1916-05-31 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1916.

INTIMATIONS

Hughes & Hough

EVERY BEETLE EVERY BUG

AUCTIONERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Auctioneers'

Share, Coal and General Produce

Brokers and Commission

A genta.

PROPRIETORS

'o-Kwa+Waà" Coal Storage.

·Codés nyert

Bentley

A... 4th & 5th Editions. A 1 Telegraphic Code.

Telegraphia Address "MEIRION" RONGKONGL

PUBLIO AUCTION.

The Undersigned bare received in- stractions from the Chief Ordinance Oficer, Chida Command, to sell by Public Auction.

оп

THURSDAY,

The unrivalled way

KEATING'S

THE CHINA MAIL.

RESCUE OF THE TARA'S:

PRISONERS.

ROMANCE OF THE DESERT.

[FROM W. T. MASSEY

POWDER that the expedition was successful

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE

INSURANCE CU...

1

OF WHICH ARE VESTED THE KKANTE: OF

ARK WE FREE

A hals was dulled as tro o'clock, and Ma Duka saut forward the armoured car to attack. They raved up to within 3 yands of the mount, and, as one would expack, the frat car was that of Lilout. Willians (riga, the fauous jockey, who regards this on the biggest of the classic faces in which he has taken para.

VERDUN VISITED.

A TARGET FOR THE HUNS."

This graphie description of a recent visit to the tawa of Verdun-is by De. Fraialand Paris correspondent of the

Altenpost. of Christianis.

İNCENDIARY BOX38,

We're standing is a fortress on the While on the Westom Egyptian front Before the relievers the prisoners were I heard full details of the armoured car standing silhouetted against the sky-line summit of one of the hills surrounding Verdua, and locking down into the Sect's dash to the rasens of the Tard absolutely motionless, and silent prisoners from our oficèrs engaged in statues, dumb with amuzament as the burning city. Below us lies the Valley thas daring enterprise, in an absolutely appearance of the strange throbbing feat. of the Mouse, filled with a-glorious sun- unknown country, to succour nearly 100 At last one man threw of the sacksbine, and for the arsh time this year starring Britons. It will stands covering him and faintly cheered, and the one feels the soft warmth of, springtime classic' in touring, auna's, In many crowd taggated forwart in the rolling in the airono tres traces of the encly. ways fortune favoured us, but it wasgait of starved in, and awarned round springtime verdure here and there on the only by

complete disregard off the cars, crying, "Ara wo too?" They cost plain that slopes to the bank of tremendous diticaltics and a display of could not be parsusded to leave the cars, the swollen Meuse, whose green waters high qualities of courage and resource and slightly hindered our advance, to resemble an emerald aucklace thrown ab tackle the guards, all of whom were randosi into the valley. Great clouds, of The discovery of the place of conceal subsequently killed. Ona officer declared smoke abous two kilometres in width cut ment was one of the romantic featuros. that the prisoners were so excited that the necklace in two where Verdun barna) upon both sides of the river. Thare is a When General Lakin reoccupied Sollum thay jawed like blazos.(?-----

thegentle breeze in the valley which wafts Meanwhile the cominder. of he found that the enemy had burnt the camp, and the German-owned muallion column, on seeing the prisoners leave the the sacks northward, giving the elect factory at Bir Wser, six miles south of mound, started a tremendous race to the of a pine leaping tower stone the port, Tan ardoured cars, following spot. They run abreas, caring not for moment, no euermons torch. wared aloft up the enemy's tracks, came upon obstacles or punctured; bus just to the next.

At ourside, sheltering behind the stone remarkable road, which, starting in the forward as fast sa their cagines would desert, runs to Tobruk, ninety miles away propel them, and the at was filled with in Tripoli. According to English notions the cheers of the craws and the noise of walls of the fortress, the officer is telling us thas for the past two or three weeks the road surface was execrable, but the armoured car enthusiast declare to

three or four humired bombe a day hara be splendid. Over it the motors had a

fallen into the city, but that only two or three days ago did the facendiary bomba speed of thirty-five miles an hour.

