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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916.

AUCTIONS.

PUBLIO AUCTION,

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE BRITISH TANKS.

(Continued from payr (20) The caemy came over in a rush. Many

at

them before a year agomelought vary. gamely

Some among them were utterly with- out. experience of the. Somme kind of fighting and wilted a little before lta

Hughes & Hough "THE Undersigned have received in full before the rides of our men, but others ferocity of fire, but the aldos man, the

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

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Bare, Coal and General Producs. » Brokers and Commission

Agents.

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Telegraphic Addre *MEIRION" NORɑzőke,

PUBLIO AUCTION,

Tak Undersigned, bave received instrus- tions to sell by Public Auction,

"{FOW ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED).

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SATURDAY,

1the 4th November, 1915, 10.30, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

De Your Road, Corner of Ice House Street,—

DA QUANTITY OF TALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

..structions from Miss K. A MAMIT, "managed to jump into portions of trench, to sell by Public Auction,

and kombed their way up several of the

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WEDNESDAY,

the. 8th November, 1916, at 11 a Brighton House, No. 10 Arbuthnot Road, (also Entrance by Stops. opposite No. 83 Wyndham Street) Deak with Pigeon Foles, Overmantel (bevelled glass) Chenier

Care Table,

Large Hanging Wardrobe,"

Alaptable Bed Bots,

Upholstered and Rattan Chairs, Electric Fan and Fittings,

Sewing Machine,

Afe lots of Chinese Porcelsies, Bropres, Water Colours, ato.

"On view day of Bale.

Catalogues will be issued. Terms-Cash, **

HUGHES & KOUGH,

{duktionärs. Hoogkong, Nov. 2, 1916...

1904

PURMO AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instrus

tions to all by Public Auction, (FOR, ACCOUNT OF CONCE),

SATURDAY,

Mashina-game were turned on to them, and there were not many laft alive. But balore the light bad anded a new one began, for our jumping-aff time had come, and the manniting troops rose as one man, and taking no notics of what had happened swept across their own trenches and the Germans who were in them, and went straight across country towards Courcelette."

"" veterans " "of a year'a sarvico or more, cheered them up, kept them steady, and lad them oO.

They counter-attacked the counter attack and regained their old line, and: then to their great joy saw the Tanks advancing through High Wood and on each side of it. C

It was like a fairy talet" unid' al Cockney boy. I enn'o help laughing every time I think of it."

He laughed than. though he had broken arm and was covered in blood. They came up immediately against “They broke down trees as if they were difculi ground and feree machine-gun | match-sticks, and" went over barricades Are. South-east of Courcelette, beyond (like elephante.. The Boches werd the shell craters and bits of broken thoroughly scared. They came running trench which the men had carried easily out of shell holes and trenches, shouting. enough, sweeping the Germans down life mad things. before them, stood the ruins of a sugar factory, which the enemy had made into redoubt, with machine-gun emplace ments.

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It, was one of thosa" doadly "plazes which have cost so many tres among sur men in other parts of the battle ground now in our hands.

THE TANK'S ADVANCE.

But we had a new engize of war to destroy the placo... Over aur own trenches in the twilight of the dawn one of those the 11th November, 1018, at

motor-monsters had larched up, and now 10.30 am, at their fales Rooma, No. 8; it came crawling forward to the rescue,

Des Yanx Road, Corner of

cheered by the moulting troope," who fee House. STREET,

called out words el encouragement to it and laughted, so that some men were laughing oven when bullets caught them in the throat.

A MISCELLANEOUS STOCK

Comprising

·

Gent's Shirts, Woollen Singlets, Waist Coats, etc. Pants, Sweaters Dressing! Cons, Bath Robes, Toilet Soops, Bath and Face Towels, Hosiery, de., Le.

Baukets, Counterpanes, a quantity of Removed to Sales Rooms for Couvenience Coloured Alpacas, Rain Coats, &c.

Holdalls and Suit Cases, &c.,

FURNITURE

of Sale.

Tusa -As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH.

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Nov. 2, 1915.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in

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

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SATURDAY,

4th November, 1916, at 10.30 4.1., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, Corner of ica Hova STREET,

SEVERAL CASES PROVISIONS,

Comprising:-

Ansartód Jams,

Oxford Sausages,

Cambridge. Sausages,

Panyan Sauce,

Panyan Fickies,

Suffolk Pickles, Story

&c.

