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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 1917.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

WHAT TO DO WHEN

NERVES GO WRONG

$600,000,000 FOR

THE CHINA MAIL.

AEROPLANES,

AMERICA'S CONFIDENCE IN THE AIRSHIP.

A "Physician's Advice

MEN and women who suffer from

I weak nerves, who tire easily, can't sleep, have

brain fag, low vitality, 80,000 TO BE CONSTRUCTED' THIS" general weariness, loss of strength, dalled ambition, lack of will power, or aDY

of those symptons that

it so surely arise from poor, ustedy unstrung nerves, nerve force gui low, should try taking a Hittle Surgol with their meals for a few

OF

davs 4) note results. This preparation is the greatest ginger-up stimulant and nerve vitalize ever known for putting the good old "pep" smbition, courage

real and rea vital down and

energy into a tired. shattered nervous system. Here is a test worth trying. The next time

you feel tired, blue, or when

men your

YEAR.

President Wilson on June 3rd gave his unqualified indorsement to the War

partner pggramme for building the greatest fleet of autoplanes and hydro aeropianes the world has ever seen.

Mr. Wikon sent a letter to Newton D. uker, Sevretary of War, instructing him. REFER Antdaketeat posent the programie, in the minutes; and wait for just ten fatrotigst possible way to the proper" cam-

Sargol

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and aute results.

es. Sargol seems

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ne, which calls for the expenditure.

of 200,000 for aircraft; it is agreed add give the United States a world prey of air and is regarded as essential in the overthrow of Prussianism.

to go straight to the nerve cells and the Congress. Thus, pro Starts work the minute it It brings At

a ten minate change from that wful dull. WEAK

lazy, don't-give-a-hang feeling to brightness, strength, clear headedness courage. It calms and strengthens

the nerves of people who get the jumps" and fidgets, and gives them poise, power sad tremendicans.

harmless, contains no habit- drugs, and is always safe, easy, pleasant and efficient.. AS Watson Ca The Victoria Dispensary, The Pharmacy, Queen's Dispersary. The Edward Die pensary, and many other leading chemists in Hongkong and vicinity well it in 40 tablets to a package.

THE Undersigned have received in reserve energy. Sargol is forming/Here is Mr. Wikwa's letter

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

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SATURDAY,

the 11th August, 1917, at 10.30 ani, at their Salos Rooms, No. 8. Des Voeux Road, Corner of

IT HOUSE STREET,

SUNDRY HOUSEHOLI››LINEN,

Comprising

Large Turkish Bath Sheets. Turkish Towels Single and Double Bed Sheets. Pillow Cases, Bed Quilts, White Shirtings,

&o, &

Alm

A CONSIGNMENT DY BRASS AND KINKOSAN WARE,

Comprising Ash Trays, Jarilinieres, Flower Holders, Incense Harners, Vases, Finger Bowl Ornaments, &c., de.

TERMA-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH

Auctioneers, Hongkong. July 30, 1917.

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PUBLIO AUCTION.

THE

1905

HE Undersigned have received in-1 strictions to sell by Public Auction. from ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

TUESDAY,

'the 14th Augusty 1817, commencing at 2.30pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Comer of

ine House STREET, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES, &a, &c.,

As follows: Two Upholstered Suites, Arm-chaÍTS and Solas, Card Tabica, Bedroom Furni ture, comprising Double and Single Brass-mounted Bedsteadis, and Twin Bed-. steads Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes and Occasional Tables, etc., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, &c., Bath Room Utensils, Roll-cop Desks and Writing Tables, Sundry Electro 'lated Ware, etc.

Electric Reading Lamps, Black wed and Teakwood Screens, Sundry Black wood Furniture, including Large Overmantel, Engravings, Pictures, etc., ett. Tennis Poles and Netting.

A few lots of Turkish Bath Sheets, Tovels, Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quilta, etc..

Alao

One. BAROGRAPH in perfect Work. ing Under.

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PIANO by The Robinson Piano Co.