It is probable that the At Aziza, nineteen miles from Birthey had goat fesh, but the amount begin to full Waer, the cars suddenly came upon the served out was reduced to the size of ascemy, Buding he could ever take the -Anthorised Capital £6,000,000

enemy, and dashed into

Turkish skinned monse, one prisoner said. Seine feity decided to destroy it if possible. Subscribed Capital £4,500,000

mountain-gun, and two machine guns, parties had gone cut daily to find edible General who accompanied us. Paid-up Capital............. 58.437.500

Fire Fanda

*****8,857,047 killing every gener by maxim fe, roots. These had been collected from af nk us through, the city and its environs. II-Life & Annuity Funds... 17,587.580 Then, without a halt, they charged in wide area, and as the captives" strength We visited a station for the shelling of; Sinklar Fund Account susse 128,930 line over the boulders, stift acrab, sandy diminished they made painful journeys aircraft. Five minutes before our arrival palehes, and all the other traps among with small results. They think that in a Fokker had been drivet back into the the widely scattering foe. whe were Svo daga their rescurtes would have enemy lines by the fire from this station. Rarente Fire Branch £,881,156 taking to their heels at the approach of endod Some of them ste too freely of It was the fourth which had tried to

Life and Annuity 1

2,141,683 the magical Instruments" of the indel. the bread, milk, jam, ind bully beet fly oversone lines this morning," said the Branchos... İ.

The charge continued for seven miles, carried in the ambulances, and the cars officer in command, a mere boy of some How many shells have $37,239 Ravence Marine Department...

478,940 but the enemy, thrown into the wildest were slowed down on the Fomoward twenty years.. Other Receipte

confusion, could not be further chased journey, Sollum being reached on the been red (roan this station? asked the General. Environ de cinq mille, mon £5,539,222 for fens of a shortage of petrol

following day.

General, answered the boy. It was a comparatively new station.

THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LAD.. and

14

TER RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

fi

NOTAL,FUNDa at Sier DzoKMENE, 1814,

the 1st June, 2016, at 11 am, at the TOTAL FUND AR, 70, 87.

Army Service Corps Camber,

The Kream Launch

Length

JUBILEE“

65 fest

.*

12

***

نا

Beam Depth Displacement. 60 tons Compound Engines Surface Condensing

will burry 70 passengers. The Vesses may be seen by arrange ment with she undersigned on or after esth May at the Army Service Corps Camber.

To youal..

#.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers to the Government. Hongkong, May-93-1996

PUBLIC AUCTION

TH

THE Undersigned have received in

structions to sell by Public Auction, (FŐR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCLUNED), "On

FRIDAY,

the End-June. "1916, as 9.49 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8;

Dee Yoox Road, Corner of Los HOTEL STREET, LARGE BENGAL TIGER SKIN RUGS, LEOPARD SKIN RUGS

SILVER FOX &

Terms usual

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 30, 1916.

4.

500

PUBLIC AUCTION "THE Undersigned have received instruc

tions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

FRIDAY,

£23,370,967

The desimulative Funds of the various Branches are separately invested, and, by Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet the claims under the respective Depart menta nf the Company's Busine;” ~ ..

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO

WEUS WHO IN JAPAN EDITED AND FUNLIKED BY 9. KURITA.

The first (1913) siltion is already issued, THIOGRAPHIES of ever 6,000 people Dwho are well-known in society and of several hundred foreigners associated with Japan appear in the book. Quite now materials and accurate sketches, both baing utterly free from prejudices.

Many portraits are inserted. The book contains over 1,400 pages.

The price in you 6 (13/-) or por Orders for the book should be accompanied by payment.

Subscribers for the second annual edition of Who's Who in Japan' all be allowed

reduction of one yen.

*0.san or $5 cente.

Many of the enemy were killed, and three field-guns, nine machine guns. hundreds of rifles, spare parts, dynamite, travelling works shops, and a quarter of

a milica rounds.of.rife.ammunition were captured.

Some of the camols, hit by our machine-guns fire, blew to pieces as if struck by a high explosive, and then bazas into flames. It was found that the Arabs had loaded them up with bombs and petrol."

ARAU'S LONG XEMORT.

