1916-06-06 — Page 3

TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1916.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT,

General Auctioneers

Agents.

AUCTIONS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Petting by Pablle Agation, Sals, to be

DARTICULARS and Conditions of the

held on TUESDAY, the 18th day of June, Share, Coal and General Produce 1915, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Brokers and Commission Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Govenor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Text Tes Mul in the Colony of Hongkong, for tarm of 75 years, with the option of ronowal at a Crown Rent to be árad by ohe Surveyor of His Majesty the King for one further tarm of 75 vEACH,

Particulars of the Zok

PROPRIETORS

•To-XWa-Wan' Coal Storage.

Cesar weed Bentley's

“A, B. c. 4th & 8th Editions.

A 1 Telegraphic Code.

Telegraphic Actress "MEIRION" BONGKONA..

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in- Tunde Kolby Public Auction.

(FOR. ACCDENT OF THE CONCERNED)

on.

WEDNESDAY,

the 7th Jane, 1918, at il aim,

at their Salve Rooms," No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Jon Havan STREET,

A NUMBER or Cases or

MINERAL WATERS

Spirity) And

be of al

Locality.

Registry No.

Boundary

(Approximate.3

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$.

$

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THE CHINA MAIL..

THE SINN FEIN REVOLT is a rewind

FIRST INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTS,

BATTLE OF THE BARRICADES...

Aring from the upper windows,

Early in the fight the Four Conrta' deir ja to the enemy. The famous Law Library. | with its great mass at historie records, was dismantled, and the heavier and ure bulky books used to take the place BARBED WIRED ON ST. STEPHEN'S of sandbags, of which the rebain bag only

GREEN..

a few. But of makeshift barrisades bhara were many the engineers of the raiding Sinn Feixers displaying remark-

The following vivid cecunts of these skill in building them pe Sion Fain, revoli are taken from the

Daily Mail of Saturday, April 29, six days after the rising broke out. They were the first independent accounts to reach Loudon. The Dublin correspondent

of the paper, writing on the night of Thursday, April 27, says >***

HAVE YOU A

BAD LEG

with wennch that dashurgs an acharwise, package surrounded with infammation and traden, ihti When you pesak yeon, ingar on the mbined part you have paiadó, which dudes 25 the casečím you have lied. .... Pechape your kasm sen suelen. the Jainis being - Womeniny, the song with. D sakles, round wank the skin way be Garajoutal.

1. MLS) deprive you of the power to-walik.. YOU MAY METR aziended vodowe hospitals, and home

gation, but să anti-chy the Gimashopper.

· Trostrimit, which, in a certihi duen da, panen në Amoensen, Glandaise (wellings, Putinid Huda, Carbon Rd Jomis, Ho 21, sald's. Kone, or Sunda, Lars · Dog B

Seod st some in the Drug Stuese for. b bax af

Grafton Streat was the nerd to suffer after Sackville Street, and here shere was more wholesale looting and a great deal of sniping from rools and windows. In the height of the Sghting two priests GRASSHOPPER OINTHENT

game forward in one of the streets bravely. and fearlessly to attend the wounded. civilians." One of them wax inmedistały The tale of Dublin during the past few hit by a Sina Fein ballet. As he felt the daye reads like a page torn from, the second priest hurried up to a him, and history of the French Revolution. In he too was shot. Whether these twa etery aspect of ir incidents and adven-noble men were killed or not, I cannot tures of the Commune hava been repeated say. and repeated again. To f the memory of it, there will aver be the picture in In the fight for the Shelbourne Hotel the mind's eye of Sackville street to the energy were, after a bitter struggle, ap and ramparted with overturned eventually driven out. The soldiers Vehicles of every possible kind; of the occupied the place in their turn, and Four Cours (the Trial Law Courte) from the balony trained a machine gut invested and turned, so to speak, inside upon the rebel entrenched in St out with the rebels entrensbing them-Stephen's Green They made good 723 selten behind great piles of ancient and shooting here.

4,560

SINGON & CO.

ESTABLINKED A.U. 1880.

FROM PUESTA PARK.

START FOR THE HOTTL

AND PILLS. Propand by Albert, Alkma

Heus, Faringdon Street, London, England, Pries In England 1/18 mod. 279 vor hats Agants":—A, S. Watson & Co, Ld.

