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SATURDAY, JUNEM) 11919,

PRESENT-DAY DANZIG,

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ADMIRAL BEATTY'S FAREWELL

Admiral of the. Fleet Sir David Beatty, on taking leave of the Grand Fleet, addressed the officers and ship's company of the "Queen Elizabeth" battleship as follows:

"I am taking this opportunity of saying good-bye to my shipmates, and în doing so I wil read to you the last General Order which I shall issue to the Grand Fleet -

THE SOLDIER'S TUNIC.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NEW IMPORT ORDER

UNRESTRICTED..

Tha Pravalent of the Board of! Tince after deply considering the reumendations of the Consultative Council on, Imports, his given the following directions, la regard to the prohibitions of Imports

1. hub no nation is to be graiteul for cutter hosiery other than in the piece, for which a ration of 50 per cent. of 1016 inports is to be allowed.

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4. That the present authority to import 200,000 gros of -bocca of matches monthly free Seuindita via is to remain in force, and that an,

50,000 gross of boxes monthly is to be allowed to be imported from Belgium.

5. That the importation of wikl animals and ise birds is to be allowed to continue

6.. Phat - the importation" of "works

of are should be allowed frealy, but should be controlled by the issue of liceness.

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In aethauce with the above u general licenca has been issued for the importation of dyed, coloured. and printed cotton goods, general licences being already in existence in respect of will animals and ye birds. The general licence for works or art has been withtrawD

Speaking at a meeting of the Hull Says a Home writer: I travelled

Sanatorium Committee, Mr. H. Stone COTTON AND OTHER GOODS TO BE ditional quantity not exceeding to Danzig three weeks ago by the

house, J.P., the chairman, referred to railway line through Mlawa, which

the great increase in the number of has since become so prominent in the

deaths from consumption, and criti- question of the return of General

cized the Army Council in regard to Halier's army to Poland. We spen:

soldiers' dress. I believe, he said, the right at Mława before crossing

"the Army Council could render most the frontier to be attached to a Ger

valuable assistance, and I fear they are man morning train, in a saloon

partially responsible for our unsatis. carriage that had once, belonged to

factory report for this reason: they are the Russians and was now decorated

perpetuating a style of dress for the with the White Eagle of Poland. A In bidding good-bye to the Grand soldier which is manifestly injurious to intervals during the night we heard Fleet I desire to express to officers health. The tight fitting tunie the German frontier guards firing at and men the deep regret which I and overcoat buttoned close up to food smugglers, whom none of them feel at leaving those who have th chin robs the neck of freedom, has yet been known even to wound. shared sa loyally and devotedly the contracts the chest, and gives the Close by the station was a building stress of the past years of war in lungs no play. The rigid formula of that had once been the Russia success, in disappointment."and in the Army is that a tight fit smartens Custom-house. In the early days of monotony the spirit of the Fleet has the appearance, but surely it is time the war a Zeppelin had dropped a been beyond praise, and the highest these antiquated regulations were bomb that killed twenty-two people traditions of our great Service have revised and the Army authorities close to its walis, only to be brought been upheld. I leave in full confidence | acknowledged that a smart appear down itself eight versts away. Since that the spirit of the Grand Fleet farce is quite a minor matter when then it had done service as a German will remain, that the lessons learnt the question of health is concerned, field hospital, and in its garden were in the war will be laid to heart, and I trust the medical faculty will use buried, under rough, inscribed stones, that the mutual respect and under its influence in agitating for the German soldiers often with Polishstanding which exist between officers removal of this conventional names, and beside them, without and men will be maintained and stupidity." distinction, many ал unknown fostered for the safety and honour of Russian soldier.""

King and Empire. New, half a ruin, it was doing

"I need hardly say that my wishes. duty as a depot providing meals for as regards the "Queen Elizabeth" thousands of Polish refugees coming will be fulfilled.. For over two years. back from Germany, and permanent she has carried my flag under con shelter for a few of them who wers ditions unprecedented, and during Queen Elizabth" has unable to continue their journey. I that time the

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE

THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAIL-

saw a train-load-men, women, and made a name for herself worthy of WAY COMPANY announce the children arrive and undergo ex- The position as the Fleet fagship. amination by the German officials In efficiency, in smartness, in clean-augmentation of the present double just across the frontier at Ilowo. Aliness, and in good spirit the "Queen daily train service by a third Trans- old pair of German soldier's trousers Elizabeth has shown an example to Continental train was taken out of the sack in which the rest of the Fleet which a fleet

