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SIDELIGHTS FROM GERMANY
Pictures of Work on the Home Front.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
GEO. P: LAMMERT. THE Undersigned has received
| AUCTIONEER. APPRAISER
"AND SURVEYOR." "
THE
"HE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Pub-
The
Frankfurter Zeitung lic Auction on by its publiebre an article militare correspondent on "The Line of the Home Front," der criptive of auxiliary and other service as seen from the railway carriage on a journey between Bochum and Hamburg. It con- tains much of interest.
all
V
commencing at 10.30 am; at his Sales Rooms, Duddell·
instructions from the Liqui- dator of Messrs. WITZKE & CO. in pursuance of an Order of the Hongkong Government to sell by Public Auction at
12 o'clock (NOON),
ON" MONDAY
THURSDAY, the 28th. JUNE, the 27th day of August, 1917,
1917.
at bis Sales Rooms, Duidell Street, Hongkong. ALL the piece of ground situate at Yaumsti, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. 209.
Street,
Without reserve. (Liquidation Account).
+
-In One Lut The property consists of a piece of ground abutting on Bat-
POST OFFICE.
IMPORT PROHIBITIONS.
1917.
WEATHER REPORT
On the 16th at 1163-No returns' from Japanese stations. Premurs has de- creased considerably at Vladivostock, The pablic are informed the t the un-moderately at Welhalwei, and alightly ai mentioned articles are prohibited other reporting stations. Premore over fom Importation into the United Klog: Tongkin is now nearly normal. The d m, either by letter post or by parcal naribarn depression continues to travel
eastward. port-
Gold manufactored or unmanufactured incleding gold coin and articles consisting facture of Silver other than silver partly of or containing gold; All maru- watches and Elves watch cases: Jerel lery of any Lacríption.
Letters and Farcali "containing mach articles cannot therefore be accepted for tranun.ission by the Port Office.
.
FRENCH PARCEĻ REGULATIONS.
The Public are informed that the now regulations adopted by the French
There are indications of a depresion to the sast of Luzon.
Hongkong Hainfall for the 24 hour anding at 10 am. to-day, 0.45 inch. Total since January 1st. 37.07 inch
· against an average of 36.83 inches.
· FORECAST FOR THE 14 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW
District
Forecas
E. winds,
Hongkong to Gap Rock-moderate;
The writer, after noting that
A Quantity of Valuable the assistant guarde on the train.
Household Furniture. are women, goes on to describe
Comprising what he saw. It is Sanday, bat
Double brass & brass mounted the factory chimneys are
(near the Praya) in Kowloon and addressed to Fracce, Corsica and Algeria Formous Channel - smoking. The entire in instrial iron bedsteads, tapestry covered tery Street and Fourth Street customs insist that senders of parcels Custom Declaration particularly and region a far as Dortmund easy chairs & couches, teak writ-
Feet. "glow"." No one heeds the bellsing tables, Japanese lacquered contains an area of 1500 Square mass fill in the columns of the regular
Cherry-wood couch,
The Lot is held for the unex-Poly, pitting none of the headings
comprised therein. of a little church. Their noise is silk embroidered pictures,epired residue of a term of 75 years drowned in the roar of machinery.gravings, o.l paintings, water created therein by an Indenture In the fields work is at fall colours, toilet sets. bronze ora of Crown Lease dated the 4th day pressure. Agriculture in Divias ments, ivory carvings, curios. of May 1888 service at all times, now doubly cut-glass, silver & electro-plated i
Women and children labour ware, cutlery, etc, etc. there among the fenome and rabbit hutobes.
80.
At the stations the writer noticed countless new lines being laid. French prisoners are engaged on this work. They exrry rails and slami down the earth. W.r pri- soners must also work on the Home: Front. In all countries their labour is part of the national They work without economy. spirit, and they don't love Ger- many, but their work, even when enforced, ennobles them.
Wherever one looks, right or leis, women are at work. Some of them are loading coal from rail- wap tracks. They ste sa black sa aweeps. Others are standing in the wet clay and are digging the way for a new line of rails. On the platform at Backeborg & passant woman drage a baggage trolley.
The train glides through the cumerous factories which the #ress of war has bailt round the old royal city of Banover. The great Luneberg Heath is reached. Eren moor an i heath ars alive in this war. Under the 18173 tion pressure from outside, many rquare miles of waste land have been reclaimed from water and 4idits. Work on the moors is the heaviest work given to the war prisoners. It is frequently given as a retaliatory messure, aa
creens,
Also
The Annual Crown Rent is $60.
It is furthermore absolutely zeosBESTY to show in the aforesaid declaration (1), The full name and addrea of the addressee (2) A statemen: as to whether the contents are intended for State supplies or not.
