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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917,

Hughes & Hough

ABUTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

· General Auctioneers -- Share, Coal and General Produce Brokers and Commission Agents.

PROPRIETORS

@wa-Wan" Coal Storags.

Codes used

Bentley's

4th & 5th Editions. A 1 Telegraphis Code..

Telegraphia Address YOULION *

HONGKONG,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned haru received hustrus-

ticne to sell by Public Auction,

10

MONDAY,

the 17th December; 1917, commencing at 10.30 am at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of Ice

House Street,-.

14

A LARGE ARHORTMINT OF FANCY GOODS, BRIC A BRAC, &c.. recently arrived from Europe and suit-

able for Xmas presents,

Comprising:-

Bronze and Porcelain Figures and Statuettes, Vases, Hand-painted Finques, and Ornaments, Flower Holders and Bowls, Funcy Mirrors, Clocks, Canidol- abras, etc), a quantity of Plated Goods, comprising Egg Seta, Fruit Bowls, Bread Baskets. Sweet and Dessert: Dishes Cruet Stands, 'ke., &c.

Cat glass Bowls, Decanters, Jugs, Finger Bowls, Sweet Dishes, Fruit Stands, Cake Dishes, Liquétar Sets, &c.

On view day of Salv. Terma :-Cash

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneer, Hongkong, Dec. 10, 1917.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

2473

Undersigned bave received in

AUCTIONS.

"PUBLIO AUCTION.

THE Undaralgod have rooddeed, in stractions to sell by Publis Anetion, (FOR LOGOUT OF THE CONCRETED). “

DET.

MONDAY,

the 17th December, 1917, at 19.30 on at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Vortx Road, Corner of Ice House Etreet, SEVERAL CASES LIQUEUR HEATHER DEW

SCOTCH WHISKY, SHERRY,

PEACH BRANDY, -

VERMOUTH,

Tamis --Cash,

HUGHES & HOUĠE;.

Auctioneers. Hongkong. Dec. 10, 1317.

2379

PUBLIC AUOTION. TIBLE Codersigned have received instruo. tions to sell by Pubila Auction.

OOK

TUESDAY,

the 18th December, 1917,

4.30pm

at their Sales Rooms. No. 8, Dea Vaux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

A collection of about 2640 postage stamps, mounted in album, to be, sold in one lot, comprising Hongkong, China, ancso, Shanghai, Borneo, and stamps of British, Portuguese, and French Colonies,

THE CHINA MAIL.

BRITISH CONTROL OF

CABLES.

"MAIN-ASTERT" OF TRADE,

• It is doubtful whether st any time wo Dould have"""" reinformiad -

BAYA]

"blockade", more electively. 65kg - by HOW GERMANY HAS BENEFITTED, exercising this right. To ever cabla Communications is to out the main artery

The disclosure that Sweden has roof such trade-and as we all know it was peatedly placed her diplomatie cable a valuable and, indeed, an indispensable facilities at home and abroad så Gar- trade-as Germany was able to carry on many's disposal, and that Germany has used them to direct her submaring cam palgo, cannot hus raise many and con- tentious issues, says a ↔ Einsos. ** port pondent,

There is an aspect of our blockade of Germany which has been' Insufficiently considered. It consists in this that all cable communications between not only Germany and her allies, but between all the adjacent neutral countries, on the one hand, and the outer world of Asia, the United States, and South America, on the other, are in. aur possession or the possession of our Ailles, })

Any cable up of the world will con- firm this statement. The majority of the German cables started from near Emden and landed on our own east coast. Others ran to the Azores, and thence to New York to Tenerife and thener to Mon- rovia, in Liberia, and thence again to German Cameroon and to Pernambuco,

One

Brazil, and to Vigo, in Spain. need hardly spalate on the fate that overtook these cables on the declaration of war or inquire whether a single one

"A small collection of about 700 stamps of them is, or has been since August, suitable for a beginner.

Termes usual.

1914, available for business.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong. Dec. 14, 1817,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

9392

THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction,

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED},

DO

THURSDAY,

the 20th December, 1917, commencing at 10.30 am, and continuing at 2:30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Your Road, Corner of les House Street,

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TOYS, Comprising

Esquimeaux Dolls, Teddy Bears and other Animals-Dolls (large and small) Soldiers, Forts, Gun Emplacements, de

On Germany's castern frontier Russie, and on her western France, present for the length of their respective territories a sheer dead wall through which, o communications can penetrate. Switzer-j

land for these purpows is equally out of the question. Through Greece, even as Greets was under the Constantine régime, and through Turkey the Genimas could Fonly-get-in-touch-with-countries across the Atlantic by means of British cables. Through Italy, even in the days of Italian neutrality, they were restricted in the same way to French or British lines.

