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WEDNESDAY, DNORMBER 27, 1916)

Hughes & Houg

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Anotioneers

WHAT TO DO WHEN

"NERVES GO WRONG

A: Physician's AdvÏos

MEN and women who suffer from

wosk nervos, who tire easily, can't sleep." have brain fag, low vitality, general wearincas, loss of strength, dulled ambition, lack of will power, or any of those symptoma that so surely azion from poor, unsteady, unstrung nerves" or nerve fores run low, should try taking a little Sergal with their meals for a few

SPORTING.

HOLIDIT CRICKET.

THE CHINA MAIL.

TWO DAYS MATOR ENDS IN A

DRAW.

· The Bangkong C.0: In their two days engagement with The Best declared at 447 runa forsin linings and seven wickets

WHAT SIR DOUGLAS HAIG ACCOMPLISHED.

Among the regiments from which large number of priadzer had been taken ta the north of the Anare. I mentioned the 65th and 26th, These two, us will me the 144th, appear to have suffered extremely

the heavy snaualties inflicted, it la double ful, indeed, if anything but the merest remnant of any of these three regimenta can remain. Those battalions of them

THE CAYES AND GALLERIES OF heavily. With the prisoners taken and

THE ANCRE

"British Headquarters, 15th. Nar. We have not made or attempted to which were actually in the front trenches make any considerable advance. In the are absolutely wiped end. region shout, the Andre in the Ises 24A, Jose two of the Guard. Roterra

Share, Coal and General Produes | days and note results. This preparation Fto enable the Rest or themselves to comble hours, or none which can be measured sa Divisions have also been vory roughly

- Brokers and. Commission)

Agenta.........

PROPRIETORS Kwa+Wan?/Con) - Starage.

Coder went Bentley'

A. 4th & 5th Editions

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Telegraphis Addres *SHIKION" HONGKONG.

PUBMO AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received instruc.

tions to sell by Public Auction, (JUE ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

OR

SATURDAY,

the 30th December, 1916, at 10.30 am;

at their Bales Rooms, No...8,

Das Vaux ROAD. Corner of

17

Ice House Strec

A QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

Remored to Balea Rooms for Convenience of Sale.

,"

Including Glass and Crockery Ware, Pictures, etc., 3 Small Brass-mounted Korean Boxes, Bundry Vases, Bowls, andi Candlesticks, Silver-mounted Goods, otc, ate..

- Farms :-Cash,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, Dec. 91, 1918.

PUBLIO

AUCTION.

1357

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

पत्र

TUESDAY,

the Jad January, 1918, commencing at 1.30 pm, at their Sale Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeur Road, Corner of Ics Hovan STREET, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

As Follows

*

he was well partnered by. Thinfeld, le very cold. We bave been busy con date of 13th October. After congratulat Stalker had hit up 63 runs and Thursdating, the new positions was yestering the division on the former fighting field wasnt 23.whan Farce decided to day to the east and north of Beaucourse, took large blocks of prisoners from withdraw and give The Rest a chance, sur. Abers, straightening ous and tectis before the order goes on as any that things are not nearly sa serious"sa sezon The latter team opened in anything but a tying our line. promising style and the two Brat wickets were lost for a couple of runs.

The irregularitine in the frous which people might think. Great ennomy af always remain to be put tighe after any ammonition was enjoined, sepecially, an

Toe S. Braga, bold off and pat on 91 raas and considerable advance aro usturally maraqet day; then

den"

and

is the greatest ginger-up stimulant and nerva vitaliser ever known for putting definite decision. At that moment map, The weather continues dry-it handled. The 2nd Guard Reserve IXT

captured offers an extraordinary Order- the good old "pen" ambition courage Stalker was in arcellant batting form, is four days since we had any rain and won was north of the Ancre," and on run- Lenterair, panjabing. Bird's, bowling and Gays since, there has bean any of the Day has been found, bearing the and real vital energy into tired,

more than one light shower and to day | down'and shattered nervous system.

