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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1918.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT,

General. Anctionears Share, Coni and General Produce

·Brokers and Commission

Agents.

PROPRIETORS

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Telegraphie Adria #SEXYRION" HONGKONG.

PUBLIC AVOTION.

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THE Undersigned have received in-

structions from H. M. VICTUALLING. STORY OFFICE to sell by Public Auction

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SATURDAY,

the 4th May, 1913, at 10.30 ...

at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Der Vaux Road, Corner of Ice House Street.

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BISCUITS. SPLIT PEAS, FLOURS, RAISINS, HARICOT BEANS,

Traxe:- Cash.

"&c.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Arabianowr

Hongkong. May 1, 1918.

THE

PUBLIC AUCTION,

378

HE Undersigned have received in- structions from T. K. DEALY, Esq., to sell by Public Auction,

or

MONDAY,

the 6th May, 1818, commencing at 10.30 am., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeur Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

A LARGE QUANEITY OF VALUABLE BOOKS Including Books on Shakespeare, **Transactions of the New Shakespeare Society, Theat's illustrated "Life of Christ, the Works of Swinburne, Tenayson, Pater, Dowden, William Amold, Dickere Morris, Edwin Meredith, &, &c, &c., many French Authors including Works by Hugo, Georges Sand, Lamartine, Maupassant, Zola, Paludan, Lemaitre, Theurict, Bazin, Regnier, Francis Jammes, ke, kr., kc.

Works on General Constitutional and Legal History, Books on Mathematics, Science, a miscellanecus collection of Latin and Greek Classics, several well. known Dictionaries (French, Italian, Portuguese, Greek), Books by authorita- tive writers on Ressis, Egypt and Pakstine.

And

Une LARGE BOOK CASE.. Cataloguse will be insced.

On view from Saturday, 4th May. Terms:-Coob.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, Apr. 22, 1918.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

$47

Tction to sell by Public Auction THE Undersigned have received in-

(FOR ACCOUNTTOR THE CONCERNED),

On

WEDNESDAY,

the 8th May, 1918, commencing at 1.30 pm, at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of ICE HOLER STRKET, TEAKWOOD AND BLACK WOOD FURNITURE,

TEAK

BRASS AND TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS,

CARPETS, &c., &

AND AN Amber 07 USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS..

As follows:- Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Sofas, now. Card Tables Upholstered Suites, e Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double Bra and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Tok Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining. Tables and Chaira, Tes and Occasional Tables, &c, Dinner Services, Crockery, Case Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Beta &c., Bath Room Utensila Sandry Electro-Plated Ware

-Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood"

AUCTIONS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Tuners Collby Public Auction, THE Undersigned have received in

(POK ACCOUNT OF SER CONCEANED),

WEDNESDAY, the 8th May, 1918, at 230 pm, at the Sales Rooms, No. 8, Das Tavi Roan, Corner of

Tee Huasa Street, One 20-Bore SPORTING. GUN

And One WINCHESTER KIFLE. Tarmo usuni,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

ÁNDÉKOPARS.

Hongkong, May 1, 1918.

Sw

PUBLIO AUCTION.

(ros ACCOUNT OF THE CONCREMAO),

WEDNESDAY,

THE CHINA MAIL.

WORKHOUSE WAIF OR

MARQUIS?

GARDENER'S CLAIM TO THE

WATERFORD · ESTATER.

STORY OF A CHRISTENING IN A

CONVENT...

Florence

Vivian:

wna also pointed out that, that claim | was also, barred by the lapas of time. Fimtly slip was such, Lord Waterford knows Mr. Tooth to be ab impudent pretender, and he had not disgust that his clan could be settled by a moderate sun of money

BABY. AT THE CONVENT.

› AMERICAN CABLES.

OREAT SHIPBUILDING ACTIVITY.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 26. The intensive abipbuilding activities on the Pacific coast have been still further stimulated by the Government freighters to & Fard on this cout. F awarding a contract for 23 large storl ship will be of more than 3,000 tona isplacement, the total tonnage of the 32 aggregating 200,000.

