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LAMMERT BROS.

AVOTIONIKIS, AFFRAISERS AND SURVETORE.

Public Auctions-

THE to a nation

[18# Undersigned bara received instrum

FRIDAY, Angust & 1990. commencing at 2.30 pm.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. Quantity of Fine Tankwood and Blackwood Furniture. Teakwood:-Chesterfield and tapestry overed couches, easy chairs, writing blaa, bookesses, Lody's decks, music -tund, medicine cheats, sideboari, dia-; her waggon, dressing tables, marble top washstands, chest of drawers wand- robers, bedsteads, occasional tables atc., etc.

Blackwool:-Curio cabinet, oral table, stpols soles, armchair, corner chair, opium stools, high marble top tables, or stards, dressing table with mirror and marble top, music stool etc, etc.

Aizo

Double & Slogie iron bedsteads, carpets, rugs.

ud

1 Large Enamelled Bath,

1 Enamelled Wash Basin,

1 Oral Mirror,

1 Autopiano with records ad recorà cabinets.

On rie from Tuesday, the th August, 1990.

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, August 4, 192.

• PUBLIC AUCTION.

S. S. "WING HANG'

11

INTIMATIONS.

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO

BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Bot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetaming the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Flesa, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses,

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO., Sole Agents for Rongrong and South China.

Telephone No. 1990

WE HAVE

Just received

A New Sopply of

al

WAR and ARMISTICE

STAMPS.

Many varieties sad values of NEW EUROPE Also

CATALOGUES and ALBUMS

for sale.

GRAÇA & 00.

No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

THE CHINA MAIL.

RECESS No. 44.

VIRGINIAN CIGARETTES.

LARGE SIZE

CIGARETTES

Virginia Cigarettes

Recess

Hongkong:

MANUFACTURED-

BY

PACKED IN

AIR-TIGHT

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1820,

NOTICES

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD,

WATCHMAKERS JEWELLERS.

Hotel MansionIS.

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,

HEALTH

against

SICKNESS.

By taking ourROUSTER BRAND" MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG-NOODLES, VERMICELLI, or other kinds of Soup Stuffs REGULARLY you will have no complaint of any kind of sickness, as all our Products being manufactured from Flour the Best Quality and under the most Sanitary Method can be easily digested and give you, GOOD HEALTH & STRENGTH.

Large quantities have been exported to various parts of the World. Your esteemed Orders will receive our prompt and careful attention. Tarms moderate, especially for Agencies

TINS

OF 50

Trade Mark.

CIGARETTES

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. CO., LTD. "FLAD OYTICS: Hongkong, Nos. 47 & 63, Connaught Rond

Central. Tel. No. 2230, BRANCH OFFICE: Shanghai, Nos. 430 & 431, Nanking Road. FACTORIES: Hongkong, Wing Hing Strost Causeway Bay

and Shanghai, No. 1, North Soochow Road

NOTICE IS

HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE STEAMSHIP WING HANG" as she lies rear Shamshuipo in the Harbour of Hong- kong.

Will be sold by

Order of the Mortgages Ly

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

TUESDAY, the 10th day of August,"

1920,

at 12 o'clock Noon,

by

MESS, LAMMERT BRŪS,

Auctioneers.

at their. Auction Rooms in Daddell'

Street.

The Ship is a Chinese Ship register- ed at Canton.

Her dimensions and, tonnage are approximately as follows,

Length:-140 Ft. 1'inch REGISTERED

Ereadth:-25 ft. 3 inch's Depth:-

TONNAGE:

Cross-142

9 it. & inches Net - 994 and her speed is about 10 Knots.

For farther particulars and condi tions of sale apply to

. MESS. WILKINSON & GRIST,

9, Queen's Road Central,

or 13 MASSES. LAYMERT BROS.,

Duddell Street.

Auctioneers,

HE Undersigned have received in- Tends tell by Fublic Auction.

ot

FRIDAY, August 27, 1920, at 12 o'clock (noon),

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, (For Accent of the Concerned),

The Wreck of the

:§. 8. "CHIYO MARU,” as the now lies of the Lema Islands.

Terms: Cash on fall of hammer when the wreck will be at purchaser's risk. LAMMERT-BROS.; Auctioneers.

-Hongkong, July 30, 1920,

Burglar and Fire-resisting SAFES

'Prevention is better

than Cure."

1 The Undersigned have just

received a new consignment of

Milner's Safes.

LAMMERT BROS.,. Duddell Street.

MASSAGE HALL Ordsale from Nagasaki Simmte Kelanie

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THRILLING STORY OF

YPRES.

A race, thereupon, began between WHY THE BRIT SH HELD IT. the Germans, who realized what a frightful blunder, they had made in not occupying the Belgian coast and A MILITARY NIGHTMARE." The right way to approach Ypres the Chancel ports, and the British is from the south over the Lys along Army under Lord French. The race the road from Menin. The road ended in a dead heat. Antwerp and runs straight through a desolation most of the Belgian coast were lost, that grows with each of the six miles but the Channel ports were saved, of its length, between stumps and thanks to the strategic prescience of twisted limbs of the trees that were Lord French, with the few fields of once lealy avenues and past felis Belgium that were protected by the pitted with shell-holes that two years Belgian Army, the flood, and by the ago were filled with noisome water, position of Ypres... but are now mercifully covered over with grasses.

gium once more the supreme strate-The decision to make the offensive gical issue of the war.

against Passchendaele had many motives. One was the desire to escape from the torture of a position in which our every movement was under observation, aval in which life was only a precarious death. Our valour, in defending Ypres "in au- tumn, and in holding on to a posi tion which was Lom the 'litary point of view almost inco-ceivable had been stinging the army to di traction for the better part of two years. Another motive was that old ambition of outflanking the Ger- mans in Belgium, expressed so brilliantly by Lord French's trans- ference of the British Army to Flanders in the autumn of 1914. It was the British Army's idea of a "break-through" tactics of the offen. sives in France. The offensive to-- wards Passchendaele, it was supposed, would give us a position from which we could dominate the coast and force the Germans to abandon it.

