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TEURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1917,

Hughes & Hough

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HOKERONG.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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Undersigned have received 'Inatrue- tiers from H.M. VICTUALLING STOKK Omoke, to sell by Publis Auction,

FRIDAY,

the 19th January, 1917, at 12 noon,

at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

AUCTIONS.

PUBÍNO A COTION,

THE Undersigned have received in- structions. From the Curvasz,ĜOT- EATMENT BALt Revenue Department, to sall by Public Auction,

DZI

SATURDAY,

the 20th January, 1917, at

11 noon, at their Sales Booms, No. 8

Des Tax Road, Corner,

of Ice House Street, ---

The Revenue Cruiser

"KUNG TING

sho row Hes on Ockson Island, Extensive repairs were made to this

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WESTERN FRONT.

NEW ARMS FOR OLD.

The shall factory and the explosives shod stand forel with the drill yard

f'merely stupid for Americs to said and Army, a tremendous organisation for the

feal experior

parchase and supply of "toddar; then employment of tons of thousands of men ag grooms, minders, and the like, who would otherwise have been to the muni tion factories or the trenches.

MILITARY METHODS REVOLUTIONISED. Now the whole of this process of the making and delivery of a shell, which is the main process of modern "waciaco, in

CONBIDEIATIONS row House LAVTOJ.. one that can be far better conducted by

They ask to what posible use can a man accustomed to industrial organisa cavalry be pet? Can it be used in tion or transit work than by the old-type attack? Noa against frenched; that is soldier. This is a thing that cannot be better done by infantrymen following up the real Arst stage in one of the two

too plainly stated or too often repeated gundro. Can it be ad against broken essential punches in modern war. WhenGermany nearly won this war because infantry in the open? Not if the enemy end meets the shell again it is being her tremendously modems Industrial has one or two machine-guns covering unloaded from the railway truck into a rescreen; but she blundered into it, and their retreat Against exposed infantry And here the work she is losing it because she has too many the swooping aroplane with a machines Ammunition dump. of control is much more the work of men in military uniform and because their gun is far more deadly and more difficult good traffic manager than of the old tradition and interest were too powerful to hit.

Behlad is your infantry can fashioned soldier.

with her. All the state and glories of follow to receive surrenders; in mort The dump I best remember I visited soldiering, the bright calforme, the cumstances they can come up of cyclen an a wet and windy day. Over's great feathers, and pues, this dag, the march if it is a case of getting up quickly across space of ground the sidings of the normal past, the disciplined massed advance, the a wide space. Similarly for pursuit the gauge railhead spread out like fan and charged all these are as noodices and use of fire and use of the machine gun. interdigitated with narrow gauge lines that obsolete now in we as the masks and has abolished the possibility at the go up practically to the gume. And slec shields of an old-time Chinese brave cavalry charge. The swooping seroplane at the aides camions were kedior, and Liberal minded people talk of the coming does everything that cavalry can do in the an officer from the Midt in charge of one dangers of militariam in the face of avente way of disorganising the enemy, and far of these was being dramatically indignaci that prove conclusively that professions more that it can do in the way of silenc 1379 M five minutes delay. Between the militarism is already as dead as Julius ing machine-guns. It can capture, guna two sets of lines abells were piled of all Caesar. What is coming is not so much in retreat much more easily by bombing sizes, I should think some hundreds of the conversion of, men inte soldiers as the traction engines and coming down low and thousands of shells altogether, wet and socialisation of the economic organisation hosting horses and men An koal Akining in the rain. French reservists, of the country with a view to international modem paruit would be an advance of soldiers from Madagmear, and not necessities. We do not want to tun guns, automobiles full of infantry, motor Senegalese were boay at different points chemist or a photographer into a little cycliste and ayalists, behind a high acreon loading and unloading the precious figure like a lead soldier, moving mecharief observation seroplanes and a low screeni THE OCEAN HARINE INSURANCE freight. Ale way away from me were cally at the word of command, bus wa of Aghting aeroplanes. Cavalry might despondent-looking German prisoners do want to make his chemistry or photo advance screen. Eelda and so forth, but handling timber. All this dump was nography, swiftly available if the national only as a "vary scomsory part of the more than an eddy as it were in the path organisation is called upon to fight.

general advance.. of the shell from its birth em the stool hara near Faris to the accomplishment of its destiny in the destruction or capture of more Germazš,

Vessel quite recently,' For further particulars apply to the undersigned.

