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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2. 1917.

AUCTIONS.

PUBLIC AUCTION

E tursigned has revival !

Hughes & Hough The Cure by tublic Aurtion,

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNYENT,

General Auctioneers Share, Coal and General Produco Brokers and Commisalon Agoats.

PROPRIETORS **To«Kwa+Wan", Coal Storage.'

Contes meet" Bentley's

ac 4th & 5th Editions. A Telegraphic Code.

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Telegraphic Address MEIRION" HONGKONU.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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

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the 4th May, 19917, commencing at 1.30pm, at their Sales Rooms, Su, 5,

Des Vuns Road, Corner of lee Hense Street....

HOUSEROLD FURNITURE,

Comprising

Two Double Beltonda with Mattresses complete, Sideboards, Dinner Wagguo, etc., Extension Dining Tabies and Chairs, Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chairs &c., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Cet.

Siiscellaneous Furniture, Pictures, &c. Roll-top Desk, Backwood Ware, including Cabiners Wardrobes, Stands, J. Bra Fenders and Fire Br

Tew bots Purcubios. nd Curios, &c., Pautry, Bath Rug and itchen Utensils, Electric Lamps, Fans, //

&c.

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Typewriters and, Pianos, (Full Particulars from Catalogue.) TRR:-Crit.

BUGHES & HOUGE,”

Austioncor

Hongkong, April 24, 1917.

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

Ji

SATURDAY,

the 5th May, 1917, at

1,45 am, at their Sales Rooms, No. 5,

Des Vons Raul, Cošner of

ICE HOUSE STREET,

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A MISCELLANEOUS STOCK.

Cuainting of

Punge Silk, Holland, White Bril Dress Materials Alpaca, Blue and White Serge, Toilet Soap, Perfumery Conater. pures, Towels, &e., &c.

Ale

Sun Hats and a few Rain Coats Terms:-Cash. :

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Aveliansers

Hongkong April 30, 1917.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned have received instrze. tions from The Hon. The Harlur, Master to sell by Pubile" Auction,

o'n

SATURDAY,

the 5th May, 1917,

at?) am, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

Two CASES OF

"ELECTRIC DETONATORS".

Terms - al

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers. Honkong. April 30, 1917.

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opportunity to hospitals and private dispensaries, as the goals are in fine condition and are unly being sold owing to the labels being slightly stained by water.

O view from Monday the 7th May,

1917..

Catalogues will bed. TERMS:Cash on delivery.

GEO" P. LAMMERT,

Auctiones... Hongkong, May 1, 1917.

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THE Undersigned has received instruc

bians from the Liquidators of àfessrs. Jws & Lo. in pursuance of an order of the Hongkong Guremment to sell by Public Auretion at 12 o'clock (Noon)

TUESDAY,

the 1st day of Jely, 1917, at his Sales Rooms,

DUDARLL STREET,

THE TALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY situate at The Peak, Hongkong, and being. Plural Buikling

at No. 19.

IN ONE LOT: The property consists of :---

The piece or parcel of ground and promises known Issholt," 104 The

THE CHINA MAIL.

GERMANY'S TOILERS IN MOOD FOR REVOLT.

SOMBRE MISERY IN SAXONY.

AMERICAN EX-VICE-CONSUL'S

DESCRIPTION.

CONSULAR FUNCTIONS AND

OVERSEAS TRADE.

St. Clair,

Thy following letter by Me, M. 0. - many your Faditor of the „Singapore Froo Peiss,"appare in the

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shippers to every part of the world, are just barely employed, going backward in organization, enterprise, spital, and, heher, in ability for the obl`stiff cum- petition War conditions are thesaten- ing the destruction of the great leather glove dustries. The famous machine made ku arul bruslery inlustry of Plauen, whose products before the war graced that drews of in every is likewise decaying under the wr Atriumtien. And the highly-trained Sign-Amongst," the suggested" reingus operatives in these and other indurries in the promotion of British cocanercial

being killed off as fast as annon, machine-gun, ride, os; and in jatores ahmad, thera hava hawa stragi New York, March 13,

accomplish their work apen, thus battle beguinemditious machi regarding the Wage earning fermany's nerves hava fronts.

