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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918,

Hughes & Hough

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General Auctioneers Share, "Goal and General Produce Brokers and Commission.

Agents.

PROPRIETORS

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4th & 5th Editions

A 1 Telegraphic Code

Thegraphic Addres "MEIRION" HONOKONG.

PUBLIC AUCTION. .THE.Undezigned hare received instruc

by Public auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

on"

WEDNESDAY,

the End October, 1918, at 1 s.m., at their, Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Veux Road, Corner of Ice House Strët.

A QUANTITY OF

DRESS MATERIAL. &..

As follows:

Blue and White Serge, Alpach (various Colours) Flannel and Flannelette. An Assortment of Coloured Prints. White Blankets, Counterpanys. Handkerchiefs..

c.. Toilet Soap, Perfumery.

&c.

&C

e.

♫

And Sandry Lots of LINEN GOODS... TERMS:-Ch.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong. Sept" 17, 1918.

PUBLIC AUSTION.

HE Undersigned have received fastroo

TH

tions to sell by Pahile Auction,

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED).

по

FRIDAY,

the 4th October, 1918, at 10.30 a...

at their Sales Rooms. No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.

&c.

Komored to Sales Rooms for Convenienen of Sale And

MISCELLANEOUS GOODS. TERM:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers Hongkong, Sept. 30, 1918.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

799

THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUST OF THE CONCERNIO)

on

SATURDAY,

the 5th October, 1818, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Faux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street.

A LARGE ANSORTMENT OF

CHINESE PORCELAINS

AND CURIOS

Comprising:-

A variety of coloured aml 3-coloured

Vases and Plates, Blue and white Vases

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PEACE, ST

LORD LANSDOWNES SECOND

LETTER

We quote from Tiver

temptation peace tomorrow if he will accopi Proj fo use, regum hruggi d'auk bengil generali sident Wilson conditions, he mercķā over- states his case; nor its secure to sque, fire, ang to slide uspe nikwart question does he greatly advance it by intiaacids bitahu bas, been the ese of our Inter for the benefit of the Geraus, why WE Allied Conferences arst of the meetings are continually warned that we are bents, fof the Imperial Cabinet if them hus be upon their utter destmetisin, thus he Algo: eblonlinarioa, ni wasime of geil el, but most this time and

for ages be broken kril burn in his own!! "a révisk statinent and desiderate wo farmace

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Glasgow on May 18th. Let is quite trus Glasgow newspaper his words, which wete, laruinplately a reported several of the Lundal journals

A SPERLU DU-DENERAL (SADEH, Y former Forel Secretary" and the sub

We shall then certainly (ba - again, Liquidatorn,

ject for penge prertures, which has been

challenged both friends and fors, te BLACKRAD&Cready set out by ruble" in a very con

Some of bid earller versions are chubute phunky, got the full bits of our densed form. Tort bandowne writes tole and any ately, we set aside. For image winht settlement, but the terms faqen which we are willing to give dip We are about to wannende ile 5th a long time the Allies Nite of Jaquar lomney a chase. I do not know whether suae of the great struggle for liberty, patch, 1017, was theming doctruent we shall still be told that no discussion next week we shall tradizin a welewn since then I has fallen out of the is possible "until the power of Germany! resolve not to desist try the offer until ear, and, if for no other reason than his beeh once and for all broken by an overwhelding defeat in the field. It with honour is in sight. Benthi, the Note has herome out of date that is the ofisteles redonnera care MITSUBISHI SHOJI, with every auth that phases, the The estat treative liselosure of fudy of the language went by Generat toll which, the war is claiming berths, which so serious exercised the phafle Sanits in the perch which he delivered heavier and heavies, The civilised wind in this country, may also, I assume, is being drained talts resources, and is

be regarded at ang rat seliable to spelding its energies, in purely destructive.

recision in any important particular forts, each dich involves a further

Angane Why has reads Mr. Dalious%

When we talk of victory wes don't ummution of its reserves of peiner and

Speech the House of Corunna op new marching to the Riting, we don't farther, mutilation of pe inchinery

June 20th, will be assured by his trunke marching to "berlin, we don't mean; production. I have seen estimate

sinsbed Giveniany and, the Germa which put the casualties sustained huncement tha, although the treaties is on with this war until we have

were made in obedience o

Empire, and are able to dietate peace to the belligerent nations us 20,440,000, of which would have nigget any Goverment the enemy in his capital. We shall con which, no fewer than 7,000,000 bave been in power at the time to make the same the war antil the objects for which killed, while `6,000,000 are prisoners for