Collard & Collard. Rosepkan Shiedmayer & Foeline,

Stuttgart. (Full Particulars from Catalogue.)

-Cash-

HUGHES & BOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, August 8, 1917.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

2019

Y direction of the Government of

B. Hongkong Mess, HUGHES

HOUGH have received instructions to sell by Public Auction,

OD

MONDAY,

the 13th day of August, 1917 at 3 P.M. at their Sales Room, Tee House Street, Victoria, Hongkong..

The Following VALUABLE LEASE- HOLD FROPERTY situate at Victoria Hongkong Viz

ALL THOSE pieces or parcels of ground situate at Victoria aforesaid and

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AUCTIONS.

PUBLIC

AUCTION,

THE Undersigned lave received in Captain Supes intendent of Police, to sell structions from The Hon. the

by Public Auction,

Op.

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The White House, Washington, DAC...

My Dear Mr. Secretary

1 hav" your letter of yesterday about the production of ninernís and 'the training of me to operate thein, and want to say that I am entirely willing

back up ch & programme as you Suggest. I hope that you will prosent, it ia the burgest possible way to the proper commiteres of the Congress, *Cordially and Sinoerely postrs,

WOODROW WILSON."

The Hon. Newton D. Baker,

Secretary of Wür.**

Mr. Baker's Ptter to the President,

while not made public, sets teeth the desire of the War Department for the resignation of aeroplanes and hydro- aeroplanes iumediarely, and the training -ní a crops of Hiers to be synt abroad. The aj sehena, il 'is anderstood, provides for the building a thirty thousand muchizes doring the rotning year, all of a standard · "CONFISCATED GOODS, type, suitable for battle purposes.

MONDAY,

the 13th August, 1917, at 11 am, at the Central Police Station, CONDEMNED AND

Aud

SUNDRY QOLD AND "

Terms :-Casiz

SILVER JEWELLERY

HUGHES & HOUGH,"

Auctioneer's Hongkong. August 8, 1017,

FOR

SALE.

S02)

THE Undorsigned hard recuired instruc-

tors to sell

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNRY),

ONE

at their Bales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

16 BORE HAMMERLESS GUN

BY

BLAND

In Good Condition.

Terms - usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers Bongkong July 21, 1917

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Mr Baker's understanding of importance of building a great deet of aircraft is sunäed-up in the following "paragragle-of-w-statement he issued

"A few thousand trained aviators with the harbines for their use may spell the difference between victory and defeat The supremacy of the air in mstern warfare is essential to & Necess. ful rang.

Ameries must make sure that the Allies and not Germany secure the permanent domicätion of the air, and that within the year.".

Congress very soon will take up, the consideration of the programme which has been prepared and it is believed that thers will be little-ficulty in impressing upon the members the importance of building- a great air feet immediately. The senti ment of individual inembers seems to bu that if the war is to be won soon it must 1979 be through the air.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

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Since the Council of National Deforce announced several days ago that ill avail uble factories, including automobile, type writer and similar concern, would be asked to make parts for scraplanes and hydro-airplanes, many letters have been received insia the heads of those organiza tions expressing willingness to engage in the work. The managers are writing that they will turn their plants over for the macufacture of necessary parts of engines

and of framework for the machine».

Within four months after suthority Is received to go ahead with the programme, the War Department expects to be turn ing out machibes suitable for battic work. In the ineuntiase the seroplane companies already established" will be making air craft for training purposes.

Willy's

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$3,800.

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The Practical and Economical Willys-Knight

You will concede the luxuriousness" and beauty of this motor car without argument: Its practical advantages finally determine its purchase.

The engine has no equal-ho near ap

proach in any similar car selling for so mod.

erate a price.

It is a Willys-Knight sleeve-valve engine -the only engine known that does its best work in its old age-the only engine "that actually improves with use.

Carbon pulls down an ordinary engine- it builds up the Willys-Knight.

Instead of a destructive element carbon

is the reconstructing life which makes the

the 'long distances that seaplanes must traverse considerable size and power are required.

