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LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS, ÅTTRAISERS AND SURVEYORS -Public Auctions-

FOR SALE

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LAMMERT BROS.,

Uaddell Street.

INTIMATIONS.

XMAS! XMAS!!

A. WEILL.

SUCCESSOR TD

SENNET FRERES

NEWZZLERS WATCHMAKERS

AND

DIAMOND MERCHANTS.

LARGE ASSORTMENT OF XMAS PRESENTS.

LATEST PARISIAN DESIGNS,

D. No. 134. Bonczone Bom

Benses,

FLUGEL'S

AERATED

WATER MACHINES

US PROFITS

| MADE OUT OF

· BOTT LANG WATER

WATER FILTERLO -PURITY ASSURED CROWN CORI, BOTTLES,SYPKONS

COOD BOTTLES

FILLED

INTIMATIONS.

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

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

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ens pection and Enquiries are cordially iarited.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Safe Lente farthenghing and Gosia China, Nús, 47 ± 48, Cenanght Rand Destral, Hongkong Telephens Nou, 1238

理代泰豐盛

Xmas Presents

Stamps, Albums,.". Lucky Baskets,

and

Toys,

at cheap prices. inspection invited.

GRACA & 00, DEALERS IN RELINDes Books, Tors, PHILATELIC Goons, Sexos, de,

No. 10, Wyndham Street, P.0. Bax, $20.

Hongkong,

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

THE CHINA MAIL.

"CAPSTAN"

MEDIUM STRENGTH

"CAPSTAN

Navy Cut Cigarettes.

HO.WILLS

452TIES RMOUTHPIECES.

THE

"CAPSTA

·Cut

Navy Cigarettes

Navy Cut Cigarettes

"CAPSTAN Tobacco for the Pipe

STANDARD OF QUALITY

AND

THE CIGARETTE FOR THE

CONNOISSEUR,

Sold by all Tobacconists

FRIDAY DECEMBER 24, 1920.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

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,

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.

Tel. No. 801. CABLE ADDRESS **CHEONGLEE ** -

HEAD OFFICE, 68, QUEEN'S EDAD CIstrat. ABC Cour 3TH Entries.

LONG HING & CO., PHOTO SUPPLIES,

Kodaks and Kodak Flax, 25. d. DEVELOFING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, Quest's Roan Gerträt, Horozora.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,

OPERATING:--

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

LTD.

J. H. ZAGGARS,

MANASTI

WEITE AT ONCE FOR PARTICULARS TO

FLUGEL&C) SELEN LANES

LONDON, MUS

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA,

Trained male MASS-DY.

18 years' experience.

Formerly of Tokyo Military Bospital WILL VISIT PATIENTS'

· RESIDENCES IF PREFERRED Ko. 24. Wynikanu Street. (Opposite to the China Mall)

NSTANTANEOUS WATER HEATERS

For Gas and Oil Unlimited Hot Water.

E WARREN & CO., LTD

Xos & 32 Des Voeux Road Central. Bethliahed 1900

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS for an important matter and make a pediality of retmishing" Ight Frocks Costumes so that they clean longer than ated by ordinary

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hote!

Telephone No. 49

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MASSAGE HALL

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MRS. HAN INOKUCHI ;

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UNKNOWN WARRIOR.

MEMORABLE SCENES.

SIR PHILLIP GIBES'S VIVID STORY.

London, November 11-It did not seem an unknown warrior whose body came on the gun carriage down Whitehall where we were waiting

THE PEAK HOTEL.

task that is their's, now that peace is 1,500 Feet above Sea Level the test of victory.

held the seas; Lord French of Ypres, who won that victory and this peace. with Horne of the First Army and I thought the people about me stared Byng of the Third, and Air Marshall at them as though conscious of the Trenchard, who commanded all the birds that few above the lines on the mornings of enormous battle.,

But It was one figure who stood These were the high powers, infin- alone as the symbol of the nation in itely remote, perhaps, in the imagina this tribute to the spirit of our dead. tion of the man whose dust was now As Big Ben struck three-quarters being brought toward them. It was after ten the King sdvanced toward their brains that bad directed bis the cenotaph, followed by the Prince movements down the long roads of Wales, the Prince's two brothers, for him. He was known to us all. It which galled his feet, over ground and the Duke of Connaught. And was one of "our boys," not warriors, churned up by gunfire, up duck while the others stood in line looking as we called them in the days of boards from which he slipped under toward the top of Whitehall the King darkness, lit by faith.

his heavy pack if he were a foot was a few paces, ahead of them alone slogger, and whatever his class as a waiting motionless for the body of soldier ordained at last the end of the unknown warrier who had died bis journey, which finished in a grave in his service.

disk-.un a metal marked by known."

To some women, weeping a little in the crowd after an all-night vigil, he was their boy who went missing one day and was never found till now, though their souls went searching him through dreadful places in the night.