Here is a test worth trying. pour time you feel tired, bine, or

or wher fairly crying out, take two Sargel tablets. Toen wait for just fem minates, and to the

mote resulta. Bargol seems rre call, and nerve cell to go straight to

work the minute it reaches them. He brings a ton

change from that awfal dell Reeling headedness and

It calma Courage.

was still in when the two next wickets numerous where, the ground captured Les carry on this terrible battle in strengthens the nerves of people hotell Thoms was little effort to hit runs se here, not only hilly and uneven, but perfect confidence in ultimate viotary. got the "jumps" and fidgets, and gives in comparison to the desire to waste covered everywhere with the most intri We long far, and will ensure that the them poise, power and tremendous

obliterated in this hall which they hays German dug-outs ADC subterranean revere anergy. Sargol is beclutely time. The Rost did not show up nearlycate defences and honeycombed with British and French Armies ar barmless, contains, no habit forming as good bats aà in the first innings and

asfe, tasy pleasant,

Obliteration, however, has been going drugs, and 15. Watson & Co.LtAthers was very possibility of their suffer: ƒ passages. A sumber al “pockets of the themselves prepared. nad efficient

the advance, in minor tranches, shall on the other way.

VARYING QUALITY OF GERMAN. TEDOPSI The Victoris Dispensary, The Pharmacy, ing defeat. Therecord bat of the day was enemy rammined behind our lines after Queen's Dispensary, The Edward Die R. O. Witchell who bit up 87 rugs in The holes, dips in the ground or under the

The Ja: Guard Reserve Diviakin la not pensary, and many other lending Rest's first innings Stalker twice hit chemists in Hongkong and vicinity sala siz, both ball going clean out of the surince of the burrows, and among the it in 40 tableta to a package.

ground and one remarkably good rules of the villages. All these have, on the Anere front. But in the region to drive coming down inside the Museum

where the official communique has told in Des Yeux Road. The best bowlinging yesterday and to-day, been rounded the south of the Butie de Warlencourt, average waa by Maar who took one and prisoners in driblets continue to

The total number taken you that we made a successful, it minor, wicket for one run in two overs, in which come down.

advance yesterday, taking between 80 and 100 prisoners. The First Division includes the let and 2nd Guard Reserve Regiments as well as the 64th Reserve Regiment. All these are evidently badly shaken. The Division is now in the 6ghting line on the Somma for the third time, and its condition supports all that has before been said in these dispatches of the deterioration of troops which, after having been in the line here and being broken have been Alled up with new material and pasted in again." "

MARTIN'S V

PAPIOL & STERL

PILLS

MAN MARTIN'S

LESSONS IN CHINESE.

MR. LI HON FAN. & Chino dato versed in Ntoragaro, nos boen & Lancher to Karopena Officials and Merchants in this Colony for ten years. He has a good method at terining Arropoāzs do pas in the Chinese examination, and in possanzad of a retrate certfiente ka x Chicane toncher. He kaa nien a good knowledge of Mandarin and Hakka, Thans who intend learning the Chinese language are requmed to write esos China Hall* Odiseer 1:ack to No. 159, Wadingcom Street, second floor."

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THE

LONDON DIRECTORY.

(PUBLINED ANGÁLLT)

he bowled ten vides. Braga was next since Sunday cannot now be less then with two wickets for four runs in 336,000. overs.

CLUB IST INNINGS.

T. E. Pearce, b Brayshay

The village of Boucourt, which we The full details of the gause are added to our gains yesterday, is a much appended-

less important place, than Beaumont Esmel, though larger, as a settlement; than St. Pierre Dirion. Situsted on the lovel of the valley. the lista cluster 19 houses which constituted the village we 2 plastered, as it were, upon the face of the alope behind them, so that from the o upper ground one looked down upon their roofs. There are no roofs now, Dor Lay houses, adly ragged bits of wall protrud ing from the shell-torn, bathered face of

E. J. F. Mitchell, st. Ponsonby-Fane,

Bird G.E. Marley, b Bird

***

F. J. de Rome, st. Ponsonby-Fana

Bird

HH. Taylar, Braystay

H. M. Mana, b Brayshay

J. Stalker, st. Ponsonby-Fans, b Bird

R. Kennedy, b Brags

R. P. Thursfeld,

F. Saltor, not out

Hamilton,

LD. McNicoll, b Brags

Extras

Total...

BOWLING

1

Bird

...174

Famil Bird

Brayabay Witchell Bisga

3

凸

3.3 D

*Bowled one në ball.

THE REST, 1ST INNINGS..

לי

the incline and the usual surface of

90

+

The merenrese of the quality of the Germans now is shown by the fact that, whereas we won our victory on the Ancre

pounded masonry such sa now stands for upon the whale st so small a price and great blocks of enemy troops surrendered 13 a village all over this battle arcá

at some places almoss without an invita So faxy as known, the place wse-Lottion, thers were points at which rur men furnished with any underground works any that they fought stubbornly, se in the comparable to the great caves of Best ease of the ravine, which, as I have mont Famel or the galleries of St. Pierre already" told, held out until all the. Divion: Deep dug-cats of the usual type. ground beyond and around it had been however, there are, and the position was in our hands for a whole day and night.... 3 one which ought to have been very strong

At another place I hear that one British for defence. That we took it yesterday, off car with 18 men took prisoners o party we did, with comparatively few of 400 Germans Ora of the German casualties, was extremely croditable to the officers, when he saw to what a pitiful troops engaged.

