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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918,

AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sal: by FPublic Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERALD),

SATURDAY

the 8th June, 1918, at 10.30 a.m.,

at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of fee House Sweet-

LADIES' DRESS MATERIAL &c..

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Comprising:-

Lawn, Holland, White Drill, Vigared Priats, Alpaca Table Cloths, Serviettes, Towels, Sheets, Counterpanes, White and Coloured Blankets, Gent.'s and Lady's Handkerchiefs, White and Fine Serge.

Also

About 400 bottles French Perfume. Terms-Cash.

HUGHES & HORGE,'

Auctioneers.

Hongkong. June 4, 1918.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

+491

THE Undersigned has received in tructions to sell by Public Auction,

(FOR LCCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

SATURDAY,

the 9th June, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noon. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

I double-barrelled hammerless

EJECTOR CUN, 2-bore by the

A H. Fox Co.,

· 1 six-shot repeating. WINCHESTER

GUN, 20-bore.

(Both these Guns are practically new

and have only been used once)..

On view Now.

Terms -Cash.

HUGRES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, June 4, 1916.

PUBLIC AUCTION

492

THE Undersigned have received in- by epic nation,

MONDAY,

N

the 10th June, 1918, at 2.30 p.m..

at No. 8, fiddle Road, Kowlona,

ין

(Ground Floor),

THE SUNDRY

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

$

Sec.

therein contained. including:-

ELECTRIC FITTINGS.

(Full Particular from Datalogue).

On view day of Sale.

Trans-Cash,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, June 4, 1918

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 10th day of | Jang, 1916, at 3. p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot. of CROWN LAND at Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 73 years, with the optios of ronawal at Crown Ren: to be rod by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for ene further] term of 73 years..

No, of Bal

Kowkem, Inland"

Locality.

Particulars of the Lot.

3.

Boundary Kestaments.

1

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FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

Contente

"OLD GLORY."

THE CHINA MAIL.

La Armerien, ja Ansty sourcedes a generation later the same fag became the embleas of that world wicke novetient wh.eh

INTERESTING ADDRESS BY JUDGE began with the Genera conterence.

LOBINGIER.

Truly if league of nations is ever. (penis. ed its dag should be the Red Cruss in h white field.

But there was another grasier stans

"Scots who hae wi Wallace bird, Seora wham Brier hae often led, Welcome to your gory bed,

Or to Victory!"

hen-

The American University.hab made the presentation of two silk dags and del borne by a brave and hardy people the other small flags to the Shanghai who have contributed much to the making American School at Shanghai last week of our own nation. This was the and Judge Lobingier spoke ni lollows :——, [nie blue Bag? et Scotland, consisting of The Rag which is today priented and this white grows of St. Andrew in a blue raised is not a mere piece of hunting ever conquest.nder ir Robert Hener..

Held-a dug which sehun net delcat a: designed to attract the eye er adorn the aildrawing the assembled Serits at the landscape, It is a great alisust em- break of that fateful day at Baunovichurie, | blem, expressing the tradition, and idealsittered those fiery words which the of earth's mightiest democracy and ap. genus of Robert Burns transformed into pruling to the deepest enmtions of every

ta Sentch Marseillaise, beginning

patriotic American. More than that, our flag has a history and a bishxical signi- Hence, of which fur tos little

gener. ally known. But, thanks is the en-j couragement offered by ow patriotic had become James 1; of England, there sxieties, groaps of our people here and two historic standards were combined in token of the union of the kingdoms. Tu there bace seriously takes up "dug the red and white of St. Genege's banner, study. Now day study" is a branch was added the blue of St. Andrew'st and sheraldry and heraldry of sphragistics. the red, white and blue, thus for the And so the study of our flag in the light first time appearing in a single flag, be (483

for its history leads to into several in- came known as the King's Colours,""

teresting fields where the horizon is

This was the tax under which our country bremiened and the view inspiring, was chiefly colonized. It was the. Bag which they dower few and, which or volonin! westers envied in all their wars including King William's, Queen | Anne's, George II.'s and the Freach and Indian. As a young lieutenant, George Washington modered his first military

700 80

THE COLOURS.

What are the elements at sa tag or of any Hag for that master! Are they gust (1) its colonus and (2) its figuźles ? .

Joseph Rodnas Crake, the best peutic

In 1808, aiter James VI.

Scotlandl

"GALESEND. 100 THE PEAK rise of and flors, slag is the service under that flag with General die verse, recalling the first lines of Beadlock's ill-fated expedition against | ** Bale Britannių ";

Apply C. H. GALE,

P. W. D. Hongkong, Mar. 25, 1915.

977

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TO LET

TO LET.

ATO. 4, MORRISON HILL, from

1st July.