26 seb it are achieval, and we will do!

tinue on a defensive "basis' to, they maissing: I will not dwell here upon the

end. don't think that an out-and-out. erifices which cur own country is

victory is possible any more for ans awling, upon the exhaustion of our

group of uation in this war, bernam it uskwat wenith, upon our loses la tou

will mean an interminable gampaign. will meas has deriuated" notions will age, and our insinitely more lanestable

The Prime Minister's memorable be called upon to w

eur. Ar any lasses in human lives. A few weeks 180 dech of January 7th lest is. I under-cenes to cove, and what worth the resal Representatives :- Nagasaki, Karatet, Wakamatsu, Moji, the Hegistrar-General, in a striking paper stand, regarded as the most authoritative The The resita ay be that the civilisa Kure, Kebe, Osaka, Tauraga. Nagoya, red at the Roy Laiute of Public recital of the war sins of the Allfeston we are gut to save mad to urd Yokohama, Tokyo, Eakedate, Muroran, alth, Jelt upon the enormous deeling Though lengths and slaberite, it is may be jogarded Towth. But if you are not going to fight the war cut Otaru, Vladivostock, Feking. Tientsin, in the birtheme. He believes that the

some points,rhaps ineritably, wanting stock-up, then surely it is necessary Dairen. Tsinanfiz Hackow, Shanghai, prisentwie is costing the "belligerent

in precisiva. People are asking whether sometimes to find out, how things?ses Talpeh, Hongkong. Canton, Ralphons countries of Eurojus not Tower than it still holds the bed, whether all the sping, and what your opponent is thilak Marila, Singapore Calcutta, London millions of patentiu! lives." 'p'to the demands comprised in it are in the souse, and what funt your may take

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of the situation as it is lepked at by him. present we had "lest in England and

We will not have peace seenzed "Wshow in potential lives, cor the standard be emanced mibil the Central Powers merely by the unaided efforts, of arates

1915.050,000. Every day that the have signified their acceptance of the in this war" compare this with Her was continues, means, he says, a lass of whole of them. It is noteworthy that son. Kohlmann:- An absolute eid van 17ars potential Eves

to the United Few days ago, when addressing the cant. hardly be expected through military diei- ión alone We will have to ye all Kingdon, France, Italy, and the Cuarai (dian editors, the Fime Minister, -referont diplomney and all the forces at intr Frapies while the wär hos filled the ring to previous disenssions el war tims, ipsalu order to bring at ten vie. SPAVAN, it has emptied the cradles, and the contine ünder which we retorious end." Now how are you going to

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On view from Friday, the 4th October. Terma Cash

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We shall reconsider the whole of these problems is the light of events which have occurred since."

PRESIDENTÍVILSON'S TERMS,

have fought up to store when the enemy is prepared to concede your prin ripatterns. the terms you consider essential. But if there is no informat eonference how are you to know that h is going to concede thom?

we are all of us ready re fight on to the bitter and, but there is not a man or woman in the country who "does act rentide the tragedy of these Sgures, and imed there is probably not a Minister Dut since the January pronouncement who has not. at one time or another said, there have been others not less striking. that it would be erinthal to continue the The most remarkable of-these-is-an-for the canser but we expect you as one

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war a day after an irrorable peace halden Wilson's Fourth of July speech, come within aur reucht.

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remarkable bath for what it contains and what it omits. It derives additional ing portance from the fact that our

we

The desire for peace is so far as it sible to judge, widespread among the enemy nations. Now in it be other. Pride Minister, inimdiately after its wise? Can no other assumption is delivery, whole-heartedly adopted it, passible to explain the language of the nanounced that the Central Powers an

and

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*The people are entitled to look to their Government and say. We are bleeding nway We are doing our best leaders to do your part of the work. It is the duty of the Clovernments to talk. There is no other way that you cau achieve the resalts you are after. They must talk to find whether a point has been reached at any time where there in concord and agreement on fundamer tals, because, as soon as there is that concord, we should not coatinue to fight a day longer for non-essentials or things

