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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 -1817.

Hughes & Hough

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DARTICULARS and Conditions of the latting by Public Auction Bala, to be held on MONDAY, the 1st day of Share, Goal and General Produce October, 1917, at S p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governer, of Dua Lot of CROWN LAND Nathan Road, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a. term of 75 years, with the option of renewal aba Crown Rent.to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 75 yearne

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MONDAY,

the 1st October, 1917, at 10.43 an..... at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

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on

SATURDAY,

HUGHES & BOUGH, the th September, 1917, at 10.30a.m.,

Bt their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Hoogkang. Sept. 91, 1017.

Des Vaux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

2199

„PUBLIC AUCTION,

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

MONDAY,

the 1st October, 1917, at 10.45 ..,

at their Sale Rooms, No.

Des Voeux Road, Corner.of.

Tez Horse STREET, The following SUNDRY GOODS: 100 long handled Wood Axes,

150 Pick Axe Heads,

Three Leather Machinery Belts.

100 Dry Cell Batteries.

33 doz. Mouth, Orgains, Calvanized Piping Shackles, Wire, Fadlocks, Whistles.

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42. Alm

A large quantity of Enamelled Cooking Uteruila,

And

8 complete Telephones, together with China Insulators, Cross Arma, and 2 rolls of Wire.

TEMS ---Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctiomásra..

Hoogkocx, Sept. 21, 1917, 0126

PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received in-

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCEANED).

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TUESDAY,"

THE CHINA MAIL.

AFTER THREE YEARS OF you have imposed you will upon Tie never loven his head or geta furried. him; you have conquered his resistance. He appears to be without care in the

ARMAGEDDON.

GENERAL, STH WILLIAM ROBERT.

SON ON THE WAR.

The following interview with General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General staff, appears in the

New York Time" "

From the soldier's polar of slow." asked him," how goes the war?!

If he had said. “ It goes well." I should have thought I had stumbled by accident

TEK: GUNS ARE SPRAKINAN

But it is too early yet to say that you canson destroy bin defensiva in the feid, while his civilian wit is yet stubborn. Wa on our side, as any rate, don't SAY. that.

**Military writers in Germany nay say soy, but our men in France, od laying down the lair on the subjers, would say It is too early yet for such a dogmatism. Lek us wait's few weeks. The guns are speaking how. Iet them go on speaking. And let remember while we wait that

on Marshal Rindenburg. If he had pro-whether vast armies can be conquered tested an overwhelming taith in the future in the field as they were conquered I should have thought appolitician Riel years ago, the will of nations can be stolen the khaki of "England's Man of broken by hopelessness und despair. 1. the army does not crack, the nation

Ira,

He said, “That's so big a question that behind it may "crack, Someone has got I should like it'in detail”

This he said with no

portenties.

world and USA

the enormous main of his office,

I asked him how he managed to xtam)

He replied: It is a soldier's duty, to: keep fit." AND

.** But how do you keep ft in Landon ?*'

** I generally ride twice a day si somi“. times I get a game of golf; and, thanks to the kindness of the Archbishop of Canter bary, I er go whenever I like and play tennis at Lambeth Palace. This helps He pointed to this big table, on which me. And then, I keep a clear table,

there was not a single document. That is a great secret of health a clear table. I don't let things accumulate. You see Fam served by a splendid staff. We'v got the General Stad into working order this site dnes 10. We've got it now. now. We've been trying to get it into

It is a gret General Staff. And I believe the General Staff is very largely what it is because we alt feel it a part of our duty, soldier kasus it's a part of his training. a part of our morality, to keep kl. A

that he esaret do his duty as he ought to do is sales He's physically ft.

give way in this conffiet hoe wide for other there must be subecision. And but with a whimsical a mile as you when you stop to consider the nurabers could wish, waiting for me to speak. The } agil 'resources of each side you may hairly lowes it to the men whose lires are in his