revelation, an ecomic revolution, infusion of a more vital activity in the been worn raw by the increasing weight is already been worked in Suseng, a ¦ operations i British clas of suffering that the ine has brought it revolution of destruction whose effects

will outlive this generation. The Saxon forein This class of Germans has become sallen, poor realizes this better than their more dissatisfied with the liqvernment, almost fortunate countrymen, and they are Pebellious. While the middle class re-bitterly, very bitterly, war wenry." mains intensely patriotic, parading de fore the casual bserver a unified and determined Cernsany, fatigue of wan is making alarming strides among the working people. A great many of those humble people want peace at any pricp at the price of their colonies, of Alsace Lorraine, even of their country's prestige and pawition."

This is the opinion of a. Curtis Roth, Aroerican Vice-Counsel at Plauen in Saxony, who has lived in close tourli with the people since the beginning of the war. Having spent seven years in the teeming. 'industrial Saxon districts intimately acquainted among all elesses and accepted everywhere as friend, Mr. Roth has an unusually streng claim to an accurate knowledge of conditions there. He was moreover, a friendly mimiration and Observer, Al Sampathy for these anong whom he

livel

The working people, at least in Saxony, are becoming restive. They have hungmed and aggrieved andover worked many months, with conditions stendily growing worse and with each

for

PORNHYS. A TRAKANTH' WAR.

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* Pushal much further by the galling stress of starvation, overwork and loss of of dear ones, second pensante was any well be mulded to the miseries of Central

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AMERICA PREPARED FOR POST- WAR SHIPPING FIGHT.

untrica.

By way of intrast, may I furitish, as jan sample of terörgn Conestar kvin

an instare froze my own experiener. (which may proef lastenctide?

During my residener in Singapore. I Chapërbal one day, some three years nga, to mention in Mr. Kilänk, Imperial Gigitan Penok General, that it would

rip, as president uusi reaductor the Singapore Ph.lvaroni Sherety, to ize INCREASE IN MERCHANT MARINE enables to consult ratukogurs of orchestral. music issued by the German pahiishers who.

knew British. were tire musicia

TONNAGE.

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Mr. Kiliani said at once that he would

The Nau York Herald says The issues of the great European warbe glad to be of assistance. And in di have been irresistibly, welding the hete cours some pine or ten weeks afti, x, offer amit suck began to be naduly swollen with hatches of Germua mauste regeneous peoples of America, into » homogeneous nation, and have brought catale Week by week they came till all, but especially to those who live the cat be courted by the hundred. far from either coast, a knowledge and task in early opportunity of thankien appreciation of the value of shipping as the great al-Gveral, for all, the base upon which not only internal he had taken. Oh, not at all: tional but also a very large percentage was delighted tổ be of use. i merely of home trade depends. They have also been the means of again auking Americaerlis, and they poniented with the,

wte to the Impérial Foreign Office at a great shipbuirting country.

would the Foreign fee in Londen have does through British Consis, ta oblige,

Toby Would the British Coasuls termselves have oven batherst

may be no more than a more goin- cilene to reark that Mr. Kitinni, who was thereafter transferred to Sydney, to hak atter the. Pasine interests of Ger many, one to Singapore Dream Consyl- fietalslip at Tokarest: His successor

aisy vented fron. Bukist to Singapore. those plutes representing the extremes al the belt that represented the desiderted area of German influence erosi Turkey,

situate near Mount Ceigh in the Colony of Hongkong with unares o 124032 senare feet and registered in the Land Ofice as Rural Building Lot. No.

The los is held for the unexpire and foods unil other creature comforts construction in this country. We are Testin, and the Eastern » Archipelago.

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residue of a term of 75 Years created therein. by an indenture of Crown Lens dace the 23ril chay of April 1896:

The Ann Crown Rent is 895,00.

For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, Solicitors for the Liquidators, or to the undersigned?

