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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1920.

Eughes & Hough

ATOMIONESES TO THE FOVERNANCE.

General Auctioneers

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Prodzes Brokers and Commission Agents.

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"MEIRION" HONGKONG,

PUBLIC AUCTIONS-

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THE Undersigned Lave received Instrac-

tions to well by Public Auction.

(Custodian of Enemy Property)

FRIDAY,

their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

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Der Vertx Road, Corner of Tee House, Street, Miscellaneous Goods including

small lot of Silver Ware and Pixted

- Articles, &c., do.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

15 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every Additional word & Cents

for 3 insertions.

LOST.

LOST-On the Sunday morning at the CYC a SMALL WHITE BITCH. Answers to the name of "WIMPLE" Finder rewarded. Apply Box 1235, co "CHINA MAIL"

THE CHINA MAIL.

POLICE EXCESSES IN IRELAND.

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WORLD'S HEAVIEST WOMAN.

DEATH AT BRISTOL.

WEIGHED NEARLY SIX HUNDRED

*WEIGHT.

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Lucy Moore, reputed to be the heaviest woman in the world, has died in Bristol Royal infirmary, aged 43

BLIND STENOGRAPHER.

EX-5ÖLDITE'S FEAT.

HUNDRED WORDS A MINUTE

As an instance of how disabled ex- Service men are overcoming their physical bandicaps, Dr. Macnamara, Minister of Labour. related an in-

Miss Moore was born in Kentucky,cident to the Aldwych Club lunchers and had been in the show business recently at the Connaught Rooms. for many years. In her prime she

Within a street or two of where he weighed 47st. 10 lb., or nearly six was talking, said Dr. Macnamara, hundredweight. She had travelled all over the world on exhibitions, and there was a blind man, trained at St.

¿Continued from page 23 Gibbons. One can gather little ol what happened after they were taken into the police barracks until their bodies were found in a side street close by. The evidences of their fate jare clear. Two pools of blod, now covered with ashes, lie in the street. The wall behind is pined with bull marks and spatters of blood. I pick-į

up a small piece of metal which is plainly part of the outside cover of service bullet. The bodies them cives are in an outhouse unguarded, and one may see them without formas said to have received many, Dunstan's. He was employed as a ality. The wounds are appalling, offers of marriage. Her sister, who stenographer. He was now able to OSTA WALLET CONTAINING. description would be, siete in pot is of normal proportions, has been in find his way to and from his work Là a large sum of MONEY, between they suggest that the men were not" Chu Chis the Naval Yard & Hongkong Theatre.merely shot but battered and stabbed beginning.

naaided. He was writing shorthand Finder please return to J. Issive, S.P.O. with hayonets.

Daniel Lambert, an Englishman by the Baille system, at the rate HLM.S. TAMAR. Reward Given.]

Lawless's screst was described famous for his great size, was 5ft. of 100 words a minute, and carlier. That of Gibbons, a young Ilin. in height and weighted 52st. man of 26. may he relited in the 10th, when he died in 1809. His was operating an ordinary typewrit words of his sister. There were in waistcoat, now in the King's Lyning machine at the rate of 40 words ja minute. How the man did it he the house last night," she said, "my Museum, measures 102in. round.

Dr. Macnamara) did not understand, TO LET From December Ist. mother, myself, and my two sisters, Three large and light rooms two elderly women friends, my bro.

but he sorted and filed his own And when type suitable for Offices. Central position.ther, and a servant boy, Pat O'Hara.

correspondence. Apply to Box No. 1236 co The We were all in bed by ten. At one

writing work was slack, he acted as

"CHINA MAIL**

o'clock we heard shooting outside,

relief telephone aperator and con trolled a switchboard of 20 extensions and then the crash of breaking glass

and five direct lines. -the ground-floor windows were

TO LET.

KOWLOON. MODERATE RENTAL- Apply J. CAER CLARE, Architect and Surveyor, 14, Queen's Road, Central.

from, the

Bright, a grocer, of Maldon, in Essex, who died in 1750, at the age of 29, weighed 44st. There is a medical record of a young French man who died at 22 from excessive obesity, weighting 46st.

