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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916,

AUCTIONS.

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HE Undersigned have received in- Tundersigned it, "POLLVETRAR, SUPREME COURT, to sell by Public Auction

WE

WEDNESDAY,

the 14th July, 2016, at

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

814

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned has received instrue.

Txou to sell by Public Auction.

on

TUESDAY,

the 19th July, 1916, commencing at

13 Noon at their Sales Roos, No. 2.30 p., at the Toyo Kisen Kaisha's

Des Voeux Road, Corner of ICE HOUSE STREET,

Seven cases of BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS forming one of the finest Collections in the East, comprising -

Classified and set Specimens if Butters. ies and Moths property labelled with dates and place of capture, covering Sooth Chine, including the North and West Rivers and Mac, and Java, Borero and Timor, with exchange specimens for comparison from Europe, Africa, America and other parts of Asia than South China etc., and a large quantity of rare Butterflies and Moths from Java, South China, Timor, Borneo, etc, etc, in papers similarly identified.

The above collection was recently carefully packed at considerable expense for transmission to the Rothchild Museum at Tring, but at the owner's wish is being sold in Hongkong for the benefit of bia creditors.

The owner's valuation is $7,000.

Tarms -Cash.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE NORTH SEA

VICTORY.

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NAWALAfter pointing to the dificulties of

A NAVY LEAGUE MEMORANDUM.

The Secretary of the local branch of the Navy League (Mr. E. A. M. Williamay has forwarded for publica tion the following commutilon tiona received by hinr:

13. Victoria Street,

Londen, 8.WA

making sudden changes in the exist- Ang carricula of sobools, Mr. Hender. son stated that the Board woht}

praction carefully consider the scheme outlined by: the Deputacion and would do all in their power to give practical effect to the demand of the League

It may perhaps be possible for your Committee to bring this, important subject before the educational fauthorities in your own Douairdon, and thus extend - more: intimate June 8th, 1916.

knowledge of the vital dependence of DEAR SIR-1 beg to attach for the Four Empire upon its Sea Power than information of your Committee

at present obtaina. communiqué lasued by the Navy I shall be glad to be informed League for the Press of this country whether your Committee can take on June 5th. The Navy League feels any action in this matter-Yours strongly that adequate expression hagery truly pot been given by the Admiralty to the magnifcent achievement of the Fleet in this great battle, and we are anxious that the fact that our Sea Power has been relatively strength ened as the result of the engagement, should be most widely known throughout the whole world,

You will perhaps be so kind as to communicate the statement of the League to the Press of your locality. -Tours very truly,

P. J. HANNON.

General Secretary,

13, Victorin Street.

Loudon, S.W.

", 5th June, 1916. OUR GREAT NAVAL VICTORY. The Navy League having considered all the usailable information relating to the North Sou battle of Wednesday last states in unqualified terras that the final result of the engagement is an undoubted victory for the British Fleet which sustains the Command of the Sea by the British Navy. The Navy Leugite tenders to Admiral' Sir John, Jellicoe and the officers and men of the Fleet, its warmest cod- gratulations on the result of the action and expresses its deep admira- tion of the unsurpassed courage, skill, and sacrifice of all the officers and men of His Majesty's fighting ships which have raised the standard of who took part in the engagement. the whole Fleet to the highest level of the Nelson tradition. The League at the same time offers its respectful tribute of sympathy to the famines of those gallaut sailors who in this great sen battle have bid down their lives in the service of their King and Country and for the freedom of the world. 815 The Navy League repudiates the pessimistic tone adopted by certain organs in the press in estimating the value of the battle from the point

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The Navy League.

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23rd May, 1916.. The Teaching of Subjects relat- ing to British Sea Power and Naval History in Secondary and Element ary Schools.

Sta.-I em directed by the Execu- tive Committee of the Navy League to request that you may be so kind as to submit for the consideration of yony Education Committee, th

which following Resolution unanimously adopted at a Special Meeting which took place at this office on the 22nd instant :---

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The Navy League will be prepared to assist teachers in the preparation of text books and the drafting of simple readings and short lectures on mutal subjects, and suggestions which may be sent in by Committees or by fudividual tenchers will receive inunediate consideration. I am Sir. your obedient servant.

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THE RUSSIAN SUCCESS.

EFFECT ON OTHER FRONTS.

·

PAUSTBIA'S FOLLY.

Lesvos, June 15.

