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A Quactity of Valuable Household Furniture. (Full Particular from Cataloguej. Also
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WEDNESDAY, August 24, 1821,
commencing at 11 am.
at Hoit's Wharf Kowloon.
A Quantity of Miscellaneous
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Comprising:-
Steel plates, Tin plates, Round flat and square Iren bars, icon hoops," tubes, Iron washers, Angles Iron, Rivets. Bolts, Wire, Cable, Type- write: supplies. Faist, Earthenware, Quaker oats, Emusion etc.
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THURSDAY, August 25, 1921, commending at 11 am
at Quan Lee Workshop, Hungbom. (For Attoast of the Concerasd),
A Quantity of Miscellaneous
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Comprising:
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Antifriction metal,; Engine parts. Rivets, Bolts, Nuts. Washers, Files, Wacd screws.
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FRIDAY, August 28, 1821, Commencies at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, & Very Fine and Superior Selection of Gennins Old Chinese Caries of Extreme Rarity.
Compriting
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cloisonne vase, evarzelled plater, bowls, Languered MID panel, side-table, chairs, Schon Blackwood chairs inlaid with porcelain panels. Mandarin cats, and Fercelain. c Kanghi, Yungching, Kienlung, Kabing and Towkwasz perioda Inciting Scrolls of Toog, Sarg. Yuen, Ming and Tsing Dynasties.
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Shansi soldiers firing on them as they i crossed. His men scattered, lacking i ammunition.
He fled to the hills for safety and little by little he gathered his men round him again.. Then a piece of luck overtook him, for a young officer with his regiment threw in his lot with him and Fergsiang was again Writing from Lanebowiu, Ken, on in his possession. His position streng Joly 12, a N. C. D. News Correspon-thered and his troops more numerous be decided to make an attack on dent said
Sian and kill the man who had be trayed him, Troops in plain clothes secreted themselves in the city, and a revolution was to break out on a certain day. An unsuccessful at- tempt was made on the life of the Tuchun, but this forced matters to a
Since the dawn of the Republic what changes have been taking place in Chica! How much of the "see saw" life many of the officials have been leading. To-day at the top, to morrow at the bottom, to-day sitting in high places, tomorrow in fight. In the case of the Governor of Shen-head, the revolution treaking out a si, Chen Shu-fan, who has held his few days before the date fixed. position for years in the face of much opposition and of decrees from Peking ordering him to resign, we have the seesaw of political drama agam on the stage.
FIRST ACT IN THE DRAMA.
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IRISH CRISIS..
Lospos, August 18th. The Sinn Fein authorities in Dublin announce that Dail Eireann will con- in a private session on August end. sider the reply to the British proposals it is understood that Dail Eireann is departmental at present attending to reports.
STARVING russia.
WASHINGTON, August 191b. Mr. Hoover announces that complete agreement regarding food relief for Russia has been reached at Biga, and preparations are being made for the despatch of food ships from New York to Dantzig.
Mr. Hoover has published a letter from President Harding, in which the latter the Administration's project. says he trusts that America will support
SILESIAN PROBLEM.
Losbos. August 19th. The Morning Port's Paris correspondent says that Viscount isbit has convoked a meeting of the Conseil of the League s
Pre- Nations for August 25th, at Geneva, to limtuary arrangements will then be consider the Silesian question. made, after which the real discussion will be adjourned until the meeting on September 15th under the presidency of 3r. Wellington Koo.
SOME OF HIS OWN MEDICINE Kuo Chien's troops held the whole of the South Street and tower on the main street. They fought valiantly and there were heary losses on both sides, bat finally had to withdraw. The other troops We go back to the early rears of under their leader, Kuo Chien, arriv- the Republic and we find Lu Yanged too late to save the situation 30 hsiang (?) Tuchun in Sian with Yes they retired to their strongholds at Hstangwa and Feng Yu-hsiang as Fengsiang and Kienchow,
In March of this year he accused his lieutenants. Kuo Chien, formerly an ordinary soldier, had gathered a one of his officers of treachery and lot of rufians round about him who shot him, which caused dissatisfaction barassed the soldiers of the Tuchun, among his officers and men, An Chen Shufan, a small military officer other officer of his sent word to the at that time, threw in his lot with Tuchun that if he would send his Kuo Chien and became one of his soldiers, he would open the gares to i Beutenants. They beld several cities them. Troops were sent, but the including Hsienyang, Kienchow and officer changed his mind and fired Fengsiaoglu The Tochun reinforced, upon them."
Angered at being deceived the made a determined attack upen Fengsisng, but failed and his son fell Tuchun seized the officer's old father and other members of the family and into the hands of Chen Shu-fan.
Unknown to his leader Chea Shu-threatened to put them to death. fan set out for Stan with his prisoner. The officer as an offset held the Re and there began to make terms with C. H. Stevens as a ransom. the Tachun, to relinquish his posi came the Peking mandate appointing of the court, which finally gase Shimidzu tion as Tuchun. to hand over the Yen Hsiang wu Tuchun of Shensi, te set. seals of office in exchange for the life and soldiers were sent under the
TREACHERY UPON TREACHERY.
Then
DAVIS CUP.
