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INTIMATIONS

G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER.

AND SURVEYOR.

Nickelplated & White

Ware

Public Auctions- BATHROOM FIXTURES

--

Now Stock Just Unpacked.

Jeraigned has received Instro-

all by Public Auction,

оц

oember 11, 1818,

11a.m..

a Hongkong and

ad Godown Ca

& Marine Lot 49,

faumati).

Round Mild Steel Bore

134 bundles 3" x 16" 18"

28 proces "x 16718"

Mild Steel Angles

31 pieces 17" x 17" x 5/16" x 18793"

19

'xx 3.8" x 28'33"

Terms Cab on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Barkong, December 9, 1919.

on

SATURDAY, December 13, 1919, commencing at 11 am,

4 bis Bales Room, Dudsoll Street,

A Selection of Cashmere and Twood Sult: Lengths Superior Dvarcoating, Flannel Shirtings, etc. etc. And

One Lot Higt Class English Par- fumes, (ic 2 oz and 4 oz. bottles.)

One bale Superior Travelling Rugs, Two canes Toilet Soap.

Oxo bale. Union Fleece Blankets.

On view from Friday the 13th Dec- amber, 1919.

Catalogue will be issued.

"

Tarma-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT;

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, December 9, 1919.

INTIMATIONS.

ISSUE OF FRENCH 5% PREMIUM BONDS.

TO HELP IN THE RECONSTRUC- ION OF WAR DEVASTATED REGIONS. GUARANTEED BY THE

GOVERNMENT.

FRENCH

FOUR THOUSAND MILLION FRANCS

divided into Eight Millions

500 francs 5% Premium Bonds.

• Prom:mf^16)

OUT 500

also by yearly premium drawings amounting to frs 10.000.000,-with a

quarterly Brst prize of:

ONE MILLION

FRANCS

Price of issue frs 495.– Applications will be received by the

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE (THE FRENCH BANK)

up to December 11th, 1919.

L. BERINDOAGITE,

Manager.

Hongkong, December 3, 1919.

WISEMAN, LTD.

TEA DANCE TO-MORROW THURSDAY, Dec. 11th.

DANCE TICKETS

50 cents each.

D. M. GOODALL,

Manager.

PHONE 407.

THE CRINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918) LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the first ORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING of Shareholders will be

C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd.,

30 & 33, DES Vaux Road, O.

JUST RECEIVED from AUSTRALIA a large shipment. of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILE, STEEILIZED NATURAL MULE, MALTED MILK and SWEETENSO

0000A-and-

MILK, sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers.

JACT

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Yra Aponta for Hongkong and' Baulh China.

8, Conmanght Road Central, Hongkong.

Tripham No4, 1231 & 1950.

No,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

OWN HOUSE FED FOULTRY.

We are now able to supply our Customers with own fed poultry ard to meet all demand.

Our present stock, consiste, af "i prime condition and should give

every satisfaction.

CHEAP SALE

OF

DOLLS

AT

50 PER CENT. REDUCTION

FOR

2 WEEKS ONLY. ASSORTMENT OF 300 DOLLS.

GRAJA & CO.,

No. 10. Wyndham · Street,...

Hongkong,

P. O. Box 620.

JAPANESE MAKERS..

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

held at the Offices of the Company CHERRY & UD...

St. George's-Building, Chater Road, Yiotoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, at 11.30 o'clock, in the forenooo, for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the. Report of the General Managers for the 14 months ending 30th September, 1919, and electing & Consulting Com- mitton and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON. DAT, the 15th December. 1919, antil, SATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, both daya inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Gmeral Managers. Hongkong, December §, 1819;

SAVARESSES SANTAL CAPSULES

PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND THEM For Clues

„Made in Londen.

ZZODER STEELE,

Uppoa & Hongkong Hótel. Telephone No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MUMEYA.

Japanese Photographera.

All kinds of Photographic Work done in latest styles also Passport Photos.

Developing and Printing for Amateurs & Speciality.

No. 8, Queen's Road Central. Tel. 254

THE NEW PRENCH REMEDY.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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FELUC 33

THE CI

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NE-EGYRISTINCTION

CIGARETTES EGYPTIENNES

There is an instantly recognisable flavor to "Feluces" other Egyptian Cigarettes.

which distinguishes it from

This flavor, which is only obtained from the finest selected leaf, has secured for "Felucca" by far the largest sale of any Egyptian high-grade in the Orient.

A new stock of "Felucca" Cigarettes is on sale at all leading tobacconists. Send for tin today.

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Manufactured in Cairo by Maspero Freres

This Advertisement is fasad by British-American Tobacco Go.. (China) Ltd.

THE MOTOR FUEL.

THE DISQQVAEX OF A PETROL.)

30 MILES FOR 50.

JAPANESE IN CHINA. The following letter was in the Sic With the continued interfer Fence by the Japanese in the rights of try, I am concerned at what appears the Chinese in the latter's owa coua- to be lassitude of interest shown by the foreigners in this question.

OPENED LETTER)

NISTAT BILE PONDENCE:

In the Times personal columa recently appeared the following announcement

of

He will be glad to receive letters at his private address.

