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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1917,

TO LET

TO LET.

Hughes & Hough OFFICES in King qudinga

ADULONYERS TO 'THE GOVERNMENT.

General Auctioneers

Sharo, Coal and General Prodnos Brokers and Commission

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Agusta.

PROPRIETORS

-Wan". Coal Storage.

Codes used Bentley's

4. B. O, 4h à 5th Editions.

A 1 Telegraphic-Coda.

Telegraphic Address

“ MEIRION" KONULONG.

PUBLIO AUCTION.

ISE Undersigned have received instruc

meus to sell by Public Auction,

(POK" ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

*

SATURDAY,

the 17th October, 1917, at 10.45 am,

at their Sales Rooms, No. 3,

Das Vœux Road, Corner of

Ice Euane Street,

MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,

Comprising:-

HOUSES in Morton Terron, and. Broadwood Terrace..

HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., L.

TO LET.

LONDON NEWS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

~·{From. Our Own Corrazpendani.)

THE AMERICAN INVASION.

London has been taken by storm by the fb contingents of the Ameri- can army to lubid on these shores,

pations into a conception of the dangers of auch predominance of curtain custes. · On every hand, aro to be seen signs of the advance di democratic ideals, and after the wor

LONDON, August 20, and right royally have the visitors the full fruition will come in

BOISTEROUS ACQUST.

mesaare that cannot be realised at this juncture..

· HELGIANS FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA.

big scheme of colonisation for Belgians in British Columbin is being prepared, and it it aproapers it will extend also to the adjacent American states of Washington and Oregon.

been received. I saw a big contin Augusb is going out like a lion Rent wach the town on Side and

within an hour they seemed to hav indeed. Corn crops are lying flat and monopolised the taxis and the girl orchards are strewn with a rich waste of London. They, at any rate, can of windfall apples and plums not assert with truth that the Eng choppy succession of sunny periods lish have been distant in responding and rain storms has given way to a to their advances Headquarters 4 BASILEA, Lyttleton Road, raging gale and the signs all point to NRoomed. House With Seeyanda beary addition of rain to be super- imposed on the downpour for the moath that has outchisany

formerly engaged in horticulture on sunilar period, for dampness for sixty for the moment, the bomb-bred and benevolencs. Many of them were overseas brand of warrior, and some

the principles of intensive culture. years. I think it was Byron who: jealousy is discernible over the said the Englah winter ended in feminine interest in the latent import- So the proposal is to offer them Jaly and began again in August.

Quarters.

Apply to

Mera LOWE, 'BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

Chartered Bank Building. Hongkong, August 25, 1917.

L

TO LET

TMMEDIATE ENTRY, four

desirable SHOPS situated in

2067

For rent and other particulars apply

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have been established for them in Holland has a million and a half of

INTIMATIONS

We Save You on Freight.

MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.

IS

the Stmid, and that cosmopolitan very poor Belgians still a burden THE ONLY FIRM

thoroughfare is teeming with them at all bouts. They have rather cut out,

led article.

on the country, and on private

horticultural opportunities in fruit The weatherwise are now predict. The latest arrival, over whom there farms, small mixed farms, fix grow- foeing that we are to have an excep is much official secrecy, is Admiraling homesteads and on beet root House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, tionally bad winter-hence the Mayo, the American Navy chiel. culture. There will be agverul local recently reconstructed.

cheery note on which I begin my General Pershing, their military colonies, each on the co-operative budget of gossip. Three months ago commander-in-chief, is installed in plan, and the general association will the Fresident of the Board of Trade France and already has made his supply the capital for the purchase urged all householders to stock their plans for communications, hospitals of land cellars with coal and thus leave the and so forth, combining his own autumn supplies for the poor. But Potions with the best points of the

British al-French systems.

to the Manager, Hongkong, les Co., Ltd.

48 Connaught Road Central.

Hongkong, August 2, 1077.

A

TO LET

9003

FLAT in Nathan Bond, Eploon-2

Four roomed houses in Kowloon.“ ·

Apply to ¡HUMPARETS ESTATE & FINANCE

* CO., LTD. Alexandra Buildings.

