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Auction
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TUESDAY, the 29th May, 1928, commencing nt 11 a.m..
etc.
at No. 227, Nathan Road (Leys Bulidings), Kowloon, A Quantity of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Comprising:--
On View from Monday, the 28th May, 1928,
"Torms:-Cash on Delivery.
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School of dancing for children and The Undersigned adults in character, "classical, ex- hibition, fox-trot and Charleston.
Special Attention to stout Ladies who are desirous of regaining their youthful figure. Address -31, Ashley Road, Ground Floor, Kow at No. 9, Middle Road, Kowloon. loon. (Back of Star Theatre).
don.
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SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received
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CHINESE SERVANTS.
MRS. DE LEMOS RESTORED TO HEALTH BY POO ON CHINESE HERBS.
with heavy rifle and gun fire from both sides. The "Reds" now have several guns out this way some- where. One in particular, firing ¡from the Hung San sends a shell
which appears to pass right over Disease Several Doctors Fall to Suffered from Complication of our house, and so with the shells Give Keller-Poo On Chinese Herba of the guns replying from the city. Give Immediate Relief-Now Well It is only the report of the gun and Strongly Recommends This and the thunderous roar of the Simple Treatment to Friends.
us to keep the sides
shell that disturb us. yesterday naked
Red officers
Mrs. J. K. De Lemos, who re- at 518 Bixteenth-street,
I
has been
Last Year's War Experiences. Mr. Wm. H. Smith, manager of the Wesleyan Soldiers' Home, little side gate in our compound Modesto, California, U.S.A., suffer- whilst home on leave recently, reproduced in a Kentish newspaper wall open, so as we sit here weed for many years from a complies- others who interesting extracts from the diaries he kept while engaged in can see the Southerners running tion of many diseases. Doctors fold by at intervals. The space beber sha was suffering from heart tween Dixon's house, and the schoolj Wesleyan missionary work in various parts of China.
Continuing his story from where we left off in last Saturday's is particularly exposed and when and lung trouble. After treating there is firing the bullets can be cided to try the Poo On Chinese with several doctors she finally de- "China Mail". Mr. Smith says:-
heard cutting through the branches Herbs. She says:-"I treated with of the trees, Luckily not many
several doctors, but none seemed The Red Army,
about the rifle and machine-gun seem to come low... Several sol- Wednesday, September 1We fire, not that we have exposed our- diers came in a while ago and are I had been suffering for a long to give me any permanent relief. Cabinet, Tapestry Covered Easy
arose at 5.30 this morning.
We selves unnecessarily, on the con- sitting on our verandah drinking time with catarrh of the head, in Chaira, Wicker Chairs. Electric
had a fairly good night, but were trary, we have avoided as much tea, smoking, etc. Most of them: Fans and Radiator, Dining Table,
disturbed by the shouting of the as possible going out of the house. are of the coolie class. More join-digestion, gastritis, constipation, nervous headache and bronchial Dining Chairs, Dinner Waggon, Ice
the street and other This morning during a lull in the ed them until we had a score or | Chests, Kitchen Table and Dresser, TN Accordance with Ordinance people on
They asked us for rice but asthma; and also suffered severe Wardrobe, Dressing Tables, Wash- No. 5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE noises which pointed to trouble. firing Dixon and Duff went over so. stands, Iron Bedsteads with Mat- BANKS will be CLOSED for the As we could not get any break to the latter's house to get some we could not offer them any and Pains in my chest, my heart also tresses, Couch and Armchairs, etc., transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS | fast, we decided to try and get canned foods from his store room. contented them with tea. We were giving me much trouble with pains on MONDAY, the 28th instant. into the city as that Tregear could Our food supply is getting low in able to carry on conversation with. and at times seemed to stop beat- go to the CC.U. and. I myself some things, e.g.. butter and sugar, some of them and met some of ing, which seemed to give me. Catalogues' will be issued.
