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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1816.

HAVE YOU A

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Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Anotioneers.

kare, Coal and General Produce

Brokers and Commission

Agenta.

PROPRIETORS

“To-Kws-Wan* Coal ScorKED.

Code, wind

Bentley's

4th & 6th Editions. A1 Talegraphic Code. »

Telegraphic Addres MILLION" ZOCTON....

PUBLIC AUCTION.

FARE Undersigned have rechived in-

structions from Mr. J. B. BAWTRE, sell by Public Auction,

по

THURSDAY,

the 2nd November, 1918, at 2.43 p.m., at "Ravensbill,” corner of Littleton and Park Roads, (Top of Breezy Path), VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

·FURNITURE,

drs.

Aco..

As follows:- American Oak Extension Dining Table mad Chairs, China Cupboard, Bookcase, Desk, dc, Screens, Box Ottoman, and Arm-chairs, Long Blackwood Side Table, Forcelain Umbrella Stand, Electric Reading Lamps, Fan and Iron, Gramo phone and Records, Iron Bedsteads, Wardrobes, &c., Pongee Silk Curtains, Pantry and Bath Room Utensils, Tennis Not Pales and Marker (nearly new).

On view day of Sale...... Tax-Crate

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers

Hongkong, Oct. 17, 1918.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

1178

THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, "{FOR ACCOUNT OF THÌ CÔNGANED).

Д

FRIDAY,

the 3rd November, 1816, commencing

at 1.30 pan, at their Sales Rooms, No. &

Des Vonix Road, Corner

of Ice House Street

HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE FURNITURE, &c.;

Comprising

Carpets (new) Large Sideboard (Lane, Crawford, rooke) Dinner Waggon Dining Tables and Chairs, Chesterfield Sofa Armchairs, &c. Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Donble and Single Brass- mounted Redsteads, &c., Miscellaneous Turniture, several lots of Blackwood Taro Pingo, a few lots of Porcelains,

Pantry, Bath Boom and Kitchen Utensils, etc., Large Blackwood Serpen, several good Cabinets, Teapoya, Forniture, etc.

Also

Office

"Caille" Motors, Typewriters, Clario- nette, Mandoline, etc., and Sundry Brass Wars

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue.) Terms: Canh.

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers

Hongkong, Oct. 27, 1916.

1187

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),"

SATURDAY,

the 4th November, 1918, at 10.30 am, at their Bales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Youx Boad, Corner of

Jon Hous DTEKET,

SEVERAL CASES PROVISIONS,

Comprising

Assorted Jams,

Oxford Sausages,

Cambridge Sausages,

Panyan Bauce,

Panyan Pickles,

Suffolk Fickles,

The above are new Goods and will be

din amall lots Ixxx -Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneer Hongkong, Oct. 28, 101672

1192

PUBLIO AUOTION.

THE Undersigned have received in

structions to sell by Public Auction, (POZ ACOUVER OF THE DONGILEED),

AN EARLY DATE, A

The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR de vizu

One peculting apparatus, completa

Circular wick lamps.

Apare barnars.

Cylinders and wicks.

Incandescent Petrol Lamps, purtenances

ring Buoys

GRASSHOPPER

--A. 8. Watson & Co., Ed.

· Hangkang...

FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

AS A GOING.CONCERN. A containing

FIRST CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL

Bed Rooms,

23. Bath Rooms, Halls Lounges Reception Room, Private Dining Room, Self contained

WAR

THE CHINA MAIL.

POLICE WORK AT HOME AND LBROAD.

BOOKS FOR BRITISH

PRISONERS.

COURSES OF STUDY TO BREAK MONOTONY OF INTERNMENT.

SCOTLAND YARD AND THE contained in four large volumes and Scotland Yard is not yet at the end of it. The new rule as to light-growing ever more, stringent at the war advanced- bawlidared and irritated. London, and the enforcing of them demanded infinite. tact on the part of the police - Shop keepers and fashionable restaurants protested that their trade would be done for duchesses wept over their head-

To many of the British prisoners. lights

dwellers in Suburbis said that interned in anemy countrisa the riska ol their lives would be nightly in mental starration are even greater than danger. Bus trade in the font end has been splendid; the duchesses those of physical starration, have been pacifled and as for crime We have had deplorable evidence of in the suburbs, there has never the effects of captivity in certain German bean so little or it. We. Aste Krad in darkness for some four-and-twenty camps in the shape of the human wrecka months and the relations of the police who have regained these shores as with the public have been friancier than exishanged prisoners, and there meat be are on face m

himdreds still in the clutches of the Hus who are in little better case.