On returning to. Sollum the Duke of westminster Yas informed that a letter had been picked up in the ruins of Bir

the exhausts.

1

די

The prisoners' condition was desperate. heap of white shells showed that nails had been their staple diet. Occasionally

The cars travelled miles. With the rescued prisoners ware two mascots of the Armoured Car Division, ohe, being a parres brought away from Ypres, which cannot speak, but betmys its former homo by making a quaint noise like the fight of a shell A ship's officer and a Greek interpreter missing from the prisoners were found safe. They went under bort to Tebruk for hood, the guards telling the Italian authorities that the prisoners were starving and that the English would pay. While food was being procured the wireless message Italian received announcing the "acue and the two were immediately released

&

NEW WAR FILMS.

FOUR TO BE RELEASED NEXT MONTE

But now some shells had begun to fall They came from: she. pen the town. north. in the direction of Dopaument and the Cote du Poivre. The tannon thandered" without ceasing, but one could act distinguish any definite sound; it as a roar as of thousands of logs being hurled from enormous water-shoots It seemed too powerful, this intonaity to be the work of man. It.. scenet::as though a gigantic volcano bad opened

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE

TO EVERY PURCHASER OF

No. 10

WHISKY

PROVIDED THE QUANTITY IS NOT LESS THAN THREE BOTTLES, WE WILL PRESENT A HANDSOME SOUVENIR IN THE SHAPE OF EITHER A JUG, "ASH TRAY, MATCH- STAND, BLOTTER FOR EVERLASTING CALENDAR

DONNELLY & WHYTE

SOLE AGENTS.

TEL. 636.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD

(NOW RECONSTRUCTED).

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILERMAKERS, BRASS and IHON over thirty years acperience. To owa'two Blipways, and can accommodate any ersts FOUNDER. All work done in this establishment is gaszemend... Wa kara af 200 feet long-

Town Office 48, CO, GET HOLD Carl Hongkong. Telephone No. 450. Telephone No. E 2. Shipyard: Sham Sui. Po. Kowloon, Hongkong, Estimates furnished on application, .

WONG PING WA, - Manasir.

Hungtong, Aprü 1, 1912.

PRIZE.

CAKEY & SON

EMERY & BLACK EMERY

JCHN

WELLINGTON

SONS

LEAD MI

DON

EMERY GLASS BLACK CLOTH PAPER LEAD WELLINGTON KNIFE POLISH

·JUHS OAKEY & SONS, LIMITED, “ Wasinoras Mataa

F

nothing beside the immensity of their birds were perched upon a broken live valent. Somebody said that there were wire from the fallen telephone port. explosives in the cellar of the burning General-took us over the fortress from and five men at once volunteered to fre between Douaumont and the Cote du house around which they were working, which he could see glimpses of the cross- We descended into the lowert search, I saw them kick in the door and Poivre.

was hirling burning are out to

we followed the General back towards ther cover and exterminate all the world. As

automobiles by which we had come wo Waer from Captain Gwatkin Williamas to

were conscious suddenly that the air above us had begun to vibrate. Most of Nuri Beg, zamplaining that the Taca prisoners were starving and ill, and

us knew this odd noise. A shell suggesting that medical comforts should

coming. It berat, and a hail of: bombu. The letter be procured at Sollum.

fell to far away into the city. The mentioned Bic Hakim as the place of the

were incendiary bombs, and we saw the prísonërs* détention. Every prisoner and

Four interesting war films taken in spurts of fire that followed their course. refugee was interrogated, but none know Bir. Hakin except a man who said he Fesse, by special arranjament with the One of them fall upon the veranda of a had led a flock there. thirty years ago. War Office, were on private view recently trim little cottage standing alone. A

metres of rock, and there we speak Subsequently another man, who had been at the Court Imperial Playbouse, Totion-great flame arose which licked the veruda disappear inside the little hallway, from cellar, where we were invited to imania We walked some hundred metres most agreeable hour with the officers of the prisoners guard, was discovered, and ham Court-road, London. This is the off the cottage.. Then spread two red which smoke and fame were already beneath the shelter of some Alseau the Duke asked permission to attempt a fourth series of the kind that has been black Brons, one on either side, which pouting, rescue. Every man in the batteries sat arranged by the British Topical Com seemed to Tiit lt info the air in a paft

A substantial of curling, loamy smoke. This smoke through burning street. Flames shot Ferdan. There was no pessimism among from the windows of several houses. thom. The question of Verdan was quite up all night and next day tuning up the mittes for War Flime, machines The batteries were reinforced royalty is paid to the War Office, for was waited backwards by the fresh spring when we returned to where the men were settled in their minds. They had so it

film wind from the valley, revealing only space.

