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THE Underaigned have received instruc sons from The How the Capt. Supt. Police, to sell by Pablo Auction,

MONDAY,

the 20th January, 1017, at 11 am,

the Compound, Central

Police Station, CONDEMNED AND CONFISCATED GOODS, Including:

A quantity of Munta Metal Sheeting, Dopper, Load &cg đài

Diamond Ring, 'pair Earrings, Gold Battous, do

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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers to the Govermaken, Bangkong Jan. 28, 1917.

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$1449

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structions to sell by Fublic Auction, (PER LUXUME OF WAR OIL/CZENID}, {

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structions to sell by Public Auction- (FOR ALCOUNT OF THE CONCERNAD),

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TUESDAY,

sha with January, 1917, commencing at 3.30 p.m., at their Sales Roonis, No. 8, Des Voux Road, Corner of

Ica Hovsa STREET,

&c.,

A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND SUNDRY BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

&c..

As Follows:- Upholstered Suites, Arma-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, Double Brass-mounted Bedstead, Teak- wood Twin Bedsteads, Box Mattresses. Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs,. Tea and Occasional Tabloe, etc, etc, Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking and Heating Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Set, de, Bath Room Utensils, Large Roll-top Desk and Writing Tables, etc, Sadry Electro Plated Ware.

Piano by Challen and Sons, London, in good condition, Mectric Beading Lampa, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens,

a quantity of Blackwood Furniture, Pictures, Carpets and Rugs, Clocks, Brass Fenders, Fire Binases, etc. Also

1 Sewing Machine, Gent's Bicycle

un the Stomp.

'Sale Manutacturers ? J. T. DAVENPORT, LIJ.,

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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYÉE AS

MILITARY HISTORIAN..

12

THE STORY OF THE B.E.F.the racing suis suggests that Park rather than the French fuld force was the Germans objective. Beker founded i his interceting suggestion that von Kluck whosled to his left and made for the French centre neron the Marne, shus exposing his own right dank, because, dratly, he thought the British had' poen knocked out, and, seccadly, was ignorant of the formation of Mansoury's Sixth is was the impact of thesis force on his French Army on the British left; clearly dank that turned the scale of the Battle of the Marna

EBY A. F. POLLARS, LIIT. D.] (Professor of English History in the Uniwnity of London)

.

It is not beyond the Bounds of possibility that within a century the backs published on the Great War; ita origin, ita history and its consequences in belligerent and noutral lands, will have exceeded in num bor the books published on all other subjects put together; and already the aritic is like one who watches the acorns fall from an oak and tries to select the Aitost to survive. There is, however greater variety in books on the was that in scorns, and those that come rat will have the largest circulation, while those that tarry will be better wart reading when wo get the Bnal and official history of the war only students will want to

road it.

From the Marno Sir Arthur carries on

the story to the loss familiar stubborn fighting on the Aisne, "With the dramatic extension of the line of battle, northwards to the sea, much wide striving to outfiank the other by finging in fresh, corps, be; in act concerned until Jofre ascated to Franch's proposal than the British Army should be transferred north-westward, in this process la onier to give it sherter lites of communication. That led up to the attempt to join hands with the Bel- gian and British forces in Antwerp and the momentous victory at Ypres. Nothing. in the war, except the delsace of Verdun, is likely to outshine the glory of that achievement or of such incident in it as the frbs at Cheluvelt, when five thousan British soldiers drove back.

A German

Arthur from A. army corps and a remark, quoted by Sir

another connection, sums up the story of German historian in

the whole campaign. torts of steel and concrete that the Allies owed their strength, but to the magni-

cent qualities of the British Army. "

Sie Arthur Conan Doyler has waited nearly two years and a half before publish ing the first instalment of his history of the British Expeditionary Force in Francs and Flanders, and he has some other advantages over thone waters whose volumes, some of thern excellent in their way, hava forestalled his. Ho refere in his prefsen to the alleged impossibility of bringing out at the present time any accurate history of the war, bus contenda that so far as the actual early events of enr own campaign upon the Continent,

In his prefatory chaptors Sir Arthur is are concerned there is no reason why the giving the Germans a handle wilen he says approximate truth should nou now be that by wise foresight the Grand Flect collected and set forth."

