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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918.

AUCTIONS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MANILA AND THE ANNUAL

CARNIVAL

1

From The Coblenéide- (Manila) we

Hughes & Hough TIELE Undersigned bare modred in- take the following:

AUCTIONEES TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Auctioneers Share" Coal and General Produce Brokers and Commission

Agents,

J

PROPRIETORS

Goder wood Bentley's

4. aith & 8th Editions.

A1 Telegraphic Code. -

Telegraphie Addres

** MILLION.**

HONGKONG.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

structions to sell by Public Auction (TOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONGIANRO),

00

WEDNESDAY, the 24th April, 1918, commencing st 1.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vienx Road, Corner of ICK HOUSE SEEKI

FURNITURE

room

of absent stookbolders.

22NIA 162

AMERICA'S THIRD LIBERTY be thought prudent that he believed that posee should be based upon the LOAN.

principles which we had declared. would be our own in the final satile-

delegates spoke in similar terms; professed their desire to conclude a fair' peace and accord to the peoples with whose fortunes they were deal ing the right to choose their own and follows the profession. Their allegiances. But action accompanies.

SPEECH BY PRESIDENT WILSON,ment Brest-Litovel her civilian

"The loan we are met to discuss is one of the least parts of what we are called upon to give and to do, though in itself imperative. Thepeople of the whole country are alive to the neces

justice, but everywhere impose their power and exploit everything for their own use and aggrandizement; unit are invited to be free under their the peoples of conquered provinces dominion.

Some of the stockholders 'present WHAT THE LOAN IS FOR. at the meeting of the Carnival Association, plus a number of proxies,

BALTIMORE, April 0. decided to hold another Carnival next President Wilson addressed the year without any ifa or ands. There aweting held hera commemorating military masters, the men who act was no opposition to the motion the first anniversary of America's for Germany and exhibit her purpose because many of those present who entrance into the war and inaugurat-in execution, proclaimed a very differ- TEAKWOOD, AND BLACKWOOD might have differed on the questioning the campaign for the third what they have done in Russia in ent conclusion. We cannot mistake BRASS AND TEAK saw that it was useless to attamps to Liberty Loan. The President said: Finland, in the Ukraine, in Rumenia.

•ToEwa-Wan* Coal Storage. TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, oppose the wishes of the few stock-

CARPETS, &c., de,

This is the anniversary of our The real test of their justice and fair holders presens who were fortified acceptance of Germany's challenge! play has come. From this we may AND AN ASSORTMENT OF

with the rotes, solicited or otherwise, to fight for our right to live and be in Russia a cheap triumph in which judge the rest. They are enjoying USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, As follows:-

free, and for the sacred right of free no brave and gallant nation can leng Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Sofas, Card, Tet there aro a considerable nummen everywhere. The nation is take pride, Tables, Upholstered Suites, tc Bed-ber of people opposed to the holding awake. There is no need to call to A great people, helpless "by their

Furniture, comprising Double of another Carnival while the war is

own act, lies for the time at their Brass and Bram-mounted Bedsteads, on. They see something decidedly it. We know that the war must cost merey. Their fair professions are Teak Twin Bedsteads Sideboards incongruous in merry-making at our utmost sacrifice, the lives of our forgotten. They nowhers set up Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining home while our soldiers are suffering fittest men, and if need be, all that Tables and Chairs, Tos and Ocasional lordships and death at the Front we possess. Tables, cy Dinner Services, Crockery, They view with repulsion tho Bac- Glass Ware, Cooking Stove, Cutlery, chanalian revels under the Green, Toilet Sets, & Bath Room Fittings. Yellow and Red while fellow country Sundry Electro-Plated Ware.

