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THE
Auction,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, ON
THURSDAY,
the 19th May, 1904, at 10.30 AM., at Messrs. DODWELL & Co., Ltd: Godowns, Wanchai,
A GREAT ASSORTMENT OF STORES, Comprising:-
PAINTS, ROPE, PACKING, ENGINE and DECK STORES, STEERAGE BEDS
WHEN MAKAROFF SANK..
HIS PLANS FOR THE CAMPAIGN SAID TO BE LOST WITH HIM.
Following is from a Paris corespondent of a home paper.
Intimation.
THE WORRIED WOMEN. They say men must work and women must weep; but alas, in this too busy world women often have to work and weep at the same time:1] Apart from the official telegrams which all Their holidays are too few and their work' It makes them the papers publish in extenso 1 quote the de-heavy and monotonous.
The depressed and tails supplied by the various special correspon- nervous and irritable. dents telegraphing from St. Petersburg, worried woman loses her appetite and grows thin and feeble. Once in a white she has spells of palpitation and has to lie up for a day or two. If some disease like influenza or malarial fever happens to prevail she is almost certain to have an attack of it, and that often paves the way for chronic troubles of the throat, lungs and other
The Malin correspondent learned the following version from a high functionary at the Russian Court, which was issued in a third edition at four o'clock this morning, and dis patched just before midnight last night.
Admiral Makaroff had gone out on the Pet
Intimation.
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Port Arthur. After proceeding slowly for as hour he caught sight of several ships, which, upon his approach, withdrew, They led him on till he saw the enemy's fleet of 30, including battleships, cruisers, and torpedo-boats. The admiral at once reversed engines and began
to return.
When within two miles of the entrance to the roads a terrifying explosion occurred. There was a gigantic upheaval of water, in the midst of which the flagship herself was flung bodily into the air.
The huge ship turned a complete somersault, Rod, with the exception of the Grand Duke Cyril, who is a fins swinimer, five officers, and 50 men, who were the younger aud more active, the whole 830 officers and crew went down.
In spite of all subsequent searches the body of the admiral could not be found. With him has gone the secret" of his plan of campaign, which was with him on board.
The Grand Duke is safe, and, beyond bruises
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The calamity (ook place in full view of the enemy's squadron. Consternation is general here, for everybody had complete confidence in Makaroff, who was a real Skobeleff both in appearance and capacity.
It is stated that one of Mme. Makazoff's ser- vants at breakfast on Tuesday ran into the room saying that the report was current that the admiral and hundreds of seamen had been Robinson telephone, her alarm was allayed, and the the 10.2, CONDUIT ROAD. 5 Rooms, en-lown to pieces. Madame rushed to the Road. Reat $130 a month, inclusive of Taxes.
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in the evening for Peterhoff. At three o'clock in the afternoon of the disaster she was at the house of the Chief of the Staff, and nobody knew it even then-12 hours after it bad hap. pened.
The Petit Parisien St. Petersburg corre spondent, telegraphing at an early hour this morning, says the Grand Duke Cyril and the officers who were on the bridge at the time. were violently flung into the waves and were saved.
Admirals Makaroff and Molas were in their cabins at the moment of the explosion. The Grank Duke Cyril has both legs injured, but not seriously, and has burns about the face and hands.
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The trials have resulted just as I should haveing veterans who can anticipated," was the opinion of Mr. Eugene "Shoulder a crutch and show how fields were Beaumont, who has been responsible for some of the finest buildings erected in London during recent years. "Whenever possible, I advo- cate the adoption of hardwood staircases; they have always been proved far and away superior
"I won't be numbered with the wounded," and safer. A solid beam stretching across a building will stand firm when everything else he once told the surgeon who had just extract-
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A cone point upwards indicates a typhoon to the North of the Colony.
A cone point upwards and drum below in- of the dicates a typhoon to the North-East_ Colony,
A drum indicates a typhoon to the East of the Colony.
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A cone point downwards indicates a typhoon to the South of the Colony.
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The ugnals are repeated on the fagstaff of the Godowa Company at Kowloon, and also, by day only, at the Harbour Office and on H M's Receiving Ship.
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a strong gale of wind is expected to blow here.
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