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PREMISES TO LET
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME ORIENT
French Bank Building, 5, Queen's Rd. Tel. $1063.
MODERN FLATS
4 Roomed, Corner Prines Edward
Road&Waterloo Roads.
Roomed, 310, Frince Edward Road with Garages
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1933.
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET-Ground floor and Bass, Tment bathroom
Newly-built concreta bonsa, Nà. 38, Wyndham Street, suitable for office, etc.-Kwong Sang Hong, 250, Des Vaux Road.
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Roomed, Prince Edward Road next HOTEL (PRIVATE)
to Railway Bridge,
MODERN RESIDENCES
5 Roomed, 211, 217, 291, 295, 829 and 233, Prince Edward Road, with garag
8 Roomed, 11 & 13, Belfrar Road next to St. Theresa's Church, with garage,
+
Road Residence, 14, Chatham
7 loomed, 281, 286 & 94 Prince Edward Road, with, garage. 719, Nathan Roul
14
Semi-detached houses, 168, 170, Boundary Street, Kowloon. Rooms, (internal communication) Suitable for a Boarding House.
MODERN SHOPS & FLATS
In Cambay Buildings, Nathan Road
2, Burd Street, Hongkong. 163, Queen's Road Central, Hong
Kong.
FLATS TO LET
PEAK TO LET - One, modera
unfurnished Hat convis ing of. four large rooms, two bathrooms, drying room, etc. Situstad close to Peak Tram Station. Ready for im mediate "occupation. Apply J. E Joseph's Property Dept Prince's Building. Tel. No. 20910. (629
To
[NO LET-Four and five momed flate in "ABERMOR COURT" May Road. Ready for occupation on 1st December, 1933. Served by an automatic lift and equipped with all modern fittings including Westing- house refrigerators. For further particulars and rental apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO., LTD.; Alexandra Building. [1878 TOT--Flat No. 8, (3rd Floor)
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Treadle Models from HK. $90.
Also The Latest
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HELMUT NOCHT French Bank Building,
5. Queen's Road, Central.
TEL. 21291.
J. TOMINAGA
PACKING CONTRACTOR
ANY KIND OF PACKING PROMPTLY EXECUTED
Ask:..
YAMATO
10, Johnston Road,"
or
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13, D'Aguilar Street,
Telephone 20690.
THREE and four roomed Flats in Humphreys and Carnarvon "Buildings, Kowloon. All modern con- veniences. Moderate rentals. Apply
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PREMISES TO LET То
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Roome, Kayamaliy Fuilding, No. 20. Queen's Road Central.. Avai
Apply lable from December 1st. Kayamally & Co., at above address.
TO
28.
NO LET-A large storied fire- proof concrete godown situated at Wongsha facing Shameen, Canton, consisting of 3,200 sq. ft. suitable for Motor Car Show Boons or Engineering Work Shop, etc. A separate building, having windows facing front and side reads, Moderate Rental. Apply Evoug Bang Hong, Ltd., 250, Des Voerx Road Central, Hong Kong.
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TO LET-Ground floor and Base,
Tm bedroom and Flush) Newly-built concrete house, No. 39, Wyndham Street, suitable for office, etc.-Kwong Sang Hong, 280, Des Voeux Road.
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FIRST IMPRESSION OF CANADA'S LEGATION AT LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
LENINGRAD THE
SOMBRE
The
Palace--- Late Tsarina's And Her Ikon Collection
green.
literally not a space so large sa the palm of a hand which was not filled by one of these mute evidences of religious superstition.
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ΤΟΚΥΟ
Ottawa, Canada-Work is PUBLIC AUCTION. progress on the erection of a build- ing in Tokyo which will provide office accommodation for the Cana- dian Minister to Japan and his staff and residential quarters for THE Undersigned have reserved the finister, Br. Herbert Marler..
Instructions
TO SELL BT
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
The cost of the site and building ig not to exceed $200,000 (about); £40,000), and a Government anno uncement states that owing to the exchange situation the total cost to Canada will be less than the cost of the site alone in normal times. To TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 1933 save the necessity of an immediate outlay it has been arranged that CoMMENDING AT 11 A.M. Mr. Marler personally will provide funds for the work, and he will be repaid by the Government within ten years with interest at five per cent.
centre.
official and
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AT THE SALES ROOM,
DODDELL STRAIT
Bosna DRIED APRICOTS
"': also
À QUANTITY OF FURNITURE AND
GOODS
"J
Comprising:-
Electric Fans, Fairbanka" Scale, Bookcases, etc., etc.
