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SATURDAY, DEORMBER 8, 1917.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONSZES TO THE GOVERNMENT,

'General Auctioneers Sbers, Coal and General, Produce Brokers and. Commission

Agents.

PROPRIETORS »To-Ewa-Was" Coal Storage.

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(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNJAD),

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TUBSDAY,

the 11th December, 1917, commencing a6230 pm, at their Sales Rogns, No. 6, Des Voeux Road, Corner of

low' HOUSE STREET," VALUABLE TEAKWOOD BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, TWIN BEDSTEADS, CUNTAINS, CARPETS,

AND

PICTURES, &,, de...

As follows Upholstered Suises, Aran-chairs and Chesterfield sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double and Single Brass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Twin Bedsteads, sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, &c.;

INTIMATIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom full information and the necessary forms may be obtained :—

CHARTERED BANE OF INuts,

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

HONGKOND AND SEANORA

BANKING CORPORATION. MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.

War Savings Certificates

Valpe 3 years after purchase.

£500,

4,"

Purchsce Price

£387 10 0 \ 15s, ed.

FREE 'OT INCOME TAX:

THE CHINA MAIL.

SOLDIER CHORUS UNDER

UTASES FIBEL I

· FÜBILIERS ANSWER. TO GERMIN

SHELLS

AN ANGRY GENERAL

TRIED TO RE-WRITE AMERICAN TELEGRAMS.

LOST HIS TEMPER IN THE PROCESS.

An incident which deserves to became bistoric is that of certain: Royal Fusilier who were out in the line of battered Mr. Hugh Gibeon, the First Secretary teenches and shell-bolos along the Broen- of the American Legation in Erumole' at belt, and the enemy was shalling them the time that the Germans, polluted the says The Times Correspondent at Head, pa

town, bas written A Journal from quarters. They had practically no shelter, and the Germans knew the range Legation," which will be only second in of the positions they had recently lost, interest to Mr. Gerard's famous book.

to a yard..

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Here is an extract of the story which Mr.

There was nothing for the Fusiliers to Gibson relates in * Land and Water **ai do but stick it until such time as our one of the preposterous generala who were. own, gons could best down the enemy in charge of Brussels under the German. batteries. Meanwhile it was about as occupation. He tried to cook the officia. heavy shelling sa troops can be called on telegrams sent out by the United States to stand. Then some one among the

Fusiliers started singing, and what he Embassy and to delay their dispatch. sang, was an army version of "In Thane Mr. Gibson, was too much for him. Th Hard Times. Perhaps you know the was in August, 1914.'

song

You've got to put up with anything The General-himself is a little tabby

In these hard times.

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Fran, who looks as though he might be For every 15m, ed. lent now £i Other Voicat took it up till, from the about fifty-fiver his face a red as fre will be paid in 8 years' time, whole line of shell-holes, where the mon aquivalent to 8 per cent, com-erousbed with the dead in the blood, when it is cat purple, and the way he stained water and the fragments of trenches, where the living and wounded layges about is enough to make Olympus together, the chorus welled up mightily tremble. The earth shook to the shell bursts, and the air was thick with fumes and dirt and debris, and through the crashing and the muck the song rose rollicking on :—

pound interest. No Income Tax his or her Azyone, isoome may be. can buy War Savings Certificates up to maximum of 500 £i Cortifcates im all or their aquivalent.

Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fall any time, with an addition after the first year.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS. (1) A Certificate entities the purchaser to receive £1 for cash 156. Cd. on the fifth Laniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the actuan

lated interest.

Oh, if you live to be pinety-four And carry on to the end of the war You may get leave, but not before,

In these hard times.

The rogul of frightanud, people who came to the Hotel de Vilis - for "Iniseer."} passers and other papers all found their way straight to his office; no one waà en hand to sort them out' and distribute.shem. among the various bureaux of the civil administration. Even the staff officers Our men back in the support lines, beard it, and they took it up. The dil very little to spare their chief and enemy across the way must have heard head off the crowd. They would come

The Fusiliers it, too, and marvelled.

for their right up to him at his table and shore Wounded, singing while

WEY THE ENEMY MARVELLED.

