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THE Uzdersigned have received in structions from the Liquidators of Messrs. WITZKE & Co., to sell by Public

Auction

WEDNESDAY,

the sth October, 1916, commencing at 10.30am, on their premises, No, 1 Ningpo Street, Yaumati, VALUABLE PLANT, MACHINERY,

TOOLS, & including Cast Iron Scrap and Metals, As follows:-

One Electric Lighting Bet, consisting of Highspeed Vertical Steam Engine,

, complete with Mountings and

Bwitchboard Marine Multitubular Boiler

with

and # Feed

with all

Me

Boiler complete One

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PUBLIC AUCTION...

THE Undersigned Enve received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR. ACCOUNT OF THE CONCISED),

TUESDAY,

Kale Wanntanturers 1.T. DAVENPORT, L "London, S.E.*"

the 3rd October, 1916, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Low House Streck

VALUAHLE, TEAKWOOD BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

M

As Follows

Several Carpets and flugs, Upholstered Suites Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double Brass-mounted Bedstead, Twin Bedsteads(Teakwood),Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, etc., etc, Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Waze Cocking Stoves, Cutlery Toilet Seta, &c., Bath Room Utensils, Large Roll-top Desks and Writing Table, eta, aqusatity of Electro Plated Ware

--Aiss

1 Large Wall Clock London make," "Caille Portable Motore with Battery, etc, complete, 1 Piano in good condition, Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, & quantity of Black- wood Furniture, Pictures, Engravings,

&

And

One New Gent's Bicycle, & Typewriters,

:

a selection of Brase Jardinieres, Vases, Finger Bowls, etc.

(Full Particulars From Catalogue) TRAMS:-Casb

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, Sept. 27, 1915.

1079

PUBLIO AUCTION, 4-

Compound Non-Condensing THE Undersigned have received in- etructions to sell by Public Auction, (TOR ACOGUNT OF THE CONCKERED},^i«

bhaping

Steam Engine with Pipe Connection Valves and Btorage. Tanks, Several Double Geared, Screw Catting and Lathes, shows of varying Burlacing

Planing Machine, com Pulleys, Machine complete with Shaft, Slotting Machine complete 1 power and

iyen berewing Machine Shal Miscellaneous Assortment of Dies titical Double Geared Drilling Machine completing Machine (equivalent One Donble Pillar Desred

totwo machines) by appleyard Co., Halifax, England four goodANG

One Double Colama, Steam Hammer complete with all connections, One Belt- "driven Draught Hlover for Blacksmith, Abop complete with connectione One "Ore Washing Tank with agitating Gear

Shafting, den &

AN EARLY DATE

The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR

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One acciting apparatus, complete 1. Circular-wick lampa.

Spare burnera

Cylinders and wicki Incandescent Petrol Lamps, appartenances

A quantity of Mooring Buoys,

A number of Locomotive wheels and

Further particulars may be obtained Pulleys, sorted Belting a large quantity of Miscellaneous Material, from the undersigned. Tools & Tubes and Piping, Steel Bars Terma Wrought Iron, Steel and Cast Iron

Scrap

large and varied adalttment of Brass

ves and Corks↑ Brass Ba

Copper

OFFICE

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Hongkong, Ang

964

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THE CHINA MAIL.

BRITISH OFFENSIVE IN RETROSPECT.

"A PROUD MONTH.

victory. One must have.como braying other mediere ihan proses s

It is almost commonplace that our First Expeditionary Force was probably the finest fighting Army for its size that the world aver saw. Our Allies do our enemies will allow sa mach. Either France or Germany, perhapĹ might LATE taken the pick of all their millions and Fo-little-setion has there been a made another Arnay of the same con- either sicę to-day, wrote the “Timos Hamptible dimensions and unquenchable correspondent on August 11, that is fa

spirits

but such another Army was not almost as if both parties had agreed that and never has been in existence. the day should be given to reckoning up There are those who fear that the the gains and losses of the month. It is an easy task, because for the fat time perhaps, in all the two years of war we gotten in the majesty of the new. There is no danger of that. The honour of the have the respite of battle clearly before old Army is secure to all time, And it as while the battle is still going on. For was its example, its procedent and the first time in British operations the achievement; which made it possible for publie has known accurately from day these new Armies to be what they have

just what has occurred.There proved themselves cannot, 201

pow. He is often dirty and ragged and vary are thugs, of course which 3 the information “to

and which an one wishes to disreputable to look at, is the British

his bloodstained n

in ribbons, so

splendour of the old Arms may be for

derived from private soldier. I have seen him with bearing on the immediately situation-tired that has

with

·

So far as the facts of the fighting are honen baronet and ha concerned, the world has been kept t German holmet on exactly informed of each day's progress.