POSITION OF SOUTHERN RUMMALS.

There remain, then, the small Northen

through neutral intermediaries with the United States before America joined thi Allies. It would be too much to say that if you cannot cable you cannot trade. Eut it is certain that, unless the quickest, and suresi means of communication are open to you, you can only trade with the greatest difficulty and delay. by round" about routes, and in an atmosphers of perpetual uncertainty. It is true that Germany has had her wireless service to the United States. *But direct its capacity is limited. Its operation specially in summer time, la nacertain, all messages transmitted by it can be tapped, and it probably could not in any sircumétances have borne more than a quarter of the business that was being transacted by German agents in the small Northern kingdoms with their trans- atlantic customers throughout the period of American neutrality.

and the parcels past under our control.

We brought as far as possible the mails

We built up an extremely efficient intelli-

gence service to keep watch over the ins and outs of the "bieckade," Speaking) broadly, we have for a long time known p. ty nearly everything there was to be

known about Germany's wartime irading : methods. The names of her agents in Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, the firms with which they did business in the United States and, elsewhere, the

disguises in which their connection with Germany is wrapped up, the tricks and all these have been no secret from our falsa scents adopted in ordering goods

authorities.

KNOWLEDGE NOT ACTED OPOX.

I said just now that we have always had both the right and the power to put a stop to all cable mesanges between German presentatives in Hoiland and Scandinavia and their clients, and cus- tomers across the ocean. As a matter

tractions to sell by Public Auction. Trains, Motor Cars, Cricket Sets lands. But in their case, too, the way is of bald, fact, we have not so enforced it.

(FOR ACCOUNT OF TEN CONMANED),

on

TUESDAY,

Footballs, Boxing Gloves, Tes Sets, Furniture Seta, Games, Small Peram balators, Beds, Xmas Trees, Air Guns: and Water Pistols, Fire Works, Crackers,

the 18th December, 1917, commencing

1.30 p.m., at their Bales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

ICH HOUSH STELIT. TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES, de, LTD LARGE ASSORTMENT OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, As follows:- Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double and Single Bows and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, sad Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons Extension Dining Tables and the Chairs, Tea and Oœessional Tables, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glaas Ware, i Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Seta, &c., Bath Boom Utensils, Roll-top Desks and Writing Tabice, etc, Sundry Electro- Plated Ware

Electric. Reading Lamps, Black wood and Teakwood Servena, Blackwood Farniture, including Large4-Fold Black- wood Screens with 3-Coloured Fanels, Side Tables, &c, Engravings, Pictures,

C

&c., *&c.

On view from Wednesday, at 2 pm Team:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, Dec. 12, 1917.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The great bulk of Germany's oversea

trade bus been carried on not merely with our

C.&B.ENGLISH SOUPS

30 Varieties.

By:

All Delicious

BLACK

The Cuisine of one of the finest chefs in the world available for your table.

Crosse & Blackwell Guarantee these Soups

fo toče made under ideal conditions, as are all their table delicacies.

AMETER POR LEA"A. PERZINS" WORCESTERSHIRE" BAUCK

DJ.Collis Browne's

Chlorodyne

THE ORIGINAL "AND ONLY GENUINE.

DIARRHEA, and as the only Specifle in CHOLERA „

DYSENTERY.

FEVER, CROUP, AGUE.

The Best Remedy krown; for,

COUGHS, COLDS,

MANN, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS.

The only Palliativo, in:

NEUMALOIA, QOUT," RHEUMATISH, Chlorodyne is a liquid taken in drops, graduated according to the malady. It invariably relieves pain of whatever kind; creates a calm refreshing sleep; allays irritation of the nervous system when all other remedies fait; leaves no bad effects; and can be taken when no other medicine can be tolerated. CONVINCING MEDICAL TESTIMONY WITH EACH BOTTLE

Name, Gurnima vihout the meds Dr. J. Collie Brown's Chionodyne on the Stamp : Pit Sala Manoraciorera: 'Bald by, all- Chemists,' por

Prices in England.

· J. T. DAVENPORT, LIKE, London, S.. 1/71, 2/9, 4/8.

HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

WIND ALTERATIONS the Supply of ELECTRICITY will be SHUT OFF on SUNDAY, the Teth inst. from 7.30 AM to 1.30 PM.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents Hongkong, Dec. 14, 1917.

REPAIRS at the Power Station

2388

HONGKONG GOVERNMENT 6% WAR LOAN 1916.

blocked. All the Dutch cables, all the Danish cables with one exception,, which runs to Frazee, all the Norwegian cables. with four annivance, but and all the Swedish cables come assistance. Our censorship of the exblus England. No one is Holland, Denmark, has been conducted more with an eye to Norway or Sweden can send or receive a neutral susceptibilities than with an eyeNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that cabitgram except with our permissina.to preventing goods from reaching the We are absolute masters of the cable ouemy. It has been too much of 2383communications of Germany, of her political and too little of a belligerent allics, mix of all the pear-by neutral censorship: and while the entry of the States through which she and they have United States into the war has immensely beet drawing supplies.

eased and simplified the situation, there are still many loopholes in the "blockade" that can only be stopped by stopping the cables.

THE Undersigned have received in- under sell. by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CÖNCHESRD),

jon

SATURDAY,

2nd December, 1917, at 10.30 am,

st their Sales Booma, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of,

Ice House Street,

A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF JEWELLERY,

As follows:-.

What use have we made of our power? At the beginning of the war, exercising the rights reserved to us under the Inter national Telegraph and Radio-Telegraph Conventicus, we announced the suspen sion of pli cable and virales services to and from or in transit through the United Kingdom all. British phasessions, and all British protectorates whatsoever. At the same time, and specifically as az

That neutral Powers have allowed their diplomatic and Consular services and their privileges of official communication by cipher cablegrams to be used by the Germans as a war weapon, has long been apspected by our authorities in sotac cases, and known as a fact in others.

act of grace," we declared that But it has been concealed from the public. Diamond, Half-hoop, Marquise and messages might be transmitted via the Now, however, that the game has been Posy Rings. Gold Erooches and Scaif United Kingdom if they were written in exposed, and now that the United States Pins, Gold, Silver and Rolled-gold plain language in either French or Engis, actively and Yervently on the side of Watches by Benson and other well-lish, if they were dispatched at Bangles and Charms, (French Bracelet

the

the Allies, it would seem as though the

SCRIP CERTIFICATES may now be exchanged for definitive Bonds. Scrip Certificates should be handed in at the Hongkong Office of the Roxasong BECHAI BANKING CORPORATION and Borde of the same denominations will be issued in exchange. "

́E. D. C. WOLFE,

Colonial Treasurer. Hongking, Dec. 10, 1917.

***

2375

ALFRED HYNDHAN 43 Wyndham Street. Haa for sale CARBON, PAPER. at $10 per dozen

sheets RIBBONS at $1.80 each.

INDERTAKES to clean and repair Typewriters at 812.00, per machine per annum.

For particulars apply to the sbova address.

Hongkong. Nov. 7. 1917.

2375

da, &c., Teunis Poles and Net, Irosown makers, Gold Watch Bracelets gender's risk and bore his full name and last excuse. had been removed for not PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

Sala, &ó:

A few lots Turkish Bath Sheets Towels, Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quilta, &c.,

Carpets, Brass Fenders, low lots Fire Brasses &

And

Two PIANOS. Full Particulars from Catalogue)., TEEKS >--Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGEL,

Auctioneers. Hongkong Dec. 12, 1917.

41

2387

PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received in- Tatructions to sell by Public Anction, "(POK AOLOLET OF THE DONGLESED),

FRIDAY

The 21st December, 1917, at 10 a.m., at their mes Hout. No. &; Da Yarz koan, Corner of

Isa, rimane Borset, |-

BUNDRY DRAWING AND DINING ROOM GOODS 15 BED ROOM LINENS,

Campriting ten

For DRAWING ROOM-Brass Bowls, Brass Vase, I ne Borders, Kinkcaan Vasei, Jardinieres with tands, Japanése | Photo Framer, Fluwer Vases, de, dc.

For DINING ROOM—An assortment Soda. Tam?

blers, Tumilers, Sherry Cases

18-kt gold, set with 29 Diamonds and 17 that of the address, and if they were depriving neutral Governments as well

Sapphites), Silver Chronometer Watches, Altitude Barometer, etc, etc., etc

Alio

M

Fair Binoculars, Old Roman, Coin 2′′War Medals, kmall lot unset Stopes, Cameras, etc., etc, etc.

