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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1918.

Fughes & Hough

MBKCESS, TO THE GOYARNMENT.

General Auctioneers

Share, Coat and General Produce

Broki.and Consmission

Agents.

PROPRIETORS

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Codes used

Bentley

4. c. 4th &ath Editions A! Telegraphia Code.

Tilsgraphie Aähm

"MARION" HONGKONG.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in«.

structions to sell by Public Auction,

03

FRIDAY,

the 11th January, 1918, at 3 p.m., on the spot,

The Several Lots Numbered 1 to 19 Plar to be seen at the Auctioneers' ice, for erection of

Booths and Matsheds, the Government Ground adjoining Race Course, North of the Grand

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

TUSCULUM, Barker Road, 135,

Apply

DUNCAN CLARK, LANE, CRAWFORD & Ca Hongkong, Jan. 2, 1018),

OF

TO LET

TO LET.

FFICES in York Building,

HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.

Apply to- THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY Co., Lan

TO LET

MMEDIATE ENTRY, four very desirable SHOPS gituated in Ice House Biret, opposite the Grand Hotel recently reconstructed.

For mat and other particulars apply to the Manager, Hongkong Ice Co.,Ltd. 46 Connaught Road Central

Hongkong, August 2, 1917.

TO LET

9003

FLAT in Nathan Hoad, Kowloon.

Four roomed houses in Kowloon.

Apply to- HUMPHREYS ESTATE' & FINANCE

CO., LTD. Alexandra Builāinga, longong, August 22, 1917.

— TO LET

TURNISHED HOUSE, 67 Peak, from and usual offices together with a large 1st May to 31st October: 6 rooms garden.

Apply

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE_FUTURE QE ALSACE-I tot of confidence. Then kner, in fact, THE HUMAN FACTOR IN

LORRAINE

ATTITUDE” OF INHABITANTS TOWARDS GERMAN RULE.

ONLY BOLUTION IS THAT WHEY

MUST BE GIVEN, BACK TO

FRANCE.

INDUSTRY,

The business of "enguteer is to deal

lively with material problems; this training consists in the acquisition of

pledge to this end. Curiously enough. the object of labour is fater to become acet the dominant possibly the

drill-sargeant methods in selfools - universities, in the army and in airil -lite, and, as far as they haru dared and been able, in their very homes, they have Do been able to wie them from their allegiance to France, and that, profess the professors serar so wisely, their claim thas these people are German is utterly. || false. It has never been recognized by most troublesome of all his cares. Start the Alsatians or Torrainers themselves.ing with a belief that his main object is Far bedir in the last gontury, at a nuquet material, he finds that, as timer passed, the production of mechanism. kun

Berlin, with the fact for which his labour and the human factor-commercial given at Gutenberg, the Burgemaster of

he la nuch more concerned with finance, fellow tower are still distinguished u He becomes more an

THE COMING DELIVERANCE...

Early in the war I spent a day in part of Alsace which was then debutable

In actual practice there is only one penalty for failure or infraction of dis cipline-dismissal. On the other hand, zo tim can afford for trivial cause to

[FROM A CONERSPONDENT EV ALMACE)

The case for the iteration of two pro vinces to France is se urgeat from their own point of view a, in its larger aspect, it is imperative in the interests of las as his glass with the remark, "I drick Administrator than a technical executive, pence of the world. After 40 years of to Alance, the daughter of Germany to ecules that the selection of subordinates German rule the true people of Alance and which the Mayor of Strasburg replied, and the will to work of his stall—both Lorraine down to the third generation I don't know whether Also is the psychological problems are more patent keep on saying with all the greater forro daughter of Germany. But this I de maters even than organisatiqu and pur because most of them say it in German know, and we all know, that the is the chats of material, Human muscle-ibat or's patais of German origin. We wahouse of France, and that she gives and its external appearances Amy to remain French." Here, too, the met. Always will give her all her children, a viewed, but the intelligence and capacity who for the timer being are their masters Thirty years later, at the time of the which, after all. animate it, are not se have been weighed in the balance and annemtion, when France was lying bleed readily wessed. Capital and labour found wanting..