Torma-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, Dec. 29, 1918.

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.

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IN WHICH ARE YESTED TER SHAKUE OF

Company. Levi.

and

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS

ASSURANCE on,

TOTAL FUNDS AT 315: Dxczxing, 1914,

£29,070, 387

-Authorised Capital £8,000,000

Subscribed Capital £4,500,000

10

DAINDING OF THE BAZLLA.

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We have discovered that the modern economic örganisation is in itsolt a fight ing umchine. Is is so much so that if is capable of taking on and defeating any mere warrior people that is so rash as

And what else is there for the cavalry to do?

"

It may be argued that horses can go over

country that is impossible for automobiles. That is to ignore altogether

And next the visitor meats the sb'? / pit itselt against it. Within the set 18 what has been dọng in this war by recent Paid-up Capital imrossesse£S, 437,500 | coming up upon a little crolley to the gun you're methods of fighting bave been devices. Mechanism can rido över placen

drilled and

-Fire Fands....... 3,837,047 He sees the gazzers, as 11-Life & Annuity Funds... 17,567,500 preciso an the man he saw at the forge

Slaking Fund Acccant " 128,290

swing out the breach block and run the

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SIXTY TWO CASES

PICKLED ONIONS.)

Revenue Fire Branch

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- Teams :—As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH...

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Jan. 17, 1017.

THE

PUBLIC

AUCTION.

1499

"

HE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction..

(POR LCCOUNT OF THE DONCKBIRD),

OB

FRIDAY,

the 19th January, 1317, commencing

at 8.30 pm, at their Eales Booms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

Á QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE

TEAKWOOD

FURNITURE, 2...

A follow-

Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sotai, Two Card Tables, Bedroom Furni- ture Double Brass-mounted Bedstead, Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs; Ten and Occasional Tables, etc., etc. Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware Cooking Stove, Cutlery, Toilet Bet, &c., Bath Room Utensils, Large Roll-top Desk and Writing Tables, etc. Bundry Electro Plated Ware.

Mano by Challen & Sons, London, in good condition, Electric Reading Lamps (New), Sundry Blackwood and Teakwood Sertens, Pictures, Engravings Carpeta and Rugs, Clocks &c.,

Alad

Gent's Bicycle (new), Tennis Polen

and Netting, te, &c.

A

Brass Finger Bowls, and a few lots.

Turkish and Bath Towels, &c.

(Full Particulara from Catalogue.) "Takan:-Czah.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers

Hongkong, Jan. 13, 1917

PUBLIC ADOTION,

ite detonators and various other industrini

where any horse will founder.

I submit these considerations to the

álaborated that have made WHE absolutely hopeless adventure for any barbaric or non-industrialised people. I hora lover. They are not my original £23,970.367 shell, which has met and combined with the rush of larger events low people have observations; they have been put to me.1 realised the significance of the rapid and they have coaxiased me. Except squashing of the Sensei in Western perhaps as a parent of transport zanies I Egypt and the collapse of Do Was no further part for the horse to play rebellion la South Africa. Both these henceforth among the dangers sad tor- struggles would have been long, tedious, monte af war Daily Chronicle." and uncertain aven in A.D. 1900. Today they were, so to speak, child's play.

£2,581,456 products since it lets the misin dump, into Life and Annuity 2,141,589 the gun. The breech close like & safe

Branchinese] Revenge Marine Department ...

337,239 door, and hides the shell from the visitor | Other Receipts

$78,940 It is "good-bye." He recuse exaggerated warnings of the danger to his ears, atuffe £5,939,228

his fingers into them, and opens his mouth The cumundve Funds of the various instructed, hears a loud bas by za Branches separately inrosted, and, by means dentening report, sad sees a spit Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet of flama near the breech. Regulations of e claims under the respective Depart a severe character prevent his watching Erom an aeroplane the delivery of the goods upon the customers opposite.

I mente of the Company's Business,

SHEWAN,PTOMES & CO.

Agents,

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Occasionally into the writer's study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the question of "preparedness," and American papara discussing the Mexican situation.

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BLUNDERS OF 1918,

WORST COMMITTED BY THE ENEMY.