(9) A Certificate is not transferable tended their dead and care worked.§& pièce d'identiti under his "ncse with a

respect

g

You may get more or you tay get

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But apple and plum's your beat I

READER AND REEDER.

except by permission of the Fostonaster They aquatted, howed in their shell General; a fee of 1s. will be charged in hales, while the great shes shrieked tremulous request for a vise: he would

of each transferee. In the event everbend, or, plunging, heaped them turn upon them and growl. of death, the same rules will be applied with mud, and still they sa as in the case of Savings Bank Deposits. ̧(3) On written application_(on a form obtainable as any Post Office) being made to the Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, Dinner Service, Crockery, Glass Ware, or part multiples of 15. 6d. Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, will be

addition Bath Room Utensils, Roll-top Desks and Writing Tables, et, Sundry Electro

Plated Ware.

Electric Reading Lampa, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, Blackwood Furniture, including Side Tables, Engravings, Pictures, &c., de Tennis "Pales and Net, Iron. Bafe, &c. ..

A few lots Turkish Bath Sheets,

Bod Quilts, &c..

First

at any time, with an 3d for each 159. 6d. on the

interc anniversary of the date purchase and with a further addition of id. per 1. 6d. for each month thereafter..

(4) No person may hold more than 500 £1 Certificates of their equivalent.

guess,

For the stmwberry jam's for the

sergeants' mess

In these hard times...

"Just as with us, every one wanted soucething quite out of the question, and then insisted of arguing about the answer

that they got. A uan would come up to

Last night I was at an entertainment the General and say that he wanted to

Another of C, & B.'s Delicacies

C. & D. OXFORD SAUSAGES

UNEXCELLED.

Crosse & Blackwell guarantee

these and all their other table delicacies to

produced under ideal conditions of cleanliness."

AGENTS FOR LEA & PERKINS, WORCESTERSHIRE, SAUCE

D.J.Collis Browne's

Chlorodyne

THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE,

DIARRHŒA, and is the only

Specific CHOLERA „

DYSENTERY.

FEVER, CROUP, AQUS. The Best Fanady known.. for COUGHS, COLDS,

ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS.

The only Paliative :in

NEURALGIA, QOUT, RHEUMATISM.

Chlorodyne is a liquid, taken in drops, graduated according to the malady. It bavariably. relieves pain of whatever kind; creates a calm refreshing sleep; allays irritation

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of the nervous system when all other remedies fall; leaves ad bad effects and can be taken when no other medicine can be tolerated.

CONVINCING MEDICAL TESTIMONY WITH EACH BOTTEL Home Gzipina withaus. Hi- wede. Dir. £. Collie Bronte's Chlorodyne, am the Stamm Sold by ill Chemists,

Prices La England. :

1/13, 2/9, 4/52.

given by the formation to which these sets pass to go to Xamur. The Generatont have to go back to my chic-not Royal Fasiliors belong, in a temporary

with and tarpaulin theatre which holds would say impatiently that it was quite 500 men. One of the numbers on the impossible. programme was this song, sung by a man, now private, but we

but well knOWD

Then Mr. Men would say that that

Towels, Single and Double Bed Sheets, 925 Certificates are on sale at local seemed that the whole tarpaulin roof: get to. As he talked the Genera

And

The 41 Certificates (purchase price) 15. ed.) are issued in book form. The the London music-balls in peace time, was no doubit true, but tbut he must go Some of those same Fusiliers who had Certificates for £14 (purchase price £0 lived and sang through all that boll were because he had a wife or a family or a 6) and £95 (purchase price £19 73 6d) there, and you ought to have heard those husiness or something else that he wanted ag issued without books. The £1, £1600

voices swing into the chorus till it Fost Offices and at most Banks.

bellied to the Bour.d.

would be getting redder and reddor..and Single Certificates for sums from £100 I do

do not know whose property, Carpets, Brass Fenders, a few lots to £500 may be obtained on application song may be, but ad title therein, with to his feet and advance upon bis top be, but I do know that all the when about to explode he would spring to the Companies and Accountant of the hereditaments and agrartonagen mentor waring his arms sed roaring at

Comptroller Four PIANOS.

all ought benesforward to be deeded to and application A large collection of South Sen Island Post Off forzos are available **.**** vented in the regiment of the Royal him to get the

Fire Brassen &c.

