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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1917.

Hughes & Hough

AOTIONKERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Auctioneers „Unars, Coa) and General Prodnos

Brokers and Commission.

PROPRIETOR.

Coden med Bentley's

4.2. 4th & 6th Editions.

Telographie Coda.

Telegraphia Addres

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HONGKONG,

PUBLIC AUCTION,

Undersigned have received in- THE sall by Fablic auction PROB LOCOURT OF THE CONCERNKO),

on

TUESDAY,

the 11th December, 1917, commencing ai 130 p.m., at their Bales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Cornar of Ica. Hoσ STEKKI, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD, AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, "FICTURES, ko, do,

As follows; Upholstered Suites, Ana-chairs and Chesterfield Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom

INTIMATIONS

BANK HOLIDAY,

TN accordance with Ordinance No.

of 1919 the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Traction of Pustao Bestress on SATURDAY, the 8th instans. [Hongkong, Dec. 5, 1917.

BRITAIN'S COAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

pictures within thự” scope of praštišality:

"Soch ardi few of the fascinating pros bians which The Fuel Research Board bas GRELTEST PROBLEM-IN, MODERN |úst itself to resolvec, To work them; out

INDUSTRY,

DIFFICULTIES TO BE SOLVED.

thoroughly it has decided to er tilfunk frsenich station on the mud or the Eart

• STICKING ITAL

THE GERMAN CIVILIAN'S FINE

FIGHT.

INTIMATIONS

GRAND

Greenwich. Gas Works, which company Mr. Frederis William Wile, formerly BOXING TOURNAMENT

has agreed to take over at markat prices the surplus products, gus, tar, oils and coke resulting from the operations at the station

A COAL CIVILISATSKIN.

Barlin corrispondent of the Daily Mail', writ-Cermany, according to Mr. Ten years hance goba scattle of coat

Gerard, has 1,000,000 men under arms on 1351 ) will be burned in any Eritish household.”

"land "ami sea and in the air. Do people | 13 is with this conâdent prophecy that a

In Great Britain redne sufficiently that The station itself will be equipped with :contributer to the current number of

railway siding, an unloading platform the German army and navy are still able Sperling's Journal opens a wide and on which to sample, weigh and break to affor prodigious resistance to threa interesting array of the coal question. or screen the coal, a retort house for quarters of the world primarily, because The Quel Research Board, whose report testing the various eras of carbonising the German civilian army of 60,000,000 is just published, is not quite so positivepparatus, & condenser and to souls is itself putting up a ght without house, s. gas producer house, x-itsam, boiler house, a briquetting house, tar and

KOWLOON CANTON BAILWAY. (Batman "SECTION).

Tis hereby notified that NO TIFFINS will be served on the 1.23 p.m. Train from Kowloon Saturdays the 8th

By Order,

and 18th December.

Be all that. But under the guidance of Siz tieorge Beilby it is clearly feeling its way towards a resolution in our use of 2381 cut, ways a curvapendent of the rally

Chronicle.

HAP. WINSLOW,

Manager."

"Kowloon, Dec. 5, 1917.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that wa bave This Day REMOVED our Ofice to the Second Floor of No QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

BRUNNER, MOND & Co., Lza. Bangrong, Dec. 4, ̧1917.'

$380

NOTICE.

bes to announce that we have This Day REMOVED our OFFICE to the 3rd door of Queen's Building, No. 3, Ice House Street.

VULCAN STEEL PRODUCTS (6.

of New York,

A. L BOUET, Manager for Chins.

1180

Hangkong, Dec. 6, 1917.

NOTICE.

..

WE have This Day appointed Mr. SON CASTRO Manager of our busi

HENRY ARMAND HENRICK.

to sign our Finn Name per proceration Dated this 1st day of December, 1917.

CARVALHO & COMPANY..

$359.

The popular view of cool is that it is nething to be burned. The scientific view izay soot ba precisely the opposite

amely, that coal is too valuable to be burned; that to burn it is to squander it, that the by products of coal are of greater moment than the cost itself, and that bot until these by-products have been extracted should the, residuum be used for industrial

parallel in history?

