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etc.,

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etc.,

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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66, Major Street, MANCHESTER.

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Also in 10's Flat Pocket Tins.

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well comple, --Ten

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locally for the Prince of Wales Fund.

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No. 6 The Fenk. (No. 2 Cameron Villas, Furnished.

• DEACONSFIELD", Battery Path. No 19 BELILIOS TERRACE.

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Embassy

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ISTOLLAH

Sold Everywhere for 20 cents.

WAR VIGNETTES.

BY AN ITALIAN JOURNALIST.

Soul of a Dead Village.

We give below some passages from a striking series of articles which Gino Calza Bedolo has been contributing special correspondent to the Giornale d' Italia. Signor Bedolo is a a native of Rome, twenty-four years of age, and known 19an seexmmplished journalist, but it was his revent interview with Mr. Churchill that introduced him to the English public

grass, his earsciated and wrinkled hazdu elasped in prayer and uplifted to heavy. He is immobila as 'a statue, as if a paralytic stroke had left him in that position. He must be suffering from advanced form of religious mania.

I would have thought him dead but far" his is which regularly articulated in

sobbing whisper the word:

** Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."

I.

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Indents accepted at lowest Costs, CIF. HONG-KONG, -

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NOTICE.

TT IS · HÆREDY NOTIFIED that SEALED TENDERS in Deplicate

He had boun there for two hours. I will be rocnired at the Colonial Secretary's was informed, and all appeals to movece util, NOON on MONDAY, the hir had failed.

TU ARATISH AT AFTWEAR.

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The Government does not bind itasif o accept the Highest or any Tonder.

Forms of Tender and further particulass can be obtained from the Director of

8th day of Docomber, 1914 for the LETTING of the OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING from the 1t January to 31st, December, ..........The British were the last which can be ascertained at this Offee.

1915, #abject to condititiona return to "Antwerp: cular and dignifiel, Each Tender should bear on the cover deprived though of that joyous 'careless-the words "LE DER FOR LEASE OF sad We have reached Duel. It news which a few hours ago A had with OLD FUST OFFICE BUILDING," is a small village wedged in between two nessed. They had fought like most be accotapanied by a receipt to the fons: a lamb in the midst of wolves, Britons: a day of battle had impliselt that the Tenderer has deposited is Colonial Treasury a sum of Use Not a soul mate. This endaver them to fire, and they had met death Thousand Dollars ($1,000) a pledge of and faxing yukstudo impresses one thee in town without dinghing, that of the bral fides of his offer, which sum shall more than cannon-balls. All these houses two thousand men I had seen in the beforfeited to the Crown it Laa Tenderer"

rofuses to carry ou "GLEN-bustily abandoned before the German afternoon one hundred had fallen in the with the conditions above referred to, rout hia Tender and comply

menses pre as moving as seeing a con- trenches, dead or wounded, into the

should the

Tender be accepted. Kowloon, demaman mounting the gallows | enemy's hands. They had retired firing Then is a soul about, this villages that inesasantly; many arrived at Vieux Dien strikes one maro in its deserted intimuey without a cartridge left. They wer mot than the spectacle of rend death itself. | discouraged, these fine fellows; they 1007 It is the sight of domestic lite encased; were only oppressed with the thought before imminent destruction; it is the that their presenen had not sufficed to fine embers of the human furnace that alter the conditions of things. are dying out before the incendiszirm of When they received the order to ļevacuate the city several of them,"expe- A pure white, rose is still on the gially the officers, bitterly resented it;; window-still-a coquettish window it is they persisted in decluring 'that no Ger- too, with its green shutters and its en-man would have passed though while laced blinds. I stopped the ear to one of them was alive. More than one gather-that-nee thought terrible officer beggod-the-commandant to uliow that the shells should desteny it.... them to remain alone, to defend the I cannot explain why... Ah, przhaps city to the last män. because it was so snowy white and be

woman's eyes cause I thought that a must have rested upon it before she lait.....

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Bongkang, Dec. 29, 1914. -

TO LET.

UGINSLAND WEST, Park Road,

renovated, rec:a:ly

furnished madarata reat

Apply to

A very suitable Xmas present THE URINA PROVIDENT-LOAN AND

MORTGAGE COMPANY LE, for Boy or Girl

Hongkong. Nov, 13, 1914.

ONLY A FEW COPIES LEFT

Price One Dollar

ON SALE AT

Messa. W Powell, L.

AND

11

Kelly and Walsh, Ltd. W. Erewer & Co. *od Café Weismann.

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GARDE

OFFICES: QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, HONGKONG

TEL. ADDRESS: MAISHAN, HONGKONG,

TELEPHONE: No 469-

FOR ONE NIGHT

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.

A. D. C. present

&

ONE MATINEE

SAT: JAN. 2nd WED. JAN, 6th

at 9.15 pm.

at 4.30 p.m.

A Fairy Ballet

ENTITLED ..."