3. The British torpedoplaces which oak four Turkish ships in the Sea of Marmora in August, 1915, were of con- siderable size and power. The German torpedoplaner which sank the British steaner Ceon of the cost of England May 1, 1917, were also ut enusiderable

size and power:

4. That sucess of this sitack will without doubt encourage the Germans to develop the torpedoplane.

The German Naval General Staff realize the value of concentration of power and mobility in as large units us possible.

A

46. The "torpedoplane embodies. A call will he issued for volunteers as aviatore and several training camps will greater concentration of power and ma- be established in various sections of the ability than doey uns other mechanism. country for the work New York For it cost the torpedopluze is the most

BE Undersigned having been appointed Aars for the DOWIR HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quote Herald. prices for best quality SILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Rankers at SEBAT TIK or SANDAKAN . (British Korth Borneo

BILIMPOPON CDA erempires favour. ably with the better grades of Japane Coal and gives good results on a very moderate consumption

Steamers calling at SRBATTIK, or BANDAKAN fairely for BILIMPO FON COAL (either orgn or Bankers) charges.

AIRCRAFT TO COMBAT SUBMARINES,

"ADMTIAL. «VINKE'S KEQUESTIONK,

Hear Admiral Bradley A-Fike, C.B.V., retired, has address the following further

powerful and mobile weapon which exists at the present day.

Willys-Knight engine more efficient after thousands of miles of use than when new.

Almost without exception, the leading European manufacturers of motor cars have selected the Knight type engine.

And the Willys-Overland Company, be- cause of its enormous manufacturing facilities, is able to put the Willys-Knight motor car on the market at a price far below that of. any other Knight "motored" car.

Yet the engine is the Knight type, used in all the leading European cars. It is sturdy, quiet, smooth-running, efficient.

Let us demonstrate the advantages of the Willys-Knight. Call on us today.

Four Cylinder, sever passenger Touring car Four Cylinder, four passenger, Coupe Four Cylinder, azsan peissenger Touring Sedan Four Cylinder, seven passenger Limousine Eight Cylinder, seven passenger Touring car

C. LAURITSEN, DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.

The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Unio, U. S. A. Maruiacturers of Willys-Knight and Overland Motor Care and Light Lorries:

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"I beg leave to recommend that the Aero Clab bring this matter to the atten. tion of the proper persons. I need not say that the means I anggest should be merely additional fd all other means, a used and proposed.

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WANTED.

DICKSHAW, second hand.

quoting price, to

Box

No. 999. COCHINA MAIL" Office," Hongkong, August 9, 1017. BOSE

WANTED;

(Signed) B. A. FISKE, **Rear-Admiral.U.S. Navy retireti.!* The Executive Committee resolved to make known the facts contained in Ad- mira, a she's let up to the Council of ENGINEER BRITISH, S, WORKK National Delenes, the Aircraft Production FOREMAN Applications with hard, the Chairman of the Committees copy of Beferences, in own writing. on Military and Naval Affairs of the stating age experience and alery Senate and House of Representatives and required. No other applications non-

sidered the general public through the Press

W.S. BAILEY & CO., LTD. Hongking, August 6, 1917. -WOLL

raids on naval vessels, however, the strategical advantage lies with the Allies, because their control of the deep parta of the North Sea ishles them to estab. lish a temporary aeronastical bline of mother ships suffgiently close to the Ger man feet to enable the British to launch a torpedopiane attack from it on the German fleats in Kiel and Wilhelm haven, while the 'Gerinsus could wint possibly establish, an aeronauticnl base sufficiently close to the British flect. This gives the Allies the great advantage. at the offensive. It would seem possible, provided a distincs effort is made, for the Allie to send's large number of sero. plane mother ships to a point may filty miles west of Heligoland, and for a large force of fighting scroplanes and torpedo the curious case of a young German planes to start from this place about two

woman who sought to consines a conta hours before dawn, reach Kiel Bay end of law that she was not pretty Wilhelmshaven about dawn, attuck the The case was that of the seventeen German feets there and sink the German ships. The distance from Heligoland to Kiel is about ninety land miles and to Wilhelmshaven about forty-five.