For further particulars and A Selection of Canton Black-i conditions of sale apply to
Ware wood
comprising MESSRS. HASTINGS & HAS-
Particulars of outgoing and incoming Couches chairs, flower stands, TINGS, Solicitors for the Liquicl be avertised in future, The Port Office will forward all corres-. stools, curio stands, tables, etc,dator, or to the Undersigned :
GEO. P. LAMMERT. pondence posted by the fast routes. etc.
Hongkong, 23rd May, 1917.
And
3 Fowling pieces.
On view from Wednesday, the 27th. Inst
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
G.
NOTICES.
fine.
NE winds, moderate
$ south east of China be-7 The mame
tween H.K. and Lamocks No. 1.
4 Bouth court of China be-) The same
tween HE, and Hainan..!
No L
China Court Mateorological Begutar,
Station.
June 26, a.m.
Winda
Hour
Barometer.
Temperature,
Humidity.
D'tion.
Yostock. 6a 29.45 63
Ferro Sa Hakodate
Foros,
Weather.
ENTERTAINMEN
VICTORIA THEATRE.
FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY
COMMENCING
TUESDAY, June 26th
B
AT 9.15 P.M.
BY ARRANGEMENT WITH M. E. BANDMAN THE GREATEST FILM IN HISTORY,
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
AND
“' H.M. THE KING ON THE BATTLEFIELD."
*PRICES $3.00, $2.00 a $1.00.
UNIFORM SOLDIERS AND SAILORS IN
HALF PRICE TO $1 SEATS ONLY
PLANS NOW OPEN AT MOUTRIE & CO. War Charities. Profits Devoted to
66
Whalwe 6a 29.55 72 98 wow r Hankow lohang
BIJOU THEATRE.
The Costeri Theatre in Hongkong.
LIBERTY.
99
6th Episode:-Entitled The Desert of Last Souls."
“A CIRCUS HEROINE."
A Thrilling Drama, in 3 parts.
War Graphic and "Max on the Briny.” (Comic),
Tokio
Correspondence addressed to
enemy subjects In China. Sizm, Siberia and Portuguese East Africa, Persia and Mor ocea carnot be transmitted.
Kochi Nagami
agima
Oshima
A
R.
Bonin Is.
The Services to Germany, Austria, Bul- garia and the Ostoman Empire are
Kiukiang
Changaha
Shanghai
Gutzla.. Sharp P.
29.71 75 98 # 29.69 74 92 19.82-81 93 = Pa. 19.76 80 82 *
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16
6
Sa 29.78 73 94 so
29,76 75
Tatan
29.75 75
Кольпа
29.75 86
Fores
99.75 77
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Canton
Hom
Gap Rock Macao Wuchow
29.72 78 92 e 29.70
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2.69. 75 02 e
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PARTICULARS AND CONDIuspended. THE Undersigned has received
instructions to sell by Pub-TIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Tues. lic Auction on
day, the 3rd day of July,
Uninsured parcels for the United Amoy THURSDAY, the 28th June.
SWALOW 1917, at 3 p.m., at the Officesingdom will in future be forwarded
·· 1917,
of the Public Works Department, from Hongkong je bags and the Pubacio commencing at 10.30 am.
by Order of His Excellency the are tabrefore adva.d to pack auch parcels Taichu at his Sales Rooms, Duddell
Governor, of One Lot of Crown very carefully.
• Street,
Land above Bowen Road. in without reserve. (Liquidation
the Colony of Hongkong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to he fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further LOCAL AND REGULAR MAILS Fao term of 75 years.
Account)
A Large Quantity of Chinese and Japanese Curios, Bronzes, Sliver-ware and Electro plate. On view from Wednesday the 27th inst.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery. GEO. P. LAMMERI.
Auctioneer.
azeprisal for injury done in THE Undersigned has received
German prisoners.
instructions from the Liqui- dators of Messrs. Jebsen & Co...
A long goods train rolled past, in pursuance of an order of the There were Hongkong Government, to sell goog weatorda. open tracks with prepared tim- by public, auction at 12 o'clock ber, others with steel rails, rolls (NOON) on TUESDAY the 31st of barbed wire, beer barrels or day of July. 1917, at his sales willow holders for shells. There rooms, Duddell Street,
were closed trucks with red and
Jellow tickets pasted on them,
THE VALUABLE LEASE- HOLD PROPERTY situate at The Peak, Hongkong and being
containing provisions and bombe Rural Building Lot No. 19.
and the military post. Then came
a somber of long tracks whore
In One Lot.
mysterions contents could only The property consists of:- Касяд be guessed at by the hollows and The piece or parcel of ground
and premises
85
bamp; ander the tarpauline Lysholt," 104 The Fe k, situate aeroplanes, great cannon, trench
near Mount Gough in the Colony mtare. Many snob trains are of Hongkong with anares of ling day and night through 124,032 square feet and registered Garmanyo East and West, to in the Land Offices as Rural. Macedouis and Asia Minor, At Building Lot No. 15.