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characteristically English. The

He

hands that he should have a sound mind'

dark eyes, under their thick eyebrows chale that if the paticns of the Allies in a sound body.. I sqmetime's think that,

which are as black as night, have the flashing god hungur of a schoolboy, There's so sequt in his face: nothing but intelligence and good hummur, He stands with feet wide, apart, firm plasted, 'a middlewari, thicket, stubborn and temacions person, hasky of snice, hard as nails, with a bright eyela chin of fron, and a forehead that has the fisk of zoek. He has those mine Hourishes of aner which are second nature to every envalryman: but his instinets are s sound, his soldiership, is an entirely intel, A LARGE CONGJUNMENT OF

lectual und bis wit in ser quick and human DRUGS, CHEMICALS,

and god-tempered, thus he DISINFECTANTS, ANTISEPTICSgzer is completely us he esumpos a AND HOSPITAL SUNDRIES, department of gravity. He gives you the

Consisting of :- QUININE in bulk and tabloid form, kocked off his feer by a sudden Blow.

man who could never be Baban Fert Oleum Eicini, Oleum Olivec, Styx liq. Ung. Acid Boric, Here the English Moltke, the Ung. Hydrarg, Ciner, Ung. Zinci, Icdo-organiser of victory, the director of five form, Formaldehyde. Lanolin, Acid six seus campaigns scattered at Carbol. Par, Liq. Alumni. Acet. Tinet over the world, the man who has taken Myrrh, Tinet Opium, Gelatin Capsules Keene's place, the man who fed the Chloroform, Aether, Spt Camphor, and a few grows of Medicine Bottles, &e, &c. British Army on the historie retrout from

Mons, the man in whom Britain places its supreme military confidence man who never strikes an attitude, Bever indulges in rhetoric, never gets into a fuss, never maks to be placed 'saywhere!

..And...

Anumber of Tubes of Hypodermic Injections of Morphia, Cocaine, &c, &c, and about 200 Tubes of Salvarau

diss

Several cases of medicated Cotton Wool, Bandages, Iodoform Gauze, &c, &c., &c.

N.B-Several nes of the above drugs are now practically unobtainable owing to the War.

Catalogues will be issuert

Un view from Friday the 28th inst Terma --Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGE.

Auctioneers Hongkong, Sept. 10, 1917.

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feeling a

A SOLDIER'S ANSWER

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studlust, is the civilian heart is sondd, submission must come, sooner or later, from dus Central Powers. Tie austerial odds are on our side at last. Bat quality is going to win this war. Character will decide it.**

"It is quite tafural far the Gerindas,“

statesmen and men of business might learn from the soldier in this respect.

A MESSAGE TO AERICA. We spoke of Lord Kitchener's prophecy about the duration of the war.

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He knew tha

Kitchener," he said, had a met extraordinary instinct in military matters.. The Germans attento despise they never thought things out he seemed value of American interference." I mal: to know them; This faculty of his ***but it your reckoning of tombers and amounted to genies. People who criticise him for mistake" forget that by was resources Amerion more play's prodigies seldom wrong in the big things. Some part. if not decisive paér? **

icfallible instinet guided him in matters of life and death. Elin sarvices to the he replint, to affect that extempt. freedom of the world at the outset of this.

terrible enerunter 'car, fecer The Higher Command know that hexaggerated. He was a genius. And this defensiva, depends open the will of the must be said of him too. escapis

German people. They use, perhaps she could trust his "countrymen--trust flu megh concerned about the breaking of the their geit, their loratry, their goal, sind, wholesome British tut. Kitchener national will behind thera as about the

beliered in the British nation, believed. shattering of their defences in front offin British character. That was his them. They realise that täis eodiet is strength.“ a struggle of cazinoul thaastigs. "They **America's entry into the war woukl hope to hold us of till the will of our people breaks, till the French people, orexinkle, he wouldn't have said that is Well," said Sir William, with a the Italian people, or the British people was an advantage to the other side." row tired, That is their only hope. They have no other, And their st urgent anxiety is that clay will at their own people should not break first."