Fondiúl he and his men had surrendered, THE TWO ARTILLERIES.

was so enraged test he shouted to his hear on all sidee the highest prains of men. to overpower their captors. Before the work of our, artillery in the recent he could finish, the British officer shot stack. Among our wounded I have met him with his redrer-and, the little men who thought that the thing that hit party of 17 successfully rounded up their them way from one of our own shells 400 prisoners and got them home. Other either falling short or bursting backwards.stories one hears, such sa oce has heard As a matter of fact, at such time, it is before, of German soldiers, as the time notoriously difficult to tell what has surrender, killing their own officers, so seizing at last the opportunity to gratify their long-shouldering hatred of them

FA. Redmond, Fearce, b Marley... 58 R. O. Witchell, Mass b de Rome. . Y. Braga, & McNicoll, b' Pearce....

Ponsonby-Fane, b Maa......

Major Robertson, & Kennedy, b Marley

5. Brayshay, cTayler, b de Rome

TINABLES traders throughout the World. H Stapleton, b de Rome Eto communicate direct with English

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

In each clsas of goods. Besides being

plate commercial guide to London and

Ita abarbe, the Directory contains lists of

EXPORT MERCHANTS

4.

with the Goods they ship, and the Colonial and Foreign Markets they.supply;

14 M. Austin, b Fearca......

J. P. Robinson, b Fenece

E.

W. Hamilton, c Tayler, & Pearce. TE E O. Bird, not out...

Exxtras -

Stalker..

STEAMSHIP LINES arranged under the Ports to which they a.Tayler. and indiesting the approximata dailings. "Mass...

PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES de Rome....

Marley

One Upholstered Baite, Arm-chairs and Sofia, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Doabis Bras-mounted Bed stead, Twin Bedsteads (Teakwood). Bideboards, Dinner Waggons; Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes and Occasional Tables, etc. etc, Dinner Dealers seeking Agencies can advartdas Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking their trade cards for 21, or larger adver Stores, Cutlery, Toilet Bet, ke, Bathtisements from £3. Boom Utensils, Large Rall-top Deak and Writing Tables, ets, Bundry Electro "Plated Ware.

of loading Manufacturers, Merchants, sto..Pearce in the principal provincial towns and Industrial centres of the United Kingdom. copy of the current edition will be forwarded, freight paid, on receipt of I. Portal Order for 208.

Fiano in good condition, Electric Beading Lamps, Blackwood, and Tesk- wood Screens, & quantity of Blackwood

The London Directory Co., Ltd.,

2b, ASCEUBOR LATE, LONDON, EC..

Furniture Pictures Engraving, "CHINA MAIL"

Large Magic Lantern,

Cent's Bicycle (now), Tennis Poles and Nettings, &c. &c, Brass Finger Bawls, Carpets (now and second band). Child's Cats, etc.

(Full Particulars from Catalogue.) Teras-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneer Hongkong, Dec. 23, 1916

PUBLIC ACUTION.

THE Undersigned have received in

stractions to sell by Public Auction,

DE (POR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERTÍÐ}

AR EARLY DATE

The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR

One ocoulting apparatus, complete

Circular wick lamps.

pare burners. 14 Cylinders and wicke

Incandescent Estrol appurtenances

Grid quantidy of gear;

oring Eno

G.

Total

BOWLING

.... 18

48

··31

32

CLUB, SECOND IKINGS.

E. Fearos, c. Braga, b Brayshay

J.R Mitchell, Lb.

Bird

F. Marley, Lb.wb. Brayahay

de Home, Witchell, Braga BE

c Parisonby-Fane, Tapler, c M. M. Lb.wb. Bird J.Stalker, not out

F. Kennedy, et. Ponsonby-Fane,b Bird BP. Thursfield, not out

B. Satson L.-D. McNicoll did not hat

Extras

BOWLING.

87

18

.95

19

17 wounded one; but, in any case, in such close fighting is this a few such accidents ery inevitabla. I have met others who Among the officers, taken: ard several knew that they owed their wounds to battalion commandnes, and, I understand, Enemy shells. Both elsasen were equally one regimental commander, who, with all enthusiastic over our own gara. One of his staff, surrendered to one young those who thought that he owed his wound lieutenant,

not our own.