'SNOWWHITE AND THE FROG PRINCE”

in 3 Parts and· 4 ·Tableaux

in which will appear

THE

"Bluebird" Corps de Ballet

UNDER

NDER the Distinguished Patronage of H. E. Sm Y. H. MAY, K.O.M.O., Major-General F. H. Katty, CD., and Commodore R. H. ANSTRUTHEL,

In Aid of the

ALG.

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND

FOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S

From TUESDAY, Dec. 22nd at 9 am

PRICES AS USUAL.

MATINEE Children half prices.

Soldiers and Failers in uform admitted at half price to the Pit.

Hongkong. Dec. 18, 1914,

COME AND INSPECT OUR

GRAND BAZAAR OF TOYS

IND

CHRISTMAS GOODS, -

The Cheapest in the Colony, GRACA & CO.,

Hog kong Hotel Eailding, Pedder Street, and No. 11a, Caine Road..

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MACAO GOVERNMENT.

TENDERS will be accepted in the PORT ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD inf. MAGÃO, till 3rd February, 1915. at three o'clock. evening, for the ADJUDI- CATION DREDGER and TWO STEAM LIGHTERS.

Specifications can be called 'belo- graphically.

Hongkong. December 15, 1914.

NOTICE.

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WE BAVG on Snie a few bist clang

English made HEADY TO WEAR Gentlemen's Sus at 810 each. Also's

TO LET.

HOUSE in Kantaford Terrace.

1194

war..........

DERING THE ROMULREMENT..

I felt as il-all human and material things had ceased to exist. The The village square is reached. Four colour: the roofs of the houses seemed sky was resplendent with a fery, relish

TAE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. | soldiers are massing arme

-MENT AND AGENCY Co., Ian. Hongkong, Dec. 3, 1914.

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under the

Public Works

A. F. CHURCHILL, Director of Public Works, Public Works Office, Hongkong, December 18, 1914.

Q.

NOTICE

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TT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED"has SEALED TENDERS in Duplicate. which should be clearly marked “TENDER FOR LEASE OF PART OF OLD

Offes watil NOOK on MONDAY, the 28th SUPREME COURT BUILDING," I be received at the Colonial Secretary's church tower before leaving. Sproutingveloped in the shadows cust by the December, 1914, for the LNASE of Certain baines, The earth seemed to quake Rooms on the Gewand Floor and in the grass is alremly making it appearance with the shock of risient explosions. Baiemoue of the Old Supreme

Court between the cobblestones as if the desert-From time to time the cries of the dying Building. ion of the inhabitants had given Dew would drown the hawl of the puna. Tayreceipt to the effect that the Tenderer has Each Tender must be accompanied by a vigour to vegetation.

were the cries of women and children deposited in the Colonis! Treenzy a summ church door is open, and through is a entombed in cellars. One would have of Five Hundred Dollars (8500) as a plodge HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS glimpse of all are ever he thought that underground convicts were of the bond is of his offers own is the nave a tragic, purple hue. The bucking desperately to issus forth frot Tenderer refuses to carry out his Tender there vaults which at any moment night and comply with the conditions hereinafter GODOWN'SN Praya, Kennedy Town. ground and the corners of the church are become their graves. Sporka, cinders contained, should the Tender bo sccepted.

TO LET.

1 HILLSIDE, 110, The Peak.

GUDOWN'S at Wanchai.

Apply, HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

AND AGENCY CÓ.. LAI. Hongkong, Nov. 6, 1914.

TO LET

940

The

in the artillery fire, gives the

cast in dreary black shadows that are

depressing and fearful. On the principal Altar four candles are burning and in the

and huge tongues of fire sirged furiously from the crumbling edifices, spreading to adjoining buildings nid adding fresh fuel to the now triumphant blaze.

eentre of the church a biur lies on:n litter covered with black and yellow

I knocked against thousand of tugi- draperies. The light from the candis tives whose faces I could not nes tait I Is dimmed in the twilight, and every felt the remorseless bite of their anguish. thing in the church seems to have fost In the Place de Mer a woman collapsed form and shape, to have merged into FURNISHED for ten Months from one immense imperceptible fame. The te laws to me: her dishevelled hair.

20th February, 1915 GALESEND" fury of the guns resounds and the whole

her unclothed appearance and the wild No. 19, The Feax. For particulars apply structure of the temple is shaken to its expression of her eyes bare traces of C. H. GALE, P. W. DEPT.

Hongkong, December 18, 1914. 1311 vary foundatious, us some tragle voice sight of me she started in pursuit, approaching madness. When she caught

TO LET

TO LET.

was uttering its final warning.

To see that corpse abandoned in the

500 MANIACÍ,

yelling the while, " Tu es xù Boche. .

tu es un Boche." She then burst into

shall be forfeited to the if

Particulars of the Terms of Lense, &c.,-

may be obtained on patronal application at

the Office of the Director of Publis. Works. The Government does not bind itself to accept the Highest or any Tendor.

A. F. CHURCHILL, Director of Public Works. Public Works Office.

1310 Hoogkong, December 18, 1914.

AMERICAN PASSPORTS.

CONSULAR NOTIFICATION.

instructions of the

NOTICE 15 BERERT Department of a metallia laugh as piercing as a dagger.Stats All citizens of the United States Now She was mad.