Hong Kong, 24th May, 1928.
would make for Wesley. We but we have plenty of the essen.. their officers, who speak a little fainting and smothering spells, I found little difficulty in getting tials such as flour and milk. The English. Their rifles are German could not eat anything that would men to carry baggage, but even- cook bought some potatoes and Mausers. We were relieved when not give me distress, turning sour and forming much gas. I started gate saw HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.tually I sent three off with mine, mies on the street, and the school an officer passing our
to the College. When we reached coolie brought us some beef back them on the verandah and called the Poo On Chinese Herb treatment the small gate leading into Wu- from Hankow yesterday before the them away. The officers are very just in time to save my life.
Some of them now consider myself well and am chang we found it was closed and battle began, and we are making it amartly equipped. THE
MEETING will be held (wea- ' as there was no possibility of it in last. The Chinese servants are are from the Whampoa Cadets and much stronger and gaining every ther permitting) at Happy Valley any way opening, I sent the men behaving splendidly in spite of the Kan Sz Tel (Dare to Die day. I am able to take care of my have received on SATURDAY, 26th May and with my baggage round the out their obvious fright. The bucket Brigade). Scores of soldiers have household work and can work by Public MONDAY, 28th May, 1928, com- alde of the city, and I walked with woman came round yesterday in passed our gate this morning, run-around the yard without the least
menciag at 2.30 p.m. on both days. Tregear to another gate, which we the cheerful mood she
This cure assumes ning around our compound to the discomfort. The first bell will be sung at 2 learned might possibly open. when asking for her monthly wage, North, Many carried long ladders simply wonderful in my case and p.m.
When we arrived there we found, whilst the rest of us were taking as though their intention is to I have recommended the Poo On The charge for adrofesion to the hundreds of people outside all shelter behind the verandah pillars scale the city walls. We could, Chinese Herb Treatment to several from a sudden nasty burst of gun see them from our upstairs win-of my friends who are receiving Public Enclosure will be $1 per day waiting to enter, and as we were for all persons including Ladies. the only two foreigners, it gave fire. She performed her daily duty dow, advancing on the run along the most excellent results,
Soldiers and Sallors in uniform them something to do to come and amid flying bullets and bursting the road to St. Hilda's (another'. IF YOU ARE SICK, INVESTIGATE
generally inspect us. After wait-shells with calmness. As Dixon mission school near to Wesley) to- Members are advised that they ing for an hour with Trogear, and Duff returned a shell burst, wards the Taoist Temple Hill.
The Red Cross. must show their Badges to obtain decided to come on to Wesley Col-without warning in one of the tall admission to the Members Encio-lege myself, round the same way willow trees in front of the old Friday, noon. Red Cross men Catarrh,
the men had gone. Tregear decid-
The empty shell was and casualties are coming back.cough, tuberculosis branches. Each member has the right to ed to wait there and if the gate did building and knocked down some and stretchers are now in evidence, Catarr
the not open soon he was going back found afterwards in one of the There must have been many dil hay fever, malaria,
Indigestion, constipa Members Erclosure, tickets for te Hankow. 8.20 a.m.-Just arrive empty class-rooms where it had ed and wounded on that temple, trouble, whom
It was a dropped, after passing through a hill this morning. Bombs thrown tion. gastritis, piles, diarrhoea, obtained fromjed at Wesley College. be
at long walk, and as I passed the brick wall and a wood and plaster from the city wall seem to be astola, female trouble, nervousness Mesers. Linstead & Davis ench per day up to Friday, 25th City wall I noticed all along the partition. One or two more close most destructive. One of the ser-insomnia, obesity, kidney, bladder top, soldiers stationed at intervals bursts drove us to Bonsall's cellar, vants says he saw a bomb explode trouble, Bright's Disease, diabetes, neuralgia, dropsy, The charge for admission for f about & yards, with their rifles beneath the store room, where this in a tronch on that hill and the rheumation,
ready for any emergency. 12 diary is being written. We are as occupants scatter. The wounded pyorrhea, epileptic fits, paralysis, Ladies to the Members' Enclosure noon. By eleven o'clock the Re-safe here as we can be on the are being put in our school chapel, dizziness, headaches and many will be $2 per day.