ing and crashed and helpless, and after-ated with system and organisation. From first to last the attitude of Gewards again and again in the Reichstag the parriage of credit and muscle—is boo many to these two forlorn and faithful of Berlin" and elsewhere, the duly elected often emperficially assumed to be a prakt children of France has been exactly that representatives of Alsacr and Lorraine maklig to partnership. Provided audi of the traditional step-mother of the fairyprotested formally against their separation (elest of either is available, there should books, cr, rather, of a certain type of from the mother country. end that, vain her dibeulty in earning dividende wealthy, unkind, and overbearing aunt though their proteats were bound to be scens a wal-view. The human faster, which used to be a common ägare in has always been their titude. They havrever, permeates the entire structure, mid-Victorian fichier: Having foreby bowed to force, but their spirits were and unless duly assessed and rightly adopted them against their will, she saver conquered, and their hearts were placed, the anticipated profits may vanish done everything in her power to sake ever won.

uncountably into thin air. It is too them forget their own mother and the

Hetle realised that while share capital is glories and habits and memories of their

definite, each human unit is a separate old home. She has tried to cajole them

personal identity addicted thereby with with wonderful presents of schools, niground. and from which the French soon

commou heman disabilities. way stations, railways, roads, bridges, insurance schemes-everything, in fact, enneis, barrels, prisona, workman's that the heart of the well-regulated citizens of a benefient Fatherland could + possibly denirs, and aff on the most colossal scale and on the most approved Teuton models. She has given them the best of German educations, and supplied them with unlimited German textbooks

extremo penalty is therefore moze or lets telling them whos a marvellous stop

judicially exercised: fint thought is after mother she is. She has taught them

tepers with discretion. The outcome gymnastics, and even the parade step-

is-tast the two things power and penalty the foundation-stine of all he militaris

and to equate each other. The man is teatness. In barracks and schoolrocin,

kept in check by knowledge of the pensity run so much on the same lines that it was of all

the management, knowing the difficulty difficult sometimes to tell which was inhabitants of the emancipated com- of adequate replazeracnt, is none too ready which, she has given them, her own art muses, now that their long sightmare to its privilege. Fear on borb hidas sergeante ad her own professors. She is over, are the happiest people in Europe, helps to keep both victions. has done her best to make them speak They feel that the time of the final

Technical troubles are apt to cause less nothing but Germat, and when they deliverinced themwolves and their serious problems than, the human factor. hankered after the old dog-eared books of children and their beloved provinces la at It is an incomparable asset to be abe MRLI HUN FAN. 1 Chines graduste versed in their young days has told them, that the hand. So, is appears; do the terraans. without resentment to get the most out Doubted Sheets, Bedspreads and Offelal and Marchants to this Colony for ten path. French have no literature, and that in Otherwise what is the meaning of thef u werking force to possess the knacks Counters, Towela, dc, Blankets, para lastases salaam, and letters, science, philosophy, and religion tentative proposals which they have doing is not a common quality. To Dress Hials including Blue-Sergey also a good showings of trim and Kakkas only the Gerrous varieties that count. caued to ut published for a pabiscite or

diapaw the slacker may be easy, lo Prints, nd, White Linen, Long: Clash, Flannel, Flannelette, déc., dat Co No. 143 Wallegten Hand, fret four. When there was a birthday or some other the establishment after the war of an understand why be slacks not so simple. Handkers, Gent's Silk Socks, Boys

11951 festival in the family proper they have independent Duchy in the annexed pro-

to apply the correct remedy more difficut Suits, To Toilet Soap, Perfumery,

bees compelled, the seboolfaster mark inces? If they were as certain as von still. It is safe to say that a policy of White Lafurtains, &c.

TANG YUK, DENTIST, shoemor of ing the time with a conductor's baton, to Biesing was that their fature frontier line blaf or of blackguardiam is an likely to

the late SIEN TING;-

ery, Hoch 1 Hoch! Hoch with the is to stretch from Calais to Baret, what be wrong as continneus nagging or table need would there be of mooting the ques- finding. To handle an awkward case by tion of a now Constitution ? -

tact and armness, by the hand of steel in the glove of velvet, requires experience no less than, natural ability. Some men

ad Encloure. juzte:-Ch..

r Plan and Condition, of Sale → tomo

"ECOHES & HOUGH," \"ductioneers to the Gremment. "> ìghòng, Jan. 3, 1913.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

Undersigned have received instrue. on to sell by Public Auction, Accomer or CONTENID),

on

ATURDAY,

the January, 1918, at 1945 m., ther Sales Boots, No. 8,

1 Tazz Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

MILLANEOUS GOODS,

"

Comprising

Suit Cand Boote and

Tar

few pairs Gent's

and Overcoat Lengths,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, n. 7, 1918

PUBL AUCTION.

HE Undersig have received instruc-

Ttions to sely Public Auction.