Dress Materials including Blue and Hongkong, August £3, 1917. White Serge (good quality), Printa Holland. White Linen, Drill, Flannel, Flannelette, &c., &c., Counterpanca White Blankets, Handkerchiefs, Boys

White Lace Curtains, dc.

Alxx Sait-Cunes-and-a-few-pairs Gent's

Boots and Shoes.

TM-Cash.

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HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers., Hongkong, Oct. 92, 1915.

2315

PATELL & CO. ORIENTAL PRODUCE

EXPORTERS,

SILK MERCHANTS,

COMMISSION AGENTS.

Agencies in NEW YORK, BAN FRANCISCO, USA.

Branchos

CANTON,

SHANGHAI,

YOKOHAMA,

BOMBAY.

HEAD OFFICE: Kie's BUILDINGS HONGKONG.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

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ORDER

CHERRY" & OC.,

FEDDER STREET, Opponte Hongkong Hotel

alepbons No. 401. -

Bergkong, March 20, 1914.

SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)

COAL:

INTIMATIONS

WANTED.

YOUNG MAN with good experience YOUN

A STENOGRAPHER and TYFIST wanted by Shipping Firm.

Apply

Box 150. C/o “Cuisa Mal,” Office. Hongkong, Oct. 23, 1017.

1887

NEBERG, S

MASSAGE.

MR. HONDA. Trained male Masseur. Ten years experience.- Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital. WILL VISIT PATIENTS" {RESIDENCES IF PREFERRED No. 218, Queen's Road East.

RAMSEY & CO.

TYPEWRITER DEALERS &

REPAIRERS

12. Ice House Street."

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COLD LONDON.

Many overseus warriors have writ- ten to the papers denouncing the n time limit has been fixed for the

reserve and coolness of the English SQUAERLING SOCIALISTS.

people among whom they have bee delivery of coal on such orders and

Wo have a joyful cireus proceeding for months of training and short though this time has now been | extended-io October 15th-the mer

this week-the international confer periods of leave. They dechire that chants declate they are

ence of Socialists to decide whether in spite of the YADC.A. and other so many

organisations, there is nothing for thousands of tons behind the orders they should send delegates to Stock-thorn to do but amuse themselves' holm to discuss with German and with street barpies and the public on their books that they cannot com plete them in the timer

Russian delegates the desirability of houses while their souls are yearning Many

to be admitted to decent houses and As you will farranging peace terms, people say they will be in desperate

talk to people on their own levet in have heard, our own Labour men hospitality and freedom. The answer plight unless they can get their orders first of all resolved to send delegates is, of course, that the reserve of the completed soon, and us the country by a majority of over a millior, after English is not coldness, but shyness, districts are competing with the

ing visitor and home-dueller together. towe for supplies, and munition Assurances from Mr. Arthur Hender and the task is a huge one of bring works are drawing heavily on the pits son that led to his resignation from have seen scores of letters from sub aside for the London supply, the the Cabinet. Then the redoubtable people eager to offer hospitality to Sailors and Firemen's Union got busy these fine follows from the dominions outlook is none too cheerful. The with a counter eonference and re- of organisation and the conventions overseas, but condemning the lack Coal Controller advises people to use duced the majority to a beggarly that stand between them and their gee as much as possible, but this 3,000. Since then it is clear that desires. So strong is this feeling Fidvice has been received with deri-another vote would wipe the majority that there appears a likelihood that sion, for the gas companies are over out altogether. The Government something will be done to meet the burdened with work and cannot have announced that passports will already beer. made to bring" soldiers

need. Some local efforts hav undertake new orders without inde-not be granted, and the seamen into social relationship with decent fuite delays. Last winter was bad announce that no ships shall sail women in clubs and homes and as a enough, and we look forward with with pacifist delegates aboard.. So 'result several English girls are to interest, not unmixed with anxiety, these things may account for the fact marry Australians and go out to their to see whether coal rationing will, that this week's conference has new homes when the war is over.

In spite of the restricted hours for relieve our bousehold cures in the talked a lot-in secret--and appar liquor selling, many men. get too coming cold season."

antly come to no`conclusion-worth much in the limited time at their "mentioning. It is funny, by the disposal, and the potent lubricants way, to observe these advocates of of the metropolis are too much for open diplomacy conducting their dis-many of them. One of them, court- cussion on international affairs behind glosed doors and with every precaution against the public knowing the nature of their deliberations.