At Verdun, in the Trentino, in Arinegiu and, in Mesopotamia, there is à pause iu the fighting while, all eyes turn to othe East European trout, where the Russian

*The Executive Committee of the Navy League respectfully urge upon the Education Authorities in the counties and boroughs of Great Britain that the teaching of the general principles relating to the use of British Sea Power and

The following unofficial "messagem ivere of the main outlines of "British -Naval History should be recognised sed fer he British Legation at as an essential branch of National "Bangkok:--- Education in Secondary and Primary Schools; that suitable' readers on those subjects approved, by the Board of Education, and subject to the technical approval of the Admiralty, should be adopted for general uso in all such sebools that in the new editions of all readers now in use for the respective standards. simple lessons should be embodied ex- planatory of the use of Sea Power and the functions of the Navy." The Navy League feel that it is profoundly important that the rising generation of these Islands should Lave the clearest understanding of their entire dependence for the enjoy. tent of their liberties; the mainten of view of the war as a whole. The arce of their industrial setivities and Navy League knows that this colli- the unity and strength of their sion between the sea powers of Great PUBLIC AUCTION. Britain and Germany has resulted to the advantage of Great Britain and PARTICULARS and Conditions of the not to the advantage of Germany Letting by Public Auction Sale, to be The Navy League knows also that held on MONDAY, the 17th day of July, Admiral Beatty has discharged his 1936, at 3 r.at, at the Offices of the Public trust in his command of the Battle Works Department. by Order of His Cruiser Squadron with conspicuous Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LIND at Mee: Lon Stroot qualities of leadership. There can

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, July 7, 1918.

Q.

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Empire upon the power and ethciency of the British Fleet. It is held that every British child should realise from its earliest years that the beneficent influences which British civilisation and the British ideaf of democratic freedom have exercised throughout the world have been the direct consequences of the use of

in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term be no doubt that the losses inflicted British supremacy upon the Seu.

of 75

years, with the option of renewal upon the eneiny m zot merely The Navy League' is convinced that

at a Crown Rant to be fixed by relatively greater than those suffered this appeal to the patriotism and

one further term of 75 years.

Morality.

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mis continue their victorious advance. The extent to which the Austrian line has been pierced surprises all experts, but still thore surprising is the rapidity wherewith the piercing was effected. The fortress of 'Luck and all, the, basin, of the middle Ftyr have fallen into the hands of the fossicks. The fortress of Kovel with the whole ritwig system supplying the Austro-German troops in the Pripet marshes Simultaneously at the extreme southern sector of the Russian front from. Tarsapol

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to the Romanian frontier

A second piercing has been effected and Czernowitz cut off on three sides out of four. Only worth-west of Tamopol do the Austrians maintain their line unaltered, and if the two advancing Russian armies worth and south go much further there is consider. able chanco of the, Austrian troops here. being cut off, since they have only one rails whereby to ratrest.

So for the Russian offensive closely resembles the Avsträ-German ofenzive in West Galicia last year, but the Russians

have advanced much quicker up till now (thereby saving mich expenditurà el munitions) and have exptared up till now rare prisoners. The proportion of On captured officers is musually high the other hand the Austrians have brought away as fairly successfully hitherto," though naturally in so precipitate a retreat they lost heavily. But just as the Austro-German fenaire last year spread from West Galicia to the whole of the Austro-German line so it must be remem- bered that two-thirds of the Russian line has yet to come into play. When it does the situation may become awkward indeed for the Austrian and German headquarters at Lemberg and Volna

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Power therefore stands in relation to mittee and the Headmasters and the enemy at a higher level of fighting teaching staffs of all schools will meet ztrength than it did before the recent with a sympathetic and practical engagement: The Navy League is response. confident that the citizens of the Since the beginning of the war the Empire will regard the North SeaNavy has been the dominant factor action which ended on Ascension Day in the ultimate determination of the as proof of the capacity of the Fleet victory. of. the Allies. Our sbcrea to maintain Command of the Sea and have been free from invasion; our that both with our Allies and with food supply and the raw material, the people of our Dominions the con-of our industries have been secure; viction that British Sea Power in the our vast armies have been carried determinant factor in the war will be safely from the ends of the earth to stronger than hitherte.

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one have been withdrawn from the

start with neutral powers and it who will be the citizens of to-morrow,

Balkans to Verdun. If the porely obtained striking "bloody successes**** regards a deplorable that His The Navy League gratefully line South, af Smargon. Thus Hindenburg is

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of this great action in their posses- tion of the teaching community of the

era sector, the Russians, taye captured kong broken they will need to produce new sion, should have allowed Parliament cation in banging the work of the formations from the interior of Germany Czernowits and split in two parts the E

HISTORY CP UNION CHURCH to adjourn for the recess on Thursday Navy before their Children on Tra- to prevent a debacle. Of the existence of Austrian General von Pflanzer a amy. (1891-1905) without making the fullest statement falgar Day 1915. The fact that

frontier, the other part up into the possible on this bistoric event the 27,400 schools devoted a part of that such formations there is no sign at driving cue part towards the Boumanien (Violin) Taye greatest event since Trafalgar and any to a discourse upon the Navy' is

folly of the Austrian offensive against forests of the Carpathian Mountains. ¿Serenade (Spanish Dance) paying an appropriate tribute to the abounding evidence of the enthusias Italy now stande revealed. Military Theto is every prospect of cutling off a NOT

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LONDON, Juze 22. Bavarian, that in German, not Austrian family) still hold out. It is interesting (Nocturne in Eb(Violin) Parlow, Executive Committee of the Navy

The Russian advance on the Eest to nots from the map that most forward League to forward for the considera- Liebestreuh

European troat still continues, though the point of Bruiloft's advance reaches Meri- tion of your Committee the enclosed

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