The above are now Goods and will be

d in small lot... TERMS: Cook

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Oct. 28, 1912

Also

A small consignment of Gent.'s Fell | Eats (good quality),

A number of Suit Lengths, Blue Sergo Flammell, &c., &c.

Terms: Cash,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

"Auctioneers. Hongkong Nov. 2, 1915.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

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BOMs Phoor. **Boma of them attached the Tanks and tried to bomb them, but it wasn't

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trast to see! The biggest joke that ever experience-old me a balo that Edgar: T They just stamped down the Allan Poe might have written if he had German dag-out as one might shop's lived to see things worse than anything Fin his morbid imaginings-one of our

common talre.

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On the lets of High Wood was a very fine body of troops who had no trenches to lie in but just lay cut in shell craters under a constant fire of whizz-bangs." that is to say, field guns firing at short range, which was extremely hard endure.

some

**It was cruel," said one of these men, but we went forward all right when the time came over the bodies of comrades who were lying in pools of blood, and Crome de Meathe" was the name of afterwards the enemy had to pay."

They were co-operating with this particular creature, and it waddled forward right over the at German troops on, their left, who want straight trenches, and went forward very steadily for Martinpuich, that village into which towards the spgar factory.

I stared a week or two ago after a long There was a whip of silence from the walk to our front line on the crest of enemy there.

Then, suddenly, their the ridge beyond Bazentin, looking at the machine gun fire burst cut in nerrona Promised Land. spasms and splashed the sides of "Creme de Montbe."

But the Tank, did not mind.

“The

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A German crump kilod à lance-corporal by his side and buried them both com pletely.

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It was just my steel hat that kept. the earth from my face," said the bog,

and gave me a little handtat of air: to breathe. It was in a wee trench wel had dug to get some cover. But now I was covered too much.

It seemed like an hour I was there,- but perhaps no more than half that time. I tried to shout, but could not. A man.

walked over my head, but did not know

I was there.

Presently they saw the lanse-oor poral's leg sticking cus, and started. ta. pull him. I got my hand pot, and waggled it, and they started digging for me. It was just time. The veins were starting out of my head, and I was nearly

gone.

It was late in the evening before the whole of Martippnich was taken siter.

These meg was supash and wenn samas bullets from its sides, harmlessly. No Man's Land for nearly 1,000 yards 1900 Is advanced upon a bryson wall, leaned in six minutes, racing? They made short up against it beavily until it fell with work with the Germans who tried to epipe crash of bricks, and then rose on to the them from the shell-cretara, and ly bricks and passed over them, and walked came to a check on the outskirts of Mariumph of a succesin! day.

The troops on the left side of the line.

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fierce fighting, and it was the crowning

THIS Undersigned have received in straight into the midst of the factory tinpuich, where they were received with aid amazingly wall and were handled

stractions to sell by Public Auction, [FOX 1000UST OF THE CONCERNED},

on

AN EARLY DATE The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR ko'ko, via-

ruins

From its aides caras flashes of fire and a hose of bullets, and then it trampled around otar machine emplacements "having a grand time," a one of the men said with enthusiaera.

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ablast of machine-gun- fire.

It was then the turn of the Tanks.: Before the dawn two of them had some

up out of the darkness and lumbered ever our front line trenchas looking to wards the enemy a though hungry for

It crushed the machine guns, under its breakfast, Afterwards they came across beary ribs, and killed machine-gun teams No Man's Land like enormous boade with with a deadly fire. The lafantry followed pains in their stomachs, and, nosed at in and took the place after this good help, Martinpeich, before-testing the strength and then advanced again round the flanks of its broken barns and bricks.

One occulting apparatus, complete. Circulat wick lamps, Spare burners. Cylinders and wicka. Incandescent Petrol Lamps, and of the monster. appurtenances

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In spite of the Tank, which did such

well. They took 40 German officer and 1,400 other ranks. Against them was the 2nd Bavarian Corps, whom many at our Hcbeazolern and Tyres, gind how to pay off old scores against them.

men had met before at Kentmel and the

On the right of the troops at Martin picks the stick was swinging up to Flers.