Nothing more informative than a few superficial observations can be RGYLE PRIVATE HOTEL expected of one whose time in Conduit Read Telephone Leningrad was limited to a scant 23499, Single, Double and Boites.thirty-six hours, and who bad. Many ikons of old Russian origin Flash System Hot and Cold Waters. never before visited that once gran-are works of art, rich in gold and Excellent Cuisine. Temas reasonable
diose and impressive capital. It precious stones Not so the collec- Write or Phone Mr. J. Rassell.
is still grandiose. That is to say, tion of the last of the Romanoffs, the relies of its former grandeur of which many were utterly cheap the form of colossal; and tawdry More in pity than in
ridicule our guides explained this"] buildings, monumental-squares, and
A very satisfactory site has been miles upon miles of towering apart. on the theory that the Tsarina was ment housES.
But the squares are early terrified by the symptoms of secured in the main unkempt, il paved, and between revolution in Russia, and in the legation quarter of the Japanese! their cobblestones the grass shows very first days of her husband's capital, convenient to the business The property, formerly reign became convinced that only a "The buildings, many of them, are miracle could save the Empire, of owned by Viscount Tadotoshi Aoya- MISCELLANEOUS
The A Superheterodyne widgets dilapidated, with the stucco peeling the Tsars. She sought the miracle ma, comprises three acres. left. BUY NOW as Factory PRICES off the brick in great glaring par within the confines of the Orthodox chancellory and residence will be have been ADVANCED. RUDOLF ches. The apartment-houses, which Church. Her chosen counsellors constructed of reinforced concrete. WOLFF & KEW, LTD., Distributore,originally were of types that would were among its priests, and it was and special attention will be paid [530 have done credit to New York or thus that the illiterate monk Rasto making them proof against fires
Paris, now reflect the social condi-putin came to have his dominant and earthquakes. tions which have packed them with power.
The Japanese Government does at least one whole family to a sin- No ikon, however tawdry, that not own the offices or residence of gle room, and have domiciled in came into her hands was ever dis-its Minister to Canada. An sano- quarters analogous to Fifth Avenue carded. It might be the humble uncement is expected shortly that, or Beacon Street people whose agency by which the hoped for permanent quarters will be acquir homes, prior to the revolution, were miracle would be effected.
Who ed here... in the darkest abysses of the slums.could tell? And so more and more
To the casual observer it is this the unhappy woman gave herself. dismally drab, utterly down-at-the-over to superstition and an agony heel air presented by the streets of of apprehension,
Possessing that Leningrad which is most impressive strange power of persistence and and most depressing. Nor does the domination which sometimes accom demeanor of the people, so far spanies an intellect essentially weak, in my very brief visit I could see, she was able to: influence her hus-trope, temp,, Sept. 16. rectify at all the impression created band, and usually for evil. It was by their decrepit surroundings. It odd to listen te bur young Bolshevist is, I suppose, a confession of a guide talking of Alexandra, the bourgeois weakness that I should foreignhorn Tsarina, in almost the have found myself longing for a exact way in which historiana de touch of Bond Strees or Common-pict the French revolutioniste as wealth Avenue somewhere along denouncing Marie Antoinette, the these interminable ways
Austrian consort of Louis XVI.
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SITUATIONS VACANT.
"HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED.
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.
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The omnipresent cap of the work- ing man, no less than the omniab- sent (if word may be coined) stiff,
Surgn.-Lts.-H. E. B. Curjel,
MB, to Kent; and J. W. Caswell,
Wt. Engr.-W. A. Jones, to, Hello-
M.D., to Sandwich,
Royal Naval Reserve Lleuts.-F. A Bhaw, to Anthony (Aug. 19); W. H. W. Mathews, to Decoy (Aug. 22); R. S. Miller to Duchess and R. Corderoy, to De- Eight (Aug. 28): and E, A, Hamil- ton-Hill, to Ardent (Oct. 14).
Royal Navy H.M.S. Calcutta, formerly__dag- ship on the Africa station, will be next spring for conveying re-
white collar of the bourgeoisie, Naval Appointmentsuer crews to ships on the China.
gave an air of drab uniformity to the throngs of idle people who filled the sidewalks. Every day in Bolsh- iedom is Sunday to one-sixth of the population-qur seventh day of rest being abandoned. "If the street were crowded, as they were under the new system, one wonders what would be the case if the whole community, instead of one-sixth, were out for pleasure.
INTEREST IN NATIONAL
MONUMENTS: "
What did impress me and plea- santly-was a certain seriousness af thought and earnestness of devotion on the part of a great section of the Russian people in their relation to the history, particularly the re- We cent history, of their state, tourists were, of course, taken to the great national monuments-the. palaces of past Tears, the Cathedral Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul, the Hermitage and the national What first awakened was the my lively interest oemeanor of the scores of parties of Russians, young and old, who were taken on the same trip,, we. were making, and listening to the same lectures, presumably, in Rus- sian, that our guides were delivering in English.
museums.