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE POLICE RESERVE AT THE CITY HALL, ON MONDAY, 10th DECEMBER, Commencing 9.15 p.m. Sharp.

Under the distinguished patronage of HE. Hon. Mr Claud Severn, C.M.G.. Officer Administering the Government, HE. Major General Ventris 6.0 C. Commodore

K.C., Chief Justice, and H. H. the Puisne Judge (Mr. Gompertz), H. G. G. Sandeman, R,N, HH Sir William Rees Davies,

}

I do not suppose that that is a popular theory to ventilate hereabouts. But it is LS. H. ATKINSON, R.N. the unescapable truth bevertheless.. The main reason why we have not besten Germany is this at the back of her soldiers and sailors and airmen is a "home

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STO, BARCUAT,: GROUND LIGHTWEIGHT CONTEST

stills and condensers & gas furnace house, and the necessary laburatorias. offices and workshops, Obviously, to begin with, it will not cover the whole area of research that is opened up by the coal question. But it will systematically tackle the chief technical problema involved in the most efficient preparation and one of coal: it will do wo is cloney which despite increasing hardship co-operation with the ineowners and sad pitiless privations, zereals a tenacity metallurgical institutes throughout the of determinarice that is nothing short CPL STUBBS, Malas. Reg

Tauperhuman. It obeys the moti |

country.

Germany-"Stick it" (Durchhalten !).

CH. STO, LEE, R.N.

@ ROUND RANTAM-WEIGHT CONTEST ---

8 ROUND BANTAM-WEIGHT CONTEST:

STO, JAMES A.N,

PTE. ROLFK, Mdina Reg.

SPR. LEWIV, R.I

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My optimistic friends profess to bolipre that however good an account of tall. B. DONNAHUE, R.N. German capacity for suffering has given.

REFEREE

TILE KEEPERS

"So that at last, and on board and well-which is now everywhere supremis in STO, WELSH, R.N. considered lines, we are treating coal as a matter of national moment, and rally. domestle purposes.ing science to the elucidation of its pro

parties and uses, The wonder is that we What are these by-products? To

have never done so before. For ours is caumerate them all and to show how in one form or other coal perineates our daily life would be a well-nigh hopeless undertaking. Apart from heat, light and power a whole host of lesser trades depend

emphatically a cond civilisation. Every thing that Great Britain is in the world of commerce and industry she owex to her coal. It supports the whole edifice of our material prosperity.

is not inexhaustible. They have pez. suaded themselves, indoed that, Germany is breaking up" or is about to do so. For three years end, two months I hara been restlessly on the look out for satis factory evidence of German defeat from Cont is the maker of modern England. within; and I am bound to asy that I on coal for their raw material. Practi-and those who discovered and developed find it quite an undiscoverable to-day as the methods of working it have done more svar. I believe that Mr. Lloyd George's cally all our dyes and a bewildering.

to determine the form of British society lang sighted admenition in the spring of variety of oils, druga and the ingredients and the bent of British activities than all 1913 that the Allien had more to fear from. of high explosives come from coal tar the Parliaments of the past hundred and Germany's potato bread spirit "than alear. Benzine, toluene, picric acid, twenty years. Without coal it is doubt-from Hindenburg's strategy cover had carbolic acid, pamallin and naphthalene,ful whether we could maintain even a more ominous significance thun at this third of our present population. Had it not been for coal and the discovery, pé land of to-day might have bean scarcely distinguishable from the England of the eighteenth century.

pite, athmonium stiphate and phosphate

in bont polish, and in manure these but a fraction of the coal derivatives that are in daily use.

Ee

I have just road Sir Arthur Yapp's talls us that there has act been nearly as much economy all round as is neces

Furniture, comprising Double and Single Brass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner at Rongkong and have authorised him for fertilisers, sout for ww in printing how to use it in smelting iron, the Eng appeal to the nation to save food. Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tos anti Ucensional Tables, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stores, Cutlery, Toilet Seta, &c., Bath Room Utensils, Roll-top Desks and Writing Tables, etc, Sundry Electro Plated Ware.

