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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER APPRAISE AND STEVETOR.

Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS- METEOR GARAGE

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG FUND-

FOR

DEVASTATED FRANCE

Sole distributers of

MAXWELL CARS,

Automobiles for Hire and for Sale

at reasonable Prices

'Phone 2500.

66 Dee Vaux Road Central.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

FRERES

MASPERO

CATRE

CIGARETTES EGYPTIENNES

Fileshares faerts

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 1997

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

Hotel Mansions.

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS.-

BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

TO MAKE A DAINTY MEAL

Buy ROOSTER BRAND" Macaroni. Vermicelli, Egg Noodles, Paste Stars and other kinds of Soup Stuffs from us. All our Paste Products made in a new, well-ventilated and mers style Factory, are pure, wholesome and of excellent quality.

Obtainable from all our Agents everywhere.

samples and Price List will be given free of charge on application to our Head Office.

TRADE

THE HING WAHPASTE MFG.

80. II.

HAAD OFFICE; 47 48, Connaught Road Central, Hongking

Tel No. o BRANCH OFFICE: 430 & 431, Nanking Road, Shanghai Chin

SATURDAY, 298 NOVEMBER, At Happy Valley.

GYMKHANA

Admission $1.00.

Tickats Now On Sale. "

The Race of the lay "ST. ANDREW'S CUP" H. E. The (overnor has kindly pamented to give way the cupa at the sopelusion of the mesting.

MONDAY, at DECEMBER At the Theatre Royal, at 9.15 p.m. LECTURE

By Mille. H. Van der Filer. "Looking at Montrin's-Seats to any War of the Theatre $1.00 each. Soldiers and Sailors in uniform 20 cents each.

The Chair will be taken by his Honour Sir William Roes Davies, Kt., I.C.

The lecture will be illustrated by moving pictures of incanse interest, smong which is shown the bombardment al Antwerp. The photographs were taken from an seroplane and German shells are plainly seen bursting over the

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A quantity of beautiful bronze plac 40 specially designed for the Fund by famous Bolyain artist will be sold by dies before and after the lecture, A amber of these placquea were pur shased by the Belgsin Government for presentation to ladies in foreign coun- krics who had helped in collecting money on behalf of the destituto and ⚫uffering people. Price $0 00 each.

Do not fail to purchase out of these Beautiful placques of historic value. It will serve to ramind you of the great victory of Freedom over Tyranny.

At Volunteer Headquarters FRIDAY, 19th. DECEMBER,

From 9 p.m. to 13 midnight. GRAND MASKED BALL,

Prizes will be given for the most Attractive Dominoes. Admission at

$5.00 sach,

including Hight refreshments.

SATURDAY, 20th DECEMBER,

at 3 p.m..

$1.00

Admission CABARET, TOMBOLA,

DANCING, TEA, ETC.

Also

THE "EVERYTHING" STALL

DANCING, will continue until Midnight.

Motta for 19th & 20th December: "DANCE FOR DEVASTATED FRANCE,”

"CHINA MAIL* OVERLAND EDITION

THE BEST WEEKLY, NEWS

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from AUSTRALIA a large shiponat of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED, M LE, STERILIZED NATURAL MILK, MALTEU MILK. and SWEETENED C0C04-and- MILE; sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchange. especially for Retailers.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Note Agents for Hongkong and South Chia Jan, à et, Chunght Road Centm, Dongkong Telephone x, 2538 & 0..

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

OWN HOUSE FED POULTRY.

We are now able to supply our Customers with owa fed poultry and to meet all demand..

Our present stock consista of specially selected Birds which are in primo condition and should give every satisfaction.

FOR SALE

POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES

Stanley Gibbon's 1918

British Empire @ $2.50 Bright & Son's A, B.C.