Hongkong.

rifles with fixed bayonets and haversacks. while their bandoliers were full of cartridges. They thronged the tramway care going citywards, aout in some cases took forcible possession of them. They sang rehot songs and jeered at the people. · Incoherent threats of coming great deela.“ were bandied. The atmosphers became one with excitement, for which no particular reason could be assigned.

mank

}} historic tomes azd records and: of} All through Mopday night shipping

The men congregated in ever growing machine guns whirring from the front and quick, small raids went on. That

ambers round the principal city bufd- windows of the aristocratie and elegant city was in compicte darkness. All the logs. The Post Office and its neighbour- Shelbourne Hotel. And all through the street lamps were either out or amshed; Box was the rendevous for popular shopping centre, lest, look, and there was no trade moving anywhere hundrede: the Freeman's Journal, the once again-leot.

and the whole seerd was ghentisk and Daily Express," and "Irish Indepen cerie to a degree. It might have beendent offers were surrounded. "The

Four Courts and the Castle were alw I was in Phoenix Park. the tragic the Commune over again.

With the coming of dawn more

centres of attraction to the rebels.- thears of some of Ireland's darless and most sinister doings, that the first spark reinforcements arrived. A military force On Monday was now in guard of Kingsheldge Station.. of the revolt was kindied. morning the senlied Citizen "Army and with a gunboat in the Liffey abelling held review" in the park. They the rats out of their holes in Liberty traded and marched past with loaded Hall, more soldiers coming into the city.

rifes and fixed bayonets, After baring and 'more still on the way, it was press the lower windows, smasked in the first

Can be used along, or with Wines and TRON STEEL, M TAL and HARD WARE BIRDHANTS, Wholesale and Retail Ironmongers. Pig Iron and Foundry Cake Importers. General Store, kaspera and Shipahandlers Nos. 35 and $7, Hisa Looxo Brazz7, (2nd Street, of Central Market) Telephone No. 515.

'Eongkong September 4, 1913.

A QUANTWİT OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Removed to Sales floors for Convenience

Terms -Cash.

of Salu.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, June 3, 1916.

720

„PUBLIC”“”“, AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in- strictions from The Superintendent,

P. & O. 8. N. Co., to sell by Public Auction.

THURSDAY

1

the 9th June, 1016, at 11 am., at the

Breakwater, Yau-ma-te..

The Iron Lighter

"MALATE,"

250 Tons Lighter.

Length...

Beum

Depth

..10 feet

+

Complete with Hatches Windlass

Chains Anchors, etc.

The Shallow Draught of this Lighter renders it eminently suitable for Cantori ör Macao.

"

A Launch will leave Blake. Pier" at *10.30 am. day of sale to convey intending

Purchasers.

1

On view 6th June. Terms: Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 30, 1916.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

701

HE Undersigned have received fu- structions to sell by Public Auction,

од

THURSDAY,

the 8th June, 1018, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8.

Des Voeux Road, Corner of'

Ice House Street

À QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND

BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

&c.

EVERY BEETLE EVERY BUG

soos “Koučing's” into thorough wwined.

Sold in Time only.' The mucivalled way-le- Lill beatles, bags and

KEATING'S

been addressed by certain of their leaders they set forward in flamboyant, well. ordered ranks to return

in Dublin. Passing the Viceregs Lodges in griz silence, they entered the outskirts of the town and there met some of the Dublin garrison marching the other way.

Two of the men, in the first rank of the Citizen" Army, without wavering, Hevelled their rifles and fired into the soldiery. "Two offers and several man féll. Their attackers immediately dung up their arms, but that did not prevent the soldiers avenging the anrder of their Geors by firing back. Three of the Sinn Feizers fel shot in the head.

clear that the turn of the tide had come. Early in the fray one of the newspaper offices was angrily attacked, the windows smashed, and the building occupied by the Citizen Army. But on Tuesday night they were successfully stilled out.

THE_BEDELS" SYRENGTH,

The rebels, I am told by one who has been behind the scenes a good deal in this business, numbered about 12.000. of these no more than 2,000 were of the ranks of the so-called Citizen Army which is made up of the Larkitites. The other 10,000 were all Sint Feiners.

The casualty list is heavy. The injured include a good number of peaceful citizens who took no part is the fray-the victims of stray bullets.

This was the signal for general revolt The news was carried in a Bush to the Beart of the city. A message to the Bagal Practically the whole of the suburbs Military Barracks brought the first draft were unmolested and safe. for the fighting of soldiers ont. As 10:15 the battle begaa.was confined to the central area

POWDER Is being Bank Holiday and the Fairyhouse A part of the shore "narrative was

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

ORDER

CHERRY & 00,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Bangkang Hotel Telephone No. 481.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

As Follows Upholstered Suites; Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, Brass Bedstead, Double and Single Brass-mounted Becisteads Sideboard, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes and Décasionali Tables, etc., etc., Dinner, Tea and Coffee Services, Crockery, Glass Ware including Cut-glass, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY 8. Kui

WHO'S WHO IN JAPAN

ON TIL STRÖTT, DE 3003.