THE CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE AND TEANDERS.

"It was not to

had been assembled for Royal inspection" at Spithead for that review had been There is every reason why it should,anged before the Archduka's murder, but in justice to Sir Arthur Faders must and was held on July 18th, five days realise clearly what it is that he sets out before the thunderclap of Austria's Note to do. He has not attempted to write a to Serbia.

And when Sir Arthur dis.

history of the wer; he is only concerned cusses Mty Churchill's and Prince Louis', with the Empire's part is the campaign claim to credit for it, he ŝi confusing is in France and Flanders; and within this with two subsequent orders, first the scope his object has been to compile a counteranding of its dispersal fren narrative rather than form a judgment. Portland on July 28th, and secondly its These limitations give the book ita com. [dputch into the North Sant BOIDA pleteness; by setting bounds to his design unknown date later in the week. So, too.. be, has made it practicable, and bwe had not sworn to protect Belgium," restricting himself to a portion of the otherwise there would have been less feld bo Kas been able to cultivate it with expe for the Cabinet discussions on greater care and intensity than the writers. August 24.1 The Trosty of 1589 who have ekimmed the surface of the pledges each of the five Great Powers to whole. Sir Arthur is procuded from respect Belgian neutrality, and gives each giving his authorities, "but it is clear to the right to intervene if other break i the careful student that, in addition to wir pledge; but it does not bind theth to the sources open to the public, he has had intervene, and, the German Chancellor's at command a mass of privato diaries and scrap of paper **

breach of correspondence, and the advice and Fression honour which would have been correction of not a few of the prominent just as complete had England stood aloof;

We actors in the events, he describes.

Strange, too, is the contrast between Sir may be sure that his volume would not

Arthur's quotation apparently with bu dedicated to Sir William Robertson approval of Ma Cramb's Prosalón if it were not à record upon which the sentiment that " the high gods of virility woukl smile as they looked down upon the chosen children of Odic, the English. and Germans, locked in the joy of battle” (p. 30), sad le own remark (p. 48) that the Germans "brought the world of It is pre-eminently a book for the Christ back to the days of Odin, and student, and the battery reader, attracted changed a civilised campaign to an inroad to it by the fame of Sherlock Holmes, will of Pagua Danes." But theso'áco trifies in find it strenuous reading. The more book which should appeal to every Berious ronder will be well advised, when Britco, and should shame those who wish ho gets into the heart of the story, to to make of ache effect the deeds and master, the details, here (p. 3) provided sacrifices recounted in its pages,

DARTICULARS and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the th day of Janar 1917, at 3 pm, at the Offices the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellovey the Goticon of One Latpublic eculd rely; and as a painstaking of CROWN LAND at Nathan Road, and detailed sccount of the operations of Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for the British Expeditionary Fore the book term of 75 years, with the option ofis likely to justify Sir Arthur's confidence renewal at Crown Rent to be fixed by the.

and stand the test of time. Surveyor of His Biajesty the King, for one farther term of 75 year

Particulars of the Dot.

Leality:

Hegistry No.

No. of Sale,

T

In And Lot No. 1

Kowloon H

ft.

Boundary Мелитано,

(approximate)

72

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50 3,000

Upset Price, I

1430

MB. GEO. P. LAMMERT AVOTIONZE

(new), Tennis Poles and Nettings, dc, BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE &c., Brass Finger Bowls, Child's Cots, Perambulator.

(Full Particulars from Catalogue.) TERMS:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGE, Auctioners: Hongkong, Jan. 20, 1917.

FUBLIC AUCTION.