GIRD TRENCH AGAIN,

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INTIMATIONS

A. D. C. PRODUCTION

GIF BESLARE, OF: TEEN

“STAR & GARTER FUND

for Soldiers and Sailors totally disabled

Hin the War

special request there will be

ANOTHER PERFORMANCE

FON SATURDAY, SOTH INST.

AT 7.30.PM SHARP.

PRICES AS USUAL.

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A récherché Supper at $3 per head will be served. after the performance in the Hongkong Hotel Grill"; Room from 10:45 pm, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the Star & Garter Fund,

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POSITIVELY LAST PERFORMANCES

The Ideal Reconstructive Nerve. Food. Ganaphon.

For Nerves and

Brain

--To restore your physical fitness.

-To restore poise of the nerve system

-To repair the results of weariness, and everwerk

take a glass of Sanaphos on rising, at mid-morning, mid- afternoon, and on going to bedi ...../

*You will feel distinctly the beginning of the undeniable

- benefit that Sanaphos gives: yön... şə

within ten minutes.

Sanaphos

Any time when you can't sleep, when you wake up tired, when you can I think, when you (al; exhausted, when your general physical, bealth is declared, Tire Sanaphos, and pote thesedila:

•You will be convinced at anen,'

used

Yar Sanaphos is not to be with the barmtul stimulants, or, drugs which only make, mittterstatican." "Ir la not amiant; nota deng; It la aaiply an energising food which al (Morks instantly; "beglos to give? me; }

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Strength Bayeux nerves and to your body. SADARADE. End”Södr” as a bever- ‡ágo' in hot-mather timp ampeche.cand far better than say drink containing cohol if gives, great energy" without houting and without taxing the digestion: to two tablespoonfuls of water add about two small-tearpoonfuls of Sanaphow.idr apidly with spoon or fork, and fill tha mumbler with a water.

convalescence and neTTOWE SZ- haustion Seraphon works wonders. ́ ́

If your shabbit has not Sumphos weita for a few warple, mentioning his name, ani: trisi paeksza will be sent to you free and post-paid Supplies can be obtained from say of the following Wholeedle-Agents : Visteber & Co. Hoog Long: The Queen's Diepacsary, Hood You

Wholesale Distributors for India and Fur East; Dalin Bauchers, Lid, Middles Surer London, Beşizad

TRADE MARKS.

GOODWILL IN BRANDS.

kets, and the first stop towards such extension of business is the registration of a trade-mark, or trade-marks, in the country in which it is proposed to trade, because clearly the possession of trade. proprietor who mark in itself enables the prop trades under it to create by the very act of trading a certain goodwill in his busi-

1 to the grinned cheerfully as he said so,

snd added, ** But, Lord' what they didn't. In the operation mentioned to the

The importance of trade-marks, though bo to the other fellows! And the men south-east of the Butte de Warlencott

who suffered from enemy shrapnel only EngEsh and Australien troope co-operated, obvious to the proprietor of widely-advor thanked heaven that it was the enemy though it was a purely local push upon a used goods, is not always fully recognized

The principle of the frade mark is Every transaction which takes place in through another stretch of some 400 or 19 shrapnel which they had had to isce sud narrow front. The object was to break by the average businessman, ne

I have spoken before of the extra 500 yards of the Gird Trenchmetimes, extremely old; indeed, it is doubtful branded goods helps to associate in the ordinary density of the wire before the I see, in English papers spelt Grid." whether it would be possible to discover minds of the customer the quality of German front trenchee. That our men bak the name le I believe, only a corrupthe stigin of the stators of trading under the goods with the mark under which they got over at all is in itself sufficient testi- tion of the first syllable of Grondecourt sig Even in the Stone Age storm are sold to practice indente mony to the accuracy of the guns which the formidable double lines of which run estomary to me (aigns and symbols to merchants frequently specify the mark manufacturer who supplies, unbranded had been charged with the wirecutting up to just behind the Batte. We sattered indicate the nature of the business which which the goods ordered must bear The That all over the area of the attack wa our object and have established a strong was conducted in any particular cave.