"THE ENEMY VIEW, YOU

About no cas of those facts has there been any mariona imus taken. Tha Ger

his TO.

____ INTIMATIONS

AN OLD PROVERB

Wine and an old friend

are without price everywhere."

HUNT'S PORTS AND SHERRIES

faço no getmed with dirt and perspira- that it had no features except two eyes and a month two eyes which danced with victory and a mouth which T 636

The enemy by this time knows

man documents official or other, have this well ad

confirmed everything that we have claimed. There have been, as I have found meccssary on occasions to-point the usual characteristic. falsehoods out. in German claims. Bat they have been in points of detail. The essentials being largely mere matters of geography and of falts.accomplis, have remained undis- pated.

All that was said about the terrife character of our preliminary board- ment in the last days of June, has bean confirmed by the statements of prisoners, in letters found on German dead and in the enemy's official communiqués Cap tured documents have told us how much inportance the enemy attached to the we have taken, and how

•position h

which determined he was that we should not take them. Whenever private letters and. Orders have spoken of the share borne in the fighting by particular regiments and of their terrible losses the

Escta

haye been instantiated in the whom we have taken and the prisoners German dead that we have seen.

The desperation of the German defonce and's voice in various Orders of the Day into our hands, which which haverof the important ground

aya spoken of st" of the necessity of standing firm sof that the enemy saculd d have to

น

which

the

I sat upon a benk only two days ago when, down the road below me they came by as I hav

I have described them back from

line in what was left fighting of a battalion. The leading company a it passed-such a sight as it was ang and it sang "God Save the King!" "I wish that the King could have heard it. Surely be would have felt that he was honoured as no King of Emperor ever

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From Mr. H. Warner Allen, Special Correspondent of the British Press with the French Armies:-

The main pivot of the Battle of the Marne was the defence of Nancy. The issue of the whole battle depended on in their positions in pivo the French holding their ground in

the Grand Couronne. The main pivot of the present battle, which is being fought on a vastly larger British, Italian, and

his way over heaps of cars the sale on the French, Beitound on the left

to

urgency of hurrying the contruction of

cr western wing. The main object of our now: Erent lines of trenches, new in-armics and those of the French is to hold

*ORER es "behind the principal so great a force of the enemy as to make

and new!!

the rear."

All these

*"defensive: lines in the of Aisha

wo have seen things wo

and on the

on, and overything that we have knowa w day or guessed from in front Eas been conn

firmed by the intelligence which has thus come from behind the enemy's lines

FACTS BEYOND DISPUTK

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of our Allice in

Germans - daye on, the Western front one hundred and twenty.

Division

on and one. Cavalry while of those no fewer than fifty-nine are active divisions; this is to

bave say, the French and British Whatever arguments there may be front of them cearly two-thirds of the hereafter on paints of strategy or tactics German Army in the held, and many of TELEPHONE : No. 869, or as to the share taken by this or that these troops are the pick of the enemy's unit in the capture of particular pour available forces. On the Eastern front PARTICULARS and Conditions of the tions, the main facts us to the course of the German forces consist of fifty-three by Public Auction Sale, to be the operations are beyond dispute, and Infantry Divisions and ten Cavalry held on TUESDAY, the 10th day of knowledge of them is everybody's Divisions, and of these only eighteen are added the Austro-Hungarian troops October, 1918 at 32., at the Offices property. So mach of the German first active divisions. To this forts must be and second lines broken; so many miles which are certainly of inferior fighting at the Public Works Tepartment, by

villages, Order of His Exellency the Governor, of territory won ao many

Falue.

They consist of forty-seven In- of Use Los of ©NOWN-END Sair woody sirong positions captured

Divisions. Long Wan, in the Oslony of Hongkong,much and such number of prisoners fantry Divisions and eleven Cavalry sure of the British for a term of 75 years:

and guns in our hands, all, except the

of the losses on either. side, The effective pressure. of enumeration

No. of Rile.

