “
Lient. Commander Percy Thompson Dean, RNVR, who was voted the Cross for very conspicuous gallantry and daring in handling a motor launch during the immortal attack on Zeebrugge, is a member of Par- fiament, a slate merchant and bas interests in the cotton industry.
Sergt John William Ormsby, of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, a green- grocer at Dewsbury,
Welsh Sergeant. Robert Bye, Guards, a London police officer.
George Wilson, Highland Light Infantry, a theatre commissionaire.
Sergeant H. B. Wood, Scots Guards, employed by the Anglo-
district.
The chief of the tribe was absent signs on the sand. I was a little dis-American Oil Co., in the Bristol. when I called at their tents not far posed to humour him, balted perhaps from Jericho. One of the old men by his flattery, clumsy routine stuff received me and coffee was prepared, that it was.
bitter, and without sugar, Soon after
How.rauch, Moses???
the chief appeared who had learned "Fifty piastres!” that my visit was expected and bad Like Pharaoh's, my heart hardened. hurried back to his tent, Coffee was I was not 50 piastres foolish. Too served again this time with sugar-much of a bull rush, Mases a little store of the precious sweet in the Americari dialect..
was obtained from the chief's tent. Frightened by the language be We conversed through an interpreter urged me further. After the robbers and then had a friendly, silent smoke of Palestine the Egyptians are feeble
folk, He broke the silence.
Corporal C. A. Jarvis, RE, one of the first men to win the Cross in 1914, an engineer at Walthamatow.
Sergeant Major G. Evans, Man- chester Regiment, an luspector for the N.S.P.C.C.
Sergeant C E. Spackman, Border Regiment in the employ of Mesars William Whiteley, Queen's Road, W.
Many of the younger officers who gained the supreme distinction have remained in the Army,!"
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Koda and Koda 2 Films, &c. -
DEVELOPING & FRINTING A SPECIÁLIKY,
No. 174, Quits's Road CESTRAL, HONAKONG.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
OPERATING:-
THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND THE
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
J. H. TAGGART, MAYAOYS
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of—
Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Fax Extance, Electric Lifts, Fams and Lighting European Baths and Sanitary Fittings Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Service.
Telephons 173. Telegraphic Addram :----1 VICTORIA."
J. WITCHELL, Monzyw.
CARLTON HOTEL,
(VIS ONLY AMERICAN HOPED IN THE COLONY.)
ICE HOUSE STREET.
Under American Management Rice and quiet yet only a few mhamber walk from the Banks and Central Dutset. 4 Bedrooms, Excellent Culize, marupulously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and Family Pater on application to the Proprietress. Launches moet Passenger Boats.
Max. P. E. GAMEBON. Telegraphic Address "CARI/TON."
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry),
Recently renovated" and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Cairine ander the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms. Terma moderate. Special terms, to famides on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphie Add: "PALACE”
HOTEL
J. H. OZEGREY, Proprietor.
‘ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON.
ед Booms
Suite &
with private Baths. Roof Garlen, Hairdressing Saloon,
Excellent Cuisine.
etc.
Moderate Rates
$1
Tourists.
Leading Hotel in South China.
given Special attention Under the Foreign Supervision of,
"TANG YUK, Daszt,
bastam SDEN-TING, $14, 17ACITAS BILDE. TERMS VERY MODERAT
•*Comeshillon, Fred.
THOS. G. HUTCHINGS.
FRENCH LESSONS
MOUSSION
15. Morrison 2000 MARK.