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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1924.
SCHOOL OF DANCING.
Mme. Kelvey
The well-known professional dancing teacher, takes pleasure in annomeing that she is com mencing classes for Adults in the latest modern dunting. Fox Trot, Twary, Waltz, Classca for children from three years of age in Clansi- eat Clog, National Ballet and -Toe-Dancing. Pupila trained,
gracefully Individual Style Studied and developal. Correct arm movements und graceful exercises taught. Special atten- tion given to auch, pupil, also Private lessons give Нотон visited by appointment. Tarms moderate. For appointment write or phone butween 12.30. and 2. p.m. daily, Mme. KELVEY, Kowloon Hotel, Room (49),
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
SE WORDS & INKERTIONS, 91. PREPAID.
Every additional, word i Clende
for 8 insertions.
WANTED.
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WANTED In Central District:
Hongkong, one bed-sitting room with bathroom attached. Apply to Box No..318 c/o "China" Mail."
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LEE KEE
Agent for
HENRY RICHARD.
TILE CO'S
We have a largo stook of White Glazed Wall Tiles, Colour Gissed Wall Tiles, Ceramic Mosaic
Tiles Geometrical Encautio Floor Tiles, Tile Grates.
Fire
Inspection Invited.
Showroom: 21, Wellington St.
*THEATRE
Tel C. 1483.
and S or Ferry, Lady's small gold mesh bag containing gold vaulty box, Gift from deceased relative.
·Reward, 5, Torres Bldgs., Kowloon.
FOR SALE,
FOR SALE Kellett Manor being No. 185. The Peak. Possession next May. EL Percy Smith, No. 6,
Des Voeux Road Central.
FOR SALE Five-roomed House fully furnished with Lawn Tennis, Court and Garden.
House has excellent location on Severn Road, The Peak, overlooking- South. Possession March, 1925 Apply Box No. 316, c/o "China Mail."
TO LET,
THE CHINA MAIL.
HIGH CLASS BOOTH AND SHOWS
Made to order. ROYAL & CO.
No. 1, D'Agullar Screat
INTIMATIONS.
A GRAND HALLOWEEN
CONCERT
will be held in TAIKOO CLUB HALL'
st 9.15 p.m, on FRIDAY, 31st Oct. Admission . $1.00. Proceeds in aid of M, C. L.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE No. 19, BING WAN STREET.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG.
MESSES. LAMMERT BROTHERS
have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
on FRIDAY, the 7th day of November, 1924, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at their Duddell Street,
sales rooms in Victoria, Hongkong.
The Valuable Leasehold Property situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and being the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 778. The Property consists of
ON KIANGSU BATTLEFIELDS.
RUINED AND PILLAGED VILLAGES.
LIUHO TO QUINSAN LAID. BARE,
[From "N.C. Dally Newa"]
The appalling disorder of the now partially deserted war area as described by recent visitors to the scene is one which will be felt for
·many years –to come. With the ravages of war, looting, and the neglect of crops in what was one of the most prosperous districts in China, not to mention the spread of disease, the recovery of the war zone to anything like Its normal stale will be a long one,
Shanghai, October 27.
Taitsang was fairly quiet during the war. When visited a short time ago all the stores were closed, and most of the inhabitants had left. Looting took place in, the outskirts. This town also suffered during the Taiping rebellion, and has never recovered its former pro sperity.
ANTING IN SHOCKING STATE, Anting which was the scene of How Liuho has suffered espe
a considerable amount of fighting, cially in virtue of its position and especially towards the end of the prominance in the recent conflar, has suffered more than any other place. The city and the sur gration, was described on Saturday
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but a few details may be added.ounding country are almost strip- ped bare. At the station the Situated both on the main road to Shanghal and the steam launch and sour bread, besides other re- messes and piles of rotten meat route to Quinsan it naturally form-fuse, have made the place almost ed an important contre of activity, uninhabitable. Files are to be seen As it stands now about three-fifths in swarms and malaria and dysen- of the city was burnt on Septem- Relief work here has been carried tery have become quite common. ber 23. The remainder is more on during the whole war by the torn and shattered by the shelling local business men with the help of the big guns from the river, of outside relief units, while the Episcopal Mission Church has been. than any other town in the whole converted into an Army Y.M.C.A. war. During the heaviest part of the war it was occupied by troops of both armies alike so that the fighting was chiefly of the nature of street warfare, resembling that villages during the Great War. In which took place in many French
the garage of a Chinese Motor Co., who before the war ran a service between Lübo and Shanghai, six sadly mutilated cars were to be seen when recently visited. Five others, it was stated, were removed by boat by the Kiangsu army. The building itself was badly damaged by shell fire while within the offices a notice warned visitors not to enter
All that pieca or parcel of ground situate at Victoris, Hongkong,, known mugemine TO LET. Two Godowns, or and registered in the Land Offon
shops, in DUDDELL STREET The Romaining Portion of Inland Lot For Particulars apply to H. Rut-No. 778. together with mounge areo tonjes & Son, 16, Queen's Road.tions and balldings thereon erected and known No 19, Hing Wau Strest. residue of the term of 999 years from The Property is beld for the unexpired the 3rd day of June, 1884, created by an Indenture of Crown Leses dated the 13th day of July, 1885, and made between bor lato Majesty Queen of buses Victoria of the one part and Chau King of the other part.