A she clocks began to strike the hour of noun the rebellion was launched." A crowd of semel, men rushed the Port

Office.

The entrances were wized and

Korn over.

rush, were barricaded. The operators, taken by surprise; were powered. The men, many of whom are said to have secretly sympathize with the movement, were taken prisoners; the women were farned into the street, which

this time was, seething mass of howling humanity. With stickw and tha busts of their rides others of the rebels. had forced an entrance into neighbouring shops and business premises." Machine

as were mounted from the tops of the Post Office and the barrels of rifies proped from the barricades of the lower windows. The crackle of ride shots could be heard, and now and again shriek of pain above the wild hurly-burly, of the shouting, swearing mob.

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE

TO EVERY PURCHASER TOP

No. 10

WHISKY

B THE QUANTITY IS NOT LESS PROVIDED THE

THAN THREE BOTTLES, WE WILL PRESENT. HANDSOME SOUVENIR IN THE SHAPE OF EITHER A JUG, "ÄSH' TRAY, MATCH. STAND BLOTTER OR EVERLASTING CALENDAR

DONNELLY & WHYTE

SOLE AGENTS

TEL 636.

Quality.

With LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE, a few drops sprinkled over the meat, ash or cheese, &c. are all that is required to impart the most dicious piquancy and favour.

The QUALITY and concentration of its ingredients make a little of this sauce go a long way.

Lea

Perrin

Original and Genalgu WORCESTER

A man, said to be James Connolly,THE KWONG HIP LONG CO., LTD.

organiser of the Irish Transport Workers”. Union, emayed to harangue "the crowd from the Post Office.

ות

(NOW RECONSTRUCTED).

...

races on. Dublin was fairly empty" at supplied to me by a prominent Dublin. the time. The trouble began with citizen, who has a private telephone wire

SEALSKINS AND PORTER. destiltory bring here, and there and sorest from his office in Cork to his house, in! The dregs of the city had been drawn

Loot was the uppermost? dnels in the outskirts of the town, for Dublin. He himself was in Cork to the spot.

TNGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS BOILERMAKERS, BRASS and IRON the purpose evidently of diverting the Monday and Tuesday: his wife was-st thought. Half the shops in Sackville. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have Over thirty years experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate any writ attention of the military from the main home. He got through on the telephone Street were sacked. Respectable citizens, object of the Sinn Feizers' chief attack to her, on Tuesday afternoon, sad she holiday-makers from Belfast, and people poẻ 200-feet long, JOS PATRON the Post Office, the Castle, and the Hotel told him of her safety and her of the most unimpeachable loyalty and Town Oslo 18. DOKKI VEST ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong. Telephone No. 157, Telephone Ka E 9. Metropole in the centre of the town, the experiences. I can't hear you very probity, to save their skiza. were com

Shipyard: Sham-Sal-Pe. Kowloon, Hongkong, Estimates furnished on application, Four Courts, St. Stephen's Green, Trinity well, she presently said, because the pelied to take part in the thievery

WONG FING WA," Manaow rides are making such a rattls all, around Sealskin coals and silk blouses were College, and the Shelbourne Hotel.

me!" She was quite calm and undis soon to be seen on women with bare feet- and ragged petti-coats reeking strongly turbed through it all.

The volunteer ambulance staff, the of porter children who had never doctors, nurses, and stretcher-bearers and possessed swopence of their own were. splendid' work amid friend and foo alike, imitating Charlie Chaplin with stolen and times out of number the Dublin City silk hats in the middle of the turmoiļ Police-mer of the magnificent, stalwart and the murder. In five minutes the A the telegraph machines distinguished themselves valiantly. They appeared and book-seller's stock was immediately mashed,

were loyal to a man, taking no heed of being hawked at bankrupt prices.

POST OFFICE WRECKED.