BEAUTY AND THE LAW,

The Munich Nachrichten

reports

year-old governess. Marie Harvicz, who brought claim for £400 against the stato Railway as compensation for low of beauty, and consequently dimmisled eligibility for marriage, together with course, the attack would be re-claims for another. 1400 is aakgement alsted by German deroplane, and fight of suffering and grief."

Marie based her claim, on injuries wi ing would be needed, but no way up to tained to her jaw and face, through com **B. An uttack, by ailed torpedeplaces the present time has been decided excepting in violent contact with the door of a armed with guns to defend themselven by fighting and is the present case the railway compartment which sudden y

7. An attack by a large number of German terpedeplanus, armed with guis to defend themselves from fighting ger planey, would be a powerful menace to the British fleet,

known and registered in the Land Office are exempt from payment of all Port letter to Alan R. Hawley, president from fighting semplanes, would be Allies, now that the United States his closed on beras result she had lost

SECTION A OF MARINE LOT NO. 101 and BECTION "B" OF MARINE LOT NO. 101 Together with the messuages erections and buildings

thereon "known as Not 7. Queen's Road

Central, Victoria aforesaid, Term 999

At Rebetik Stexmers are furthed long-

tlie Aero Club

side the Company's wharf where there is a My Dear Mr. HAWLEY-Referring in depth of 37 to 25 foot at low to my letter to you of April 16, 1917, in water Spring Tides, 2

bour, Price and all other information large unit of aeroplanes with trained Charts of Sibuka-Bay (Sehattik Rat which I suggestor sending to Europe

ferring also to the favourable iúdome.

powerful menace to the German feet, and

it made in suficient, numbers would give

the Allies such unrestricted command of

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near the German cost, that Geertan sub- the North Sea, eren of the shallow parts

joined them, would unquestionably put

into the battle. an overwhelming number of seroplanes

besides sustaining much, several teeth, bes injuries to her face as to deprive her of her former claim to beauty,

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years created by s. Crown Lease dated concerning the Port can be. “had on aviators and appropriate armament, woods would to prevented from com the Confederate fron eisd Merrimac, at Fraulein Harvicz domopen to the amount'!

the 8th day of April 1858. *.

.... „Ares in respect of Section “A” %£ Merino Lot No. 101-84-15 sq. ft Proportion of Annual Crown Rent

ft

Area in respect of Section "B" of Barine Lot No. 101-675 Proportion of Annual Crown Bent 36.75. For further particulars and echditions

of als apply tom.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

Prince's Buildings, Ice House Street, Hongkong. Solicitoto for the Lionidator of THE DEUTSON STATISCHE BANK.

MOTE RUGBES and HOUGRI

The Auctioneers.

application to the Agesta

turized

After an hour's consultation, and a beg leave to also call your atten minute inspection of the claimant's face tion to the fact that

and teeth by three expert connoisseurs. (a), The successful attacks made by of finale, beauty, the court awarded out from German parts, the submarine. Harapton Roads initiated a menace of £6, to be paid her by the State Rail menace would be abolished And all the United States that caused terror way until her eventual wedding day

of £400, together with a monthly stipend hauce of German success wiped out.",

her marriage would in itself nullify the

through the North

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I beg leave alko to say that an in National Defence, whieli proposes aizspection of the map of Europe shows that

in air mids over the land the lar acting on a very large scale, I beg EN have to submit to your attention the advantage, lies with Germany, because appeared the Marrimae could have pre- The meaning of banken las of THE WEEKLY EDITION OF THE ber most important towns, like Berlin, vented the bockade of the Southerntained some antice since the entry of

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1. By far the most immediate ant lowes' of the Allies, like London's

are further inland than the most import const, and therefore the collaper of the Ameries into the war, Kine suggestion alarnung danger in the present situation

that oroplanes of the Allies in understa is the mence to the food, supply of Eng

reach Berlin, would have to fly over Joud and France, that is caused by the

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