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martialled the other day, exclaimed indignantly when, it was suggested that he was drunk on a recent even- ing "All that I had to drink that evening was five gins and vermouth." London gig is, however, a speciality of the town. In the seventeenth century our distillere learned the art the from the Dutch and soon the fame"

The Food Controller also is comp ing in for criticism, for he is relying on local committees for carrying out the rationing of foodstuffs, and the local authorities have promptly appointed committees on which the retail grocers, butchers and others are heavily represented. This has led to

The Belgians gave them a lead, however, by declaring against the a great outery against the pro- fiteers

packing the committees and Stockholm conference, bod safeguarding their own interests to majority of French Socialists took the of the potency of the product of the the detriment of the wires and same line. The Americans, in bar-Thames distilleries rivalled those of the Scheldt. For years it was families of the men who are fighting zoony with the President's dech hawked in the streets and sold like We undertake to store cycles, including It but natural that there saldtion that peace cannot be made with (2800 be this outery, for many trades have the Hohenzollerns, whose pledges are expbited the public shamelessly in worthless, declined to have anything the past three years. For example to do with peace talk. Altogether

KOWLOON BRANCH

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No. 32, Nathan Road.

NEW BICYCLES FOR HIRE.

repairs.

milk, until the scandal grew so great that alcobol corar under State restraint. Fashionable people and dandies used to drink it until, at the close of the French wars, brandy

a small but fingrant example you pacifist ramblings are the amusement came to displace it, and the produc

METALS cannot buy a whole packet of only of the minority rumps of the tion of soda water introduced the

of all kinds, especially for shipbuilding and engineering works. Largest and

best assorted stock in the Colony.

In the

But it is clear from the

natches today. The retailers de- various countries. I am convinced vogue of the B. and S.

came whisky drinking, clare you cannot have more than two that if a general election took place eighties

leased to find in it medicinal qualities small boxes at a time, because they to-morrow the Independent Labour stimulated by the doctors who pro cannot get supplies. Messrs. Bryant Party, led by Ramsay Macdonald that gave excuses to the weakness nud May, the big manufacturers, put and Philip Snowden, would not get of man. SINGON & CO. the onus on the wholesale dealers, one of their condidates elected.testimony of these troubled warriors who are cornering supplies. That Moreover, the real labour men, like of to-day that gin has votaries still outside the circles frequented by firm sell their matches for retail at Will Thorne or Will Crooks, is all washerwomen and monthly nurses. Tid, a dozen but the dealers charge for driving the war to a victorious: He has no illusions the retailers 1/1 and upwards, and conclusion.

(ESTÁBEISHID A.D. 1880)

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in many districts the customer has about the real origin of the conflict to be content with two sinull boxes and, he wastes no time muttering.

at three halfpence each. That is but copy book headings, and moral axis. These things are left for

2 sample of the way the householdera are being fleeced, and yet officia dom is mostly inactive.

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the kid glove Socialists, the men who worked, but have fattened never

pretty well on mischief-inaling and

I went into a tobacconist's shop agitation. Macdonald and Snowden.

yesterday and asked for a box of matches. He said he could only offer me gue sort, and he added that they would not strike. He was no right

As

are representatives of this class. The noisy participation in these

CAN YOU THREAD A NEEDLE

Holding The Thread An Inch From The End 7 Not To Be Able To Do This Is A Sign Of An Over▾ wrought Nervous

Condition

HERE is only one way to correct

conferencen robs the discussions of this. You must reach the case of "the trouble." Just because your Land

he was candid. They looked like any claim to represent the reul voice trembles it does not follow that the of labour. There is a bogus bourgeois trouble lies directly in the nerves of the matches, and they sold as matches, air about the whole proceedings, and hand. The body is full of what is known

ss sympathetic nerves." Many perfo but strike they would not, on the consideration of them tends to ribald box or off it

As the end of this bread will be fired at an lb. loaf, with the

soon

aid of a State subsidy, and mens will be fixed without such aid. Sugar tickets are coming into open. tion in October, jar, marinalade and margarine prices are to be fixed and So we butter also be cat

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laughter,

MAGYAR VERBUS GERMAN

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