Obviously the first thing to do was to cut off all "outside communication by dermolishing the plant and cutting the wires inthe Past Office. This was done from inside some of the staff being well known as Sinn Feiners and stalwart supporters of Larkin's Citizen Army.

were

the telephone

.. Hongkook, April 1, 1919.

not prove very pliable tools in the hands One Belfast driver of the enemy.

the north are stopped at Drogheda, From the south they can apparently not travel at all. Telegraphic and telephonic

have entirely ceased

breed of the Royal Irish Constabulary entire contents at a sweet shop dissaccorded in turning his captors into the communication, is cut ca and the mails.

connection dismantled, and the counters danger. A number of them have fallen ing to make their position more secure."

used as barricades, from behind which ibe hitherto peaceful Civil Servants brandished bayonets and fired ball carté ridge. A detachment of troops was told off to deal with these, and fighting raged through the "ground floor of the great |building, which, after wikl'and furious resistance, was eventually cleared of the rebels at the point of the bayonet.

Beinforced, the rebels returned to the attack, and it is declared that two or three times in the course of the day and

ORGY OF DRINK AND LOOT.

LOYALISTS FORCED TO RÓR

The Belfast correspondent of the Daily Mail, also writing on April 27, says :---

At noon on Monday, the second anniversary of the gun-running exploit

Meanwhile the rebels were endeavour,

On the top of the Daily Express " building machine gune were mounted. On Stephen's Green entrenching wis began, Guinness's brewery, a hig bakery. and Jacob's biscuit factory were seized.

A contingent took possession of the Four Courts, whila another attacked-in half. hearted fashion, it is true--the castle,

The authorities, after an aborsive

of the Ulster Provisional Government, lancer charge down. Sackville Street, armed force of rebels took forcible during which several persons. Izcluding

an officer of the lancers, were shot, con

night the Post Office changed hands. ⠀⠀ possession of many of the principal ned themselves to the defensive. At

Meanwhile the Castle was attacked, buildings, enfrenchód itself in strong Amiens Street Station the revolutionaries But it fortunately proved too tough, a position on 8. Stephen's Green, and proposition. A strong body of the rebels commenced the promiscuous shooting of me & hot reception. The officials, aided Toilet Sets, Ice Chesta, etc, Bath Room

hed taken and fortified the South Dublin soldiers and civilians. The centre of the police, barricaded the building and Utensils, etc. a quantity of Good Electro | The first (1913) edition is already stated,

Union (the workhouse), which for a time, city was given up to wild orgy of drink bold it against repeated attacks, though Plate,

UNISOLATED FROM THE WORLD, IOGRAPHIES of over 6,000 people 11 all events, seemed to be a branch of and foot, and for three days pandemonium two of them were killed w Also

who are well-known in sousty and of their general headquarters. Here from reigned, an One Caille" Portable Motor with several hundred foreigners associated with upper windows and roof-tops they poured

Easter Monday had drawn thousands

Nevertheless Dublin by this time was Battery, &c Complete 3 Pianos Japan appear in the book. Quite new a persistent are upor this soldiers. Mam of sight-seers to the capital. The isolated from the world. The reber, Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood material and accurate sketches, both being operations were directed from Liberty principal business establishments were once in possession of the Post Office, cut and Teakwood Screens, & quantity of utterly free from prejudices A Blackwood Furniture, Pictures," "En-

The

ALL LIGHT CUT OFF." The latest first-hand information avail.

ditch in lonely district, and another following on the same rond succeeded in spilling all his petrol and bringing his machine to a standstill not far away Their captors, intent on reaching some destination in a given time, left the able here was brought by military chauffeurs, who, when Bight fell, ofeer who left Dublin on Tuesday morn Succeeded with lights out in getting the ing. He declared that by that time the -situation had been got fairly well in hand." machines running once more ad The rebels were still is possession of the eventually reaching home.

centre of the city, but the military ware closing in on theth. On Monday night there were a few free, and the gas and electricity bad sitecquently been cut off On the south à cordon of troops had been drawn round the Insurgents by Monday night, and on Tuesday the circle was completed

For the most part; however, in these early hours, the rebels had everything their own way,

Preparations were being rapidly pushed forward to drive the rebels out of their strongholdi.

In the city itself as evening wore on weird scenes were enacted. The garrison in the Post Ofice appeared to have for. gotten the commissariat in the first instance, and the men grew hungry":"A passing milk cart was stopped and it contents were commandsered. An hotel was rushed, and soon hems, jointe, fouls,

Un Tuesday morning only one Dublin Ash and liquid refreshment in opious

sppeared--the - Irish quantities were being rapidly transferred newspaper

Times. The other cices were in the from the one building to the other. It hands of the rebels. Is contained four toxicated hooligans sang and danced and fines dealing with the rebellion fought or lay helpless in the gutters.ing that grave disorder had broke out