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الحمير

It was true, continued Mr. Cairns, that petitioner wrote letters that showed that he had at his temper After the death of the fifth marquis, A romantic claim to the Marquisate he approached Lord William Berce The Government has slap contracted of Waterford was heard by Mr. Jus-ford, who, however, died. Petisiquer with an Oregon firm for the building of The tice Coleridge in the High Cours later visited Curraghinote, and secur- several large wooden steamers. recently. Plaintiff was George Beres-ed certain particulars about the recent speed records in construction, as ford-or as he was sometimes known, funeral them

avidenced by the almost daily launch- George Tooth-who said he was the

The first witness icr' the petitionerings, are said to have brought contracts lawful son of the fifth Marquis of was Mrs. Cecillar Cottingham, who to the Western States in competition Waterford by the latter's first wife that she was educated at a Fran- with the yards on the Gul and Atlantic

Grosvenor Vivian, the ciscati courent as Portobello-road, divorced wife of the Hon. Capt. and that she remembered a boy being shipbuilding capacity of the Pacific coast Shipbuilders here assert that the brought there. He was known as is almost unlimited and they walecme Petitioner is a working gardener George Tooth, and was dressed for the report that the United States and had vot taken action sooner, his HE Undersigned bare received insccunsel sait, owing to lack of money.

christening.

Shipping Bourd contemplates building Tous to sell by Public Auction,

The evidence of Sister Philomena. |. 10,000,000 tona this year and still more The present marquis is an infant was read. It was to the effect that in 1920 and the marchioness who represents Mrs. Vivian stared at the convent. Nineteer yards with 66 ways are him pleads that petitioner is the son she saw the baby brought there. The already building steel ships on the Pacific of Chorging Tooth, sister of Sarah clothing" was good, and there was coast, which compares with 35 yards Tooth, who was a cock employed by nothing to suggest werkhouse origin. sud 238 ware on the Atlantic and Gulf Lady Waterford, and who was taken a cross-examination, Sister Philo. coasts, not to mention the many wood out of Holborn workhouse and main-en maid that this was the first and a few concrete, ship plants.

To labour problem is believed to be the Government Labour Others who deny the clain, in addi-baby they had seen at the convent, solved

and it was christened quickly.

Department already has an enrolment tion to the Marchioness of Waterford,

Miss Ada Jones, the daughter of of 270,000 workers-in reserve in case are the Attorney-General, the Hoo.Mrs. Sarah Jones, of Notting-hill they should, he needed, whereas the Clule Anson, and the Earl of aid that her mother was a dress-goal aimed at was only 30,000. Donoughmore, and Lord Decies, as maker employed at the convent, and

Labour strikes bave been unknown ansters of the Waterford estates.

Mr. Aleshnder Cairns, who appear ed for petitioner, said that on August day that there was a baby in the workers vie with each other in loyalty, ith, 1872, John Henry de la Four house very nicely dressed in a chris-indulging in contests like those in fishing keep records. The loyalty of Marquis of Waterford, martial stening robe. It only remained a few Liberty Bond buying, etc., and estab Vivian at the Registry fee at St., being taken away by "little the ship workers is also stirring others old lady in a cob." The baby was to personal sacrifices to aid the Allies George's, Hanoversquare, that they known as George Tooth. At the and win the war.. lived at Upper Brook-street and

tine witness was five years of age. Chesham-place, London, and that

Mrs. Maria Brownhill told how she SLY 330-PEARL THREAD the issue was the petitioner, born t

NECKLACE and $25-PEARL EAR-PINGS, REAL RUSSIAN Cheshamn-place an March 20th, 1873. remembered the baby Tooth af Chel. PEARLS. Apply from 1-3 and 4-7 It appeared, continued Mr. Cairns,se. He once took the money for his pm. to Lieut. of Russian Navy SMAESEI. that while Mrs. Vivian was at a Fran allowance of the mantelpiece and Room 68, King Edward Hotel.

[374ciscan Convent in Portobello-road in gave it to an organ-grinder. (Laugh

the 9th May, 1819, at 130 p.in.. at "their" Sales Booms, No. 8, Dos Vevax Road, Corner of Ics Bouss Street, One LIFE SAVING WAISTCOAT

(New) One SET OF GOLF CLUBS. Termas usual.

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers,

Bengkons. May 1, 1913..

FOR SALE

FOR SALE,

$78

FOR SALE. "GRooms.

ALESEND" 100 THE PEAK,

Apply C. E. GALE,

F. W.D.

Hongkong, Mar. 28, 1818.

