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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVETORS

-Public Auctions-'

THE Undersigned have received instruc›

Pelle austion.

» on

THURSDAY, Sept. 9. 1920,

commencing at 10.30 a

at No. 18 Godows, of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd., Kowloom.

A Large Quantity of Flat, Round and Square Bar Iron, Steel and Iron Plates, etc.

VARS

lao

56 bales. Cotton Belting ex s. s. Harald Dollar

arrived on 17th April, 1918.

"

And

A Large Quantity of Sundry Goods.

Terms:-Carb on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.;

Auctioneers

Hongkong, August 31, 1820.

Burglar and Fire-resisting SAFES

Prevention is better

than Cure"

The Undersigned have just

די

received a new consignment of

Milner's Safes.

LAMMERT BROS., Daddell Street.

Tel 1013

MEE CHEUNG "HIGH CLAXY PEOTOURAPHER,

Ice House Street.

A large stock of

Kodaks and Kodak

Supplies

Just arrived.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consigament of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive. food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAG- TOSE (MJ Saar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Baga, Flies and sit other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOEN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE. MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in

Houses.

PRICES are Very Moderate. Tas- pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sele Agents for Hoogkeng and South Chias

N'as, 4 & 45, Cheranght Road Central, Hongkong. Telephone Nos, 1989,

理代泰

ADVICE

Indications point to a heavy demand for Seeds this Season. To be sure of getting every variety you wish, we suggest that you order to-day.

GRACA & 00. DEALERS IN GARDEN SEEDS, POSTAGE STAMPS, POSTCARDS, TOYS, &c.

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 620,

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

THE CHINA MAIL.

"CAPSTAN"

MEDIUM STRENGTH

CAPSTAN Navy Cut Cigarettes.

10 CIGARETTES MOUTHPIECES.

"CAPSTA

Navy Cut Cigarettes

"CAPSTAN Tobacco

Cut

for the Pipe

Navy Cigarelles WDSH.O. WELLS

pla

Sold in Packets of 10 & 20 Cigarettes & in Tins of 50 Cigarettes.

Also

MAGNUMS

in Air-tight Tins of 50's.

Obtainable at all. Stores.

WEDNESDA

MBER 19:30

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

Agents förs—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 our ROOSTER BRAND MACARONT, PASTE STARS, EGG-NOODLES, VERMICELLI, or other kinds of Soup Studs REGULARLY you will have no complaint of any Had of sickness, as all our Products being manufactured from Flour of 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 recsiys out promp' and `careful attention. Terms moderate, especially for Agencies

TRADE MAKE.

THE HING WAX PASTE, MFG, CO., LTD. HRAD Unice: Hongkong. Nos, 17 & 18, Connaught Road Central. Tel. No. 2230, BRANCH OFFICE: Shanghai, Nos. 420 & 431, Nanking Road. FACTORIES: Hongkong, Wing Hing Street. Causeway Bay

and Shanghai, No. 71, North Soochow Road.

FURNITURE.

CONTRACTS SOLICITED FOR HOUSES, OFFICES, HOTELS & SHIPS,

BRASS AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY, ELECTRO-PLATED. WARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNITURE.

CHEONG LEE & CO..

HEAD OFFICE, 68, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. A.B.C. CODE 5TH EDITION,

· TIL. No. 891. CAZLE ADDRESS "CHEONGLEE"

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

MOHIDEEN & CO.

JEWELLERS.

40, Queen's Foad Central.

Are shortly vacating their present premises and to facilitate removal are dis- posing of their large stocks

of

precious stones and jewellery at exceptionally favourable prices. A splendid opportunity is offered of obtaining genuine articles clicaply.

JUST ARRIVED

LATEST TRIMMING

STRAW HATS

CASSUM "AHMED.

Milliners & Drapers.

29 & 34, Wellington Street.

Branch 28, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Agents for

Diamond Dyeing

and

Drycleaning Co.

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MASSAGE HALL Grade from Nagasaki Musap school. Mas, HAN INOKUCHI

Phone No. 16.