Electric "Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, Blackwood

[

ALFEED HYNDKAN 43 Wyndham Street Has for sale

PROBLEMS TO BE BOLVED.

sary." It may suggest it. I do not think that the Prime Minister could lend the authority of his name at present to any more saletary movement than an Mort to make the people of these happy- go-lucky islands understand the secret of Germany's ability so far to Have off

Furniture, including Side Tables, din CARBON PAPER $1.00 per dozen | wixth " was coked in such a way as to ducts, and still greater waste in its con defeat.

Engravings, Pictores, &c. &.. Tennis Pales and Net, Iron Safa, &c. .

A few lite Turkish - Bath Sheets, Towels, Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bod Quilla, do

Also

Carpets, Brass Fendors, Fire Brasses &!!!

Four PIANOS. And

fow lots

A large collection of South Sex Island Weapons, Idols, etc. i

(Full Particulars .from Catalogue,); "- T-Cook.

HUGHES & HOUGĖ, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Dec. 5, 1917.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

2363

BE Undersigned have received instruc-

tions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

THURSDAY,

the 13th December, 1917, at 1,30 p.m.,

at their Salon Booms, No. 8, 5

Dos Vorax Road, Corner of

Jon Kovax STREET,

AN ABO«IKEST OF

GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERT,

Etc. Etc Comprising:-

18-Kt Gold Watches by well-known anakers, Gold" Albert and Feb Chains, Charms, Broaches, Earrings, Bracelets, etc., Diamond, Pearl, Sapphire and Jadestone Rings Scarf Pins, Links, Studs, etc, etc."

À NUMBER ̊C Lots or DAHASCENE JEWELLERY,

Comprising::—

Cigarette and Card Caare, Pins, Links, Bracelets, Bangles, etc, etc. Terms: Cash,

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Auntionser

Hongkong, Dec. 5, 1917..

2384

PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undervigned have received in- structions to sell by Pubhe Auction. [FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNE")},

on.

FRIDAY,

the 14th December, 1917, commencing at 2.20 p.m., at their Sale Rooms, No. 8. Des Vreux Road, Corner of

Ice Hones Stroot,

A QUANTITY OF

HOUSEHOLD. FURNITURE,

Comprising

Teak Twin Fedstendis, Sideboards, Dinner Waggon, Extension Dining Table and Chairs Chesterfield Sofas, Arm chairs, de, Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Cota, Miscellaneous Furniture Pictures,

Hall-top Desks, Blackwood Ware includ ing Cinets, Wardentes, Stands, d Brass Fenders, and Fire Frisses, a for Je Purcelains and Curigs c.. Pantry d Kitchen Utensils. Electric Lamps, Kanelled Bath Carpets and Rogn, S

(Ful). Particulars from Catalogus). Tores Casil

HUGHES & HOUGH

Auctioneers Parkong“ Dec 6, 1917.

sheets RIBBONS at $1.80 each.

TINDERTAKES to clean and repair Typowriters at 812.00 per machine

per annum.

address.

Hongkong Nov. 7, 1917

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PRIVATION AND DEPRIVATION

Yet we have allowed is to develop in ́any form that private interests' might "Now, "before" "the" "www sous fivesișths from time to time and profitable. This of our cool was used directlyy that is, result is that there is waste in getting without any effort being made to concdal, waste in distributing it, waste in the serve the by-products Less than one. failure to make the most of its by pro

Caumption. If the Fuel Research Board ern ehqir es how these sources of waste

sa be dammed and how our most pre-that our soldiers can, and do master the We are told-and we sincerely taliovo

cious, autost, indeed, our only, mas material, should be most efficiently used. The are told that the Navy by Devinesun Germans every time they come to grips. it will prepare the way for another huge industrial advance such as these islands takes boat warfare lying down Wo have not known for a century and a half.this very week that London is not quite. have beco sured by developmentà” of

helpless against German die attacks. We have had dinted into our ears time" and fogain, and we know it is true that in money, munitions, and every conceivable

preserve the volatile matters. The Fuel Research" Beard has therefore two main tasks before it. The first is to survey ned classify by chemical and physical