men are defending with all their Electric Reading Lampe, Blackwood being, with their very lives, the Red, and Teak wood Screens, Blackwood White and Blue. Furaiture

including large Black- wood Screen with Coloured Panels, Iass, but not least, coming down Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, &c., &c. to local costs; they regard with mus. sity of it and are ready to lend to the Engravings, Pictures, inkasan and giving the prospects of another utpost, even where it involves Brass Vases, &c, &c., Tennis Peles and Carnival, taking into consideration sharp skimping and daily sterifice to Net, Iron Safe, Several Carpets, &c, the apparent ineficiency and laxness lend out of negre earnings. They their check to be final, they should

displayed this year, for many of last yeur's board of directors hava bean. will look with reprobation and con- terms with regard to Belgium and propose favoumible and equitable e-elected and the new director gen. tempt upon those who can and will France and Italy, could they blame eral regards the results, achieve not, upon those who demand a higher us if we concluded that they did so. ments and methods of this year's rate of interest, upon those who think only to assure themselves of a free Red Cross Carnival management of it as a more corimercial transac hand in Busaia and the Eust Their as worthy of priise, if not emilution.

We are convinced that the majority tini of the men who have gained control of Carnival affairs are not inbued with the proper spirit of altruism and self-sacrifice concordant" with the great cause that les back of it. Not Blust they are disloyal, but they seern not as yet to have seen the present work wonflict in is larger trine cendunt aspect. They seem to find nothing wrong, for example, in voting 15,000 for honenurims, leaving only P20,000 in not. profits for, the Band Cross

THE Undersigned have received in- Trustions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCEAARD),

DA

FRIDAY,

the 19th April, 1918, at 11 am...

the Sales Rooma, No. 8, De Veux ROAD, Corner of

In His Street.

400 Tons

ANTHRACITE DUST COAL

(in lots of 100 Tons).

The Coal is stored at Yan ma-ti and) nspecting orders will be issued be the adersigned.

Terms:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hooghoor. April 15, 1915.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

928

"HE Undersigned have received instruc

Toby Pictucion

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCRENED),

SATURDAY,

the 20th April, 1918, ■ 10.30 am... at the Sales Rooms, N. 8. Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Is Ross Street,

SHIP'S STORES, WINES,

LIQUEURS,

Consisting of :--

Tinned Milk, Meats, Fruita, Jams, and Sundry Groceries, Bottled Claret, Beer, Stout, berries, Champagne, Cognac, v., &c., &c.,

Áin

D.O.M., Chartreuse, Kümmell, Curacao,

etc., etes

etc.

Do view from Friday, the 19th inst. Trems:-Cash

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, April 13, 1918.

324

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in

structions Iron: the Administrator

• PIANOS.

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue). TS:-Cash.

BUGHES & HOUGS,

Auctionscy. Hoagkong, April 17, 1918

PUBLIC AUCTION.

$38

THE Undersigned have received instrac

sions to soil by Fablic Auction,

". (ruk accoUNT OF THI CONCERNED)

02

WEDNESDAY,

the 24th April, 1918, commencing st 2.30 p.m., ut their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

AN AMOLTMENT OF HOUSEHOLD LINENS, &c. Comprising --

dc. TaxCash.

die

HUGHES & FOUGE,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 17, 1918.

337

their lives on the field of battle.

us, is over,

?

**Are we not justified in believing that they should do the same things at their Western frout if they wer not face to face with mies whom overcome? If, when they have felt even their countless divisions cannot

purpose is undoubtedly to make all the Slavic people, all the free and

I have not done, therefore, to ambitious nations of the Baltic

the fan. I have come only to give you, if I can, a more vivid con, ception of what it is for.