Ard

(Full Particulars from Catalogus.) TERMA---Cash, ·

Weapons, Idols, etc.

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HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneeri

2363

Hongkong, Dec. 5, 1917......

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received instruc

Puble causesion

(TOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCILIID),

THURSDAY,

the 13th December, 1917, at 150 pa

at their Sale Rooms, Ne. E,

De Youx Road, Corner ot

TCE HOUSE STRITT,

AŽ AKOƐJEZST OF

GOLD AL SILVER JEWELLERY,

Etc, Etc Comprising:-

18-K Gold Watches by well-known makers, Gold Albert and Fab Chains, Charms, Broaches, Earrings, Bracelets, te, Diamond, Pearl, Sapphire and Jadestone Rings, Scarf Pins, Links, Stads, etc, etc.

Aho

▲ Numazs of Lots of DAMASCÈNE. JEWELLERY,

Comprising

Cigarette and Card Cases, Pins, Links,

Bracelets, Bangles, etc, etc.

Turma-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, 'Dec. 5, 1917.

PUBLIO AUCTION.

THE

9364

THE Undersigned have received in. structions to sell by Public Ariction. (For accdost oF THE CONOCEREO), «

On "

FRIDAY¿

the 14th December, 1917, comtracing

* 2:20 pm, at their Sales Booms, Nag Den Vieur Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

"A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c.

the

and at most Banks.. Tf Certificates best, sad the serial Fusiliers, so that at mess, in billets, and numbers can be furnished to the on the march they may sing it as their Centroller of the Money Order Departown and tell in generations to come how ment, new Certificates will be issued at 1917 the Germans beard them sing it

on the Broenbeek charge of 1

Some rain fell yesterday, but it was little, and to-day, under warm sun,

GINIKAL. POST OFFICE, LONDON,

June, 1916.

(For examples of investment in War Bavings. Certificaten, see the other side.)

Examples of Investment in

War Savings

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Certificates

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8 11 8

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report any more futile errands. He went away in some trepidation, and;, was gone

some time. Presently the General came BOXING

tours he

ost'limi, seething in his best uniner.. Aqueout toutes ces depêches 2 "

A moi," says

1. knowing the hagange.

He then announced in a voice of thunder that they were all wrong, and

before I could summon enough. breath to that he was having them re-written a whout him down and protest he had gone i' I rushed back to my trusty A.D.C. ad told him to get me those tolegruas right" away: he came back with word that they would be gent after correction. I said that under no circumstances could they and out a word over the signature of the written it himself." American Minister without his having

out of there. Sot satisfied with that, he invariably availed himself of the opportunity of being on his feet to chase all the assembled crowd down the stairs and to aeream at all the officers in attendance

is blowing over Flanders, which for having allowed all this crowd to must help to dry the ground. It needs drying, for not only is our front gather. Then he would sit down and go line yet in places in what is practically through the same performance from the marsh, but we know, from German

prisoners, as well as our own observa beginning.

, that much of the country behind tion,

"I was there off and on for more than front is no more than con the enemy tinous shell-holes half filled with water. two hours; and is that time he did not Infantry sction is confined to occs de four minutes continuous uninterrupted sional raids on laciated posts on one side or the other. Both sides are using gas | work, shella largely, we especially in the area of Lans where the ruins of the city must fairly reek of gas, and life for the Ger- man forward troops must be hideous

ETIT ZUNES.

into another room and slammed the door."