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GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, April 30, 1917.

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Had anyone "stated, when the war publishers all over Germany, requesting started, that within three years British their catalogues in be sent to you in firms would come here to build their singapore," ships that person would have ten This they did. I suppose, as a matter prunise of peace fading into an indeti- laughed at; yet such is the ense, for the ing administrative discipline. Bot what Cunard Company has placed contracts, nite prospect of endurance. All x amounting to several millions of dollars bug the very mursent are beyond their with the Harlan and Hollingsworth (or means. The ratio of these course foods poration, of Wilmington, Del.. for sever

inauthent. The poor have been sub-ral 15,000-tar cargo beats. This is but has at Batavia or a Tapase

<me instance of the rat increase in sisting throughout the last year upon American shipbuilding activity. In every brei, potatoes, turnips and sult. direction shipyards are being enlarge

and equipped with all the latest appli- ances or new yards are being laid down and operated as rapidly as money and energy can bring about, so great is the world's need of tonnage. Some remarks while matio recently by Me Charles L. Schwab a guest at the Lotos Club, New e standard of living among the York, te this subject are worth re- working people has been lowered fear a shipbuilder, he said The fully. It is now on a par with the axle Bethlehem Steel Corportion is building standard of overended Asia. Their

thes fully one third of all the ships now finder work has increase their share in clothes has diminished, and their anusements completing every week one 10,00-ton besides The urban merchant ship, fully equippet. have entirely fallen away.

and smaller Poor have become desperately poor, and battleships semaines they are beginning to realize that each revels. En we must note these striking Sports Cha, sr, James'sosquare, S,W, added month of the war means that their facts: More than one-half of all the ship plight must become more and more building in the United States to-day are

for foreign owners.".

When the hopeless.

sar is over, foreign ship' builders will come into conspetition with American builders, who, however, will

financiall be in such excellent posture. and mechanically, that no fears need be entertained as to their ability to retain their full share of this extremely valuable and impetrat marker ik well as to second the forts of American banking institutions in builting up and placing or a firm basis the nation's foreign trule.

In the beginning all was wild enthu xiasm for the war. The people crowded around the railway stations to see the troop trains hurling past every twenty, five minutes. Then came the floods of woanded, the difficult readjustments made necessary by the absence of the wage-earners, and, then, the numbing pinch of hunger. Worst of all-was the atmosphere of want, of fur of suffering, of black depression, which seemed to creep through and through one and chill she consciousness.

An eternal New Englazul Sunday gripped the formerly bustling m facturing tons in my district. The

Yours' faithinly,

W. G. Sr. Cik

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TOUCHING LETTER BY

LIEUTENANT.

At the close of that wonderful book The American merchant marine distinct, frou vessels employer in the England's Effort," Mr Humphrey Ward distic fans at tontage in requestes a letter publislaul in "The Tinus? to Bud tons) anonymously, which was written on the numbers amounts

in 1914 to 2,027,000 tons, and anoanted

streets were bare of trallic. People passed inereused to 2233500 tons ir 1916, eve of the battle of the eaune by a abong their errands silently. There was no laughing, whistling, loud tulking, or and there are excellent reasons for stat- young oficer whe krew that he might jovial greeting. The business streets by stores.closed were dotted everywhere

by

Grass grew between the cophie's in the road way. Now and again oxen dragging primitive carts of farm produce lumbered through the streets. Restaurants and cafes were deserted. It cost money to frequent them, and, more over they had nothing, to sell.

STRANGELY HEDITIOUS TALK.

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"It is hard to describe life under these conditions. The best I can do is to say that it was suitseating. When not going to and fro about their work, the less well to do bid their unhappiness in their rooms. As it was, one was forever

ing that is latter figure will be con due next day. They aika young fellow siderable surpasse by the end of this was a nephew of Mr. J. B. Broke, of the year. From the increased activity of our shipyards awl the impetus imparted Government Monopolies Department, to shipping generally by the advent of gre. Let Mrs. Humphrey Ward sell such powerful financial interests as of the impression it mule upon her:- represented by the American Inter national Corporation, the Americar merchant marine will soon be one of the most important, not only in the amount of tonnage, but for its equipment, in the world's carrying trade, as well.

