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Public Auctions of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive
THE Undersignëd hare received Instrue-
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FRIDAY, November 26, 1920,
commending at 233 p.m. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, A Quantity of Exlushle Kousehold Furniture,
Comprising:
+
food for Infants which keeps good in quality daring Hot weather (9) LAC
the
TOSE(Milk Sugar) The
fonda of Infants and
MILFORD MCGRATE FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fiend, Mosquitoes, Rugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Suramer days, and (4) JOEN CABILL'S GOLDEN FLEFCE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA: SOAPS for keeping everything clean iz Houses
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins Cherrywood overmantel with bevelled pectin and Enquiries are cordially
invited. mirror, teak plain and roll top desks,
- covered couch, vases, praas nts, doable teak and iron bedsteada, k'double wardrobe, dressing table, camphorwood chest of drawers, leather cavered armchairs, etc, etc.
Also
A Few Pieces of Very Finely
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Comprising
Curio cabinet, overmantel, chairs
And stools
And
Tour Large Ster! Combination
非 Safer.
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Os view from Thursday, the 25th last.
Term:-Cash on delivery.
Catalogue will be issued.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong. November 20, 1920,
FRIDAY, November 26, 1920,
* 3 p.m.:
zz their Sale Rooms, Daddell Street, "One Indian Motor Cycle with
Side Car.
(la view now."
Terms Cuth on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS
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Hongkong, Nov. 22, 1920.
FOR SALE
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The first man accused of stealing Although the war, is two years an aeroplate and flying away in it is over, and available shipping has in-
The veil of mystery which has for searched being vigorously
creased enormously, the difficulty of centuries hung over the secret city of by the police throughout London setting passages, in either direction, and the country.
His name is between England and the Far East Sheshnan, north of Fez, in Morocco, Archibald Ford, young, smartly a matter of common knowledge.i on the point of being rent. Spanish dressed, and well educated, who Which makes the following well troops may to-day enter this last during the war was a squadron authenticated incident the more stronghold of Moorish Mahommed-
shall we leader in the Royal Air Force.
say astonishing? One Ford's alleged exploits in London of our readers met in Shanghai, anism and on the Continent are of the most a German whom he had known romantic character. He Erst came before under the notice of the London police last January, when he was arrested for attempting steal a motor-car. He was released on bail, but failed to appear at the West London Police Court, and a warrant for his arrest issued.
:
His next declared exploit was at the Pau aerodrome, France, at the erd of last August, when he is stated to have stolen an aeroplane and flown away in it.
the war
says the
N
C. D. Nees. Kaowing also that the German had been deported from China last year, he expressed sur- prise at seeing him. It appeared that the German had gone from Hamburg to Grimsby, thence to Liverpool and there had obtained passage by a well known British line. When asked bow, he answered with a satisfied smile: "Oh I've a bit of a pull at the offices." Now considering that there are British firms in the Far East, short-handed, and with men at FLIGHT TO SPAIN.
Home ready to come out, but for Froducing his British passport to whom applications for passages at a French officer at the aerodrome, any and every shipping agency have he said he wished to buy an zero-failed, this sort of thing is calculated plane, adding that he was a skilled to make one feel hot under the collar. British pilot. At his request a. If it is an isolated instance, this note Morane Parasa) aeroplane was made may be a warning to others not to do ready for a trial trip, and with the likewise. But is it? sureness and ease of an expert he took his seat and within a short time had disappeared.
He did not return with the machine, but carce down at San Sebastian, in Spain. The Spanish authorities, at the request of the French Consul, detained the machine, but Ford managed to get away.
"In order further to convince me of his good faith Ford produced his passport with his photograph on it. He also produced what he said was
a banker's reference and said he was
Secret cities are becoming so scarce
that very soon they will exist only in the pages of boys' stories, yet within the memory of many still alive there were half a dozen places which fully deserved the name.
Mecca, for instance, was still El
the Haram, the inviolable," and Western world rang with wonder when Burton succeeded in first pene- trating its mysteries.
Timbuctoo, the triangular city of the Southern Sahara, was long but quite wrongly supposed to be the capital of a great Negro empire, and wonderful but erroneous stories were related of its vast population and immense wealth. To-day it is almost as well known as Accra or Zanzibar. Peking itself, though it had a population of over a million, was little known until invaded by the French and English Allied forces in 1860, while the secret city, the Yuen Ming Yuer, was absolutely terra incognita.
This great area, covering 60.000 sorry the banks were closed. It was
seres, which had been preserved in- violate for centuries, was then sacked It is now known that Ford is in then just after 12 o'clock.
"These things gave me confidence and burned. The booty taken was London er somewhere in the country in the man, and I said he could have estimated to be worth £1,500,000, How he came to England is a mystery, car, Ford remarked that he was while £2,000,000 worth was destroyed. The police at New Scotland Yard are going to Marlow for the week-end, Lhassa, though.visited by M. Huc convinced that he did not come by was dining there with friends that in 1846, remained a secret city until boat, as all the arrival parts and evening, and was taking just a few a much later date. It was not until the Continental trains have been things with him. He said he would Younghusband's punitive expedition watched The only possible solution
He threw down marched there diiring the "present couple of £5 notes and went away century that its privacy was finally
destroyed
To-day there is perhaps only one city on the earth's surface which still remains to be described, and even from that the veil of mystery will probably be raised shortly.
is that Ford travelled from Spain return on Monday. into France and that he came from
in the car. Paris to London by air."
[ MISSING MOTOR-CAR.
He was in London on a Saturday. About now on that day he went to the Glendower Motor Company's garage, 3, Glendower-place, SW, and got possession of a motor-car by ja trick. What took place there was told to a reporter by the manager,
who said: tw
"Ford is very good looking, about 30 years of age, and has dark hair, a slight moustache, and a pale com plexion. He was well dressed and
TELEPHONE EXCUSES.
"On Monday he rang me up from somewhere and said he was afraid he would be rather late in returning. On Tuesday be again' rang, up, and said be was very sorry he had not returned the car, but would be back that night. He did not return and I informed the police. I do not know whether or not he telephoned from the London area.
This is the Golden City of South America, which Elizabethan adver- turers sought in vain under various names. It lies among the mountains of Matto Grosso, that westernmost. and least-known province of Brazil, "The car is a 20-horsepower and is protected by natural barriers Singer, 1914 make. The body is very difficult to overcome. painted green, with white stripes,
well spoken. He said he wanted to and is uphoistered in leather.
It was an English RA. officer lent
It by the British Government to Bolivia
hire a ear for the week-end and has oil lamps and acetylene head-15 de-limit her frontiers who first asked to see the garage foreman, lights," and no hood. It is worth found proofs of the existence of this | mentioning him by name. I asked £550."
the foreman if he knew the man, and A description of Ford and the car
he said he did. He had seen him at the works during the war when we were making hand grenades."
has been circulated "throughout the country, and all garages have also been advised.
city, and it is the same officer who, under the auspices of the Brazilian Government, is now leading an ex- pedition to locate it exactly. Daily Mail.
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