DUMPING INTO THE GENERAL.

Sole Miznomc'ururs: 1.-T. DAVENPORT, LIGUS London, S.E.

GRAND

TOURNAMENT

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 H. Hon. Mr Claud Severu, C.M.G., Officer Administering the Government, HE Major General Ventris G.0.0., Commodore

H. G. G. Sandeman, RN, HH Sir William Rees Davies, KC., Chief Justice, and H.. the Fuisue Judge (Mr. Gompertz),

L.S. H. ATKINSON, B.NS

GNR.

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STO. BARCLAY, H.N.

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Ho cate back and said he could not CE STO. LEE, R.N. ges the cables. I started to walk into the office myself to get them, only to bump "CPL. STUBBŞ, Hálsz Rog into the General coming out with the messages in his hand. He threw them down on a table and began telling s young offeer what corrections to make va I had my share of the trouble. I the telegraph form itself. I protosted A. B. DONNAHUE, R-N. explained my errand to ansaide de camp, vigorously against any such proceeding, and asked him to see that proper instruc- telling him that we should be gimd to tions were given for the sending of the have bis views as to any errors in our mcusage, but' that he could not touch a He took them and wert letter in any official message,,

At this

The young officer started calmly interlining the message, so I reached: over

Apart from desultory shelling, which aerer ceases, there have in the Inat few telegrams. daye been occasional bombardments of away. Then after a few minutes be rame stage of the game he was summoned to sections of the front line, bat the great majority of the

artillery activity ively back, clicked, his heels, and the office of the Burgomaster and rushed counter-battery work. I have told in announced that there was no telegraph off with a string of ostas that would have former "messages of

of various reses adopted by the enemy to save his guns from our communication with the outside world, ads an Arizona caw.puncher take off

kis hat. artillery, as for instance, how he slinks and that he did not know when it would Ares a few rounds, be re-established. And

how be tries to dispose of his gut regardless of their oficiency, in formations which "s may And it difficult to reach. He is fighting General, "who in the meantime had purely a defensive fight, and it is not retreated to the Gothis room and had Surprising he should be, in terror of locked himself in with a group of officers, My friend came back again. rather red With the

we do roughly nowadays just about ten times in the face, and said be had authority to the destruction of enemy batteries that stamp my telegrams, and let them go. the Germans do to us. While we are He pat the rubber stamp on them and the circumstances.** continuously edging forward and Sursaid I could take them. I said that was .ព

In each gurs seeking out his batteries new hiding place, the majority of the all very well, but where could I take thien draw, only found so now far with since the telegraph offices were closed. enemy hear

field guns:

uns remaining He went off again and came back with in forward positions. - In apite of all but the word that the orice in the central endeavours evade us, we ind and con

that

**I asked him to go back to the and took it away from him with the statement that I would report to my shiel what had happened. He was ali aduttor, and asked that I remain, as the General would not be long. I could not see ADT use in waiting longer, however, and made is dignified a retreat as possible onder

N.B.-The Investment may be any entrate daily upon many new enemy bureau was working for cficial messages. multiple of 350. Bd. up to 2987 10%. batteries at racions parts of the front.I got into the motor with the Italian And when we do seriously concentrate Secretary, who had a similar task, and on one of his batteries there is little together we went to the teatest bureau chance of much of it surviving:

It was nailed up tight and the German sentries on guard at the door swore to us by their threawort that there was sbsolutely nothing doing.

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FOOLING THE DIPLOMATA, **Pack we went to the Hotel de Ville Our friend the A.D.C, had disappeared; but we got hold of another and naked bigs to inform himself. He went away and we spent a few minutes watching the Genorul blow.up everybody mu sight; when the A.D.C. came back he similarly announced that there was no way of getting the messages out on the wire: that the best thing we could do would be to send a cotier to Holand and telegraph from there, I told, him back and get another sower. Then came

other fruitias janrney:

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