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Put is it in the holy spirit of man' itself that the secret of the future lies. On the some luttlefields thousands and thousands of young live luve been again laid down, timt England that France-may live. Here is a letter, written the day before his death in action, cu July 1, the opening day of the offensive, by a young English officer

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Commenting on the training gallops for the next Race Meeting in Shanghai the N. C. Daily News of Saturday, April 21 says:

The strain is beginning to tell. I have heard the Emperor soundly berated by his famished subjects in the shops that the poor frequent. I have often during The grass course was fast, but very the last months of my stay listened to hard; and many owners preferred, to strangely editious talk among the gallop en the inner track, which did not cause hools to rattle so much. There workers, men and women, which grew in violence after the cheek at Verdun. The were several excellent performances, but working women have threatened a num-as a result of the morning's work the ber of times to get unt of hand and rough task of selecting the Derby winner from In axony, at least war is the candidates who gallop ruaius as things. successfully throttling one by one, all open and difficult as ever

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'I am writing this letter to you just before going into action to-morrow suorning about dawn.

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I am about to take part in the biggest hattle that has yet been fought in France, and one which ought to help to end the war very quickly.

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One 's impulses for living, Baxon casualty list has been Oriole's à miles on the inner course in killed. I do not expect to be; but auch Hongkong, May 1, 1917, very heavy. The Plasen regiment has 3.7.2 with lust three-quarters of a mile things have happened, and are always been wiped out six times. All the in 1.35.3, Isst half-mile 1.01, last quarter Or the same track Grey young dushing, professional officers, who 30.2 sec

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officered by men of all classes, who have made good in 142, last half-mile in 1.4.3, an army. To be killed means nothing TYPIST. State Salary and previous in the field, and in some cases that I art last quarter in 31.1 set. On the to me, and it is only you who suffer for experience. Preference will be given to know of the derivation of the officer grass track, Shirley covered 13 miles in

applicants with knowledge of French. testifies to the startling democratizing 10,3, with last three quarters of a mile it only pay the cont

have been looking at the stars, and effects of war. The call for more mea is in 1.40.1 last half-mile in 3.03, and last thinking what an immense distance always insistent. The high school boys quarter in 30.4 sec; Morningside want

they are away. What an insignificant En out once a week for drill. Boy Scouts 14 miles in 3.25.1, with last three quarters thing the loss of, say, forty years of life dall from twelve to sixteen. The land of a mile in 1.37.3, last, half-nile in 1.083,

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has been denaded of its physically fit and last quarter in $1.1, sec.; Fresco is compared with them! It seeme, miles in 3.27.4, with last three-quarter scarcely worth talking about. Well. WAR SUFFERINGS OF A MANUFACTURING of mile in 1:4h, last half 1.042 and last good-bye, you darlings. Try not to worry quarter 31. me. On the inner track about it and remember that we shall

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suffered most keenly from the effects of those of: Golden, Oriole (grasa), last 15 food shortage. At one time last your of 14 in 3.58.3, Inat, three-quarters of a the Saxons were eating a bread eke out mile 1.39, last half 103:1 last quarter with chopped straw. Then, Eaxony did

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wept this business away and closed in 251, last three garters of a mile in As the Ouildhall, Londen, on March 1.404, last half 104 last quarter, 3937, Arthur Barks, managing director of

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hundreds of factories. I know many soc: Kowloon (gr), Mills in 2,154, the Rubberise You (Limited), Hornsey G YUK Destist successor to mon in my district, who, wealthy in 181 halt 1.04.2, Inst quarter 31.1 sec. their all wiped out by war, saw them selves paugers in 1916. I behave that

last

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sec; and Diala (gress), 13 miles in 3.29 ws. pleaded that the infendantucted The rich textile industriee of Saxony have suffered staggering disaster. The last three-quarters of a mile in 1.40.2, in ignorance, although engaged in

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