In ne passeront jamais, jamais ! " where the cottage had stood. A grenade at work we found that anobus had ent side with

one of the rubber hoses in two. A wall

It may be that in the end but little of by light cars carrying guns, and all the military charities, on every foot motor arabalances within travelling range licensed.

The four films, which will be released fell into a grove of big oak trees below had fallen across the street, and over the of Sollum, were brought in.

in May, deal with the Irish at the front, the walls of the citadel, cutting them up burning scaffolding and hot brick we the old city will be lett. But the great A jewellery column of fire in the valley of the Meuse. Lord Kitchener in France and Flanders, acatly and whirling their fresh young climbed as best as could.

shop and a pharmsey burned on opposite must die cas day. There will be ashes, how out, rounded are care for, and the buds about our henda.

sides of the street, In the latter we saw and these ashes will be French.

The Phoenix cannot die! work of the postal department. One of

We spent the next hall-bour in an the upsparting of coloured flame regulariz » the most striking pictures is of the Royal Trish on their way to the trenches, with underground shelter waiting for the fury at ten-second intervals from bottles of inflammable fuiquid as the Gre crept along Capt. Redmond, M.P., leading his com of the bombardment to abate.

When we re-entered the town fire was the shelves. The gutter la front, swollen The Calcatta Turf Clah decided to burning in six places in one street. Is with water from the boss, became have a sweep this year for the Derby Vardun destroyed? Yes and mo. There darmed with barning books, but these or some equivalent race. At a special to hand all the profits of the sweef (ie, were many quarters of the city quite were corried rapidly away. We heard meeting the stewards passed a resolutions untouched. Of course the civilians had the snapping of telephone wires, and from the 10 per cent deducted from the total gone long before. We saw but eno-lone the empty house beside the pharmacy the towards expenses) to war funds and civilian during cyr visit, and he had insistent ringing of a telephone ball, Calcutta charities, guaranteeing a mini

this purpose. cbtained permission from the General in which stopped with a gurgle--a death mum of 11 lac of rupeex (£16,000) for Chief to return in search of some precious rattles a great green fame surged from books he had left there. Le civil de the window.

The registered postage is 19 sen, to Kors and Chins 40 sen and to Europe & America

IT A GOOD ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Many lafuential papers of the world noticed this work in the highest barma. For example, The Daily Mail says:- Yet another Who's Who I and this time from Japan1 The reader is apt st Arst to regard it as a curiosity, a sign

By midnight on March 18 there were that the East has now become Western practically almost to the last detail. But gathered at the old Turkish fert on the Who's Who In Japan is far more than

armoured 1-curiosity;

it is a very sound and usefull ridge above Bollam nice reference book. It is printed in English Rolls-Royce cars, five touring care with and contains brief biographies, on the guns, light cam with supplies, and the socepted model of prominent men in Japan, arbulances-forty-two motors altogether: Mr Karits is a skilful editor and has done No tourist trophy cars were ever more his work well.

eurelly prepared than these.

the 2nd June, 1918.commer.cing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, "Corner. "of Tee House Street,--

A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c. Comprising - Sideboards, Disner Waggon, Diving Tables and Chairs, Chonterfeld Sofas, Arm-chairs, &o, Wardrobes and Toilet" Tables, Double and Single Brass and Brass-mounted Belatesda, &c., Miscate! laneous Furniture, several lot of Black wood Ware, Carpets (New), Pianos, Porcelains, &c., &o, &c."

Alao.