What is your own. hope," E aşked. " from the interference of America 2

To begin with." he said, it is

have heartened him, wouldg 't it?"

**What is your message to America ? ** **Mine?"

Let me send a ward frong you to the States at the end of three years" fighting"

You dotter me."

"files there a word of cousse, after three years of experience.""

If I may presume to do that," he near the limelight, but who sets things untien af a hundred million people. That answered, would simply say this quietly and thoroughly, done,

Gentlemen of the United States, put your is something. Then it is a partion of verg

backs into it. But I cannot think of rezarkable energy. Antiers are veryAmerica not putting her back into any I particularised my question, quoting quick in the uptake, they are, inventive. thing she takes up with a will. We wha Colonel Guľke and Major Moralt. Is the they are resoureful, they are immensaly ure 6ghting, now are in the grim business { défensive in mindern warfare so stmng cottageous. But more time this. It is to our houghs; we've stuck together that it is hopeless to look for a military aration of moral idealism: sane, preti.through but days: we're more closely noited now than ever we were: we're decision? Muss put the armed struggle} cal.. hard-lizoded, yes, but with the fire undrasted, and we're confident.' 'With end in a draw. Why go on any longer it of moral idealisuri in ita" blond And Acierica coming, all of au feel that our in the epithe contention úrust bet settled | has been fiteriily driven into this, war. I task will zot tikë so long. Pence, will by diplomacy?

has not come wuhtenly. It is res inspireretira to the earth, the Peace of free Sir William replied:" You ask for 6 | by buse motive. It is a ratio in which by a day she will earn the gratitude of |1ople. If America hostens that Peace oldier's answer to those questions." Cesarism has never struck its roots. No history. The world must be made-safe

cation in the world is less militaristic for Demerney."

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I interpted him to say that the world

the 2nd October, 1917, commencing WELL Farnished ROOM with partial would wikome the frunk and hotest When such a nation ranges itself. on the

board from Cctober 1st

2.30 p.m., at their Sales Booms, No. 8, the upper levels or the reale one of statement of a soldier because it felt that

Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Stat

VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND

BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, BRASS BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, FICTURES,

&

As follows:- Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Eedroom Furni- ture, comprising Double and Single Brass-mounted Bedsteads and Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Tollet, Sets, &c., Bath Boom-Utensila, Roll-top Desks and Writing Tables, Sundry Electro-Pinted

Ware, etc."-

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Electric Beading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Bareena, Sundry Black- wood Furniture, inclnding Large S-Fold Blackwood Screen with 3-Coloured. Panels, Engravings, Pictures, etc, etc., Teunis Poles and Netting.

Turkish Bath Sheets, Towels, Singla and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quilts, etc., Out Largo Ball Clock." PIANO by Collard & Collard.

Shiedmayer & Soeline,

Stuttgart. One Pair Old Pekinese Brass Lions.

(Full Particulars from Catalogne.)

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HUGHES & BORiga.

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Sept. 28, 1917.

PUBLIC AUCTION

2142

THE Undersigned bave received in-

Reply to-

A.E.N. C/O CHA MAIL' Once. Hongkong, Sept. 24, 1917,

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the politicines' opportunities to be truth ful weft cruewhat circumscribed. We

side of demeziatic Powers which are hammering an autocratic infliturismi in vain, and which are: abmifitely determined

all know." I said, "what the varions to go on, hanering outil the world really statesins of the various nations have is safe for demores, why, the end is been saying for three sears: what we certain."

OFFICE ASSISTANT, Portuguese, should like to know is what an honest

with good knowledge of English Apply in own handwriting.

Box No. 188.

Co CHINA MALL' Office. Hongkong, Sept. 18, 1917.