FOR SALE.

tained by her,

she recollected on going there one for a long time and all branches of the

ter).

The hearing was adjourned.

GERMAN SPY CENTRE IN FRANCE.

J

CONSPIRACY TO MAKE DISORDERS

DISCOVERED. ..

1822. contemplating a change of religion, a child was Erenght in, known as Tooth. There was u certi- |ficate that in January, 1872, a boy was born in Holborn Union to Georginu Tooth, the father being 217 unknown, but it was difficult to see

how petitioner was this child. Peti tioner could not say what became of

Some of the means employed by this child, which disappeared, and, as he said, had not been resurrected Germany to propagate Pacifist ideas in, bin. Petitioner, at any rate Renaudel at the recent meeting of

in France were revealed by A. traced his history from, 1873, the National Socialist Council. Re- months after the story of the waif George Tooth.

THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice Blouse Street,

+

MOTOR YACHT Built 1915, bad very little usage, Hell

...Teakwood Length, water-lins 20"; over all 35" Beam... Drait..

Motor "Scripps", Heavy duty 14 H.

Complete with Lavatory, Refrigerator, Suit of Sails, and all Accessories. Price and full particulars may had from the Undersigned.

Terins :-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, "Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Jan. 9 1919.

TO LET

TO LET.

curve.

EVIDENCE OF THE GRAVE.

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF SHIPBUILDING

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Schwab's taking hold of the ship construction programme is accepted as proof of America's supreme will to defeat the ruthless submarine campaign.

SCHWAB TO PACIFIC COAST

WASHINGTON, April 26. The ships Irunebed from Government operated varria in the past week totalled 82,300 tons, including six steel and two large wooden vessels. All the steel. ships èxcept one were of more than 8,000 tons each.

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Representatives :-

velations are now thade of a highly rganised German propaganda scheme at St. Etienne, one of the great fue- Alliding to the fact set up by the tory centres of France. respondents that Mrs. Vivian bad a A number of rests have been

Charles M. Schwab, who now heads stillborn child in March, 1873, Mr. | made, including a German and his Cairns said it was true that there wife who, however, extraordinary the activities, bas, announced bia intention Branches and

the United States. ship building was on the tombstone at Curragh-act may appear, were actually in of visiting the Pacific coast yards, little café frequented by cipecially the par, where the world's more an effigy depicting her in aning recumbent attitude with a child in soldiers, and who were evidently the speed record was made by the launching Nagasaki, Katatan, Wakamatai, Mojk her arms, but his claim was based on principal agents of the grey. A of a big steel steamer in 55 days after

Kurs, Kobe. Omaka. Tsuruga, Nagoya, many facts, including paternal acts draughtshin at the local arms fue the keel was laid. of the marquis. As to the burial al tory has also been arrested.

The rapidly increasing rate of ship Yokohama, Tokyo Hakodate, Muroran, 27 Mrs. Vivian and her child, the evi Astounding documents have been production is regarded as being in timoly Otara, Vladivostock, Peking Tientsin, dence of a Mr. Bell was available that severed, disclosing Germany's harmony with the remarkable feat of Dairer, Tsinanfu, Hankow. Shanghai, he was at Curraghmore on the day plans to foment strikes und riots British Navy in attacking and block Taipeh, Hongkong. Canton. Haiphong, of the funeral and that he saw only while fostering a general Pacifisting the German submarine bases on the

Manila, Bingapore Calcutta, London one coffin. The case for petitioner movement among the working

and New York. The campaign against the U-boats, it was that the child of the marriage classes of the town.

is declared, is attaining high degres with Mrs. Vivian was put out to The German's wife, it seems, ser- of affectiveness with Admiral Sina andamio Cable Address 10A)

ved in thì har morn, and the couple phía American' fleet taking a prominent Mr. Cairns added that letters had had touts whose business was

to part. passed between the petitioner and bring soldiers to the place. Rooms the murquia. In one the petitioner were let in the sim house to militury US. GOVERNMENT WAR INBUR- put forward the claim and suggested men on leave. The French draughts ANCE PROVES GREAT SUCCESS. that the matter could be settled an arrested ledged there,” amicably, and the reply was that

WASHINGTON, April 25. The supposed accomplices include One of much of the claim could be easily in Spaniard and Swiss.