New York, August 19th. in the Paris Cup, Frzee played hard in the first few sets, but Shimiden manag- ed to bale the Indian with twist shots Fyzee played Shimidza to a standstill and to pall him out of position. in the third set, and there was an ac cumulation of shots into the art and out
Except in the fire set, when Sleem's
KILLED BY FLIES.
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of his son. This was agreed upon leadership of General Feng Yu-hsiang great placing enabled him to work the and the Tuchun was permitted to to carry out the will of Peking. Japanese out of position, the match was Kumagse returned the vice was soft. have so many carts for luggage, etc. Chep Shufan increased his troops to an easy win for Kumagne. Sleem's ser- The prisoner was handed over and guard the fortress at Tongkuas and deliveries to where recovery was impos
sible. the seals of office given in exchange, oppose General Feng.
His
TUCHUN CHEN DUSTED. then Lu set off on his journey.
Suddenly the troops of the new followers exceeded the number of carts bargained for, so Chen Shu-fan's Tuchun were reported to have crossed soldiers looted all the carts. This the Yellow River at Hoyang, so resulted in another parley and finally Tochun Chen's troops were obliged he got away and Chen Shu-lan, to retire from the Tongkuan to avoid General Feng reaching instead of inviting his leader to take being surrounded.
advanced and office, usurped the position for him- then
Lintonghsien, 60 li from Sian, the self.
news reached him that Tucbon Chen had fled. The day after general Feng's This act of treachery made him ill arrival at Stan, the new Tachon Yea at ease, so he offered Kao Chien a good position, being still afraid of arrived and took up his position. These same two men, Tuchan Yeu Then be offered to assist him and General Feng, were the lieut- to drive Tuchun Yen out of Taiyuan enants of Lu Yung-hsiang (?) whom that he might become Tachun there, the fleeing Tuchun compelled to re- at the same time, he wrote to linquish his position as Tuchun many Tachon Yen inviting him to come years ago. A teal see-saw: Chen and attack Kuo Chien saying he Sbu-fan was up and now he is down. would help him. Kuo Chien, innoi P.S. La Yang-hsiang, who was the cent of the treachery, crossed the father-in-law of General: Feng, was Yellow River with his soldiers at shot by Hse. Shih-teng at the back Tongkuan, Ammunition and stores of his house after having invited him were to follow later. When crossing to a feast there. the river, Chen Shufan's soldlers:
him.
THAT DROWSY FEELING AFTER MEALS"
At the Lambeth inquest on Charles Steer, nineteen, joiner, of Battersea; who died in St. Thomas's Hospital, it was stated that death may bave. occurred through contact with a swarm of flies.
The lad's mother stated' that he went out on his bicycle and in the ervening when he returned he said to her: "Two dogs as big as you flew in front of my bike on East Hill, Wandsworth, and threw me off. He added that he had scratched his arm and chin.
Next day he went on his bicycle to Worthing, and on his return ́said
•he bad been bitten by a swarms of fired upon them. Bereft of ammuni-
flies. They were so thick that he tion he fed direct porth; the Shemal
could scarcely get through them. Tochun's troops in hot chase after
The following day he became so il them. They looted and burnt the
that he was taken to the hospital places they passed through, and so common at this time of year is due Just take a couple of
Dr. Leslie Maxwell, bouse physician Gnally were able to recross the buggish lives Yellow River opposite Heyang, the Pinketten, the dainty little liver rero- #2 St. Thomas's Hospital, said that when Steer was admitted he had a ka pada bolators, tonight, and see how much
Broster and better yerli fel, to morifi-nigh tenperatirs, and as entering considerably. His chin and elbow were alighdy inflamed, and nep ticemia set in, death taking place from blood poisoning, setup, either by some foreign material getting into his chin or by ties. Se
returned.
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SUPPOSED PARIS THIEF CAUGHT IN SYRIA.
The man who is alleged to have of mothers at the National Baby stolen £10,000 worth of jewellery Week Exhibition, Central Hall, West-belonging to the wife of Mr. Joseph minster, the three things that they Smouha, a Manchester merchant, needed most
then staying at Claridge's Hotel in "How would you like to go into the Champs-Elysees, has been arrest big room, where you had your owed at Beyrout, in Syria.
family table, give your children their The thiet was traced to the Hotel dinner at one o'clock, and find after Lutetia, on the other side of Paris, wards that there were no dishes to but when the detectives arrived to be washed up?" she said. A smile
It was found from papers in an spread over the faces of most of the rest him he had left. mothers. Such a communal kitchen abandoned suit-case that the wanted is one thing that you want," she con man was aged 22, born in Constan Houed.
tinople of French parents. His real "How would you like that most name was Lionel Wiet, but it is arduous day of your lives-washing asserted that he had been passing day to be made simpler, to get rid under more aristocratic names, such of the steam, the smoke, the heat; as Lionel de Montfort and Raoul and nutidiness of it all? How would d'Abricourt. He was suspected of you like to take your washing-in a having been concerned in several bag to a place where irons were frauds as well as hotel robberies. ready waiting for you, never either Arrested at Beyrout, Wiet, it is too hot or too cold for you? Think stated, confessed to having stolen how nice it would be to have no Mrs. Smouha's jewels, and told the clothes hanging about in the kitchen police that he sold them at Marseilles airing. A communal laundry is the on his way to the Levant. He had, second thing you need."
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