(362 LOODUNTY THE CONCERNED},

ព

TUEDAY

the 18th January18, commencing st 2.30 p.m., at theiles Rooms, No. 8, Des Your hd, Corner of ICE HOD STREET, TEAKWOOD AM BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, TW BEDSTEADS CURTAINS, CAEPTS, PICTURES, AND A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF USEFUL HOUSEOLD GOODS,

As fallo

Upholstered Saites,Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Bofas, Cd Tables de Badrada Furniture, crprising Double and Bingle Brass And Brass-mounted Bedsteads, and Twin edateads, Side- hoacria, Dinbar Wagga, Extension Dining Tables and Chira, Tea and Occasional Tables, &c., Inner Services, Crockery, Glase Ware, Coking Stoves. Catlery, Toilet

Bath Boo Utensils, Hall-top Desk and Writing Tables Sundry Electro Pited Ware

Electric Reading Lamy, Blackwood and Toakwood Screen, Blakwood Far arture, including Larga, Fold Black wood Screen with Colored's Bide Table, Engraving, bare

Tennis Poles in Not,

Turkish Bab Sheets, Lowels, Single and Double Blisets

W. MEYRICK HUMPHREYS C/ F G HOPELrs & Co.

• Duddell StreetTM Hongkong, Jan 7, 1914

INTIMATIONS

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SUPPRESSION AND INSULT.

afterwards retired. Simos then I have acother, several or them after imprison. met many Abatians who, in one way or meat in Gemegy, have managed to got away from their country during the war, and I barc, visited at different times all the chist towns and villages in the disons than that immediately realised, is tricts which the French have reoccupied the machine. The power of inflicting the change disturbs the poise and balance of Everywhere and frons all of them I have! seen and heard, the same overwhelming testimony to the intensity of their enthusiastic devotion to France, beenuse thay look upon themselves as Frenchmen, and their rooted antipathy to Germany and all her works. I believe thai, th spite

deprite itself of the services of a potential

-proilerner it would sufer a greate

that they have suffered, the

The evidence that they are preparing for the worst is in itself cheering, but it

When they have been industrious and have made good in commerce and ther pursuits of the common life they havamust not blind us to the fact that both possess this happy faculty, which keepi B ante place from ranking. To drop been helped and exouraged till they their proposals are meant to speal to showed signs of outshining Germany's well-paning but unpractical pacifists,avily on the wrong man, or for the own children, Then they have been up of common sense needs to be told that want of judicial insight and is frangit" |

and that both of them are shams. No one wrong matter in the wrong way, display pressed And pat in the corner.

with perilous results to output. A mso- under the benevolent suzeraisty of the and feel their caustic justice without

And

when, in spite of all those favoare, they the rule of an independent" Duchy, Aagrantly caught out will sutler remarks

still ventured to remember t

the old days,

or to wear a bit of tri-coloured ribbon Fatherland would make no change what subsequent resentment. To use, the same

or to hang wreathe on the graves of their dead relations, the Germany sent von Fortners, and von Betters to bully there and Crown Princes to insult them, or Bismarcks to tell them that Prussia is like rough woollen jer irritating to the skin at first, but quite agreeable 'n soo

יו

and

ever in the lot of the people of Alsace: Lorraine, and would lease the menace to the peace of Europe, and the world exactly where it is. As for the decision, by plebiscite, the answer to that proposal is at the population includes 400,000 Gor, man or German-born immigrés, to say nothing of the housands of trúe Alsatisas one gets used to it. But somehow Trainers who are dead, or for various "they ...nover, did get used to. Prussian methods, not even when the war cam

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reasons absentees, or of the electioneering

mgtboda", which would; certam he

method for purely sccidental fault in io; invite shirking. We are, after all, each

member of a common human, family and whatever station we occupy our feti ings sre roughly equal.

Any mathei whereby effort is induced itself worth consideration, and thought.

In normal times, men can be hired, tried, and fired, at the wanton caprice ef

and", they were herded Into the model employed by the Germans to turn the technically capable but otherwise i

prison for such heincas crimes as talking voto in the desired direction. But these,

equipped Individust, French in the streets, They persisted la prefecting everything: French

after all, are scadem questions Theupply of labour ús availabi

restricted supply an explanation and in

who a problem of the fatura position in touchings of labour. Europe of the two provinces is et such aMAY NEE to Germanize them had completely faileremendous import to the pesca of the

FRGE, LO FRANCE!

Nobody knows these things better this way the Germans – thiamo var.

Kower downwards they are consious bat the true Alsatian Lorrainét

they know

it can only be

back

Man Who

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