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THE TREASURY.

Hongkong, June 5, 1915.

TO LET.

NO. 7, STEWART TEBRACE

53, THE FEAR

Arome FLAT, No. 06, The Peak.

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, June 1, 1918.

TO LET.

49′′

483

Ft. Di Quesne. In all their history she When Freedom. (ura ber mountain-colonies had followed, and other tag than

bright,

the ** King's Cofoors. What was sigre natural than that they should entholy the sanus enlours in their new banner of independence?

Infarted her standard to the air, She tore the antre robe of night.

And set the start of glory there;

She miingled with its gorgeous dy The milky buldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial nite

THE FLURRY,

But what of the stars uni stripes? How came they to 5ad a place in our With streaking of the morning? Drake, you will remember, tells

light***

** Flag of the Tree heart's hope and home

By are hands 50 valour in The stars have lit the welkia dime

us that

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whole into a memorial park. I am glad for the names of members of the present to be able to provide the opportunity

graduating class of the Shanghai-in- erican Schoul to appear on the roil of honour of this patriotic enterprise.

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress :

Resolved, That the Flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white" with 12 stars white in blue field."

As to other details are prescribed it is evident that the author of this resolu by stars have lit the welkin dortion assumed that the arrangement and location of these figures would be under- litlag with which our Revolu stoor and that implies a flag already in tionary fathers had been familiar ever existence-doubtless that designed by And all thy hoes were born is heaven. contained stars and strips. The only Washington with the aid of Betsey Ro

It seems

that the figures in the older dags were the grosses father of his country" and a very

clear, therefore, Tart these bues-the red, white and blue

[and these were rotatord in the earliest direct part in the making of its the --which the poet, suid. ** were bera ía

•lugvern are in faen found in many other revolutionary Bags ryen so late as Fann and particularly in the anion of the d the French, the Dutch, the 1776, scarcely a half-year before the fixtres--the stars and stripes which afford its most distinguishing features. Basian and even the Chinese. And have Declaration of Independice, when s

j

you not noticed them in the Con Jack?ng was hoisted over General, Washing

ton's headhunters at Cambyleget Max.

WASHINGTON COAT OF ARMS,

If not dum for thereby haugs an i-setts, with thirteen stripes, one for figures of the Washington family's cont

teresting historical ebain.

URNISHED FLAT in Queen's" when knightiiował

Gardens, from 1st June.

Apply to

wus

Spenser, describing in Iris Faery Queen "the acoutrements of bis knightly

These

Now it happens that those are also the Ju this fatebol time when the Red Cross, each of the revolting colonies, but still farms. In the church of St. Mary the hamlet of Great Brington, North- Virgin, rtable is canaipresent, one is much in with the united crosses of St. Fierge and smptonshire, the same county which terested to find that it may rightfully St. Andrew on a blug field.

furnished so many of the Pilgrims, -are elain a kinship to cur own. For that! A Hay cuntstalig tid, rei ant the tombs of several Washingtons, among them Lawrence, who died in 1616, and sum gura Red Cross in a white white stripes and a red cross part was a grandison of another of that name fell-comes down to faum the days have been used by the East Tantia Cop who, in 1539, reeived a grant of Bul-

the same infower, pany us early as 1704 azad some have trave Manor in me shire, having

thought that it furnished the suggestion igrated there from Lancashire of the stripes in our tag. If so it affords toubs are marked by an inscription bearing this Washington coat of arms: cas more example of Asiatic origins.

argent two bars. And in chief

thirew In the colonial-bainers of Blyde Island millets (stars). They are also carved on a sun-dial found near the Washington Brington and were naturally carried by two grandsons of Lawrence

Washington who emigrated to Virginia in 1657, one of

this cherished heirloom that, so far as whors (fohn) was the great grandfather of George

Washington. And it was in heraldic records have disclosed, the tits and stripes were first combined in the same shield.

PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. | hem, says?

Hongkong, May 16, 1918.

No.

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· Epaa his breast a bloodie uros he wore, there were thirteen stars in a blue held The dear reinerabrance of his dying But son would trace to that source the Come in the adjoining hamlet of Little of those nerves which govern all the Sir William Taylor, M.D., Surgeca

Lord."

stars*ol, our flag, nonther hougnt for the Such so was the standal of the smallest cunnionwealth," Crusaders, particularly the Knights Tem-

lar, who organized in 1118 protect and stripes were never combised in any But are fart seems clear: The stars pilgrims to the Holy Land. It was wei single flag until they appeared in car banner, alterward known as the Crows designed and used by General Washing of St. George." that Richard Coeur de tou. Just wheat this was accomplished, THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.. England's frusader king received

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THE Vädersigned bas received in. stractions to sell by Public Auction,

on

TUESDAY,

the 11th June, 1915, at 11 am. on the Premises of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, West Point:

168 Cues BUBBER.........

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Terms: Cash.