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For particulare apply to the above texts in the laboratory the coal seams throughout the kingdon The second is to investigate the practical problems which must be solved, if any large proportion of the raw cual at present- burned in its natural state is to be replaced by the various forms of fue! SPIES IN AMERICA WHO HELPED resource of war the sinows at the disposat

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obtainable from coal by carbonisation and gasification procesos.

These practical problems resolve them- selves into two categories(1) Can

TAMEDIATE ENTRY,” Lone THEY House Birget, opposite the Grand Hotel, devised for carbonising coal at low tom

estable SHOPS situated in Iosomics! and efficient apparatus be recently reconstructed.

(2) Assuming that it can,

For rent and other particulars apply peratures ? to the Manager, Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd.

48 Connaught Road Central

Bongkong, August 2, 1917.

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the subject of an

Germany's desperate need for gold is dispatch from Washington

of the Allies are incomparably greater than those which Germany corimanda.

But we need i thoroughgoing campaigo of education, it seems to me, as to the

was, we civilian army is employing. The grim Beuters and tactics which the, German now learn, the activity of German agents fact is that, compared with the struggle. in the United and in "nedtral which German civilians are making, come, to obtains on America

ted paper

will it be possible to dispos of the bygold that was largely responsible for the British civiliars do not know the meaning recept proclamation placing gold on the of the word privation. The word they list of commodities

of commodities requiring,

g, export know is deprivation of superfinities. For instance, the Navy stands ready to an enormously inflated

license.

Life in these islands, measured by the take all the fuel-oil that could be pro-currency and, with a gold (reserve that j'andards which have prevailed in 'Gar. I duced by the carbonisation of ters of babeen dinding steadily since the many for at least two years, le luxury. millions of toas of cast por sunum. But war began, the femand of the German Ibrought to be the ambition of a people Government for gold has reached pro-which counts, common sense one of its to obtain one million tons of fuel-oil it is portions where unheard of methods dominant virtues to study how a have been adopted to nation of 60,000,000 souls has solved necesary to carbonise 20:000,000 tons of apparently

replenish the stores. coul. The coke produced thereby 'would,

One report reaching officials at Wash the art of bearing Leart-breaking

and that German submarines in the privations

steel its own amount to 15,000,000 tons. How couldington

arta around Great Britain were Instruct heart to emulate 16. I wo look to this vast quantity of core be disposed of?ed to remove precious metals route the unsung deeds that are being perform." For direct firing of steam boilers? By from the United States to neutral Euro-

bring

to

being used in producers for the upean countries, torpedo the vessels, and ed, day in and day out, in Gerrian homes. factura of fuel ? By being used for other the Roin to their bases. An at the outset, of a fourth winter of war,

other plug for obtaining part o

part of the we shall prove the mystery of why our

industrial and domestic heating either directly, as it comes from the retorts, or after its conversion into briquetten? All of these questions have to be settled before the economic value of carbonising coul can be determined.

4.

We use every year some 36,000,000 tous of raw coal for domestic heating Should we not do better to burn soft and smokeless coke, and, if so, what type of stove, grate, or furnace would be best adapted for that purpose? The use of town gus as an industrial fuel is another side-issue of scarcely less importance. Pictures have been drawn of an England

carbonising the bulk, of its coni in order energy as cheaply and as aniversaly as it is now supplied with water." Are such

store of gold which has accumulat savagely efficient toe is still unbeaten. ed in America since the war began, said to have been regarded with much favour by the German agents, is the exporte tion of gold to neutrals, ostensibly to settle commercial transactions, but in STRENGTH IS WHAT YOU frms operating in neutral countries. reality to estabash, credit for German

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more than 300 per cent in marty

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