The Passchendaele offensive was

This was the subject of the First Battle of Ypres, or of the Battle of To go along this road in an after-Calais as the Germans called it. It noon of Armistice November, with was a battle between what was left the dead hand of war still tight on of the old Regular Army and a Gerway round" in substitution for the the land, was to feel the banumbing man Army consisting in great part awe of entering, ito a vast and of new troops the best of Young gloomy, temple. The Menin road Germany, many of them volunteers was the nave, the Cloth Eali at the but hastily trained. It was victory end its altar piece, and the transept of tifle fire over artillery and massed was the road that runs under the tactics, of a small army, in which ramparts where the staff officers lived every soldier was by this time in timber-buttressed caves. Away to as skilful az a non-commissioned the east is the low line of officer over numbers and enthusiasm. the Passchendaele ridge, and be The German complaint of our over- tween it and the city the battle whelming mass of machine-guns in front sweeps past Honge, crossing this battle was perhaps the highest the Menin read obliquely, and so to compliment ever paid to the old the great indent in the neighbour-British Army. They mistook our hood of St. Eloi and. Messines that trifle fire for that of machine guns. was made by the first battle of There was in this battle a freedom and elasticity of tactics only possible Ypres.

The battlefields of Ypres have few in an army of long training, and the natural features, and at the end of great flank attack of the Worcesters the war, when the whole of the thin near Gheluvelt is one of many ex- Cast of solid earth had been shot amples of this freedom.

AN ACCIDENT OF WAR.

WE THE FIRST BATTLE -

The first of these conflagrations

drowned in rain and smothered in mud. It imposed on the British Army probably the most awful trials that physical endurance and moral resolution have ever been subjected to, and it is now generally agreed that humán flesh and blood ought "neve: to have been; subjected to these trials. Made in the spring the attack might have had a better chance of achieving decisive results, but Passchendaele by autumn-had become a military superstition. The heroic symbol of Ypres was develop ing into military totemism. Imme- diately aften the end of this offensive the brilliant victory of the first battle of Cambrai showed us the way.

THE LAST CRISIS. The last crisis in the history of Ypres came, in the spring of 1918, with the German offensive on the Lys. In this offensive the object of the Germans was to enlarge the salient on the south side of Ypres, to break through to the Channel ports, and to separate and destroy the army of Ypres. The offensive was carried so dangerously far that the Ypres Army had to prepare, for evacuation as a lesser evil than being cut off. In preparation for evacuation and retreat, the positions won in the pre ceding autumn were evacuation and the whole Ypres front was contracted to the smallest possible are. A mile:

away, such as remained seemed about On the other hand, the German to be submerged in the mud. Of villages like Gheluvelt literally noth tactics were bad, but the only tactics ing remained except a sign "post to possible to an army composed large chow where they had been. The fly of ill-trained, hastily formed troops. Army had swept forward, no cne The battle is rightly accounted the had come back, and the signs of life most decisive victory in the history were like ghosts in a churchyard, of the British Army; but it made more startling than the deadnees of Ypres a salient. The battlefield was the accidental point of collision everything else.

Ypres was a continuous battle, between two armies both racing for ground for four years but the fires, a position on each other's flank, but burning all the time, became vast the result, though it saved the ports conflagrations four times during the and determined the whole future war, and each occasion mari ed a course of our campaign in the West, distinct phase of the great struggle made Ypres the most dangerous

point in the British lines on the West.

THE SECOND BATTLE The second critical time was in was in-the anturon of 1914. Ypres the spring of 1915, when the Ger. became a battlefield by accident. All mans delivered their first gas attacks the plans formed before the outbreak on the north side of the city. This of war assumed that the Germans was an attempt to tarn Ypres on the would invade Belgium, and when north, and the spring made an indent that happened, it was Belgium that, on the north side couesponding to

Happily, the advance was stayed, in the minds of those who were think the indent made in the preceding ing about these things, offered the best autumn on the south. The Ypres and in the great series of victories Opportunity for the effective employ talent was now a militny night won by the British armies later the ment of our Army. These plans mare. Cold reason would have coun Ypres Army took not the least dis erehaffied by the fall of Namur, selled its abandonment, but sentiment tinguished part. Ypres was not the and by the rapidity of the Germap and loyalty forbade Yores became strategic hinge of victory, but it was advance, and within a week of the a symbol, a sort of wraith such as the lock that beld-fast through the first collision at Mom it was decided the gods and goddesses in Homer strain of what really was a great four Praat ons duly was by the side of the used to make of a favourite hero years siege. It was the greatest French Armies, even though that round whom the battle would consiege of history, the siege of the emporary abandonment tinue to rage with fury after they Straits, and the Ypres zalient was

victory of he had rapt his corporate presence away really a bastion of a greater sailer

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with the Belden Army sill intact turning the Berufen/fiant made Ba

or two farther advance of the Ger mans in the Lys valley and Ypres must have been sacrificed.

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