1433

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stractions to sell by Public Auction, (70% ACCOUNT OF THE CONCIAMED),

On

THURSDAY,

abe lat February, 1817,"at-

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VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY.

aitaste at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkang to be sold by order of the Mortgages by Public Auction on

TUESDAY,

for the first time we think, of the com-

polition of the First and Second Army

1

**TEN COMMANDMENTS.

Corpu when they landed in France: aimilar information is given later on with regard to the Third and Fourth Army

A curious deed of partnership was Corps, including the famous Seventh mentioned in a case that came before. Division. He will also find extremely Mr Justice Noville in the Chancery useful the chronological table of the Division

history of the first two. corps given on Mr Ward Coldridge, gc, said the part pp. 136-7; and we wish we could give. nership articles were in the form of a the same praise to the caps provided. letter, which started as follows

think the following!

"Dear

As it is, the reader will require others, ten comes an e-be all that.ir

wegst the ten commandments

4.Thou shalt be paid a salary of £5 a week once a week every week.

5. Thou shalt receive one-third of the proft; we shall receive two-thirds.

more detailed and finished, to enable him necessary for us to work together on to follow intelligently this wonderful story and as the work proceeds there must be of Mons and Le Cateau, the Marne and give and take on both sides the Aisne, and the crowning mercy of Xpres. For Ypres crowned that defence of Frazee, the Channel porte, and Great Britain, which was and will always remain the glory of the original B.L.F., its work was complete and decisive in the sense that it defested, beyond recovery, the the caly plan which could have given the this cottage building in divers places original German plan of campaign, and to meet it a

8: Thou shalt continde to go on German Government the frails it had until we mutually agreed to abandon it. plotted to seize. It remained for the new 9 Thou shalt apply yourself to this armies to hold the line during the equili-barindas with all your strength,, health,

Thou shalt not mop it up all at once: Peradventure there may be a loss on

some operations, a and a bit must be left

with

brium of 1915 and turn the tide in 1918 Neville: That is mad

and 1917, but new armies would have found no line to bold in France and Flanders at all, had it not been for those original hundred thousand temptibles.

can-

the sth day of February, 1917

st 3 o'clock paddlemen

By T Mr. Gro P. Lamar, Anctionser, at his Bale Rooms, Daddell Street.

The Property Con

consists of All that piece or parcel of ground

In telling the tale of their, deeds Sir" mituste at Victoria in the Colony of Arthur's main dificulty has been to avoid 10.30, at their Sales Rois, No. 5, Office as MARINE LOT No. 26 Together; and corps, division and division, Erigade Hongkong and registered in the Land the odium of comparisons between corps Des Voeux Road, Corner of with the messuages and premises and brigade, when all did more than therson known as Nos. 6 and 7 Prays anyone could expect." Oxasonally we Bras and Non 48, 60, 62, 61, 56, 58 and 6o think he uses expressions which might Queen's Road East Victoria aforesaid: lead themselves to misinterpretation. The ezid, premises so held for the burely French did not learn from Jodire a term of 109 years from the 8th day of telegrain at one that all his work had July 1814 created thenin by a Crow would knowingly have kept the 'Second

boen in vain. Doubtless, no commande Lease of the said Lot dated the 14th day. Copa 15 Mons, the is had book, out: of July 1858 and made between Her

I HOUSE STERIET “ LADIES BOOTS AND SHOES, Blankets and Counterpanes, Bath Towels, Gent's Singlets and, Panta Baitlengths, Including a low Longths of Blas Berge, Gent's Straw Hata do,

AN EARLY DATE The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR: 2020.

One occulting apparatus, complete.

Circular wick lamps.

Spare burners......

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Incandescent Petrol Lamps, and sppartenance

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A number of Locomotive wheels and Axles.

Farther particulars may be obtained from the undersigned. Terms –40, numai.

BCGBES & HOUGH,

Hongkong, Jan. 28, 1917.

lete Majesty Queen Vittaris of the chefianinud on the left, exposed on the right, part and ico Tano Wa of the other part and attacked in front by four, lastead of 1443 subject to the payment of the Crown to vain, it saved others, and is, was not two army corps. But its work was not Bent and to the, obecnance and per- lost itself; and the retreat from Mons will, formance of the Lensor's convenants live in history like the retreat of the Ten and conditions, therein reserved and Thousand, the retreat of Contea from contained a me

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