Far TIGHE HOPKINE.] | Scotland Yard is rubbing through the war vory wall. The Yard, indeed ruble through most things very wall. It does so partly because of its superb organise tion (organisation that can be modified in an instant to meet a crisis of any kind) partly because the chiefs of its five great departmenta know neither furry noe fatigue, and partly because it is almost always on excellent and sym- athetic terms with the public at large

Yet there in the London Folice Force, no element whatever of direct

|

Undoubtedly one of the best means which a prisoner an adopt in order to retain his mental balance is to follow some course of serious study. Desultory

Then the drink question. Under the Central Control Board the liquer lawa have undergone a virtual revolution. Is has been up to the police to see that theen laws have been, and are obeyed Londen has had to be teetotal during

the popular control. The Commonly past nine at night - Directly and reading ta ali vory well in its way, but many hours of day and after hal directly this har erested for the police res! brala work, such as is to be lound of work of novel sort, but by learning a new language or delving doal has been very little friction over it deeper into some branch of learning ➡ confidential matter, between, the Come and st city always easily paliced already partly explored, is infinitely

the reader Apec potendon of that

be reminded better,

believe, is a Royal oficial, and the

whom he is res

is responsible ta the come

Financially his office a

WHOLE.

Li quite independent. Its satimates are there has been

missioner at the Home Office.

At Scotland Yard, none the lass, you ther

Lan

wonkl find nothing of the stmosphere of all but homogeneo karam daco the Davies, permanent secretary of the Walsh

Thanks to the scheme which Mr. A, T. Department of the Board of Education,

Norman conquest and the homogeneity fact quite naw in its or heterogeneity of a city's population i an important factor in its administration now for fifteen months been directing by police. When the war opened, the and developing any British prisoner who Londoners of alien birth numbered some can communicate with this country, alther 20 200,000,

proportion parison with the Parisians of alien birth by the post or through the medium of One: London alien enemies have now saisies, has ready means of satisfying the United States Embassies or Cort for the most part, dass er lica Bia, wants in this direction.

disappeared, or interned, our

HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS,

be kind and attentive to the visitor who stocracy. No one is ever too busy to can give reason for intruding (though I hasten to say that formal interviews are not granted), and the visitor invents pretexts for returning. In the criminals whom is chases over Europe the Tad has human interest which is never in the frost vindictive, and Mr Basil Thom- con (traveller, author, prison: goremor Prime Minister of Tongs, and son of the Archbishop), head of the Criminal have mostly left, so that, the metropolis Investigation Department, kreps in his is almost wholly, of parents with Bath displays a

les question of Espionago attached. Dining Room with accom- the goodly roll of ex-criminals who enan outsider could say, but little, and par

It was an application from Ruhieben modation for 100 persons. Store Rooms,isted and have fallen in the war One haps the less he socks to say on it the last year for books for the educational Library, Sorvanta quarters, etc, etc, etc. of these men, after winning the Victoris better. It has engaged, and is every classes organised thers that furnished the and cold water laid on throughout, Creas, was killed in the great advance day engaging, the beat defective brains germ of the idea. The President of the

cato value of Furniture, etc. | THE "PRELIE” IT. THE FIGHTING LIEL

of the police. From what has occasion Board Education sanctioned an appeal about #30,000

been printed on this, subject my A large stock of extra Linen and

flam, and what the police have to do books, and there was an immediate and reader may imagine a little of the pro to the public for now ar secondhand Crockery all new and high class recently iraporal

from England.

light throughout

in touch with the naval and military generous response. Mr. Davies, seelag 'people The Hotel is centrally located being

the possibilities of the situation so There are many other things The a few minutes from the leading

created, obtained the permission of the Banks, Post Office, Ferry, &c. only

policing of the streets at night, in a To be sold as a going concern with

(and how much larger Sir Sidney, Lee Offee, to extend the scheme so that London almost as dim as Shakespeare's authorities, including those of the Foreign could tell us!), has been a far less priseners in enemy countries as well as good will,

Further particulars may be obtained

artinous matter than it was at one time tense interned in. Holland and Switzer- from the Undersigned.

thought likely to be; for the whole town land might share its benéāts. have resolved to side with Scotland Yard From the first to seems instinctively

Briefly, this is the way in which, the in the cause of order. Thus to live-system is worked. The end of an

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneert dans Hongkong, Oct. 10, 1916. (1061

FRENCH LESSONS

G. MOUSSION,

15, Morrison Hill Road.