Manley Street,

THE NEW FRENCH AFMEDY-

THERAPION NOPI THERAPION N1.2 THERAPION NOS

103 I ON

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WORD "TUTION 15

ASAHI BEER

PILSENER BEER

MAMP EXHI

ASAHI

Just arrived

large assortment of

FILTERS

1. Gallons up to 1 gallons

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Established 1900

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This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Go, (Chize) Ltd.

SAFETY AT SEA.

FULL SPRED IN FOG.

:

POSSIBILITY OF SHIPWRECK REDUCED.

Naturally sich a method gives the navigator a great advantage over the present means of sounding. To take ordinary soundings with the lead necessitates the slowing down or stopping of the vessel With the hydrophore there need be no slacken- ing in speed.

Another peculiar advantage of the hydrophonic ears is that they can be focussed upon a particular vessel This idea was given special attention while the instrument was being developed because the hydrophone was being worked upon during the war, and the first thought for it use fulness. was in connection with the convoy system.

NOWHERE TO SIT.

LORD CURZONS BUSE.

J

HOW HE GOT A SEAT.`

Patatandang

An excellent story, about "Lord What whiskers are to a cat in a

Curson is being told in Paris. A Court banquet given by the Belgian dark corner, what ears to a wild beast in the jungle that is what the

Sovereign at the conclusion of the United States Navy M.V., type of

Brussels meeting was followed by a hydrophone will be to the ships that

reception held in a large mirrored thread their courses along the ocean

hall absolutely bare of all furniture. lanes. With this invention there

Lord Curzon arrived at the dinn passes one of the last of the great

with a large black walking stick, Aazards in seafearing. It will now

which he carefully rested against his be possible for a ship to continue at

chair and jealously guarded during fall speed through the densest fog,

the dinner. Then he went to the The device is chiefly the work of reception room leaning' very heavily knowing accurately the depth of water through which it is passing three scientists who co-operated with on the stick, visibly walking with and keeping in close touch with the naval officers at the naval experimen difficulty. Queen Elizabeth at once position and direction of all other tal station at New London. They noticed him and gave instructions to ships in its vicinity.

are all professors of physics, G. W. have him, supplied with a comfort- Inventions making for safe naviga. Pierce of Harvard, Max Mason of the able armchair, into which Lord tion have come slowly and at long University of Wisconsin, and H. C. Curzon sank with a sigh of relief. intervals. First, the compass: then Hayes of Swarthmore. Their inven- The man who told the story went up the lighthouse; then steam power tion was not fully developed until the and asked him whether he was suf and larger vessels; last, the wireless. armistice was signed, and was accord-fering severely from gout. Me Note of these eliminated the perils of ingly of no service in the war. The received the unexpected reply. "Not thick weather. They could not save first information concerning their bit. I have been to things of this the "Titanic" in 1912. They could not work was given out recently, when sort before, and knew there would avert the groundings that strew the the United States destroyer Breckin

FRANCE'S BID FOR TRADE.

SUPERSEDING GERMANY.

RAPID INDUSTRIAL STRIDES,

coasts with new wrecks every year, ridge made a test trip out of New not be anywhere to sit,"

The men who have developed the York harbour, on which the represen hydrophone believe that their in- tatives of many steamship companies strument provides the ultimate were guests. safeguard. Storm remains, to be The first passenger vessel on which sure, the prime hazard, at sea, but the hydrophone was tried out was they are confident that the hydro-"Yot Steuben," while in transport phone greatly reduces the possibility service in February, 1919, to see the of shipwreck from any cause.

possibility of safeguarding the trans- HOW THE HYDROPHONE WORKS, port of returning troops. On, that