AN ITALIAN VIEW.»

one of these is there evident any other clear realisation of the fundamental revolution that has occurred in military methods during the last two years. It The military critic of the "Rivista looks as if a Mexican war, for example, Politica, whose writings on the war are thought of as an affair of rather read with keen interest throughout Italy, imperfectly trained young men with rifies devotee an "exceedingly interesting article and korses, and old-fashioned things like in the current issue of that periodical to that. A Mexican war on that level might a discussion of the various cffensive opers.

es tedious as the South African war. But is the United States profórred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps calls 1916 anturan cutit, there

I have described the methods of locating enemy guns and so forth by listening and photography elsewhere. Many of the men at this work are like dentists rather than soldiers; they are busy in carefully lib rooms, they wear white overalls, they have clean hands and laboratory manner The only really romantic figure in the whole of this process, the Daly figure that hsa anything of the old soldierly swagger about him still, is the aviator. And, as one friend remarked to me when I visited the work of the British Mying Corps, no reason why America should not clear The real essential strength of this arm up any and every Mexican guarilis force the organisation of its repairs. Here she wanted to in a few weeks. is one of the repair vans through which our machine-guns go. It is a motor work- abop on wheels. But at any time all this park, everything, can pack up and move forward like Barnum and Bailey's sirens The machine-guns come through this shop. in rotation; they go out again cleaned, repaired made new again. Since we got that working we have heard nothing of a machine-gun jamming in any air fight at

REATINGSF ALOZENGES

cure the worst Cough

JAPANESE MAKERS

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

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ORDER

1417 CHERRY & 00,

THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR LOCQUET OF TEN CONCRETED),

ON

AN EARLY DATE

The following LIGHTHOUSE. GEAR-

&c. &c viz:-

One occulting apparatus, complete.

Circular wick lamps.

Spare burners' =

Cylinders and wicka.

Incandescent Fatral Lampe mail.

Eppurtenances

A

And

quantity of gear pertaining to

Mooring Buoys,

Ale

A number of Locomotive wheels and

Arlea

FEDDER STRKET, Hotel Uppoalbe Hongkong Telephone No. 491.

Bongtong, Maros 20, 1914.

FRENCH LESSONS

-G. MOUSSION.

15, Morrison Hill Road.

THE

'CHINA MAIL

Farther particulars may be obtained. Can be obtained at the following

from the undersigned.

Terme usual

* BUGHKA & HOUGE,

Bongkong Aug 2, 1913

VISITING CARDS

PRINTED FATEK

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places in Hongkong

the Hongkong Hotel.

The Hongkong Ferry What

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The Upper

The Lower

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To do that she would need a plant of | a few hundred aeroplanes, for the most, Part armed with machine-gune, and the motor repair vane and so forth needed for them, a comparatively small army of infantry armed with machine-guns, with motor trasport, and a few small and ironclade. Steh "a force could" locate, overtake, destroy, and dispersa, any country in the possible feree that o present industrial condition of Mexico would put into the fald. No sort of entrenchment or fortification possible in Mexico could stand against it. It could go from one end of the country to the other without serious lows, and hunt down and capturs any landers.

tions of this year, their results and the lessons which they convey, says the Rome! correspondent of the Central News.

The principal events of the war during this year, he says, have been as follows

The German offensive at Verdua... The Austrian ofensive in the Trentiza. The Italian offensive in the Trentino. The Russian offensive, `in Volhynia,

Galicia, and Bukovina.

The Franco-British cffensive on the

Somme.

The Italian offensiva on the Carso. The Rumanian offensive in Trangyi-

TEDİR.

The enemy offensive in the Dobradja. The enemy offensive in Transylvania. The Allied offensive in Macedonia. The French oflendive st. Verding...

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SANAPHOS

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A. VALIABLE, PESTORATIVE IN NEVIMASTHENIA, NERVOUS DISPEPSIA, AND ANEMIA

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Earlier and inferler products, repre-producing results which are truly senting the effort to dive the nerves markablet directly the nourishment they cannot get Valika er products which were fram- pelinary food, are now displaced only partly digestible, "Sanaphos" la In the words of by the more scientific and more highly, wholly amimllable. perfected All-British "SANAPHOS."" eminent scientist.it "makos straight In Insomnia, Nervousness, Run-down for serve antrition and repair. It is Conditions, Lack of Tone, Convales-white powder which dissolves in water, sence, and in the severer cases of making a tempting and palatable bever Shattered Nerves Sanaphosis age. Becofit is felt almost immediately.

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With LEA & PERRINS' Sauce,

a few drops only are necessary

to give a delicious and the appetizing favour to plainest dish.