"A few lots of Brass Vases, Flower Pots

And

A number of Lots of New Matting

(Full Farticulare from Catalogus.) - TYRES ~~Coah.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers

Hongkong: May 26, 1916.

FUBLIC AUCTION.

690

HE Undersigned have received Tstructions on The Superustendent, P. & O., S. N. Co., to sell by Public Anction

THURSDAY,

the 9th June, 1919; at 11 am, at the

Breakwater, Yau-ma-te,

The Iron Lighter"-

MALATE

250 Tons Lighter,

Length

Beam Depth

110 feet

Complete with Hatches, Windlass Chams, anchors, etc. --"

The Shallow Draught of this Lighter renders it eminently suitable for Canton or Macao.

A Launch will leave Flake Fior at 13.30 am. day of sale to convey intending Purchasers

TES

On view 8th Ja Termna Cash

Hongkong, s

HUGHES & HOUGE,

WHO'S WHO IN JAPAN PUBLISHING OFFICE..

No. 5, 1-chome, Uchisalwaicho, Kojizzacal Toky

HIMROD'S

Dives 'Instant Rellat No matter what your respiratky "Örgans may be suffering zoos-EDICINE. AUTHMA, INFLUENZA; MARAL DATARRH,: ar ORDINARY DOUGH, -you will find in this famous rettedy a uzturative power that is 'mizoplý poorna led.

40 TELES.:

Sold in ele by

AKWARK OF

(at Cheathar: nul

the Cars DUTATAKS

CURE FOR ASTHMA

BUROPEAN AGENCY.

HOLESALE Indents promptly. Weed a lowme cach pocas for all Britab and Continental goods including

Books and Stationery. Boots, Shoo and Leather, Chemicals and Drug inte' Sundries, Chins, Earthenware and Glassware, Cycles, bioler Oats and Accesories Drapery, Millinery and Piece Goods, Fancy Goods and Parfumery Hardware, Machinery and Matais, Jewellery, Plate and Watches P Photographic and Optical floods, Provisions and Oilmon's Stores,

Commarion 21% to 6%

•Trade Blients allotted. Special Quocatione on Demand "Sample Cases from £10 upwardsş

Consignments of Produce fuld on Account WILLIK WILSON & SONS. CESTARIABLED 1814)

450 ASCHURCE LANE, Cable Address 227 Annuaire, Lorisent,

At three o'clock.on St. Patrick's. morn ing the column moved out of the fort across the few miles of truckless desert, until the Tobruk road was picked up Azizia, the scene of the charge two days before, was roached in darkness, and the force halted for the first rays of the sun The to light up the sky behind them." ears then buramed ahead, gathering pace as the shadows disappeared. At sixty-five. miles samall party of Arabs were dis armed, but "the men were sat free, as thers was no room-for-prisoners.

For miles the tracks of a car had been seen, and it eighty-one miles we captured a Wolseley belonging to the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division. The car'a engine

was in good order, but one of the back wheels was buckled. It had improvised tyres.

pazy."

Lord Kitchener is on inspecting brigades of the Low Army, standing by snow covered road. The saverely wounded are shown in barge Eospitals, to avoid jolting, and the joy of letters from home is vividly displayed in the pictures of the distribution of letters in the front line trenches, under Are.

THE PART OF ITALY,

LORD BRYCE ON WHY. SHE CAME IN.

What is it that has brought. Italy to this strife aski Lord Bryce 10 The Book of Italy." which Mr Fisher Unwin has just pablished. He answers

Partly

Ger

HOUSES ON FIL.

LONDON

Verdun the soldiers called him, and All along this street, were the locked. down the street be pow came carrying doors and barred windows of the departed some of the books. I had made his population. In some cases berry becas acquaintance three months ago during my had been called over the windows, but former visit, and I spoke to him now they were of no avail against invading He was very tranquil, like all the rest face. Ferme was written on that. about the city My Louse is destroyed," door of a thay colings whose occupante he said, but what is that if the way of had been known to me, and I wondered

where the two old men had gone: Farther: the vandals is betted ? 11

What is there to say of these soldies on, in some garden plots, was a great sympathy for, and her sense and firemen working in the burning litter, of old shoes and sardine tine, thrown A grant quantity of sheet rubber has of duty to, those Italians who dwell in streets of Verdun with the bombs falling bastily among the budding bushes stand- been washed up on this const, presumably lands too long blighted by Hapsburg about them constantly? Courage, ing untidily above faint attempts of