The lot is held for the un- the front their coming and going
an
i- regerided as a matter of course, expired residue of a term of 75 Lat when you see them pie years created therein by through a quiet little moorland indenture of Crow Lease dated
the 23rd day of A ril, 1896. « Flation son shake your bead. The Annual Crown Rent is These trains, these horas, panting $85.0.0. Iccomotives, these boilers ever-
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The further particulars and
lastingly anderstean, are also part conditions of sale apply to Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, and parcel of the Home Front.
At last the train reaches Solicitors for the Liquidators or
Boburg. A long iron span across to the undersigned.
the Elbe-a dead grey stresm.
No life on it. Out of the twilight emerge the shadowy cutlines of the great Africa steamers, which bave been lying chained up here for nearly three years. The harbour is dead, Bat the building yards are alive, and over R-iber- tieg and Bleinwarder there is a isar glow in the heavene.
in
Twa V.C.s. Killed. News has been received Danfermline of the death in ao tion of Bergeant John Erskin^, Scottish Rs, who was awarded the V.0., for heroically saving the life of su <ficer in August. last. Intelligesos also reached
tbat Drum-Mejor. Drogheda
GEO. P. LAMMERT.
Auctioneer.
FOR SALE.
MOTOR CARS, MOFOR CARS 1917 Overland Touring Cars, 6 Cylinder. 7 Seater.
GE. P. LAY MERT,'
Duddell Street,
Hoi kong, 18th February, 1917,
NOTICE.
MASSAGE.
MR. HONDA. ̈- Train-d mi- Masseur. Ten years experience.
Hospitel,
Kenny, V.C. Gordon BighlanFormerly of Tokyo Military'. ders, has been killed in sotion Last year; after receiving the V.C., Kenny was presented with hos freedom of Drogberia and a rarse of gold in recognition of kis bravery,
WILL VISIT PATIENTS: RESIDENCES IF
PREFERRED..
·WO, 202, QUEEN'S ROAO KAST","
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
NO. DE SE
Inland Lot
Registry Mr.
Above Bowen Hernande
LOCALITY..
K.
Boundary Measuremcata. (Approximate)
As per sade plan.
ASAHI BEER.
ASAHI BEER
GRAND PRIZE RETIEN EXERC
ASAH
BILEWERY
min)
Contents in
Square feet.
Annual Rent,
Epses Price.
BEER
APAN
LIMITED, TOKYO
GER-BEER
SPECIALLY BREWED EXPORT.
COMPANY
FOR
BOLN AGENES.
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha
OUTWARD.
Tai 0.-Week days, 5 pm.
Halbow
Phaben 7 29.63 73 100 sés Tourans
29.65 75
C. NEJ.
$9.7L 25
6 29.7% 75 91.
+
Gai Po-Week caya, 10 a.m.; Sundays, | Mania
29.7L 25 96
9.30 a.m
29.6 75 94 sw 29.73 73 95 29.72 77 91 =
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29.88-75
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Legasp! Tactoban Cheang bow-Wenke days, 2 pan. Sharadro, Shatin and Sneungahui,- Hallo
Surigao Week days, 4 pm
Aberdeen, Autat, Ping Shan, Sai Kung. G. am Bantin ard Stanley.-Week days. 4.30 pm | Lacuad
Canton, Samshui and Wuchow.-Week days. 7.50 am Registration 5 pm, Let-
Sundays, 5 pm
ters 6 p.m.
Macao-Weekdays, 7.15 am, 1.30pm;
T.F. CLAXTON, Director.
Hoogkong Ubservatory, June 26, 1917,
1 Barometer, reduced to JZ degzes
Sundays."Week daya, 6 p.m. Ezcent Fahrenheit cu the leral of the sea in 12′′
Sundays, 5 p.m
Natau and Sanmel-Wobic days, 5p.m.; Bundays Sp.m
Shamchun-Wesk days, 10 am, é p.m.; Sondays, 9 a.ID.
FROM SHEUNGWAN WESTERN BRANCH P.C.
Macao-Week days, 7.30am, 1.30 p.m: Sundays, 30 am; Holidays, 7.30 am. 1.30 p
Canton-Weekdays, 7.30a.m. 9,30 pras Sundays, 9.30 p.m.; Holidays, 7.30 201 9.30 p.m.
Tai Ping Tung--Week days, 9,30 p.m.; Bundaya, 9.30 pm.; Holidays, 9.30 p.m.
Sher Kl-Week days, 9.33 p.m.: Sun- days, 930 pm.; Holidays, 9.30 p.m.
Icogmoon- Week days, 6 p.m.; 8vn- days, 6 pm; Holidays. 6 p.m.