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soldier thinks at the end of three years of slaughter. What is the military truti: of the matter?›

-To begin with." he said, no oldier

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THE DECISING FACTORS,

"You are confident of the end?

THOUGHTS AT FORTY. In the care of his health a man, it has at 40. For the average man it should been said, is either a fol or a physician not be difficult to be healthy and in his prime at that age.

Abort enurse of Dr. we begin tadeil

With the wenker sex the essa different, for this age is liable to bring with it anxieties and health trials; nevertheless, many women suffer more Who could dupht it and live? Hot Ithan they need. still say that the righteousness at the

be Actually, whether the individual man or women, if the ailments arise from kember eunor decide this titanic centienomis nervousness, indigestion, or

It is the fibre, the stuff, the grit the fickle health connected with answer that question.

Elty For this

nerve of the civilian people which will blood-supply, the remedy is new hlor reason. The war is a struggle of nations: ride it. And he sure of this: the side So, if blood troubles have smiled you. The soldier can speak with a certain which lasts longest, the side which if your nerves are weak, if you lack OUNG MAN with experience as annunt of definiteness about urinies, but endures, is the side which will give instamma, and your health is not what it xhould be, you can enjoy new health by XTYFIST and. STENOGRAPHER he cannot speak with any definiteness at character to the future of civilisation. The the simple expedient of renewing your required by shipping Firm. State

quality of national fire will decide this blood previous experience and airy required about nations, Take the cruse af

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war, and decide, the future of the world. To renew your bloot "Box 450.

asia. The paychology of the nation. Do art let us under-rate the Germans

pink pills. CoCH Man" Office.

hit the discipline of its army, is con.because their cause is bad, because they which they asks Howa

for pale weople; then as the new blood Amekong, August'1; 1917.

through your cerned. And on with all of us. In 1970 am guilty of provoking, the war, and veins you will gain fresh energies, new you could speak of the French Army and because their material resources are less strongib, keen appetite, and fall the German Army. Now you must speak. The whole German nation is rigorous health. If man, you will

know the as disciplined as an army. It is the woman, you will be gratified with your it is to be strong if a joy of the French nation and the German army." The Germans bays. Jiscipline in bright, womanly health. untion. You have got to deal with the their blood. Discipline fine-drawn to the psychology of peoples. "The armies in the thiness of decility is a bad thing in psuce, making for akrishness. burit field are, only a part of this tremendous provides a people with certain advantages enflict. Behind them is the nerve of in war, Germany in streak, because su each separate nation they represent. is undemocratie; and she is undemocratic Suppose we must conclude that no army because she has been drilled in, an iron

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TUESDAY,

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Ice House Street, 120 ALARGE CONSIGNMENT OF VALUABLE POSTAGE STANDS

including many rare varieti Ust. Liguor will be issued."

De view from Monday the ethetober" Terms: Cash? 15.

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is the same thing to be supposed of the hand of a king Terrible as this disipline

nation bebind the army? Surely we see is and formidle there iscipline

on this tremendous contest much more

It'is'

there a role of armed from 1 to sifting of nations. It is trial of character. It ja a test of racial quality

more formidable still. I mean the welfa

imposed, self-accepted discipline de people. What could be more mumificent

the spretsels which America, now presents to mankind. She has liberty in The workmen and workwomen of each her boot she loothes despotism, she bution ure engaged in the conflict. The could "uo more bend her pock in the yoke

of an autocrney than she could turn he

forega ja the held arr, only the hands of

broad rivers into puddies and her great. vise body-in-lucu-every muscle lakes into pards; hat look at her dur being strained and tried. Suppose you submitting herself to the discipline of sumpot roll up the Blacks of your enemy's | war, freely, of her own will, for the sake, ariny'r suppose it. Cannot you break his of a moral, ie, mens now as mucli ILLUSTRATIONS, ETC. heart Suppose you can only drive effects will mean to the Baal grip

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