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has been told. And on this last point sud French combined armies against the it can hardly be necessary to any that German forces in the West is proved by the claim in the Derinan wireless of the difficulty and hesitation, with which British losses of 230,000 mately the enemy has attempted to reinforce ich his Fastera Front against the great It is a month's work of' grotesqu

Russian offensive. At the moment of may fairly be proad:

on the 2 East he ventured to withdraw four divisions, and sines We may quita justifiably compare our the first shock on effort here with the German attacks on that time he has sent a single-division, Verdun. We have attacked positions

118t from West to the East.

the prepared Laboriously

Bath the

This division was withdrawn from the captured orders testify the enemy was Somme, where it had suffered very heavy willing to make every posible sacrifice

which, Ba

to hold. One after another he has fafind Ince we thousand five hundred men

to hold think We have broken bis front, in

confid

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THE "LILIES MAIS FRINCIPLE

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They

and at every point besten him in fight- 150 ing power as amphatically, he has not As things are at present-the Germans cannot spare a single, man from this hester the French: At Verdun he isileda- Vecm and the Sotame each of Reviewing the case for machinery or 1083 Here we have succeeded and continue to front

theL

of some railway construction in China, Ennety- the presence.. succeed. The result of his ssults on twenty German: divisions in the first ing says in Chins the transport problem. Verdun has been to increase the enes of the French that they can beat line and it is clear that the steady is most acute for China's roads are un- him The result of our attacks has been methodical advance of the French and metalled and never repaired, with the

"time"ex to increase our confidence. Whether in British will necessitate the maintenance consequence thats fowlmurs rain render

of every man available on this front them insable for days at a ti lightest trailic, attack or defence, he has lost.

cept, for the

reacle, und, except Wet BRUTAL-ENEMY, THE Undersigned have received in a tout seeing on M. Brisad's doctrine of the lamity of are purely fine weather foa

structions to sell by Public Auction, generous, 1 wonid like to urge is this front has been fully realised. On March in the North, where the climate in more From the beginning of this battle I 97 last he laid down at the Conferchce settled, there cannot be said to be any of Paris the following main principle on real dry season. Even in the North she (A)(FOR ACCOUNT? OF LIRE CONCERNED),"

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to the months as the very opportunity to gAYS Bought to every instance which I could of chief which Themes just-onduct the war (furling wat ving to the winter, S valrous candact on the enemy's part against the Central Empires: A single They were very for To his stubborn cause served by a singo army fighting November, which includes

July and August, when damage to tem- in defensive fight! I have borne on a state front s ample testimony but that is another under

Today

it is possible to regard all fields Porary; works is certain to take pisca,

MONDAY,

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A Quantity of FAU-DE-COLOGNE

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Auctioneers: Hongkong, Sept. 29, 1916"

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"NOTHING OAN EXCEL GOUR DAISY BRAND BUTTER.

It has seemed to us out bers AS

in the

the wat Further, the carts of the the co-operation of there was something of a tendency abbole: Germany did her utmost to anti-wing to the refusal of the men to work. country are not built for the carriage of servable to be over lenient to the Ger cipate and prevent mans, le magnify each case where British the Allies by her wild sees ult on Verdun, heavy weighta; and carts andicant, roads alto Frince held and defeated the

Hiver and and German wounded have Helped each At Verdun

gether south of the other, and, as bar British sys to German plan, with the result that Mr not universal

it

Les must be sue BERKULON Tegard 22 Our adversaries as Briand's system is beginning-to-prov giving place to tracks formale d

slowly and surely that spartamen and gentlemen. They are all Not only have the French bold, wheelbarrow transpordist

of the kind. nothing

duals, there are among them, of sud, indeed, gained, ground at Verda cultivation and 68 cheap timber for Individuals course, who are humane and gents but in cooperation with the British they cult

and have the chivalry of brus, hava, pashed..beck the Germans. The contargging soft roads a not to be had. NEW ZEALAND TABLE BUTTER mia? But in the mins they are 6-bratal Bussisas And Halians have the most of the waking of roads for transport rar and civilized enemy.h

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