volutionary Army (known, here by compound. but in case we were where at present there are more other chronic diseases, have Each member can obtain, upon the name of the "Rede") were intrapped by falling debris, we than sixty. After we got rid of been restored to Health and happi- 1928, japplication to the Secretary, striking distance of Wuchang. thought we would like to have our soldier visitors this morning news without polsonous drugs or
Badges for admission of 2 Ladies Dixon, Duff, Bonsall and myself some tools
at hand to dig our we had our breakfast, consisting the knife by the Poo On Chinese free of charge.
are here and the Rev. B. B. selves out. Duff decided to go to of rice, porridge, toast, marmalade Herbs. Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etce Chapman Is at the Union Normal the engine room for some, but a and tea. We are trying to save
Dur-THE POO ON CHINESE HERBS CO. tera, will not be permitted to School about 800 yards away couple of frightened servants came tea, sugar and butter, etc. operate within the precincts of the Later. When we were eating our to warn us that a shell had struck ing breakfast several shrapnel YEE FOO LUN, Chinese Herbalist, Managing Director, Over Twenty- Hong Kong Jockey Club during pudding we heard a bang which the old school building, and an- shells burst over us and the bullets
five years practical experience in made us say "That
on the football struck our roof. We collected sev- the Race Meeting,
was a close other had landed
America curing the sick with one," but we went on until a few field. However, Duff and Dixon, cral afterwards. The nose of one
Chinese Herba Hong Kong, 19th May, 1928.
minutes later a second and louder went to get the tools, passing at shell smashed through the win- Main Office: Modesto, California. crash made us all jump up and the back of the old building. They dow sash in Tregear's pantry and Hong Kong Office: 82A, Queen's Road look for a safe place to hide. Mr. had a look at the damage on their damaged the wall opposite without
Central, 1st Floor. Bonsall's coolie came in looking return and found that a dud shell going through. Another shell nose Entrance: 66, Queen's Road Central. white and frightened, and said he had entered near the ceiling of was picked up behind Bonsall's office Hours: Dally, 9 a.m: to 12 p.m.; had seen a shell come over from the old library, and passing, house. We have picked up sundry MR. LI HON FUN begs to state the direction of the Hung San through a brick partition wall into rifle and shrapnel bullets which
that he has been a teacher of (yellow mountain, quite near to a
class-room had just enough have either entered the house or
A' Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Catalogues will be issued.
half price.
On View from Monday, the 28th May, 1929,
Bure.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, May 24, 1928.
THE Undersigned tave received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON WEDNESDAY, the 30th May,
commencing at 11a.m. at No. 5A, Jordan Road, Kowloon (First Floor). A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE. (Particulars from Catalogue.) On View from Tuesday, the 20th May, 1928,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, May 24, 1928,
Auction
ON
THURSDAY the 31st May, 1928, commencing at 10.30 a.m.,
at the Cafe Regent,
Pedder Building,
Ground Floor,
A Quantity of
FURNITURE and SHOP
FITTINGS.
Comprising:-
Couches, Oil Paintings in G Frames, Desks, Tea Waggons, Car- pets and Runners, Folding Screens, Peel Chairs, Flower Tubs and Plants, Celling and Table Fans, Electric Lamps and Shades, Type- writers, Ice Chests, Wine Waggons, Peel Tables, Teak and Tile Top Tables, Teak and Cane Seat Chairs, Wardrobes with Mirrors, Enamel- led Bath, Stoves, Wall Clocks, etc.,
also
introduce 2 non-members to
can
May, 1928..