The Trans-Canada, Limited. one of the men was carrying his flagship ought to do.. When my flag

The New Train will leave Vancouver luggage; otherwise they were passed comes down you will carry the through freely, and, once safely flag "of my second-in-command,

Daily for Montreal him on Polish soil at Mlawa. donned and under

am quite Connecting for all points in Eastern the reputation which the any Sunday clothes that they still sure possessed for the last stage of their will be maintained. You have to Running Time Vancouver to

Queen Elizabeth has established. Canada and United States. journey, the men hastening to buy small Polish eagles to fasten in remember that the period in front their caps. This train-load, I was of us is going to be different. told, were in better case than most Reaction sets in, new features appear, and I had already beard details of which have got to be overcome of the refugees that came to Mawa; and new difficulties arise, all of the sufferings of some who had come But I am confident that in the future: to the frontier a few weeks before in as in the past, the "Queen Elizabeth" anwarmed cattle trucks. From one will live up to the reputation which train over twenty children had been she has made. It is a great one, and taken out dead.

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In Danzig itself I was faced, as came out of the station, with a large poster, printed in plain black letters: on a white ground:

"West Prepasen ist deutsch,

will be difficult but those who are left on board can do it. The spirit

of the 'Queen Elizabeth' and the spirit of the Grand Fleet will remain.

you have gained that the people of this country are fully aware of what they owe to the Navy, and are full of gratitude to the Navy for the part that they have played.

I was proud to have representa- tives of my flagship to support me

on that occasion, I received the

Montreal

23.15 hours.

will be devoted to First Class Sleeping

The "TRANSCANADA LIMITED": Car passengers and will consist entirely of Compartment Observation: sad Standard Sleeping, care, Dinning car and Baggage cars

Hongkong, June 7, 1919.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

Undersigned has receive ins tractions to sell by Public

Da

TUESDAY, June 19, 1919,

commencing at 11

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

4 Caski Zico Sheets,

2 Rolls Rubber Insertion Cloth, 2 Coils Indian Rubber Strip, 45 Casca Sterilized. Milk, 11 Cases Matches, 4 Sacks Flour

350 Dozen Cotton Underpants.

Terus Cash on delivery,

GEO. P.LAMMERT,

Auctioneer

Hongkong, Jane 7, 1919.

"I thank you, Captain Chatfield, officers, chief petty officers, petty officers, non-commissioned officers. und will Deutsch bleiben."

and men for your loyal and whole [West Prussia is German, and will hearted support during the two remain German.—Ed. C.M.];

years past. Without that support The station itself and the streets out my task would have been much more side it were fuil of men in uniform, difficult. Recently at Liverpool you mostly demobilized soldiers. I never were able to realize something of the saw any of them salute an officer. feeling in the country with which The nearest approach to military dis the Navy is considered. You were cipline publicly visible in Danzig was fortunare in being there, and I hope seen at the relief of the guard soon you will all pass on to your friends after noon each morning, wh n ajin other ships the knowledge that handful of very young and raw-look ing recruits marched up behind a band, the guard whom they relieved slipping away without formality through the crowd which always at tended the ceremony on fine days. On Sunday the colonel commanding à regiment in the district came in to lunch at my hotel in full-dress uniform without anyone showing interest in his presence, and by dinner-time he bad relapsed into an old and bald gentleman in a black morning coat. The following day, as I came up the Vistula on a tug. returning to town from the port, where I had been watching German dock labourers unloading sacks of American four for Poland, I was followed at about twenty yards' distance by a launch in which sat two German officers in "It is good for you to know that long grey cloaks. One of them was the feeling in the country is what it General von Below, commanding the is. Sometimes in the Navy we have district. In the stern of his boat a a sort of feeling in our minds that German flag was fluttering in the because we are out of sight we are wind. He landed, receiving no out of mind. That is not so. There Two salute from the men in charge of the fore I would remind you that that' launch, who then hauled down the feeling entails certain obligations official flag and bundled it carelessly upon us, that we have to continue to under a seat.

hold ourselves worthy of the trust, has in the great Service to which we that unfailing trust, which England all have the honour to belong.

criticize his taste. There is a charm-

freedom not as David Beatty, but as the representative of the Grand Fleet. The honour is to you as much as it is to me, and in all subsequent functions of that sort the honour that is being done to me embraces every man in

PUBLIC AUCTION.

structions to well by Pubhe Auction, PUR ACCUUNT OF THE CONCERNZD),

the Fleet. I am the figurehead. de Dalerigoso have 1scrived la- have to make the speeches, but you are really the recipients of the honours just as much as I am, and I think that at Liverpool they made that quite plain.