Rapid strides which France is In principle the hydrophone is a trip it was definitely established that simple device. In construction it is propeller driven vessels could be making to regain her industrial post-i a maze of intricate and delicate located in time to avoid collision tion were illustrated at an exhibition électrical apparatus which is not provided that the depth of water was opened in mail week at 153, Queen easily intelligible to the layman. The not more than fifty of sixty fathoms. Victoria-street EC, the premises of principle is just that of a pair of The soundings taken by means of the Office Commercial.Francais. ears spaced widely apart. A man the hydrophone have proved so French manufacturers are now able whose bearing is limited to one efficient that the submarine N-6 to produce practically all those ear can judge the direction of sound recenly made a trip from new London articles for which their country was with difficulty. The use of both ears to Portland, round Nantzeket, and once dependent on Germany. This makes it much easier for him, and back to New London, remaining rub applies specially to electrical and if he were constructed on a larger merged throughout the entire course.urgical apparatus, scientific instru

ments, and laboratory equipment. scale, with his ears much, further DEVELOPED FROM WAR TIME DEVICES. Among the exhibits were exquisite": apart, his range of hearing would be

The hydrophone is really the deve bandbags, with all kinds of cunning Tgreatly widened, reg

The bydrophone takes up through lopment of several years' experimen- devices made of softest leather or its receivers all sounds which are tation. Prior to the war certain richest satin, with, clasps of jewels. transmitted through the water. It types of under water listening devices Perfumes, famous all the world over, registers the drumming of the pro- had been developed for aiding naviga. were also to be seen, made from "These devices consisted of dowers of the Riviera; and turned pellers not only of the ship on which tion. it is installed but of all others in the microphones, which are the active into bottled scent in great factories vicinity. It catches the submarine unit of the ordinary telephone trans- in Paris.

bell signals of the coastwise lights.

mitter, mounted in small tanks, one

on the part and one on the starboard

ور

It records the oscillating submarine,de of the vessel, and designed to led to the development of, the M. Vi fog signals of ships in midocean.

Most important of all, when the receive sound signals from such hydroplane.

Its inventors believe that the receivers pick up the sound of a sources as submarine bells suspended

hydrophone will detect the presence ship's propellers, they not only beneath lightships. transmit the sound waves, but also In order to ascertain the direction and position of icebergs by, means of indicate the direction from which of such a bell signal it was necessary the sound echoes. they are coming. This is made to swing the ship until its bow was At present the only ships on which

the possible by the fact that all sounds pointed directly toward the sound the hydrophone is installed, are in the water travel idown to sea source. This was a tedious, time destroyers, the Breckinridge, the bottom, provided the depth is not consuming process, and, moreover, it Blakeley and the Bernadou.The 100 great, Hod are reflected Licje, was uncertain the device, while submarine No 6 also is eminded The hydrophone measures the angle serred, its purpose, in its day, was with the devics, The hydrophone twhich they are reflected back and considered to be of Ettle use m hunt has been, developed in the navy, but makes possible the calculation of the ing submarines and accordingly the patent rights are commercially

kenwhich owned.

OPERATING

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS.

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

J. H. TAGGART, MAKANIK.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level

16 Minutes from Landing Stags. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

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CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTEIC TRAMS Pasa Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting!

A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings,Hot and Cold Water System, throughout. Bost of Food and Sarvios.

Telephone $73. Talographie Address - VICTORIA.

J. WITCHNAL, Manager.

CARLTON HOTEL,

(THIS ONLY AMERICAN HOPKI IN ZER COLONY, ICE HOUSE STREET.

Under American Management. Mine and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Bank and Central Distelet. 43 Bedrooms, Kroellant Cuisine, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Estos on application to the Proprietress. Launches moet Fanger Boats.

*--Man. F. E.-CAMERON Telegraphão Address *CARLTON"

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

(Two minning froin Star Ferry):

Recently renovated sad refurnished Bootle light and fant throughout and entirely murier new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billari Booms. Teems moderata. Spadal terms ic families on application to

Telephone K. & Telegraphie Add. "PALACK"

#

J. H. UXERREY, Proprissor.

Tel No. 2026

Candies Toes Soda

BOSTON CANDY STORE OPPOSITE THE ROYAL THGATES,

CALL EETWEEN ACTE.. ITELEPHONE ORDKRS (FILLED,

12 Queen's Rd, O.

Cigars and Cigarettes

TANG YUK, Dritter,

the law RIN TING,

TERMS VERY MODERATE

FRENCH LESSONS