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

Observa "the_signature

Lea Perrins

in white

Berosi, the rel label on every bottle.

-The original and genuine Worcestershire.

3,219,000 WOMEN AT WORE IN ENGLAND:

LONDON, Nov. 14."

BEWARE OF

NEURASTHENIA,

Neurssthenia is a condition of exbans-

size and then begins slowly to iray out make war absolutely hopeless for any thosa of the Allies, and that both in release that number of men for militars the lasebog possibly naWFDA. | |-- cloud of the burst, you hear the hiss of peoples not abla either to manufacture or quantity and quality and both relatively went into the munition plants, where a

1.

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The aaying that woman's place is in tion of the nervous system. The 'cases The rest of the career of the shell after

In all these offensives there is only one the home has little application in ar are varied. Continuous work, mental or It has left the gan cae most imagine

that can be said to have had really favour time. There are now in the British physical; without a holidays without chiefly from the incoming shell froze the

ablo reunite for the enemy, and that is the Isles 3,819,000 women employed outside proper attention to diet and exercise, friends, enemy. You see suddenly a dying, up of

offensive in the Dobrodja. In all the their own homes. During the first two also worry over family silairs, or f earth and stones and anything else that

other operations the balance of success has years of war the increase of women are the most common causes

and workers

may produce: exclusive of purely feminins of shunt: soy is movable in the neighbourhood of the

The practical political consequence of bees distinctly on the side of the Allies.

dcupations, TRS 888,000.

Some disorders, like influenza, will cause shell burst, the instantaneous anfalding of the present development of warfare, of This far underably demonstrated that directly r

In neurastrian Box, so all 3-167210 replaced male laboure a dark cloud of deat and reddish smoke, the complete revolution in the conditions the forces of the Central Powers su Do

grief, per d words, more than three-quarters, shock, intense anxiety, or

srp over sensitivmess, which comes very quickly to a certain of warfare eines this century bogan, is to longer capable of holding their own with of a million women left their homes to

Asymptoma

fúrtability, pl

to WORTY OVEĽ disposition service. In most instances the women trifes, and blow away. Then, after seeing the

The treatment is one of Butrition procure the very complicated appliances and actually, the armies of the enemy considerable number of them have given the nerve cells, requiring a safe, reliable the shell's approach, and finally got the and munitione now neoded for its prosec. have deteriorated.⠀ .

lives in doing their bittenie. As the nerves, gut their nourish- up their lives-in:

must explosion. This is the climax and end of tion. And this make possible such a

There seems to be no limit to the class mant from the blood, the treatment mu The critio, of the Rivista Politica

too the of work women can do. At first it seem- be directed, tewarda building up the li'e history of any shell that is not a complete control of war by the few great goes on to say that military and political ed strange to de girl conductors on the blood. Dr. Williams pink pills act dud shell. Afterwards the battered fuse States which are in the necessary state of mistakes have been committed on both hoses, girl window cleaners, van drivers, directly on the blood, And have proved may serve q. Bozar journalist's paper industrial development se not the most sides, but the wont mistakes have and messengers. But as the war pro- of the greatest benefit in many cases of weight. The rest is sprap iron.

Utopian of us have hitherto dared to undoubtedly hear those committed by the grossed the fald broadened, and now neurasthenis. A tendency to snemis,

Ap quarrying or

or bloodlessness, is

is also corrected by the imagine.

Central Powers, and in several instances oyen in building, mining,

scores of women are employed.

definite tonic properties of these pills. their faults have been irremediable ones.

In most of the factories and shops, the

Restore tran, Dr. Williams

Pilis He instances the German offensive at breweries and the railway yard, jumpers begining today Dr. W Vardan and the Austrian offensive in the

regulation overalls are the approved for pale people; they are sold" by most Trentino se being typical of the worst costume. The bus and tram conductor dealers, also one bottle for $150, aix

Jaunty in their

peat

blue taries, and

for bottles, 18 by the Dr. Willams enough to overlap close fitting black Shanghai leather putices „There -- Is.

Such is, so to speak, the primary pro Cear of modern warfare. I will not draw the obvious pacifist moral of the intense folly of human concentration upon, this process. The Germana villed it. We

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CAVALRY OUT OF DATE.