Dr. Macnamara mentioned that TO LET IMMEDIATE OCCUPA being smashed. I went to the bed-

TION A FEW THREE ROOM-room window, and was told: Clear ing and savage; but it may be said in there had been a hich in the negotia ED ECROPEAN FLATS IN "ORIENToat: The house is to be burped,” some slight explanation of their fairios with the building trades for the November, 10, 1990, at 10.30 am, BCILDINGS, CORONATION ROAD My mother and I went down to open that one was the chairman and the admission of ex-Service men as adult the ground door. Men then rushed other acting secretary of the Site Fein apprentices. The difficulty was ever upstairs. My mother-fell prostate Volunteer movement in the tour, and the method of guaranteeing to the trades concerned payinent for wet across the bed. We told the men ons at least of them was currently time. He appealed to all concerned that one sister was an invalid, and believed by the constabulary to have to facilitate the arrangement aimed one of them carried her into a neigh, been implicated in the revent murder tour's house. An ex-sergeant of of Sergeant Finnerty, of the R.L.C.

A Committee of the Cabinet was police. who lives near, came so, and To kill men without trial and now at work on other schemes for asked the men why they should burn mere hearsay and gossip is no law at the ex-soldier which, with the co- house in which were two helpless all, but it does coinside more or less operation of local authorities, ought old ladies. This seemed to have an with the rough methods of justice to to put a more satisfactory complex- effect, for they contented themselves, which Ireland is given over. One ion on his (Dr. Macnamara's) job jand searched it by ring mattresses states this merely because it repre-than it bore to-day.

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HUGHES & HOUGH. Auctioneers.

(ICE ACCOUNT of vaz CoxCHEXID).”

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FRIDAY,

November 19, 1920, st 10.30 am,

the Sales Rooms,

at

No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner

of Ice House Street,

19" Cases Lager Beer.

Terme :-Cash.

HUGHES & ROUGE,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 13, 1920.

FOR SALE.

stractions to sell at their Sales

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THE Undersigned isse received in- Rooms, No. 8. Des Voeux Road, Corner

of Ice House Street,

One Large Houseboat, (suitable for temporary abode in view of the shortage of houses),

And

One Motor Yacht with all accessories. Particulars from the undersigned. Terms: Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 13, 1920.

THE NEW

FORD

WITH ELECTRIC STARTER EAS

ARRIVED.

* ASK US FOR

A DEMONSTRATION.

IMMEDIATE”

DELIVERY

ALEX-ROSS & @

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GARAGE

KOWLON TEEK47

I say

KEATINGS | LOZENGES

cure. the worst Cough

WANTED TO RENT.

TARLY December, good sized bouse.

FURNISHED or UNFURNISE FD, Kowloom or lower levels preferred. Apply Wostow, Kowloon Railway.

INTIMATIONS.

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CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGEL

REMEDY.

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a remedy that will no: only give

and emptying drawers and sents the spirit animaring a large sec- They took my brother and fion of the R.1.C. and of the military Hare away with them. The boy forces in Ireland: "Murder must be! came back later. saying that he had met by murder.", The egregious been let our. but that my brother was weekly summary the R.I.C. sill at the barracks. He went away preaches the same doctrine. It is the with only his shirt and trousers on, underlying assumption of the work of and in bare feet. Of what followed the Military Secret Service Depart-relief. but effect a prompt and perman

ent cure. remedy that is pleasant to ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL BRANCH one has osly hearsay. Gibbons is ment. The Government may deny ate remedy is convalo poching said to have been asked what his posi- this lacno decent Government injurious. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy

on as a Volunteer was, and to have could admit it-bet to anyone who replied.Secretary," but to have has followed the shitting policy in refused any further information. Ireland in the last six months it is only Afterwards he is said to have been 100 plain that the spirit has been los hayoneted, to have had his wounds tered and strengthened by the very dressed by a doctor, and then to have machinery which the Government has

Much the created to restore law and order, been shot at a later hour. same is said of Lawless.

SOCIAL EVENING will be held TODAY, (Tuesday) November 16, at 9 p.m., at the SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE to meet the new Bishop.