Italian tyranny, lants where everything part of the cargo of torpedoed ship was disparaged or permented But there indifference towards death, self-sacrifice springtime verdure. Who shall end the The Araba had rolled it up tightly, was also another cause. The heart of these are words much too ordinary for gardena of Verdun this spring Here boyad, It with camel-hide, and fastened the Italian people his felt that great the soldiers of France. Everyone of them was house cut quite in two, and from

*** should be named Chevalier of the begion its upper storey the remains of body It to the rims with wire. An officer went principles are invoved in this wa

interests of aŭ mankind ing put a few days later for this car and volved when a guest State openly stows of Honour, and even that would be stood out strangely inta spsoe; ploture in & git framn dangled from a broken found that it had been burst its contempt for treaty, obligations and

besmi When the column get, eighty ralles on makes its military advantage the only the Toorak road the cars changed direc mesatire of its international duty2,247 Freedom and fastice, these, says Lord tion torsing on the-deses die Kouth Bryce; wers the watchwords of the berses After fifteen miles rough and tumble over of the Risorgimento, the noblest group desperately rough ground the party began

of patriots that Europe has seen for two

to feel uncertain of success The two turies. The great Italians of the past

would all be united now could the

LOSING WEIGHT

BY THE POUND

of ill health, shows your assims. lative powers are" ddorening,

Areh gulles were arguing as to whether return to watch this confiet, more ten-me Weight a condition they wers on the right trek, the manzible than any the world has ever seen who had not seen Bir Hakim since his before Victor Emanuel and Cavour, boyhood thought they are wrong The Minghetti and Man, Garibaldi sand by the land they loved for Freedom and other Arab would not say much, althagh Mazzini, would all approve a war waged cintaistams proved him a zealous Humanity, az ol guide. He thought the pace of the cars Apart from Loed Bryock per Was greater than it really was, and he Book of Iny expected to arrive soccer

Sumber of English and men, also a wealthy The desert was now very stony, but the

pictures lib. in pubie goingwea infrly hard, a hundred miles the Italian soldiers and

went by, and beg

to be the limit of the

of the

was believed in t

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL- COMPOUND

ples, the blood-

THE FECENIX, CÂNNOT DIS

AGENTS

WILLIAM SLATER, 42 Grena Busch Bru, C., F. Aigan, 114 19 Clement's Ime Lombard Streck, 2.C. T.-B., BROWNS & Co., Ltd.. 183/ Qoem's Bead Victoria Ster CLAREK, SON & Prim, 85 Grace church St. o., G. STREET&Co., Ltd. SU fornhill GORDON & GOTCH, 15-86 Bride St, La BOBET WATION 150 Flat Strid C. MITCHELL & Co., nous B#, Holborn Vioduct," OLDA KLINER & Co. & Whitefriars, Bin KO. MATHIR & Crowns, Ltd, 10, 11, 12, NetBridge St, 10-______ SOUTLAND-FRED, EDMONT, 8 North

David Street, Edinbring

de

PARIS AND EUROPE, MATICE FERI & Co. 18-Rue de la Grange!!Bateki

NEW YORKT. B. BROW

Zolian Ball, West Mind Straci, Now York City.

The saddest thing was to see tin deserted anitäala-thin, with

terrible

«SAN. FRANCISCO and American. Peria bewildarmant on their faces pack of generallyBEAT & BLADE, Hans Fran

mad them dashed wildly by a tho ness: had seized them. Come had been injured, try the falling bricki. Wo as the soldiers to shoot thero. Many ad already been holy qur off The bird

ALV

RECO

PUOCHOW-Baooker & Co. AUSTRALIA, TARM NINJA, AND NE

MALAND:Gordon & Gozent,

510AF

be Curtocalyst Pr

DRAGGAWE

Variok) of dealsity dishes át E/F