Danzig, besides its noble and ad- venturous memories, has a present beauty of its own. The Crown Prince used ofters to visit it before the war is to me a sad day because it trings 'I now say good-bye to you. This for summer yachting, and I do not to an end my service in the Fleet ing view of an old quarter of the and I may say, my service afloat.. I town as you come up the river from am still a servant of the State, and the harbour. There are some fine so long as I may be employed, or am old Folish buildings in its streets, and employed, in the service of the State or in the service of that great Service one passage at least, running down to to which you all know I belong body the quayside where the ancient houses are built with small courts in front and soul, you may depend upon my of them, separated from the roadway Sympathizing with you and assisting with admirably-wrought iron rail

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WEDNESDAY, June 11, 1915, at 2.30 pm, At their Sales Rooms, No. 8 Das Visa, Corner of Ice House Street. Ransome" Lawn Mowers

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T#e Sextacts.

Teras :-Cash.

RCONES & HOUGH,

* Auctioneers

Hongkong, June 7, 1919.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Br Onder or The Montgadees

MR GED. P. LAMMERT has received instructions to sell by Public Auction,

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FRIDAY,

every man and officer of the Fleet in The 20th day of June, 1919. at 3.m. his just aspiration What the future

ings and panels. A grand old red-holds for us I cantot say: 1 will not brick cathedral, the Marienkirche,

prophesy. I thank you, and rercem

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stands in the beart of the town. Its ber that, although I have gone, 1 walls still bear a notice in English still remain a comrade and friend, telling visitors to apply at a particular house for the keys. And in the town museum you may see a small but beautiful collection of elaborately

Good-bye,”

carved furniture especially of armoires | ST. JOHN'S AMBULANCE.

made in oak and ebony, of a Dutch pattern and sometimes of Dutch make..

BRIGADE.

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. Victoria, Hongkong,

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The following valuable Leasehold pro- perty situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hoogkong, viz:—~

ALL THAT piece or parcel of ground situato at Victoria aforesaid and known and registered in, the Land. Office an SUBSECTION OF SECTION C OF INLAND LOT No. 1417 Togethor with the messungs erected thereon know No.20 Aberdeen. Strest

created by Crown Lenas dated the 16th ang of June 1898. Proportion of An- nual Crown Lent 6:30 Arës about 952 Square feet.

The modern speciality of Danzig is HONGKONG & CHINA DISTRICT Victoria aforesaid. Tera 999 years

its amber. Whole shops are filled

with amber articles-beads, brooches,

and necklaces, cigarette-holders and

seals. I heard that the crews of ships

APPOINTMENT.

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visiting Danzig had done some pro- Mr. Ho Leung, Divisional Superla. For further partīgulīte and condi- fitable bartering between amber and tendent, Victoria Division, isations of sale apply to scap. I do not know what was the pointed to act as Corps Superintend! JOHNSON STOKES & MASTER current rate of exchange between ent until further notice Prince, Buildings) Cry House Street, soap and amber, thot gh it was said

to be becoming much less favourable to the importer. Perhaps it may be deduced from the fact that an Amen can whom I rách, vas préparing to receive in exchange for a single bar of soap a German helmet, sword, revolver, and Iron Crossing in

HOLYOAK ATTENDANCE CUP.

been

Amber cecider

A.D. (Queen's College Division),

Hongkong

The Holyoak attendance Cup has

awarded for 1918 to the NoT SOLICITORS FOR THE MORTGAGERS,

or to.. ME. GEO. P LAMMERT,

Ogkang, June 7, 1913

|_ (Sd) E RALPHS The Auctioneer

Ag. Asst Commissioner.

Hongkong, 7th June, 1919.

3. That no restrictions are to be retained on coton yam and grey and bleached cloth coher than cotton dick after 30th April,

3. That dyed cotaimed, and print ed cotton goods are to be admitted freely fine al sources,

Applications for special licences should be made. as usual, to the Department of Import Restrictions, 29. Curlsle Place, London, S.WI

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