QUANT MARTIN'S ::

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little knowledge of Scotland Yard, and The general public presumably has nona whatever of its administration. It may be quite unaware that to the present com Commissioner, Sir Edward

ja the Galton Loving

wonderful ca

of finger prints on system'

which allowed of the supersession some years ago of the Bertillon system of measure meats. But with the whole public the Metropolitan Police Fords is an extreme ly popular bod

body,

has been pro Dornier & police that is trusted. It is a prisoner who wishes for educational books:

if the man in the street, the man who bue himsal.

It may well be supposed that the Yard

affected

the war Досто has, of course; but of outward and “visible sign. There is never here any pa limit, and no

to the war had said to may provide them, but they can only be everyone works to really has any hours. Pressure and helping; I'm going to do my little.tion of dispatch of printed matter, by Mr. over pressure have grown to be normal Ent there has been soms delicate Davies organisation, and should there. and holidaya ara:, meczingly sadden and blessed two day gift yasiga business to do in the streets, all the fors be forwarded to him at the Board of

high; but no

‚„persons are even nobody complains, and the great 4ms. Many foolish

now.unpersuaded that Umachine grinds on assteadily and smooth-.

parade of work, thougcouldn't Be police will want a bit of sent, owing to the Government prohiti-

1. It has been taken, to pieces and built up as weders into drinking books the prisoner wanta and it is desired

afresh.

as ever. All the same, a good deal of thing to coax soldiers it is not nice Education. If it is known what kind of Wicked

thing but it that they should be provided for him The

Bobby han wise, quiet

under the scheme, application".for's checks it all he can. How he does it 1 request form +suppose, his instructions about this, and

should be made. Bat now not, but the trained policeman in the great diplomatist of the kerb and he does it. He rescues from temptation the man, just out of hospital.

At the beginning of the war, every man who could be spared from the ranks stepped at once into the other ranks. There was no banging back in the force, and in the normal strength of over 20,000 men (responsible for an

1

THE HOLLOWAY CAMP.

in the event of it merely being known that s prisoner wants books, with no information as to his particular needs, it is best that a form should be sent to him direct so that he may fill it up and make a personal application to Mr. Davies.⠀⠀

GIFTS' FROM THE PUBLIC,

The condition of the parks in London has also imposed new andarduons duties on the police who have made the strongest, afforts to cope with the ter due to the setieu of the Chief Com- situation produced by the war. It is In the basement of the Education Com-Office are stored some 15,000 volumes. missier that the recent mesures for which have been contributed by the restricting the use of cocaine were public, and applications from prisoners restricting the promptly put into force.

quarters

are promptly met from stock. A

Sometimes it happens that this fost

that toucher Colney Heath in the north and Banstead Heath in the south) there were soon tremendous gaps to be alled. Many reservists were serv the police, and these, I presume, Pin to the colours; but the reservists were not ing in numbers to the Volunteers Some of these have won the DCM, some havai

many commissions, many have been

Bu many more wounded.

it & wordy

Peel House, the educational Feeler," in a done in the trenches what we always of the Metropolitan Police in peace time, Expect him to do anywhere and every-has been transformed into a club for men where. Then it was necessary to draft of the overseas fortes: A. Tory comforting library, varied as it is, fails to pra- at once a special force o DE men

for the able place. it is. The Yard has thought vide exactly what is required. and a now work in the dockyarda. Again, we

of everything, and neglected nothing. book has to be purchased. For "the - Far up north, in Holloway, is the most benefit of a prisoner somewhere in the must keep an adequate fores on the spot for emergencies The German news interesting concentration camp in the East, who, in order to pursue his studies, popers have told us a good deal about kingdom bandorised by hired and wanted a particulny work. two guiness,

but Scotland Yard, con-

Yard, on a plan OUT CARTREFI And, carries on Ferierick Halliday and the Assistant on cuneiforma inscriptions. From this it ! tinues to, await.