A discovery which, if further tests prove it to possess the properties claimed for it, will be one of over

Wing Commander Ranken desires You receive many letters dealing. whelming importance, was laid before several Nottingham gentlemen. The with all sorts of lesser questions, but to. inform his correspondents that article in question is a new motor I see not one upon what is a most their letters to him at this office are fuel, produced by mixing a mysteri- serious matter, and if allowed to containg opened under a M. of M. ous compound with water What tinue without protest and possibly Order, and the addition of the words that compound is remains at present interference, may lead to grave com Private, Personal, or the act. the secret of the discoverer, a Southplications for the white foreigner in sealing or registration-is not neces American chemist named Andrade, China, apart from the future manice sarily a protection. of Portuguese extraction; but while it to their trade and freedom. in no sense resembles petrol, it is!

Which European nation, in days much more powerful, and, so the before the great wit, would have discoverer avers, can be produced at dared to land armed marines in a one-seventh of the price now deman foreign state even though two per ded for petrol in this country.

sons had been unfortunately killed? A Nottingham Guardian reporter

What other country would have (the only Press

representative) attempted to land an armed force was present at the test which under, circumstances similar to those took place at the residence of Alder at Foochow? man Ball, father of the late Captain Where is the so called protection sonal" As there are about. 10,000 Albert Ball, V. C. the airman, in The of the weaker nations by the greater gentlemen were since the League, (which was to Several present, including two Nottingham bring the millennium) has been experts in motor engineering and formed? industrial chemistry.

Let this be an appeal to all other The inventor, who motored to foreigners in Chian to remain very Nottingham. carried with him a wide awake to the fact, that matters black kit bag containing bottles and in connection with the Japanese cans, and with them he retired a few in this country are arriving at a yards into a corner of Mr. Ball's serious stage.

Park.

lawn, but remaining within full view In silence I believe that most of of the spectators. First, however, the white people in China view with Mr. Ball's chauffeur took him a distrust and repugnance the actions

bucket half filled with water, and of the Japanese, and it is surely the

Interviewed on the above matter by a Daily Chronicle representative; the assistant secretary of the Ministry of Munitions said:-Under an official standing order, dated May 8 1919, all correspondence adressed to an officer is opened in the registry, unless the envelope is marked "Per- persoas employed hi the Ministry, it is, of course, quite possible that by inadvertence specially muted letters may be opened. There is certainly no Ministry of Munitions order that such letters shall be opened In the ordinary course, they are sent, unopened, to the person address.

WOULD IT PAY?

A gentleman whose business in- terests are in the Dutch East Indies says he is rather disappointed to

into this Andrade, after spending proper time publicly to denounce and five or ten minutes in mixing his protest against her encroachments compound, poured some of the stuff. azalost the open door and many find in Shaffield and Birmingham Returning, with the bucket, to the other good policies. onlookers he invited them to inspect Whilst posing as a friend, in her

it, which they promptly did by behaviour towards the Chinese, she dipping their band into the bucket should act as one.

and smelling the liquid. One noticed!

that it vapourised almost immedi

a general indifference to the demand" which exists in the East for the cheap class of wares that the Gar mans used to manufacture in bulk. He tells us, for instance, that he

ately on the hand, and that the said by those--3ays the Guardian could not find a single manu smell did not in the least resemble representative-who participated,facturer who was willing to undertake. petrol, being more like methylated that from thirty to forty miles can be the mass production of the little run on a gallon of the mixture, and mirror box for which there is an spirits of wine.

that this can be made for 5d. a gallon.

When Andrade purposely spilt some on the damp soll, next to the path, and applied a match, it burnt with a

tives. Germany used to pour this inexhaustible demand among the na kind of goods in thousands into the

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD,

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

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Samples and Price List will be given free of charge on application to our Head Office,

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Mrs. N. BABBAGE, Managereas,

high, clear, bright, flame for some broken English, with an American Eastern markets, and did very wellÄÄOK

The discoverer, who speaks rather minutes, and without any smoke, accent, is accompanied by two of out of it. This may or may not be that they should Some, which was next poured into a three Americans, one of whom, a indicative of á belief among our their activities to pro tin dish, burnt in the same way, and lawyer, he has brought with him to manufacturers

watch his legal interests on this side, confine

ba.terclass of left not the minutest sediment.

An adjournment was then made to but no one except himself knows the viding the the garage, for the more important composition of the stuff, which he article, leaving the Germans to this that they can never have a more part of the test First, Mr. Ball's expects will revolutionise all forms cheap mangfacture; but it is clear chauffeur emptied the petrol tank and of spirit-propelled transport.

Incidentally, says the Nottingham promising opportunity of canturing carburetter of Mr. Ball's own car, and wiped them absolutely, dry. Under Guardian it may be wondered why this trade. Our informant, who has the direction of Andrade, who now if the process is so valuable, it should just completed a tour of the indus confined himself to the role of looker have been brought to England trial north, was particularly pleased on, he poured the liquid from the instead of being exploited In America. with the fact that most of the mand bucket into the petrol tank, added a One explanation given is that petrol facturers with whom he came into quantity of water, and Mr. Ball, is nothing like so dear in the western contact were eager to allocate a accompanied by one or two of the hemisphere as it is here, and that portion of their output to the aver party, went for a trial spin. The car Consequently the discovery of a sub Boas markets. Times Trade Supp. travelled beautifully, and-fortunate.stitute over there would not be of so

ly there was no policeman in sight much importance as here. There are

there seemed no limit to its speed

power.

other explanations, into which it is

not necessary to enter but on the A previous test has shown, it is face of them they are not improbable.

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