ACTOSA a wide, stretch "of" difficult ́and

perilous ground strongly defended.

The enemy was flinging over storms of shrapnel and high explosives, and many of our men tell but the wounded shout.

badly hit, and the others went forward grimly and steadily.

A quantity of car portaining to and work, the audit on Courcelette One company needed cheering up for the ed on the others, if they were, not too

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Also

Mooring Buoys, dUGHES & HOUGH,

A number of Locomotive wheels and 1199 Axles.

Further particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

Terzas

PUBLIC AUCTION,

HE Undersigned have received in- stractions to well by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUST OF THE OGN CKENED).

TUESDAY,

the 7th Novembor, 1918, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Roomă, No. 8,

Des Vantor Road, Corner of Ice House Street

FALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND

BLACKWOOD FURNITURË,

A Fallonera

The men cheered them, wildly, waving their helmets and dancing round them their officers the night before in a patrol adventure, and it was the sergeants who led them over.

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was hard and costly. Again and again had lost two the men came under machine gun fire and rifle fre, for the Germans had dug

These soldiers of our tere superb in Twenty minutes after the first waves. DAE new trenches, called the Fabeckgaben

and Zollerngruber, which had not been were inside the first trench of Martin.courage and stoic, endurance, and prasscid wiped out by cur artillery, and they puich and in advance of them waddled a forward steadily in broken wares. The first news of success came through from fought with great courage and despera tion

an airman's wireless which said

usual.

BUGHES & HоÛÛ¤,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Ang. 24, 1916..

FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

AS A GOING CONCERN.

A

964.

Seventy men who adraceed Stat on a

monster:

The men were held up for some time by the same meschine-gun fire which has killed so many of our men, but the moniaters went on alone, and had sebound.. Bus ing adventures.

part of these lines were swept down Seventy others who went forward to all their places fell also to a man. their comrades were not disheartened and at last carried the position in a great

wave of assault,

Then they went on to the village. It was like all these villages in German

They went straight through the shella of broken barne and houses, straddled on top of Gerrise dug-outs, and fired en filading" slots" down German trenches.

GERMAN IN A TANK."

hands, tunnelled with a nest of dug-oute, From one dug-out came a German and a stronghold hard to take. The colonel with & white, frightened lace, who

A FIRST CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL British troops entered it from the stern, held his hands very high in front of the

containing :- 42-Bed Rooms,

2 Bath Rooms,

One Suite Blackwood Furniture. Beveral Carpets and Bugs-Upholstered Halls Lounges, Reception Room, Saiten, Armchairs and Sofas, Card Private Dining Room, Self contained suites of apartinents with Bath Rooms Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising attached. Dining Rooms with accc Double-Brass-mounted Bedstand, Twinmodation for 100 perams. Store: Encima, Bedsteads (Teakwood) Sideboards, Dinner Liliary, Boryacts quarters, etc, etc, etc. Hot and cold water laid on throughput, Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes and Occasional Tables, etc., pozimeto value of Furniture, etc.

$30,000 te, Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass A large stock of extra Linen and Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Crockery all new and high class recently

imported from Englanda Bets, &c., Bath Room Utensils, Large, Electric light throughout. Boll-top Desks and Writing Table, etc, ← quantity of Electro Plated Ware,

1 Faso, in good condition, Electric Roading Lampe, Blank wood and Tank- wood Screens, a quantity of Blackwood Fornitore, Pictures, Engesvings, do

Also i

Plate Carbine Camera, Oliver Type:"| writer and One Iron Bafe.

A selection of Brass Jardinieres,"

Yases, Finger Bowls, etc.

(Full Particulars from Catalogue.)

TERMS-Chak...

HUGHES & HOUGH;"

Hongkong, Nov, 1, 1916.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

1900

THE - Undersigned have received in/ structions, to sell by Public Auction, (FOR MODULE OF THE GOWOREWED)

THURSDAY,

the 9th November, 1016, at 10.30 am,

at their Bales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Vour Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

EL 6.3. "KAMO, MARU”

Just Arrived

Pillow Cases, Cushion

side, fought yard by yard, stubbornly Tank, shouting." Kamerad! Kamerad!" resolved to have it.

A Tank is walking up the high street of Flers with the British Army cheering behind.