• sent to

were able to push on with the rapidity point at the further end of the plece al Lombard wirees" probably still affords goods is absolutely in the banda of the task we did, always close behind the trench won. In this neighbourhood the the best illustration of the earlier prac merchant in regard to repeat orders, but.. Total (for 7 wickets declared): 273 barrage, is also proof enough of the ground still remains extremslysadky, tips of trading under a sign. There are the manufacturer. who create si demand accuracy with which that barrage moved. much worse than most of the regiod about signs still survive, and it is not remark, for branded goods, In no matter what The common apology of the German the Ancre. In such circumstances the able to find that where a tradesman tax- past of the world, is always nasized that, prisoners for their surrender is that difficulty of making progress sept by tied on his business under the sign of a repost orders will ultimately come to him, nothing" could live, except by hiding, small staged at a time can be understood, silver trout of a golden perch, in the no matter through what channel. That is Linder our artillery fire, and as soon as Several times in my dispatches, I ha case of time he saw the advantages of the reason why manufacturers who are the fre bed lifted our men were on them paid tribute to the splendid behaviour of assocating his reputation with his goods entering now fields should be careful to O with bombs and bayonet. The excellence the Finneer Battalions which have by reproducing his sign on them in such so that tacky, trade marks aro properly a way that all the products of his work registered and expable of protection in of the work was all the more eritable extramaly arduous werk to do in circum-

that country. Ib is not without sigot- at the attack was made in the dá-knees, stances of great danger. Their task is shop wers recognizable, se suck. and the weather continued too thick for even harder, in, such conditions of ground With the wife of time a very consider ficance that Germán-ärms have, in each

•South America, recently scroplane observation throughout the end weather as prevail here now, but insole value smee in the goodwill of much countries se South

atcade-mark, and there was a correspond registered an enormous number, of, sew first day,

the fighting to the north of the Arcre,

PUBLICATIONS Brayahay

Bird

STAINABLE at the CHITA, Man"

Wyndham Street, Hous

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HISTORY OF UNION CHURCH ***

(1891-1903)

KONGEONG'S MUSICAL J

HISTORY.

THE REST, 820CMD INNING,

A. Redmondb

J. P. Robinson, and b de Rome J. 7. Brag & Tayler, b Pearce Major Robertson, & de Beras

NOTES ON WILD LIFE INK. Brayshay, run out

HONGKONG AND BOUTH'

OBINA (by Bev. G. A

Banbury, MA)

› Part-1-Mammals and Birds

Part 11-Reptiles, Arabia and

ou are, ver54 THE MISSIONS ETRANGERES Casting of the EastEZE

CHINESE SCHOOL BOOK (Nam-Tex King, translate i by E. J. Eital)

88

ROBERT HARTSLAND

TAX MEMORANDUI 'eriticismi

WASHING BOOKS (Lor

Lampe

THE NEW FRENCH REME

1.00

THERAPION NE 1 Locomotive, whoals THERAPION: NE2

THERAPION NI 3

Stapleton, a

Pearce Marley, Ponsonby Faneb Ma BEO, Bird, not out

B.O. Witchell, 'c

E. W. Hamilton, not out BM. Austin, did not

Total (for 8 wicks!a)...100

As for the German artillery, I did in the consolidation of the positions, woning temptation to psy off the goode of marks in readiness for the period of Berce one maker is the products of another by competition which may be anticipated at yesterday that its reply had so far been they have again proved invaluable.

1 weak. It has increased during the inst I bear also the mms testimony to the pirating his mark is commercial the cicae of the war. -

24 hours, and the afternoon là has been heroism of the stretcher-bearers and piracy sall goes so, although frequent The registration of a trade mark abroad heavy prer a leige part of the front runners co hears after every

Nowhere, however, bad I been elective, and, with the exos first » hasty," Ill-prepared

which were easily besten,

nade no serious attempt. to.

Any poin

Ek azon gained,

of Beaucours yesterday,

trenches: rur

ially advance. Indeed, it is as always of the starts to praise, one must in jus seks, detail through all the Array

Correspon

STYLES OF MEN AND Lunderstand that

the

storse captured in tha

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Benement Hamel and the

Pierre Divion" In Ikphysics

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to be interesting The Germans had. Iden – that they

Lizívem:

The Man Who Gers There

Is the dan who has blood Teal del red blood

caty of

chave been made to strengthen the le not a matter which can be law, tight by special logislation a short time. To begin wit with trade-marke, 2. The luteab Erom two to three months English statuta came into force on April trade mark in the Unit 1965, and the Act defined the trade. Many foreign ocentrine mark as a symbol which is applied or new trade essek thall be regi

Had to goodle offered for sale in the cept after proof that they

them from already registered in the doom with origin, and consequently from

ocessors, months, may be regarded as the ston

period necessary for the regletation new mark in a foreign country "there is no objection or opposition

The time to prepare for the capfare, of German izade is now, and case of the first talogs to attend to is the zegin

Mimilar, goods, and to treder or

partic

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