Continent of Europe & its Colonies 1918-1079 $1.75 Foreign Countries 1319-20

(Extra Europosti) WhitЯeld King & Co's 3919 Yvert et Teller's 1918

$1.75 $200

€$1.00

GRACA & 00., Na, 10, Wyndham 'Street, P.O. Box 620.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear. :-

MADE

TO

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CHERRY & UD."

sypse's idongkong Hotel, Telephone No. 482,

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MUMEY A

Japanole Photographers, All kinds of Photographie Work done in latest styles also Fassport Photo Developing and Printing for Amateurs. Speciality.

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"SPECIALS"

Their increasing popularity over a period. of many years is the truest indication of their sterling merit."

Manufactured by hand by MASPERO- FRERES in Cairo from the finest. selected leaf only.

New Stocks of Maspero "Specials" Cigarettes are now on sale at all leading tobacconists.

This Advertisement is issand by British-American Tobaran. Co., (Chian) Ltd.

SHIPPING EXHIBITION.

MARITEIT MARVELS AT

OLYMPIA.

SHELL RAISING IN FLANDERS

BY MAGNETS.

of Dumbarton.whose ancestral yard The company were approached last launched the first steamship ever! year by the War Office to arrange seen on the Thames show a model for magnet lifters: to be attached,to of the "Loch Lomond," a small steam-fibe on tanks for the lifting of live. boat built in 1844; the King Edward," German shells on the battlefields. It the first commercial turbine steamer was found that the magnets could built for Clyde-passenger traffic; the list large ahells,, too dangerous, to, "Otaki," a large New Zealander, the handle quickly in any other way, cut first commercial vessel fitted with of the Flanders-mud: when paly the combined turbines and reciprocating nose, projected. A special device A really comprehensive shipping machinery; the destroyer "Badger," was fitted to soften the contact of the exhibition is, of course, an impos- the first naval vessel ever fitted with shell Hose, on the magnet. In this sibility. A trade which is concerned model paddle wheel and propeller our transport work were quickly and

geared turbines; and there is 3 way dangerous shells in the wayolij with every problem of loading, carry-working in water for those who safely removed. The coming of the-- ing, and unloading of mer and goods wish amusement combined with Arinistice, however, put an end to, by sea; every problem of marine

the work which was afterwards done Mesara Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co. by slower and cheaper methods, construction and propulsion, of

have also a fine show of models, These magnet lifters have been po ventilation, and preservation of cargo including those of many ships built pular in America, for the last ten in all climates; and of safety and during the war. One is the years, but it is only since the short- succour for those on the sea, and of destroyer Warwick, which was age of labour made manufacture economic, and technical handling of Admiral Key's flagship during the search seriously for labour-savings ships in harbour, and a thousand interesting commercial vessel, the Sir England.

Zeebrugge operations. A very devices that their rise has spread in other things that ought properly to Ernest Cassel," built for a Stockholm be represented in a shipping, ex firm to carry iron ore, with a very hibition, could not be illustrated in remarkable system of discharge com

partments and chutes and iron skins, any London enclosed space. The by which the discharge is effected Shipping Exhibition which

was with the minimum, of labour and opened by Lord. Weir, on September coal Meters. Yarrow hate a model

instruction,

There is a big..show of steering- gear, electric, fanners, patent marine governors, search-light, patent davit. gear for lifeboats, patent rudders, ship's painting and composition plants, pumps, patent bulkheads, rubber and asbestos goods for ships 25 at Olympia was almost as repre- of HMS, Turquoise," which attained use, and hundreds of other important Bentative as it could humanly be, the record speed of 45.5 miles per section of ship work and equipment. and the ordinary Londoner who only hour on her official trial. The Clan The greatest popular novelty is in dimiy realised London as a sea-port Line sbows would easily be able to feel some models and photos. One photo shows safe which automatically releases Bome extraordinary the Dutch section. It is a floating thing of the immensity and com- the cutting to pieces of the warship plexity of the shipping industry "Wye, one of the boats whose building upon, which the life of the nation has was stopped by the Government on depended during the war, and upon account of the peace. which 90-much of our economic stability is built.