More than 16 billion dollars in The petitioner wrote them held a particularly liberal safe-Government insurance has been issued disproved. aguin giving details of the claim, and conduct, authorising him to go about in the past six months to soldiers, said he was willing to sign a doce-freely as a bawiter in the entire army sailors, and marines. Four hundred For

million dollars in insurance. was issued ment and never trouble agai could be provided for:"

Numerous code messages were in the past week alone. The Govern TO LET.

Mr. Cairns read many letters that found on the Gerinan café premises.ment paid $50,403,472 to families of URNISHED HOUSE No. 41 The Fused between the solicitors, the Those already deciphered are appar men in the military service.

Peak, for the Summer months.

claims of petitioner being described ently of great importance, and shed Apply-

aa" outrageous and ungrateful. light on certain past events of a regrettable nature. The authorities C. Mcl. MESSER,

Bre also in persession of evidence. Police Office.

showing that German agents were Hongkong, April 19, 1918. į

endeavouring to organise insurrections at a certain date in different regions of France.

No Faroe two Storey NO. 10 MIDDLE ROAD, Kovicos, House overlooking Harbour, & Large and Airy Rooms.

No. 1 CARNARVON ROAD, Kowloon Well-built Two-Storey European House, good Locality.

Apply to-

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TO LET.

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$68

344

RESIDENTIAL FLAT in Prince's

Apply to

THE BONGEUNG LAND INVEST.

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OFFICES

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in York Building..

HOUSES où Shamsen, Canton.

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TMMEDIATE ENTRY, four very desirable SBOPS sitasted in Ico House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently reconstructed.

For rent and other particulis apply to the Manager, Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd.

and Teakwood Screens, Risokwood 48 Connaught Read Contral Furniture including large Blackwood Hongkong, August Sercen Side Tables, Chair, Cabinets, &c,

At Engravings, Pictures, Einkosan and Brass Vases, Tennis Poles

and Not, Iron Bafts, Several Carpets,

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2003

FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon..

Four roomed houses in Kowloom

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U.S. BAILORS EAGER TO FIGHT.

NEW HAVEN, April 22,

Mfr. Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, speaking bere said that the men of the Navy are praying daily that the Gorman fleet come out al. Eght. He added "Thirty-five thousand United States Navy mon are trying for places on our destroyers overseas." He stated that they are being sent out as fast as destroyers are being built

THE AMERICAN ANTI-SUBMARINE

INVENTION.:

NEW YORK, April 20 Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Company, when seen at

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AUCTION

PUBLIC AUCTION.

LAMMERT has received.

Mtructions to sell, by Public

Auction,

TUESDAY,

the 14th day of May 1918, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at bis Pulcs Boom in Duddell Street. Victoria, Hongkong. THE VERY VALUABLE

LEASEHOLD PROPERTY. the offices of the New York Edison Situate in Barker Road at The Peak Company asid

*****I have been informed from srehable and comprising these pieces or parcels source that a new Americis invention of ground registered in the Land Office has been tried against the U-boata, and as, RURAL BUILDING LOT NUM- BER 70 and CARDEN LOT NUMA more than a dozen have been captured.

BER 24 together with the attractive residendini hinse thereon known iLS.

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Thin, impure-blood is a standing invitation to sickrest. It is an open door that indigestion, aularis neuralgin, sciais, rheumatism and Lervous troubles, find cosy "to enter and prostrate the defenceless body.

and endonar tennis, court thereto Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale

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NEW YORK, April 21-DIN ONE LOTUS bloed until it bezomra a health bear The Automobile Manufacturers of the Pura Building Let. Nor 70 contains US ing stream. No part of the body can

country who are eathered bere un corsion of 20,790 square feet and is held escape their beneficial influence. Their effect is general and soon the vention are considering a proposition to under a Crown Unse for 3 years,

Garden: Lot No.24 contains an ares appetite picks up the digestion, bo curtail the production of passenger cars comes good, the eyes brighten, theby 75 per cent after Jane,an as fo permit of 7,800 square feet and is held under a liver becomes active and the skin of the use of the labour and factories Crown-Lense for £f years. bakes on a beaitiful tinted for war industrien. A

Bend to-day for mar tree booklet, "Bailding Up the Blood.EL Dr Williams Fink Pills are sold ́by all chomists, or will be sent, post- paid, She bottle for $1.50, six for 38 by the

pany,

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