·And...

passed by the censorship.

But we also added that, even if all these ecnditions were complied with, the messages might still be stopped, delayed, or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the British authorities, without notice

A lady's Hair Fastener "Btary and to the sender and without incurring sny Crescent cet with 49 Brilliants.

Trexa-Cash..

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers. Hongkong. 'Dec 10, 1917. -

PUBLIC AUCTION,

shility of any kind. In other words

Ba neutral individuals of the ability to work the cable ervices of the world to the beneft of the enemy and to our own and our Allies detriment.

THE RUSSIAN ROUBLE IN".

MANCHURIA

NOTIFICATION.

TT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that on

33

THE EVER POPULAR HOUSEHOLD REMEDY

Which has now, berne. the Stamp of Public Approval for

OVER FORTY YEARS:

ENO'S FRUIT SALT

PLEASANT TO TAKE,

REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING.

IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES

Billousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors in Diet-Eating or Drinking, Tairst Giddiness Rheumatic or Gouty Poison Feverish Cold, with High Temperature and Quick Pulse, and Feverish Conditions generally. It is everything you could as a simple and Natural Health-givin

Agent.

Prepared only by

J.C. ENO, Ltd.," "Fruit Sait! Works. London, England

SOLD BY CHEMISTS AND STORES, EVERYWHERE.

the 8th January proximo, at 3.p.10. at the Fublic. Worka Department, and before & Committee presided by the Engineer Director of the Public Works, TENDERS" Will be received for the contract of ERECTION OF A BUILDING for the Colonial Secretary DAIRY FARM NEWS. Office

where

The conditions of the tendering," the we have, sad hays always had, an

specifications and the plans of the build absolutely free hand. Legally Bod

ing are open to the public at the Publio For upwards of twenty years re morally. at any moment we choose, we marks a correspondent of the NC Works Department and in the Porta-

1guese, Consulate in Hongkong, 2380 have the right and the power to cut of Daily News, writing from Makden, the they can be examined all week days.

Ruian rouble bas had great circula completely al cablad memages that passion in this land of bass and erratic between Germany's neighbours who are currencies. For many years it was much 6th December, 1917. feeding and supplying her and the counsought after and since its depreciation tries, overseas from which they goods and products."

HE Undersigned bave received instance

tions to sail by Public Auction.

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED},

MONDA÷Y

the 31st December, 1317, commencing at

5pm, at their Sales Boom No.

Den: Yonix Road, Corner of - WICE HODLE STREET,

A FISH COLLECTION, OF BRITISH COLONIAL-STAMPS,

Comprising

Great Britain, Natal, South Australia,

of Table Glass cocapres Port and Tamania, Transvaal, Rhodesia Liqueur Glow, Champagne Timblers Western Australia, Zannbar,

Glass and Bram Finger Fowa, Decanters | New South Wales, Canada, Ice Cream Thates and few lows, of

Damasic Table Clothes, & de

For BED ROOM-Single and Double Bed Sheets, Fath Towels, Face Towels, Sheetings, Filk) Cases, Batin Quilta,, Countaxanes, “

A w Bait Cases and Bundries

(including 20 rare 3 corned Cape of Good Hope)

Every

culara from

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION

but you stop Cough

It while it is ONLY

WATERBURY'S “METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

draw

it has been speculated in or kept in large quantities by those who obtained it by ordinary business. All ever northern Mongolia and Manchuris there are mil- lions of roobles awaiting the return to

normal conditions not to mention the haga quantities bald by Japanese, ho are, by the way, pressing their Curvern

inst mont hard to safeguard them loes Tull boining settling season will certainly witnema much trouble and many failures among Chinese who have been caught with this almost useler paper on their hands.

HIMROD'S

Mara Tublic Works Department,

RAUL M. DE FARIA Y MARIA,

Engineer Director. Hongkong, Dec 14, 1917 2331

PATELL & CO.

ORIENTAL PRODUCE

WE EXPORTERS,"

SILK MERCHANTS COMMISSION AGENTS.

Aganales in

(800% 0.8

CORNED BEEF

CORNED PORK

POT be or Knos And BärkeLA

EXPORT OR SZŁA MIZ”. USE

TO LET

TO LET

FROM 1st January 1918

No. 14T THE FEAK: order. Five rovina.

Hongkong, Dec. 10, 1917,

TO LEN

FFICES in York Building

HOUSES on Shameen,

Apply to--

Giónghial

first class

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