The railway stations were besieged by and advising people to remain in Many portraits are inserted Hall on the bank of the Liffer from the closed, bas Sackville Street was crowded the telegraph and telephone wires.thomanda of excursionists who had come homes. The rest of the paper "was

from all parts of Ireland that morning to gravings a few Oil Paintings Bath contains over 3,400 page

cellars of that significantly christened with holiday-makars when, as the morn

Approaches to the city by road warn Large American Ice Chest, a

spend the holiday in the capita. Hon of scrape of district news number of Indian Carpets and Ruge, or the book should be accompanied ware handed out and Bistributed from Volunteers were seen to to approaching to enter or leare save at their pleasure.dreds of them were young girls terrified Fairyhouse Exces

The price in yen 6 (12/-) or #3 per sopy. building large quantities of ammunitioning wore on little knots of Sinn Fein held by rebels, and no one was allowed

monte, and a three, column trapóst Tiger and Leopard Skin Rugs,

time to time

froma zdany quarters. Some were in the In that matter every picket appeared to and half fainting Here and there by payment, mate

The precautions adopted in the the green uniform of the body, but the be a law to himself, bus motor cars were whole family struggled to keep together Office in Belfast are extraordinary. Babsaribers for the second sanal edition The enemy started across

and fight its way at one to the harms well known fact that a large of Who's Who is dagan" will be allowed O'Connell Bridge into Sackville-street majority were in mufti.

commandeared whenever they ware looting dozens of general shops and

enrountered. The Toods wore alive with Now and then a man fo khaki essayed to of the staf, not only there, but these vehicles. Hundreds had gone in pisha way for some helpless, wetoan, out Ireland, sympathizes strong

He a dangerous escort

the Sinn Feiners, y mod the morning to Fairyhouse races and they were all bold ap on the return journey.freets dominated by the rebels the papplies also to the Customs

pearance of e soldier's malforms was the officials. Many of the Sometimes the chanteur was compelled,

ignal for a running bra of rifle shole, this no doubt, desig with a pistol to his head, to driva rebel messengers on arrands connected with the rising sometimes the cars were, driven Into Dublin, where they were converted into street barricades,

Two, milita

And

A number of Bolls of Mattings, &c (New) (Fall Particulars from Catalogue.) Tras:-Cash

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, June 3, 1916.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

a reduction of one yenen, to Horse leaving only one store intact. Jacob's 17 The reglemend postage la 18 sen,

and Chinia 40 sen and to Europe & America biscuit factory was commandeered and

710 70 mer or 35 penta

HE Undoraigued hays received Instruc tions from Mr. Too CHONG K,

to roll by Public Auction,

SATURDAY,

the 10th June, 1916, commencing at 230 pm, at their Bales Rooms, No

Des Taaz Food, Corner of Ice House Street,

A DARIT” ABSORTMENT OF T CHINESE POROKLAINS, BRONZES; PICTURES, JADESTONE WARE BNUFF BOTTLES, da bo do Recently arrived from Pekin Particulars will be published later.

HUGHES & HOUGH.

Auctioneers

footód

Responding gallantly to the call, the tropps dashed into the fray and met the plundering rebels in Backville Street, but. before destruction had been wrought

IT A GOOD ADVIEZIKING MEDIUM. Many intuential papers of the world noticed this work in the highest terms For example, The Daily Mail mys:

time from Japan The reader is spb str

Yet another Who's Who and this

first for regard it an n. evriendly, an ideanwhile all the tramway-car had that the East has now become Westen been seized by the enemy and conv practically almost to the last detall. But into effective barricades, a good name Who's Who In Japan! in far paces than

a curiosity is in a very sound and metall of them being actually tumed over an ceteros books. It is printed in English their sides Motor cars, lorries, AI and contains brief biographies, on the tile-cars, and brewer'

corpted model of promisené min Japan simibly ruintioned, the Me Kurita in s akiifak editor and haW LOTN

tumharnased Lnd driven

his work well.LATON WHO'S WHO IN JAPAN PURLIKNING OFFICE,

No. 6, 1-obama, Uchimiwalžio, Kojimaoni Tokyo,

carla used for ramparts and which to fire

SNIPERS' POLY

Mest encried.

The Man Who Gets There

Tr the man who has blood- reat rich red blood and plenty of If-in his body.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND makes blood-lots of item

who refused Giờ:

shot Ozie

For the at the

through the drawla

however, the ownses.

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One officer, realizing this took of hat and humic and in loones and trousers, valiantly force young girl compan safely in the Belfas from the frost Friciogaly

shot

formation reaching these peo hare, however, brought standstill. No Belfast received telegraphalo Monday right kid zio Press bean despatched from the city.

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