ROYAL TO LET-Office Rooms in Central position. Apply Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Bulidings:
A. CARPI Presente
The Italian Grand Opera Co.
TO. NIGHT
SATURDAY Nov. Ist
MONDAY Nov. 3rd
TUESDAY Nov. 4th
WEDNESDAY Nov. 5th
THURSDAY Nov. 6th
FRIDAY Nov. 7th
SATURDAY Nov. 8th
MONDAY Nov. 10th
Traviata
Rigoletto
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
Tosca
La Boheme
Carmen
Lucia de Lammermoor
Mignon
Madame Butterfly
Barbiere de Siviglia
TUESDAY Nov. 11th
Booking at Anderson's
INTIMATIONS.
EX-ACTIVE SERVICE MEN'S ASSOCIATION (1914-1918.)
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the above Association will be held at the Club Rooms, 17, Queen's Road," on FRIDAY, 31st inst at 5.30 p.m.
T. N. MACREYNOLDS,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 80th October, 1924.
NOTICE.
WE beg to notify the public that we are trading under the names of "Pow ON WO COM- FANY," "PO ON WO & COM- PANY" and "POW ON WO," all these names being correct, as our patrons already know.
For further particulare apply to:- Mouers. D'ALMADA AND MASON,
Mortgagee's Solicitore or to Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
The Auctioneers.
Huangte has suffered chiefly through the peppering of rifle and numerous shell holes is well bat machine gun fire, and with the tered. Like most of the war area sanitary conditions are very bad to clean things up in order to and the civil governor has asked a group of doctors and workmen check the spread of disease. Many of the canals have become infected on account of the number of dead bodies both human and animal.
Nanziang, which has been ravaged by the looters, has not escaped damage by fire in the central district of the city seme 200 houses were burned last Friday and Saturday. Here the soldiers apparently went wild and the officers were unable to keep them in control. This the higher officials were undoubtedly desirous to pre- as a mine had been placed there.vent and they were much chagrin- Outside and in the environs of the ed at what took place. 5,000 are stationed at the town signs of fighting are to be refugees
Methodist Church. seen.
Quinsan, the headquarters of General Chi during the war, has been freest from looting and dis- order of almost any town though a little looting has taken place on the outskirts. Business is now brisk and back to the normal.
proceeded
Acidity The Cause Of Indigestion. Once get rid of acidity, and A full attendance of Members is away go indigestion, gastritis, requested.
sickness or whatever form your The trenches made by the stomach trouble may take. To Cheklang troops are far superior banish harmful stomach acidity it from the point of view of construc is only necessary to take a simple. tion, having been made for a stub, antacid product known as Bisurat-born defensive. Like many of ed Magnesia. This preparation the trenches in France they are stops all trace of acid fermenta- constructed with connection
FARMERS FRIGHTENED AWAY, tion the instant it enters the trenches and covered passage
For an area of about ten miles stomach; it prevents even the ways for the purpose of supply possibility of pain and ensures show evidence of good planning. lines the farmers have left their distribution. On the whole they wide on each side of the fring that your food will do you good. Most of Lluho's Inhabitants since fields to look after themselves, Doctors recommend Bisurated the looting took place have fed. Large quantities of the cotton Magnesia; hospitals use it, and Some have made for Shanghai crops have been lost through sheer grateful people everywhere recom- while others have
neglect. The amount trampled by mend it in the hope that others northward along the river.
the troops in action is proportion- will be spared the torture that
ately small. As to the rice crops, they once endured. Let it help That we the said firm are you any chemist can supply this
if the refugees can return, to their At Kading the city has suffered fields soon enough there is a chance carrying on business at 20, Chung remedy at little cost in either some damage from the gune and of their being saved. The crop Inoy Narn Street, Canton, China. powder or tablet form. When rifle fire though unlike the state of this year is an exceptionally good buying be sure to see the word Liubo, The big new cement.
one and is the best for many years. Also that we are in receipt of "BISMAC" in an oval device on pagoda recently built, though used Around Quinsan and Taltsang drafts from various parts of the the wrapper if you want the one as a range finder, has escaped farmers have started to make some world. Some of these drafts SURE remedy for your stomach damage, strange 16 relate. The attempt to harvest the rice. They having miscarried, waylaid or disorder.
city, though looted, shows no very have lost heavily as the result of great signs of distress, hardly any the war on secount of their live of the inhabitants. having remain-stock being commandeered, their See it osed. Kiangsu troops made their tools looted, while levies have been every stand here while Cheklang soldiers | made upon them; From some of Package held the city and had access to the the little towns of three or four East gate. During the day time, thousand inhabitants as much as when the line was usually quiet, a $20.000 has been demanded. great many of the Chinese civili- nus and farmers were able to make their way through the lines be tween Liubo and Kading.