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deserted church, without flowers, with- out a prayer and without a tear, is more 168 The Peak THE KENNELS.

heart-rending than an unhappy existene

Holding REGULAR DEPARTMENT or The last stragglers showed the haste STATE or EMERGENCY PASSPORTS THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-the whole human fabric of sentiment ix

With the roar of the guns in my car of their flight in their apparel. I am are loquired to present themselves within MENT AND AGENCY Co., La». crushed in me, and I would fain hava lady in an ermine coat running on the TWO WEEKS to a Diplomatic or Con- I satyasalar Officer of the United States for the Bongkang, Oct. 8, 1914. 1074 stayed alone with that: dand corpse, for pavement with bure feet.

insertion in such passport of in declaration that sacred temple will perhaps prove to

woman with an amputated leg dragging as to the countries in which such Passport bo his funeral pyre

herzeld along on one kuru and holding is to be used and the

purposes for which on to a petroleum can as a support for countries are to be visited and for the her other wide. She had lost her attachment to such Pestport of photo- Without much Soldiers are calling me.. I notice an crutches and was fleeing staggering along graph of the Bolder.

Statement and such photograph passports few good Enlish made OvercoatsMALL BUNGALOW, Barker Road,pletely attired in white.

zadersized men approaching me, com in that posture. Three hours it bad heretofoze granted citizens of the cheap.-

He looks taken woman States or Fersons owing allegiance to the Peak, suitable Ing one or two worry and stammers out: There are the harbour,tmputer woman to reach United States, utsy be regarded as

invalid Bachelors.

500 Inzaties round here quite Close to the Boome gate a shell pre-hereafter a person applying to the NOTICE ALSO IS HEREBY GIVEN Apply “BUNGALOW

Bour. They must be saved, cipitated into a house down to a cellar. Depertinent of State or tos Diplomatic of Take them with you to Ant-killing on the spet a woman huddied in Conlar Officer of the United States 1160 werp in your rar

I form the x-corner with six children around her, tothorized to isate Emergency Pismerts impression that this man is mad, and I of whom only one was extricated alive for Begalar 7 Emergency Passport is wa seized with an uncontrollable fear, from the debris..

regaired to stare in what countries he But the man clutches mas by the arm

isicade to use such Passport and if any such country is at war to state briefly for and leads me toward a huge grey build

what object he intends to go thero, A statement in the following form will be written upon the face of the Passport issued either by the Department of Stata or by the Diplomatic or Consular authority.

H. STEPHENS & CO.: 18.22, Quera's Road, Central. Hongkong. November 21, 1914,

1231

c/o CHINA MAL' Ofce."

Hongkong, Nov. 5, 1814.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON

HAMS, GEESE, DUCKS

AND OWN FED TURKEYS, CAFONS

AND

CHICKENS, Register your orders early to avoid disappointment.

QUEEN'S BUILDING.

TO LET the South West portion of the ing behind the church. Come and seo for yourself, r." And behind the First Floor, including Tresszzy on Ground Floor, lately in ocupation of there I was twenty, flity and then a hund GEENAN BANK.

SAVARESSES F

SANTAL CAPSULES

Most Certain Cure, Physicjant recommend them.

Of Chemian MUS

GODOWN, No. 9 Tee House Street.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

·MENT & AGENCY Co., Lak Hongkong, Nov, 16, 1916.

TO LET.

red faces howling dismally and des perately. A hundred faces of lunatics glaring at me Beveral werd sobbing and others gaping seemingly overcome by the smoke from the They were all there, with their pitiful mulady. within range of fing. Perhaps some of the understand. A few ure like wild beasts trapped by fire, strug gling with the strong iron bars, franti cally attempting to uproot them. The

FILATS is HUMPHREYS BUILD.pid German advance had impeded their INGS and Nathan Road, Kowloon removals they were left in the asylumn uder the charge of three or four purses and two doctors

o

51X ROOMED HOUSE in Minden Row, Kowloon,ego c

FOUR ROOMED HOUSES at Kow. I notice nurus the iron barrier un fold man in the myrden kneeling on the

55 Apply to HUMPEREY'S ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD.

Hongkong, Nov. 12-1314

FCI

good told meal a In Cart er Tabla D'Eo with Who & Liqueur the beets "ALEZNAUPA CAVE.

The Man Who Gets There

Is the man who has blood- Teal rich red blood and plenty of it-in his body.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

makes blood-lots of it-life giving brain nourishing, strength repleulabing blood

OF ALL CHEMISTS-

PRICES 81.26 and $2.25

The person to whom this Passport is isood has declared quder oath that he desires it for use in Countries hereafter named for the following objects...

------- This Passport is not valid for use in other Countries ozcept in necessary traonit to o from the Countries named KS

The bolder is "ales required to submit w small unmounted Photograph of himself or herself in duplicate, one copy of which will be attached to the Passport. With ap- plications for Passports l'hotographs wilk be sabraicted in triplicate

GEORGE E. ANDERSON,

Consal General, Hongkong, Desember 19, 1914,

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