itself from a sinking ship, and, while floating in the water sends up a rocket every hour for twelve hours, and emits a loud sound signal. More over, it marks the spot. with a light was devised by an Amsterdam firm continuously for three months. It of engineers, and has been adopted by the Netherlands Government

The important Dutch section, which owing to no fault of the Dutch but

Ready For His Bath With Caficara Soap

Mary legacies of the war are dis It is a pity, perhaps, that some of 18in. armour-piercing shell, such as played, the most notable being an the plain and attractive ideas that was used by the monitors in bom are seen in the Dutch section are not barding Ostend. All round the coast, carried out on the English side. under water, lie ships sunk is the There large models showing the war, and the salving of these is one ports, the docking facilities, the of the big commercial problems of of contractors here, is not yet com warehouse system, and the general the sea. Among the many salvage pleted, will be dealt with in a future lay-out of the work, are attractive appliances the most interesting is the article. to the ordinary visitor, and very submersive electric motor which can interesting to the shipper. British be used in places impossible for other merchant shipping, however, is so electric motors, and is designed for old a part of the national business combination with a pump that can that shipping, people probably take be lowered, direct into the places these things for granted. There are which it is desired to pump out, three hundred and fifty: exhibitors, respective of the depth. This pump and the exhibits include many sides is expected to be particularly useful of ship construction, ship equipment, for saving vessels that are making methode of handling cargo, new water heavily from collision and safety devices in ocean travel, wire other causes. The pump is said to less apparatus (including an installa-have: played an important part in tion by which visitors can come saving the "Lion after he had been municate from one end of the build hit in the Dogger Banic chase. ing to another), and a great variety Another exhibit for war salvage of shipyard: plant and equipment has to do with the land, although The exhibits deal not only with the the appliances are largely used in life of a ship from its birth to its foundries and shipyards. This is sinking, but also with diving tanke the electric lifting magnets. The and life saving chambers, and salvage Ingranic Electric Company's exhibit appliances. There is a kinematograph shows one magnet photographed in theatre showing firms of ahipbuild the act of lifting a cylinder head of ing, and marine engineering, and about aix tons. But its most econo dockyard work. The hall is decorated mical use is probably in the handling by a collection of flags lent by the of scrap, where it can do a day's Poplar Bonnigh Connell -

work of two men in half an hour or POIS SOME FAMOUS MODELS.

Beginning with the birth of ship, there are a great number of beautiful models. Mesars, Denny Brothers,

LUTINO LIVE BHELLS,

An interesting story attaches to the Ingranie type on exhibition here.

Cuticus Soap is ideal

for babypocause of its ' "admodule 1-purity" arid" "

Asisted! by touchene a. Cuticura Oint

urling and the G inspo le fu all a „Ja, necessary to “promote and malor

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HOTELS AND CAFES

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL, (To be opened 1st January, 1920.),

J. E. TAGGART,

MANO

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level:

16 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

GENTEAL: LOCATION

KLECTRIC TRAM Pad Ratrance, Electric Lift Pass and Lighting

Aaropan Batius and Sanitary, Fittings Hot and Cold Water Systems

throughout. Bost of Food and Servion.

Telephone-373-Telegraphic Addrow-VICTORIA----

J. WITODELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fans throughout and entirely anier new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietoz, Bar and Baliard Booms, Torma moderate. Special tommu te Hamiles an application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add.: "PALACON."

3. H. OXBEREX, Proprietor,

CARLTON HOTEL,

(EUR 997Y ANNEGAN, BOWLS IN CHE COLOrx.)

ICE HOUSE STREET,

Under American Management. Niest and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine, scrupulously clean. Modeste Bems. Monthly and Family Rates o application to the Proprichtend. Launches, "incos Pettiger Bosts.

Telegraphic Address "CARLTON,“

Max. F. E. CAMERON.

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