It was, as I have said, a holiday, and evidently great number of the people, belonging to what in our country we would call the working class, preferred to spend their day in contemplating the his torical monuments of their nation rather than in play. We met them in the Winter Palace, where' with great eyes they stood dumbly con- templating rooms wholly walled with amber, or listening to the in- formation that one room was finish- ed, and largely furnished, with silver, because one of the Tsars bad become jaded with the spectacle of so much gold constantly surround- ing him,
Our own lecturer was in no way sensational, or purposely provOCE- tive, in describing the Inxury of these vanished rulers. Her lecture she was a girl of twenty, with charming manners, and both of her pareata are teachers in the univer- nity was a dispassionatee recoun- tal of historic or obvious truths.
She did not fail to emphasize the fact that the barbaric gorgeousness of the palaces was paid for in the labour, the sweat and, the tears of the people-I noticed that the fav. ourite phrase of American demago, gues, the common people," was never employed but there was 20 effort to play upon the emotions of her hearers.
THE TSARINA'S APARTMENTS For example. In the "New Palace, only a short distance from the huge and gorgeous edifice crect ed by Catherine II, the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra bad their apartments. The palace itself, among greet re- sidences, is commonplace.
The Tsarina's private apartments vero littered with photographic portraits and cheap prints of fami- Lar places after a fashion eminently English, V. One exotic note was fürgished by the innumerable icons hich covered the walls, In the bove, innfwhich stood – the twin eds of the royal couple, there was
station.
The Admiralty, notined the fol- lowing appointments.
Cmdrs.—L G. Bicford, to Comus,
London, Sept. 19, Lieut.-Commrs.-I. R. Clover. to Centurion (Sept. 14); F. H. E. Skyrme, to Pangbourne for course Sept. 29; E. M. C. Barraclough, to Sept. 297, and to Tamar (Oct. 27); Cyclops, in command, Oct. 13; EG. Glennie, to Blanche; D. K. Bain, to and A. L. Noakes, to Saltash, in. command. and for command of Brazen; L. D. Mackintosh, D.S.C.. minesweepers in reservo (Oct. 16). to Bondices; and R. F. B. Swth- Lieuts-M. B. Thones and J. Kley, to Basilisk, all in command, on L, Dickson, to Oct 10.
PUBLIC
TH
recomimg.
AUCTION.
HE Undersigned will hold a Unique Sale on
Monday and Tuesday, the 23rd and 24th
October,
1933.
COMMENCING EACH DAY 10 A.M.
No. 19, HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON.
There are Four Rooms fall of Marvellous Furniture, Carpets, Lamps. Pictures, Luscious Cushions, Jewelled Trees, Entire Sets of Table Ware.
Some Lovely Jewellery
also
A Full Line of Beautifully Cut Evening Pyjamas
and
Hundreds ef Exquisite Articles just right for Christmas Gifts for friends at Home.
The Sale is to be held in order to clear (a portion of the space in the Jade Tree Buildings, which is needed quickly for new departments, that the Management are inaugurating for the Winter Season."
Only First Class Merchandise this Sale.
included in
A Rare Opportunity to get just that lamp or other article to brighten up your home at your own price.
ON VIEW SATURDAY & SUNDAY, THE
21ST & 2280 OCTOBER 1958.
TERMS -CASH ON DELIVERY
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
TERMS-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
'AUCTIONEERS.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE STEAMSHIP ANJOU ́
Now Lying in the Harbour of Hong Kong
to be sold
IN ONE LOT
WEDNESDAY, THE 18TH DAT
07 OCTOBER, 1933,
AT 3 P.M. by
Masses. LAMMERT BROS., AUCTIONEERS,
AT THEIR SALES BOOM, No. 4, DUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONG KONG."
The Ship is a British Paman ger River Steamer registered in Hong Kong and was formerly on the Houg Kong and Kong Moon run.
Her dimensions and capacities are as follows:
Twin Screw Steamship”“ANJOU”`
Length Breadth Depth
142/7 feet
83 feet
10.2 fest
Gross Tonnage
589.49 tons
Registered Tonnage 363.84 tons Speed
@ knots or thereabouts.
For Further Particulars and Orders
to view, Apply to --
MESSEE. WOO & NASH, Mortgagee's Solicitora,
No. 4. Queen's Road Central,
or. to
MESSRS, LAMMERT BROS. The Auctioneers.
BY ORDER OF THR MORTGAGEES,
PUBLIC AUCTION
the
PRO.
VALUABLE (LEASEHOLD PERTIES étuste at Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong and registered at the Land Offon as Inland Lot No. 2354 together with the buildings. thereon now known as
Nos. 1, 4, 5, 7, 95 11 and 13; HEARD STREET
To be Bold
IN ONE LOT
од
THURSDAY, THE 19TH DAY
or OUTOBER, 1933,
at 9 PM.
by
M2438. LAMMERT BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS,
ÁT THRIE BALKIBOOM, No. 4, DUDDELL BIRENT, VICTORIA, AFORESAID.
For further Particulars and Con- ditions of Sale, Apply to
was. WOO AND NASH, Mortgagee's Solicitory,
No 4, Queen's Road Central,
* Hong Kon
Masek, LAMMERT BROTERA
The
"Auctioneers