It was an actual fact. One of the motor monsters was there, enjoying itself thoroughly, and keeping down the heads of the enemy.

To hung out a big piece of paper, on which were the words "

GREAT.

HUN DEFEAT. SPECIAL,

The aeroplane flew low over its caresse "Well, come inside then," said a voice, machite-gunning the scared Germans in the body of the beast, and a human who flew before the modstroos sppad hand came forth from a hola opening tion. Later in the day it seemed to have suddenly and grabbed the German officer. beer in need of a rest before coming For the rest of the day the Tankled home, and two hutmay got out of its that, unfortunate an abort on the inside and walked Eack to our lines. strangest journey the world has ever

Bat, by that tine, Flers and many prž somers were in our hands, and our troope had gone beyond to further fields.

attack the fighting was hardest and for

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Prices: 85, $3, $5 & 81.

Failors and Soldiers in uniform Half Price to $5 eats. Band of the E.R.PR will render Selections during the evening.

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Horick's proves very valuable - as an

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The demand in the East is very large and increasing. No coaxing stir in water only-Made in a moment. Of all Chamalanga med Stereuna,

THE TANK NOSER BOUND." The Tank came along and ploughed about, searching for German machine, guns, thrusting over bits of wall. nosing here and there, and sitting on heaps of rain while it fred down the stroots. By 6.30 at evening the villago was taken. sec.,

The British took 400 prisoners," and Anelbar Tank, was confronted with 100 when they were brought down to Pozictes Germans, who shouted Merry farcy: On the extremno right of our line of Last night they passed old Cremp de and at the head of this procession led Morthe, who was going Home, and held them back sa prisoners to our lines, up their hands crying "Gott in Himmel! Yet another Tank went off to the nigh) such monstrous things... and asked how they could fight against of Martinprick, and was so fresh and the direction of Cuedetourt. In this Australis high-spirited that it went far into the direction the enemy fought with fine Australis The taking of Courcelette was a great enemy's lines, as though on the way to courage. Machine-gun fire opbour Ebay T achievement skilfully planned and carried Berlin.

2 men from the direction of Morval and

Glenca cut with stern and high courage by HUGHES & HOUGH,

The men were not so fortunate as the Combles, and the shell-fire was frightful Havolaly via Japa splendid aer, and one monster.

monsters, not being proof against in Its violenco,

Haiphong [1051 On the right of thres troops there was machine-gun bellate and bell fire. The Nevertheless, the frat rush forward was Klang, Stow

saesult upon Martinpuich and enamy concentrated & very heavy fire magnificent on the part of the troops, High Wood. Here, also, in High Wood, upon them, and many fell. One boy—a | the Germans had been ready for an fine, stamp-hearted lad who had keez

The Hotel is centrally located being only a few minutes from the leading Banks, Post Office, Ferry, &c.

To be cold as a going concern with

good' will

Further particulars may be obtained from the Undersigned.

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Oct. 13, 1915.

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JAPANESE MAKERS stack, and, being forestalled in that, and spirited look in spite of dreadful

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

ORDER

Dusters, Tools, Hath CHERRY & 00.

Vednesday

they made a strong counter-attack which for a time had soms nacées, driving our men back to the southern edge of the wood.

THROUGH HIGB

Our troops had been heavily shelled beforehand, and they found the enemy in much stronger force then they had Expected in that wood of bitter memory Bet ibess mon of oure-I have met minuy

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The enemy resisted stoutly along his London & Epore &0.2 first line. They kept ap

ride fire and machine-gun fire until cor men Manilabadbedakan were right on them, and then fought Manila, Cabu & Hollo Taming

Manila,& falian Fori. Jalynas bayonet to bayonet.

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Large numbers of them were killed and the troops swept through to the second line of trenches and took thates them to

A third wave passed though the third Germen trench, but before they ranesco aapan

Ban Falco y Jets Terfya Mku reachoo, this goal the German soldiers in Pasco. v. N'eaki came out with their hands up and sur-Shanghalalkaantiscenese. rendered. Our men went on and o

The officers waved on the run with 5% aut

their revolvers, and many fel leading gala Shanghat

thely_corspanier. It was cae of. tae greatest charges in history, but drove cub too far into the blue.

without wuffi.

clent, co-operation with troupe held up lower down by stro polate and

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