Liefmans and Austrians who are, in a have peace to-morrow on the conditions that don't matter. Me positiu to speak their minds freely, specified by the President. Owing to the the constant feelers ↑ Which are launch-l

NO. MOMENT, INOPPORTUNE, Hambler persons have been held up dignity of ity language and the high ideois to execration for using language of this et ly the Governments of the Centrul by which it is inspired, no State paper kind. Wher it is used by a men bor by Powers. But we afe, apparently, as far has probably attracted more attention respected throughout the Empire as the War Cabinet and by one so justly as ever from the end. The side of earthau Pristient Wilson's speech. 16 is, General Smuts, it cannot be treated as

age and destruction continues to fow

negligible. General Sauita's speech has given the coup de grace to the theory of and carries all before it. Frear time,

the knock-out blow.. and points the way to a sure conception of that victory. time a ray of reasonableness laminates the gloom, puly to be followed by a'

picture, fawn by a test master, of the golden age to which we are bidden 10 look forward. It does not," however, which all of us regard as indispensable,

seun to provide those who are in search

relapse into reeriminations and controver of a basis for preliminary negotiation momentary superiority in the fold, but

sies in which each side, instead of search ing for points of agement, is apparently content with dialectic auccessos. What it that stands in the way It is with zo desire to embarrass his blujesty's Government that I ask the question. But many of us are sorely perplexed, bad feel

with the kind of groundwork after which

& victory aiming not merely at a a permanent security under which Pre- realised and the law-abiding com sident Wilson's ideala can eventually te

they are striving. Germany would manities relieved from the menace of timote her readiness to conform to Pre-German militarism. The test of

completeness will be found in the enemy's

dent Wilson's standards, 'a long advance readiness to throw aside the doctrinex

would no doubt have been made in the of the extreme militarists and to sccept

hen he set. allowed to look at when Fight direction. The speech is, however, terms, which he would not have been not an outline of peace terms, but a very

it our duty to give them a chance nobly warded description of the things according us some measure of reassurance and enlightenment.

CONDITIONS OF DISCUSSION.

tout upon

bis desperate enterprise That German people has, as Lord Gray truly says, to be convinced that force does not pay and that the aims and policy of their military relers, indict intolerable and also unnecessary suffering upon their country.

bear

for which the associated people oflic work are fighting Eren if we contt suppose that Gerasry, in pursuance of

Have we then reached the stage **There is in the first place. I am con- the policy laid down by the President, when there ira prospect of greliminary vinced, a deep-seated desire for further were ready to combine with other free agreement upon essential points, and of profitable conversations? I am certainly explanation..as to the conditions upon antions ir setting up a tribunal to secure not prepared to affirm positively that we have. Many people are of opinion that which we are prepared, not to make peace petro and justices even if we could there have been occasions when such an but in "open a discussion, which might that, as the result of ber adhesion, agreement might have been recher

when, at any rate, it was worth while lead to peace. It is assumed that soch

bae power of disturbing the peace of trying to reach it. They rosy be right a discussion cannot be commenced the world would be reduced to virtual or they may be wrist, but there are

to dispute over the cut some measure of preliminary greet

impotence even if we had reason, to abundant indications that such occasiona ment, and our leading statesmen eon-

may present themselves in the stantly bid. ús congratulate ourselves Le-hope that all international controversies Easure. Let us be prepared to meet them, crude although our enemies have refused would, fos, the future, be settled upon the and in a reasonable spirit. Let us at any rate kive our adversaries a'chmance of JAPAN TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, KORE,ŰRABA. to define their terms, we are supposed basis, of free acceptance by the peoples showing whether their overtures are clear KELLUNG, MAXUNG, PINAR to have defined ours in unmistakable immediately concerned, and that all sincere or not. Let us, if

ary conditions, as distinguished frots ar SHCHIE. TAICHO "PLINAS, Tangnage Has it be really unmistak.ations must hereafter be governed in minkis ar to the question of prelimin- TAKOW. TAMBUL, TOBYEN, AKO. CHINA-SHANGHAI, HARROW, KUZIANG, able? Nn-age will, of course, Rummet their cauuct towards each other by the time, and do not let us make: believe baye in reality done nothing of the Foot, WAKO, that discussing is impossible, until each ame principles of honour and respect for that we have defined the former when,

side has obtained the assent of the ether the common law of civilised society that kind.

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