"The reasone for this great war, the reasons why it had to come, the need to fight it through art the

issues which hang upon its cuteonie, are more clearly disclosed now than ever before. It is easy to see just what this particular toan meins

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peninsula, all the lands that Turkey hus doruinated and mistuled, subject to their will and ambition, the build- ing upon that dominion of an empire. of force upon which they fancy that they can then erect an empire of gain and commercial supremacy-an empire as hostile to the Americns as to the Europe which it will overawe an empire which will ultimately master Persia, India and the peoples of the Far East. In such a pro- At Carnival time, text yen, if the

gramme our ideals, the "ideals of war continues, very lew Americans because the cause we are fighting justice and humanity and liberty, Single and Double Plain

and here will not have relatives in the for stands more sharply revealed than the principle of the free self-deter- Hemstitched Sheets, Fillow Cases, Bed trenches in Europe. Perhaps many at any previous crisis of the moment. mination of nations upon which all Quilts, Table Cloths. Pure Linen Damask Serviettes Bath Sheetz, Bath Towels, Filipinos will have dear ones risking ous struggle. The man who knows the modern world insists, can play Tarkish, Towels, Blankets,

no purt. They are rejected for the Then, perhaps, the full meaning of the least can now see plainly how ideals of power, for the principle that this war will dawn upon the directors the cause of justice stands and what the strong must rule the weak, that and they may decide to postpone the the imperishable thing is he is asked trade must follow the flag whether Camival until this, feurful world struggle, which affects every one of to invest in. Mery in America may those to whom it is taken welcome it or not, that the peoples of the be more sure thus they ever were world be made subject to the tron The Carnival bosses, plus the before that the cause is their own age and overlordship of those who proxies, voted for a special ambulance and that if it should be lost, their have the power to enforce it. representing the Philippine Carnival Asiation to be sent to the Front. Own great cation's place and mission Imagine, if you please, a scene back in the world would be lost will is. of the front lifes in France just after "I call you to witness, my fellow an engagement. A dying soldier is countrymen, that nt no stage of this carried back by the stretcher-bourers terrible business have I julged the

the nearest to be conveyed to emergency hospital. The P10,000 purposes of Germany intemperately ambulance sert from here is waiting. I should be ashamed in the presence As. he is being lifted into it his eyes of affairs, o grave, so fraught with strike the inscription :-"Donated by the Philippine Carnival Association, the destinies of mankind throughout from proceeds of, the 1918 Carnival. all the world, to speak with trucu Manila, P.I." What must be his lence, to use the weak language of feelings? Not what the generous hatred or vindictive purpose. We dorors imagine, we feel certain.

The word Carnival should be must judge as we would be judged. aunther while the world is engaged I have sought to learn the objects life-and-death struggle for Germiny has in this wor from the Democracy and higher things than nonths of her own spokesmen and those of the Besh..

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FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

ALESEND 109 THE PEAK,

6 Rooms.

Apply C. EL GALE,

P. W.D. Hongkong, Mar. 28, 1918.

377

of the Estate of WILLIAM CHARLESUSCULUM, Barker Road, 158 Peak.

Puschano deceased to sell by Public Anction,

on.

MONDAY,

the 20th day of April, 1918, at 12 Noon,

as their Sales Booma, No. & Des Yeux Bond, Corner of Ice House Street,

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD' PROPERTIES

Stuate at Ma-tau-kok, Kowloon, in the Coly of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lót Ya. 194 and Kowloon, Inland Lot Bo. 1100.

The Properties consist of :-

Lot 1-All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Ma-tau-kok in the Dependency of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office sa Kowloon Inland Lot No. 100g

This Lot has an area of 150,000 sq. ft.or thereabouts and vis held for the unexpired residue of "the terms of seventy-five years (renewable) created therein by an Indenture of Crown Lease dated the 28th day of November, 1901 subject " to an sonnal Crown rent of $550. Est a-All that piece or parcel of

ground situato at Ma-tau-kök Klore said and registered in the Land Office a Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1109.

This Lot adjoins Lot 1, has an area of 45,000 sq. ft. or thereabouts and is held for the expired reside of the term of seventy-five years renewable) created therein by an Indenture of Crown. Lease dated the 20th day of November. 1001||| subject to an sunnal, Crown resit of $245.00.

Mennes. WILKINSON & GRIST,

Bolicitors,

ݤ, Queen's Road Central

FOR SALE'

Apply

Hongkong, Mar. 1, 1918.