ADMISSION FREE. LADIES ARE CORDIALLY INVITED;

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One has given these details badly. To realise the full horrors of the night one has to think of bands of men in-

famed with drink raging about the streets firing rifles wildly, turning houses here and there." and loudly ihreatening to come again to-night and complete their work. From begin-1. ning to end there was no apparent check on them. it one excepts the efforts of the few local police who tell me they took no part in the business and hate it. When I left Balbriggan FT is proposed to form a branch of at 3.30 this, afternoon parties of the Royal Artillery Association Black and Tans were walking in Hongkoaz to which all Guaner about the streets, though one musi Officers, N.CO's and men, of the say not aggressively. Three motor Regular, Special Reserve. Territorial Lorrics of them went by. at a good or New Army including Artillery Formations, Regular Militia or Volun- speed. shouting and jeering as they teers of any part of the British passed the wrecked buildings and!

When they Empire, whether serving or demobi- lustily banging tin cans.

had got two hundred yards beyond lised may belong.

The object of the scheme is to where i was standing I heard rifle stimulate interest in the comradeship shots as if. Oriental fashion, they fired and general welfare of gunners a volley into the air for sheer exulta- throughout the Empire.. A pretion.

minary meeting to discuss the matter AN OFFICIAL TELEGRAM. and draw up rules will be held in the R. A Theatre, Victoria Barracks at 6 p.m. on Thursday 25th instant.

The CR.A. China Command hopes that all those interested will attend, or if unable to do so, will let him know of any suggestion they may have to offer before the 25th Novem. ber so that they may be discussed at the meeting.

The only news that the authorities! in Dublin have yet received of the Balbriggan reprisals is the following! official telegram, which is a very clear indication of how little trust may be

EUROPEAN AGENCY.

HOLESALE Indents promptly

Werscared at lowest cash prices

for a British and Couticental goods, jacluding

Books and Stationery, Boots, Shoes and Leatbed, Chemicals and Drugzieta' Sundries, China, Earthenware and GlaswWATO, Cycles, Motor Cars and Accessories, Drapery, Millinery and Fiscé Goods Fancy Goods and Perfumery, Hardware, Machinery sod Metals, Jewellery, Plate and Watches, Photographic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Omen's Stores,

etc., eta,

on the reports issued by police when their own members are concern. ed. It reads:

Head Constable Burke, of the R.1.C.. Dublin. was shot dead at Balbriggan at 9.30 last night. His brother. Sergeant William Burke, was wounded by revolver shots at the same time. He has been rej moved to the Mater Hospital. Two civilians have been shot dead and several houses, including one of the hose manufactories (sic!), have been destroyed by fire.

TWO INQUIRIES TO BE HELD. The Balbriggan réprisals were dis- cussed by Sir Hammar Greenwood and the other heads of the Irish Govern- ment at a conference, this morning. it was then decided that an official inquiry, and also a public inquiry! should be held on the dead District Inspector and on the two civilians who were killed by the Black and Tans." Restrictions have been put on the .com Consignments of Produce Sold on Accoun.stabulary at Gormans-town, and a high

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official of the force from Deblic has addressed them.

The matter cannot stop there-Ba!- briggan will be the test of the Govern. ment's policy in Ireland. The de- struction which has left a tenth of the people of this little Irish town home- less and many more than a fenth workless as well, that has driven scores of families away in terror, brings to a point which cannot be ignored the long campaign that has been carried on by the agents of the Government against the property of the Irish people. The murder of the two men Lawless and Gibbons was |BUYA]="MN=THE ERIJONE, DIE Vengeante that was wreaked on them was revolt-

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Gintch-Dry disce type-7 plates Tyres 815 x 105 mun, clincher or 39 x 4 straight side. Demountable rims.

Wheels Wooden (Artillery

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AN INSPECTION IS SOLICITED.

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NOTICES.

NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 6%

PRICE

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OF ISSUE 100 FRANCS.

Interest rapable twice a year on 14h Jour and 18k Perealest first semi-anual interest to be paid on 10th June 1921.

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BANQUE DS L'INDO-CHINE,

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