TUNG SANG been stolen, we beg to notify all
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20th October, 1924.
POW ON WO Co.
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NOTICE.
WOULD Misa Maris Heveria, or
anyone who knows her where- abouts, please communicate with Mr. W. c/o Mr. Cheng, Peking Hotel, Kowloon.
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ONGKONG PUBLIC
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Rab the soles and instepe' sightly with Zam-Buk, whose powerfil curative ess- ences sink doep into the tender Infamed tisans, rooting out the cause of the tren. ble: Zam-Bak ls soothing and purifying it icile the, poisonous germs of inflammation and: disease, - meid swiftly basis' sore render parts with strong new skin,"*").
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MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
Colchester's mayor-elect to succeed Mrs. C. B. Alderton is Dame Catherine Hunt, who is 70.
There were 700,573 railwaymen
ful. Large numbers of troops are in Great Britain in March, an being transported both by rail and increase of 18,795 in a year. There has been loss, looting in by canal to the north and has Kading on account of the presence resulted in a great deal of con
At Aylentane, Leicester, 1,500
CROWS NEW SKIN LIKE
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Two wineglasses engraved with the Stewart Rose have been sold for £10 at Oddo Hall, Winster, Derbyshire.
Thirty members of the band of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the first Canadian regi ment to reach France, have come over to play at the Wembley Exhibition;
Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith, the novelist, and the Rev. Theodore P. Fry, eldest son of Sir John, 'and Loir Fry of Great Ayton, Yock- shire, was to be married at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on October 10.
of General Chu Hsi, one of Chi's gestion. Rallway authorities are concrete houses, at in average cost generals, who during the war was doing their best to straighten things of £490 saclip art be built. stationed at Chuchichiao, some foot but the task in a difficult one. four miles west of Kading. Gan-Those refogue who Have returned eral Chu kept good order and fed have shown remarkable plack and Rides, Datchet has won theatred to celebrate the 100th birth- many refugees.....
the extraordinary versatiilty which Hing's one for the best root crops day of passenger railways next
Near Kading is situated the tomb of the late wife of Mr. Wellington Koo. The deceased was buried in great pomp and was placed in a glass coffin contained in one of metal and that again encased in an outer casket of wood. This has been broken tate several times though re-closed There are still a good many Kiangsu troops around Kading and these are mostly making their way along the canal to Quinsan. Others are proceeding, to replace the guest troops (troops of other provinces) who are returning. northward-
LOOTING RIFE.
For the
the eighth time. Mr. John
is characteristic of the Chinese. in Bouth Buckinghamshire. One is struck by the marked absence of Cheklang troops in the
British companies are being
Summer Certain trains will be. decorated and it is hoped to com Nearly £200 lost on the Isle of memorate the opening of the Stock- war areas. Many no doubt have Wight Apriultural Show in July ton and Darlington Railway on a deserted, though it is to be hoped was more than covered by a jumble national scale. that this number is comparatively ale of farm stock at Newpart. small. This part of China has in
the past been one of prosperity At Glagowa tatue of Lord like the bandit ridden areas of Linter, the pioneer of antiseptic Northern Chips, and the presence murgery, has been unveiled. of a large number of disbanded soldiers is not likely to improve peace and tranquility.
· Best Cough Mediatos Made
There is no better medicine anada solda "them Whitesberlain's Oodgh All the towns between Kading, Benedy. It sols on nature's Taitsang and Quinsan have rolleres the tunes, open the secre ruffered badly as the result of the aids expectoration and restores war, and looting has also beenywhere.
system to a healthy condition rife. Ona exception is the little town of Ponlongchen, which had a' local definen- fören) With a for wwws: Panlongsban in not alterbed son any, main canal and hence was Foll-wo zront nerátoriaimportance, lik
comparativo qufettions hai mrkth
out the whole cor
and, and Beotlar putea de train The engine Londod Mid- from Alderley Edge Cheshire, [crashed into the buffer stops.
London-road Station, Manchester, Lincoln Cathedral
ration mounted the platform and ran into faka. Kas received '£5,000 from Ma cloak-room and the station Excroll Héhnia, of Boston, United master's office. Sta@oo...
On a charge of abandoning her titi ar obvaldering the cor newly born baby, which was found
ximating pool, in a paper parcel in a wood neuz.
the Chelford Cheshire, Irene Dale, 18, was Bound over st Knutsforil.. Her mother, Mary Alice Dale, 48, whợ feld der hand at Hands, mid she never haw the child, was
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