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SITUATIONS · VACANT |
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE PUBLIC AUCTION
of-
the Valuable Leasehold property situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong and registered at the Land Office as Subsection 2 of Section A of Marine Lot No. 227 together with the premises thereon
WANTED-European Lady to take entire charge Dresses Millinery Euro. known pean Departmental Store Singapore. Passage and usunt agreement com-Strept menco 250 Straits Dollars. Only fully experienced applicants considered. Write Box No. 138, "Hongkong Tele- graph."
POSITIONS WANTED.
FULIN qualified CHEMIST-AND- DRUGGIST, with distinguished Quall. Acation, will consider good offer for Will necept post with contract. reasonable salary of a Professional. Please write Box No. 139, "Hongkong Telegraph."
FOR SALE
FOR SALE-A rare edition titled "Chinese Porcelain and fiard Stones" 2 volumes. Each Illustrated by 250 pages of Gems of Chinese Geramic and Glyptic Art, Described by Edgar Gorer and F. J. Blacker. Good for Antiquarian Scrutinizing. Also
"Blue-and- unusual specimen of White Ginger Jar." Height 10% and diameter 84", Kang-he parlad, Please write G.PO. Box No. 1443.
TO LET
An
TO LET Store whole.or.part at.25. Nathan Road, Kowloon, near 'ferry good location. For full particulars
:
as No: 36 Now Market
to be sold on MONDAY,
the 22nd day of January, 1934, at 3 p.m.
by
Messrs, LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,
at their Salesroom, No. 4 Duddell Street Victoria, Hongkong.
For further particulars and Conditions of Sale Apply to:----
Messrs. WOO & NASH,
Mortgagee's Solicitors, No. 4, Queen's Road Central,
Hongkong.
or to
Mesars. LAMMENT BROS,
Auctioneers, No. 4 Duddell Street,
Hongkong.
apply at store, 25, Nathan Road, BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE' Kowloon.
PUBLIC AUCTION
of.
TO LET --No. 1, King's Park Build- inge, Austin Itoad, Kowloon, four- roomed FLAT, Modern Conveniences.the Valuable Leasehold properly Apply The Union Trading Co. Ltd. York Buliding. Telephone 27738.
situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong and registered at TO LET-Four-roomed FLOOR, with the Land Office as the Remaining modern conveniences, ground floor, 51, Portion of Inland Lot No. 24 Luna Building, Kimberley Road, Kowtogether with the premises there loon. Apply Mr. Seu Kon Chi, 8; Den
floor, known as No. 180 Queen's Rond, Vooux Road Central, 2nd
West, Hongkong.
HOTEL
AIRLIE HOTEL, 23-25, Nathan Hond, Kowloon, under British ownership and management. 2 minutes Star Ferry, Every modern convenience. Excellent cuisine, Special rates families. Tele- phone 57357.
LEE THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9,30 p.m.
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to be sold
on MONDAY,
the 22nd day of January, 1934, at 3.30 p.m.
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Messrs LAMMENT BROS., Auctioneers,
at their Salesroom, No. 4 Duddell Sirect Victoria, Hongkong.
For furtlier particulars and Conditions of Salo Apply to:-
Messra, WOO & NASH,
Mortgagee's Solicitors, No. 4. Queen's Road Central,
Hongkonis.
or to
Messrs. LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
No. 4 Duddell Street,
Hongkong.
OUR PETER PAN LANGUAGE
(Continued from Paga 0.)
straps-youth (from his facings and lacings), or if a Red Hussar, a glow-worm. A cyclist was a wire- donkey-rider. A machine-gun was a stuttering auntic or maʼmselle of the date (Tippmamsell), and any steel hat a stormtulip.
Every people and language had its own personal and peculiar alang
SUSPICION during the Wor, and a complete
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glossary would make volume as big as your Liddell and Scott. Un- like the slang of the Napoleonic wars, of which only one word im a thousand survives (the vicux prog- nardes, or old grousers, of the Little not Corporal's Grand Army are forgotten), a considerable percen- tage of these quaint colloquialisms have been collcated. In Germany, however, all the war slang that pokes fun at authority is to be' ruthlessly extirpated. A charac-
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