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attention to the faer that the figures of our Bag are those of his ancestral coat- the other seems to me too obvious for of-arms. But that the one suggested?

arguownt.

The objection that General Washington himself never referred to this device as a In the New York Metropolitan Museum source of cur pational flag seems to me of Art is a tapas juinting by Finanuel without force. The man whose innixte Lure which represents Washingtonmediesty forbade him to remain in the hull of the Continental Congress, though Chasing the Delaware," and in the prov of the boat which bears the great frader. ember, waile his name was being for the post of Commander- considered By the time of Edward F. (1927) St Huts the Star Sugled Banner. Offint hief; and who shrunk later from the had become the recognized Figlish stan- ourse that picture was painted long after iero suggestion that the national capital be located neur his Virginia home, would dant and remained such for marly three the event, for the artist belongs to have heen the last to draw public centuries. As the ensign of Mary VII.,¦revent genemtiou (1910-1968); but there it was planted on the stares of what is are reasons for believing that in zey Canada by Sebastian Cuba in 1497 respect he followed those who were cu

the Brat Europeau Hag to Hoat over temporaries the event. Charles Wi- the soil of North Angries. And is it son Fesle, the soldier painter, cominand- not fitting that this ensign of chivalry jed one of the companies which recrossed. The stars and the stripes thus united should reupyeur in undern tires as the the Delaware on Christoms day, 1770, originally symbolized as first the same ender of immunity? As endly as 1850 and participated in the battle of Tren- fact-the union of thirteen states. And Bisling Bargn, a Roman Catolic misto on the day following. Later he time after the first new states were ad

this connection lasted for a considemble sionary, corrică a ped, cross đưg là pointed a picture of Washington at mitted. For each one show stripe as work atrung the Indians of Western TRIED

in the background of which is well as a new star, was added to the fur

apparent that the ja day of thirteen white stars in a blue But it soon became

additional stripes if continued would feld.******

widen the flat unduly and spoil its synle Colonel John Trumbull was one of the metry. A comprocaise was finally reach- most famous of early American painters.ed by which the number of stripes vas

restore! to thirteen while a star wasi Fle was General Washington's aide dur

added for

for ench new state. Thus, the ing the operations around Boston and stripes permanently syncolize the ori later was with him again,'** nos long after ginal states while the star

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his success at Trenton The battle of ever- Princeton was only one week after, and And what a wealth of symbolism anil Frames, Lenses, and Protection glasser-

Iristoric a lusion: Ilea back of thi Colonel Trumbull painted a picture of chivalr, the crusades, heraldry the ex- that battle showing the stars and stripes ploration and colonization offre new in action. Thus the present figures of world, the union of English-spiking nations, the struggle to make and keep: our flag appear in these two leading en- North America Anglo-Saxon, the pre- gagements, as represented by conteropor-servation of Anglo-Saxon - ideals of arles, directly under the eye of the coin liberty and law, the defence of the rights mander-in-chief,

of atmall nation these are the ideas prepetuated and preserved in the evolu WHISTON AJUDBINET 2085.

tion of our flag. And, the present He seems to have been quite as closely mighty conflict has opened a new chip er Identifled also with the circumstances in its history for within recent montha which culminated about a half year the tare and Stripes have been raised for Inter in the offcial adoption of those the Brst time over St Paul Cathedral, figures by Congress. In the spring of flown from the matheads of British 1726 Washington visiter Philadelphia vesels, and carried by American armies and we are told that, in company with through the streets of the

-world Robert Morris, the financier of the Re- metropolis amid thundering plaudit of Sale distributors of volution, George Ross, a niember of the populace

the Continental Congress and Betsey

ho

Scion of knightly standards, cretain of Ross, widow of the latter's nephew, red crown emblen prophecy of world- worked on the details of the new wide emium, Old Glory fats today national dug Only last September it over the blood stained trenchesef north- the little two-storey building on Areb occupants, inspiring them to freal deeds as my privilege to linger for a time in cin France, heartening thejerier street, in the city of brotherly love of herciam and sealing the assgratee where Betsey Rose kept her upholstery of ultimate victory. In the words of Shop and her three distinguished visitors Clinton, collard et Rathered to discuss with her the design Not stripe aor cinstered afar has ever for a new national emblems it to hone save but for freedom, for the interesting to note in passing tint the broader, birth of liberty the nearer meat for purchasing and preserving. those historic premises, cats, largely from text cent contributions, roostly by American fubbol, thüdren and inst. fund is now being raised to terebian tie surrounding a roperty and conxert the

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