DUNCAN CLARK, LANE ÜBAWFORD & Co..

196

FOR SALE.

THE Undersigned have received in-

in J

TO LET

TO LET:

Rooms, No. & Des Voeur Road, Corner R Building.

stractions to sell at their SalosESIDENTIAL FLAT in Prince's of Ice House Street,

MOTOR FACHT Built 1910, had very little usage, Full

...Teakwood Length, water-line 29" 9" ; over all 35′ Beal...

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"That programme once carried out, America and all who cure or dure to stural with her, must army and prepare themselves to contest with thein the mastery of the world.

mastery in which, the "rights of coinmon men, the rights of wornum. and of üli who are weale, must, for the time being, be trodden under foot and disregarded, and the old, ge long struggle for freedom and right begin again at its beginning Every thing that Amerign has lived for, Lid lid and grown great to vindicate and being to a glorious realization, Will have fallen in utter run and the gates of mercy once more pitilessly shut upon nankind!

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The thing in preposterous and consult ta Wie t061 impossible, and yet is not that wint

to deal as frankly with them as I the whole course and action of the eyes scientifically and ft wished them to deal with me, I have: they have moved? I do not wish.

German armies has meant whenever glasses to individual rẻ.

laid bare our own ideals, our own even in this moment of utter aquirements. purposes, without reserve or doubtful illusionment to judge Barshly or .phrase and have asked them to say the German 3 have accomplished unrighteously. I judge only what

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TO LET.

Motor "Scripps", Heavy duty 14 H. P2

Complete with Lavatory, Refrigerator, NO. 3 CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon.

Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MEST AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, April 8, 1918.

a Euit of Sails, and all Accessories.

Price and fall particulars may had from the Undersigned.

Teruz:-Cask,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneer's

Hongkong. Jan. 9 1918.

PATELL & CO.

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What then are we to do? For is made, to be just to the German even now, to discusa a fair and just people, deal fairly with the 'German and honest peace at any time that Power, as with all others. There can it is sincerely proposed--a peace in be no difference between peoples in which the strong and the work shall

fare alike. But the answer when 1- the final judgment if it is indeed, proposed such a peace came from the to bo a righteous judgment. To pro German commanders in Russia and Ppose anything but justice, even I cannot mistake the meaning of the handed and dispassionate justice, to answer. *

"I accept the challenge. I know Germany as any time, whatever the that you accept it. All the world, outcome of the war, would be to shall know that you accept it. It renounce and dishonour our own shall appear in the after sacrifice and causa. For we ask nothing taat we self.forgetfulness with which we shall give all that we love and all are not willing to accord.

that we have, to redeern the world It has been with this thought and make it fit for free, men, lite that, I have sought to learn from ourselves, to live in. - This now is those who spoke for Germany whethe meaning of all that we do. Let ther it was justice or dominion and everything that we may, my fellow- the expectation of imposing their countrymen, everything that we own will upon the other nations of henceforth plan unt accomplish, ring the world that the German leaders true to this response till the majesty were seeking. They have answered," and might of our concerted power. IMMEDIATE - ENTRY, four very answered in unmistakable terms, shall fill the thought and utterly desirable BHOPS, situated in Ice They have avowed that it is not defeat the force of those who flout House Stroet, oppraise the Grand Hotel justice, but dominion and the un- and misprize what we quour, und recently toconstructed.

For runt and other particulara apply bindered execution of their own great, held deur.

Germany is one were said that

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THE HONGKONG. LAND INVEST. **MENT & AGENCY Co., Lap,

TOLET.

to the Manager. Hongkong los Co, Ltd. will

48 Connaught Rond Central College. The dvowal has not come from fores and forck, ülofte, shall decide Bongkang, August 1917, 9003 Germany alatesmen. It has corne whethezjustice and pence spall reign from her military leaders, who are, in the affairs of men, whether Tight her real rufers. Her statesmen have, as America conceives it, of domiin on

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