Henry The Commandant is Major Sir was expanded the other day ler à volumo business as usual. There has been no

JAPANESE MAKERS

Every kind of Footwear

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ago.

emergency whatever and the Yard is Commandant Lieutenant Robert. Luck, may be gathered that contributions in perhaps not

for excito in whose hands I spent a long afternoon money as well as in kind are welcome. exactly pining for

there ments of this kind; but it is quite

The prisoners few days. aa the Fleetwas

mazage everything for themselves in order that the good work may go on. war To what extent the

Metropolitan

tropolitan. They are all married men, of middle age All the labour in connection with the Police Force has been depleted, I shall or so, and all the vives are British. schemo is voluntary, and, apart loan a not for. I do not absolutely knaw. Wives and children visit the camp every little house-room which the Education

weat ORDER The policeman is there, as amiable and rek. It was visiting-day when I

wise strict

converted ofcit and he and good-natured as of house--had the, air of overies, peory country a penny

work Office provides, it is not costing the

the

policeman who has London to chap-The chief elected by his com crons is not made in a

day, and bere perdes, is Hardyunker. Wobas, been many of the prisoners it will be the third hape, we really have had a kind of emerenty-four years in England, and was they have passed under conditions which, gency to meet. It takes, Lhare been twenty years manager of an hotel in

CHERRY & CO.,

PEUDER” STREET, Opporia Engkong - Hotal Talephone: No.

Hongkong, March 30, 1914.

"CHINA MAIL

With another winter looming and for

told at least six months of pretty stiff the West-end of the town. I had some the best, are weary and depressing- teaching and drilling to get a man it for talk with him. Tam familiar with the there is more than ever need for the the common, daily commerce of the Lan nervous style of men in convict prisons mental food which Mr. Davies is supply-

and don streets, a good deal longer to who seem every visitor secnatamohimeto all the little ways of montip these streets, and the great and continuous crises

crises that make

thewo

simple and to

cordia).

phase the life of Dad never been to t

he said,

and din

[WAT,

LANGUAGE STUDIES.

not wish to go thert Comp of these war. A large number of prisoners are

, and just how A STIMONIEC, bevat ons fighting in cur ran12/ avidently · baut on acquiring another |

Bomething happens that

to

Not one of them he lived less than ten language during their internment, and

in Locidons after af ho has loured a years in England, (come of these have it in dattering to nato nad perhap

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A far larger quantity of cheaper sauce fails to give the same satisfaction.

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the signature

Lea Perrine

The original and genuine Worcestershire.

HORLICK'S

MALTED MILK

IN THE BUST: STRESS OF LIFE

Horlick's proves a veritables pick-me-up, for it helps nature

to impart life and vitality to im porerished blood and impaired digestive" pow Made in a moment no cooking. Most delicious.

Of all Chemista and Storai,

at Peel House, is in some beef with a thirty and forty years), an inder to the expected trend of events Acaballa Ports, & degres a novice in the streets for at least and their ties with Germany arm in cer after the war that there should be so Australia Poras, a year. Well, we have had two years of main instances absolutely severed in large demand for primers in that Bay, Spore young constables, and has the splendid The guard of the Holloway camp tongue. There is seldom a French system left us anything to complain off struck me though I did not like to my

TICKLISH 2008-10, ZACK

But this is no more than the fringe of the subject. Let me suggest some three or four tiresome, jobs which the police. have had to tackle for the first time and in the tackling of which they have camp

PUBLICATIONS smoothed out the life of London in war, we of

Boston

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Fbo Rangoon barn some

Egremont Castle

Merionethshire'

How as a pleasing Little jokes few editionary on the shelves for more than Hengisluvia Japan de Setyo Maru whose officials and shoub four police a day before it goes east by parcela post, Klung, Stow de Amor men But Bir Edward Henry, appointed this guasti; knew what he was have already been sated for and supplied. London de Bombay degani

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London S'pore do Hirano Mazuy And from the Holloway Apart from the personal benent and London 8 pors de. Kaga Maru there, fun, walls but not a satisisction of pursuing studies in the London & Bordcore Releas time.

The problem of the Allen has

wire there have been no prison camps, they may have a matadal Manila

•boen boen

a tremendous Into the inspta nor has her tricacies of restriction ordars I do not attempt at escape. propose to enter, but they huye involved the registration of a

fall enemy, aliens, and the whole of this work ws8 prganised at Maf headquarters. It had to be carried out

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