Kumchuk-Week days, 6′ p.m.; 'Sun- | daya, 6 pm: Holidays, 6 p.m.
Kaakong Week daya, 6 p.m. Except Saturdays: Sundays, 6 pm; Holiday 6 p.m.
ches, tenths and hundredths,
2 Temperature; in the shade, in degres a Fahrenheit
3 Enmidity, in percentage of saturation the Humidity of aiz akkurated with mucus- ture being 100.
• Direction of Wind, to two point.
5 Force of Wind, according to menufort
Beale
State of Weather, b' blue sky, o do tached alous, a dristling rau, i to. gloomy, nau, l'lightning, o overcast, t PRESNE SHOWOER, Q SquBUY, Z TRIN, A GLÂM,
saunDWT, V FILLOLILTY, W HOW WEL
METEOROLOGICAL.
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HONGKONG THEATRE.
(OLD LAND
OFFICE
BUILDINGI.
Commencing SATURDAY, 23rd JNE. 1917. Showing A Thrilling Italian Drama :
"STAINS OF BLOOD."
G.
Complete in 8 parts.
and Comics.
EVERY SUNDAY IS A BAND NIGHT,
B.
NOTICES.
Any European, Non-Asiatic or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hours of 9 am te 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m: daily. Applicants will be required to produce Passports.or identifica- tion papers.
All persons with certain excep tions who remam, in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REĢISTRATION of
Day On date Un da. PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the may be particulars required 29.73 29.72
79
obtained at the G. P. O. and at all Police Stations.
Barometer Temperature —— Hundity+87 Wind Direction... N.W..
Kore
29.70
78
,, 92
81
E,
E.S.E.
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霎
4
Weather
03
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0.79 0.00 0.23
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PASSENGERS DEPARTED
Angler D Adachi Mra 8.
Barriers L Bradley B 0
Castelberg
Maobida T
Ng Fai Nam Mr &
Mra
Nishida 'S
Nakashima
Nishimoto Mrs'E
Chen Ke, Len Mr Ozaki B
Churchill HF B Cheeseman F
lis Mrs
ILK. Übservatory, Jura 25, 1917.
"T. F. CLAXTON, LUIWOLAR,
Crow
Russell J
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Moath.
Mand Tand
Low Waler
Hoogkong
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TIDE TABLE.
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From 25th June to 1st July.
Hyver A H
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Bongkong
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Fujita K Fujima
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Smith A F Bbi at Mr & Mrs Bats T Gillespie Mr & Mra 85 wart Mr & Mrs
03.0 Suzaki Burda Mr T Kam Ying Toh Mr Tashima F
A-Mrs
Mon.
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Wad.
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Таувню 1
Fri.
29
Kimura M
Tanaka
Sat.
Trakaya K
Bea
Tabe s
Katuda E J KAWLRO Lo Pau Seng Mr& Veica P R da 8lre
Wong Mrs Lin Chen. Disk Mr Williams CB
LizTing Mr&Mrs Wood E D -Lipp Mr & Mrs Webb UM
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For the boat Meals, Refresh- imants, Bread, Cakes and Con
fectionery at before-the-war
TGEXANDRA CATE
na-com-
The Penalty for pliance is a fine not exceeding 50%.
THE HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION,
APPLICATION
forms for
Membership of the above Association may be obtained from all the Banks or from the undersigned.
THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD, Honorary Secretaries & Treasurers. Hongkorg, 15th January, 1917.
FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS
If you see!OUT of BORTY* RUIR DOWN" "DOT AFFET OM KREY, MADDER, SERYDUS CERONT WERKTENSKILCZERSKINSALPTIONS, FILI7%- WINE FREE CLOTH FIND MEMORIAL BIDE G
dissars and ORDRIJUL BUKES
[and de.
THERAPION oras
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OEK ROŚLAMPSTEAD LONDON.G **RATION BLChat Ka Pyks 29 LEADING CREMUTTE.
NOTICES.
SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING CO. LTD.
WE have been requested by
the abore Company to announce that new shares will be issued to present shareholders at par (£) in the proportion of I new share to 4 old shares. The dividend of 5/- per share payable on 14th July may be utilized to pay for the new shares, S
Shareholders should deposit their holdings, with their Banker by 29th June in order that the necessary aplication may be. ade by telegram on 30th June,
Further particulars may be obtained from the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation or the Chartered Bank of India.
·8D- Aus ralis, and China, on plication.
For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
N. J. BTABB
Chief Manager.
MAN LOONG.
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Talaphona Ho,
the leading Manufcaturses. Lichtin eines of Goods. Our Prait: Gingers are all femalt, and of the first plo Our Syrup in prepared, from the quality of Sugaz. We give our 'e pecí attention to the baučnom sud "manit
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