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
THE
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Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
Strikes and the Anti-Tinderige hale cubic fierchants in Hong Kong for more Wesley), and disappear over Duff's energy left to go through the other fallen in the yard outside. Some instructions to sell by Public more house. We all went and sat at the wall of the room near the floor of the refugee people have left than twenty years, that he has had back of Mr. Bongall's house, Duff level, and was lying there in the this morning as their steck of rice Foreign Agitation
considerable experience in training and myself under some concrete
a heap of shattered is very low. Some ten shells burst passage in students for examinations in Chinese, steps, and the other two behind a masonry. Lots of street people,'over our school yesterday morning, and holds irat-class certificates,
wall, for an Kour or two, while the man, women and children are in all shrapnel, which have spatter- Persons wishing to study the
as also are ed walls and windows but fortun- Chinese language
are requested to firing continued, and bullets could the school buildings,
Rifle bullets communicate with him at. No. 104 secasionally be heard whistling the Chinese masters and their ately hurt nobody.
overhead, or the terrifying roar of families. The "Reds" are all are striking in large numbers in Prays East, first floor.
In shell bound for the Hung San. around us, though not in large one particular portion on the door Terma moderate.
It seems that the bang that gives numbers
and at present,
the of the geography room, which is us such a start each
came Northerners are all inside the city. riddled. It is pitiful to see the from.one of the guns, in the It was funny to see them yester women with their little bound feet city. There seem to be two there. day, lining the city wall with their hobbling away with their babies in Sorry now I did not wait with umbrellas up, because of the rain. Tregear-I have just run into a The first we had scen of the trap-but must hope for the best."Reds" was yesterday afternoon. We can sometimes hear the burst when Dixon and Tung (one of the of the shell at the Hung San, but Chinese masters), went out and that is comparatively insignificant spoke to three Red scouts, who were having tea in the tea house The gun itself sounds like a ter rific crack of thunder going off near our front gate. They were all without any warning right on top well armed and equipped and made, A lady who had suffered for years of us. That is the long range gun polite enquiries as the disposition with indigestion told the writer that firing a high velocity shall which of troops, etc., and affairs in the after trying almost every remedy she go so far that we often cannot city.
They said that the main was certain that nothing would do: her any good. Strangely enough she hear the burst. The other gun troops were behind and were ad- had not trled Bisurated' Magnesia, gives a more modest report, but vancing and would take Wuchang, which is the remedy that is used by its shell bursts nearer. The that night. They paid handsome thousands of one-time sufferers and is
many doctors The recommended by "Reds" appear to have no big gune, ly for their tea and left. up here yet.
"Reds" warned us this morning As is usually the ease, this lady's that we were in danger from shell, trouble was due to excessive acid con- a condition ditions of the stomach, Chinese, Servants.
fire, and we thought the idea was that is rectified instantly with 'Bleur-X Thursday, September 2-The to get out and proceed by a round-nted Magneala, which neutralises acid-
ity and prevents fermentation Now LONDON DIRECTORY guns stopped last night about 9 about route to the river bank. We this lady would not be without 'Bisar with Provincial & Foreign Sections and p.m., and though acattered rifle hastily picked up a few things to ated Magnesis, because it has prov- fire continued till after midnight, carry along, but were told that we ed once again to be a sure remedy Trade Headings in Five Languages, we were not worried by that, and could not.go. In any case it is not for acid-caused digestive troubles, and enables traders to communicate direct
now she feels better and looks better with had a fairly good night, lying, the very safe out of doors, due to strayhan she has done for years, Blaur- MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS four of us, on our mattresses on shells, and not to mention bullets.ated Magnesis is sold in both powder in London and in the Provincial Towns the floor. In Dixon's study. Thurs:
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A Large Quantity of Kitchen Gear, Dinner and Ten Crockery, Glass Ware, Cutlery and Linen and One Grand Piano
On View from Wednesday, the 30th May, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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ing lights down. We persuaded Bonsall to come out of his cellar and sit on Dixon's verandah with Es, near the study end.. Here we have the whole bulk of Tregear's eld house, as well as Dixon'a be- tween us and the fire from Wu- chang. No fire is coming from the other direction, the "Reds" big gune not yet being in action, and they are doing their rifle shooting from the top of the hill by the railway cutting, just outside the big east gate. Our compound is practically in line with the city wall, the Taoist Temple Hill and the Hung San. Hence we get all the stray bullets which the North- armers on the wall are firing at the "Reds" on the top of the Temple
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