Bre

Allies have coeyed the German will for like accecries; that is the Brats, military blinders committed in the whole arts reach just below the knees low Medicine Co., 98 Szechuan Boar

course of the wheat

Infantrymen with automobile transport, plentiful machine guns, Tanks, and such warlate now we have taken up this simple modern war. The factory band and all game of shell delivery, and we see teach the material of the shell route from the ing them that we can play it better in factory to the gun constitute the sexind. the hope that so we may be freed from arm. Thirdly, comes the artillery, the the German will-to power and all its humiliating bad.

I disgusting consequences, henceforth for ever. Enrope now is no more thus a household engaged in over powering a monomanise member.. It is

LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND

Under Weight," a condition of 1-health, shows your assingą Ilative powers are decreasing

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED!! COD LIVER OILS COMPOUND

the blood with the Ingunahing and healthy milding materials Yery

BOPPALL CREMÉTÉ

A free book, The Nerves and their

'glimpse.02, Bocking. The bus com Keeds" will be sent to you if you for "

Issued an orders recently that no

sans and the photographie seropianes PROPOSED STATE RELIGION FOR hosiery should be worn to all ward a post card, asking for a copy, to

working with the guns. Next I suppres we must rub sappers and miners as s fourth arm of greatly increased import ace. The fifth and lach combatant arm Į-is the modern substitute for, cavadrý ; and

CHINA.

STRONG OPPOSITION..

The Constitutics. Conference on the 8th

SILIMPOPON (SERATTIK)

COAL

-- this abqra address. The number of women employed in railway work has increased more than 300 per cent There are Tomen tic- ket collectors, portera, engine cleaners and workshop labourers. In

Glasgow and some other eibes women ard-being tried

women recruited planes supported by automobiles. Several Religion...

industrimi occupation between July, 1978 LA REDE Undersigned having been appointed ACKETS for the 00W18-HARBOUR of the French leaders with whom I talked

July, 291016 Ares 382,000 of this

Of this00AL/00., LTD., are prepared to quote seemed to be convinced thas the borse is shown

replaced men, in prices" for, best quality" BILIMPOPON by the numerous telegrams 203 absolutely done with in modern waziare. received on the schject, which are said women workers was 198,000. The in- TIK or BANDAKAN (Brian Korts There is rothing, they declared that to amount to some 13,000.

crease of women workers in hotels and Berpacamy ap w

chat also is excentially a force of aero-inst, discussed the adoption at State it out as team drivers or motor women.

150

The interest takon in this gostica ishe 283ithe mcrease in CDAL trimmed into Banker REBAT»--

working

cavalry ever did that cannot now be dona Opposition #peakers nstanced the places of entertainment is only 18,0000 BILIMPOPON GOAL compares froLE better by aeroplanes batuan religious struggle in Germany M

In agriculture 08,00 more women asbly with the better grades of Japanese

stesdil to-day than in July This is something to break the hose example of sitempting to adopt a State: 1914. In 1917 There were only 3,000 Coal and tires good, results on a very of the Prussian jonkers, and of old religion and also stated that the Republic women employed in Government aramala moderate consumption. fashioned British Army people. fire hunt was the all of Western civiliantian, with and dockyarde Now, there are over Beamers calling at SEBATE OU class, the English countryside, the whiel, Confucianium did not sure. If a 10,000 The English breweries formerly BANDAKAN exolueraly for STAMPE preservation of the for neured snima, state valigion is adopted it might some employed 8,000 women. Now they have POS COAL (either car or Bunknow)

18.000 the race meeting, the stimation of day be used to overthrow the Republic...

Wynne pas para max djuping are exempt from payment at all Pat betting in all classes of the public, all The date had proceeded for some time ibao things depend listely upon when proposal to end the discrimina preposition tims the breed of homes approved and shallot was then a bat is of vital importance to the military owing to a number of members, leaying, strength of Grest Balala! But it the the House after voting, sans destroyingful disease attacks your little one before bour Frios and all other information arguments of the able Trench soldiers ens

thesunouncement of the you prepare for it. It comes in thenight boscends the Perto Gon fare, sound, the cult of the home desses to. had to be postponed till the wet when charista shops are usually closed application tax the Agent

BRADLEY & COL

be of any more value to

Alegant krities of

it was found that

could bot be

At Babatik Steamers are berthed along CROUP

NET Ang pads the Company's wharf 7here there le

* minimami čeptis of 37: to-26 feet,

at low VERY young child is susceptible to water Spring

Sibuko La creage: Don't wait until the dread-Darts of

and this alone should be a warning And keep Chamberlain's Cough Remed

Bay