CROWD STILLED HY EMOTION. It was very silent In Whitehall. Before the ordered silence the dense lines of people had kept their places without movement and only spoke Now they stood in little in their long time of waiting,

In life, he had looked upon these Generals as terrifying in their power To many men among those packed" for the likes of him.". Sometimes, densely on each side of the empty perhaps, he had salured them as they street wearing ribbons and badgerode

past.

on civil clothes, he was a familia Whitehall to salute him, to keep and then as they caught their first figure one of their comrades, the silence in his presence, to reader him glimpse of the gun-carriage were one they liked best, perhaps, in the homage, more wonderful, with¦ utterly quiet, all heads were bared old crowd, who went into the fields deeper reverence than any General and bent. Their emotion was as of death and stayed there with the of them all has had

though a little cold breeze were pass great companionship.

There were Princes there about ing. One seemed to feel the spirit It was the steel helmet, the old the cenotaph, not only of England of the crowd. Above all this mass tin hat." lying there on the crimson but of the Indian Empire. These of plain people something touched of the flag which revealed him in Indian rajahs, that old white-bearded, one with a sharp, yet softening stantly, not as a mythical warrior white turbaned man with the face of thought. alcot from common humanity, a an Eastern propbetwas it possible shadowy type of the national pride that they, too, were out to pay hom and martial glory, but as one of those "age an unknown British soldier.

There was something of the light of fellows, dressed in the drab of khaki, stained by mud and grease, who went Flanders in whitehall. The tattered into the dirty ditches with this steel ruins of Cloth Hall at Yores used to hat on his head and in his heart the shine White. A mist, suffused a unspoken things, which made him little by wan sunlight, white as the one of us in courage and in fear, with walls and turrets of the War Office some kind of faith not clear, full of in this mist of London. The tower perplexities, often dim in the watch of Big Ben was dim through the mist like the tower of Albert Church until words of those years of war.

it fell into a heap under the fury of gunfire.

The massed bands passed with their noble music and their drums thumping at the bearts of men and women. Guards with their reversed arms passed and then the gun car. riage with its team of horses halted in front of the cenotaph where the King stood, and every hand was raised to salute the soldier who died that we might live, chosen by fate for this honour which is in remembrance of that great army of comrades who went out with him to no man's land, The king laid a wreath on this

So it seemed to me, at least, as looked down Whitebal and listened to the music which told us that the Presently the sun shone brighter coffin and then stepped back again. unknown was coming down the road, so that the picture of Whitehall was Crowded behind the gun carriage The band was playing the old "Dead etched with deeper lines. On all the in one long vista, was an immense March in Saul with heavy drum- buildings flags were flying at half column of men of all branches of the ming, but as yet the roadway was mast. The people who kept moving navy and army moving up slowly clear where it led up that altar of about the cenotaph were there for before coming to a halt, and behind sacrifice as it looked, covered by two mourning, not for mere pageantry again other men in civilian clothes, flags, banging in long folds of scarlet The Grenadier officers, who walked

and everywhere among them and abotit with drawn swords, wore crape and white.

About that altar cenotaph there on their arms. Presently they passed above them flowers in the form of were little groups of strange people, the word along, "Reverse arms wreaths and crosses. all waiting for the dead soldier. Why were they there?

THE GREAT AWAIT HIM. There were great folk to greet the dust of a simple soldier. There was the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London and other

and all along the line of route soldiers. Then all was still, and the picture turned over their rifles and bent their was complete framing in that coffin beads over their butts. It was when) where the steel hat and the King's the music of the Dead March came sword lay upon the flag which draped louder up the street.

{it. The soul of the nation at ́ite best, purified at this moment by, this emotion, was there in silence about the dust of that unknown.

THE KING STAND

ALONE.

A number of black figures stood clergy in gowns and boods. What in a separate-group apart from the hed they to do with the body of Admirals and Generals, people of a soldier who had gone trudging importance to whom the eyes of the through the mud and much like one crowd turned while men and women

Guns were being fired somewhere

in the distance. They were not loud, “but like the distant thumping, of guns.ba a misty day in Flanders

though on such a day, perhaps, this may had died.rese

ant in a legion of ants, unknown to tip-toed to get a glimpse of them when there was nothing to report. fame, not more heroic, perhaps, than The Prime Minister and Ministers all his pals about him, not missed and ex-Ministers of England ware mech when be felt Cext between the there-Asquith, Lord Curzon tangled wire and the shell holes? other statesmen who in those years of Presently there was a far off wall- There were great Generals and conflict were responsible for all the ing like the cry of a banisher. It was Admirals, Lord Halg Lupsell Com mighty effort of the nation, who a wire giving the warning of mander in Chief of our armies in stirred up is passion and emotion, in some place by the France, and Admiral Beatty: who organized its labour and service,

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15 Minutes from-Landing Stage. Under the Management of—-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION.

LL ELECTRIC TRAME Pan Fatranos, Elevizie Lifts, Fass and Lighting Europesa Bath and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Bystrz throughout. Best of Food and Service.

Telephona 375. Talegraphie Address's—1 VidrosIL.”

J. WEYCHELIĄ Manager:",

CARLTON HOTEL,

(CHR CHET AMERIJAN ROSIE-DI PEN COLDIT.)

ICE HOUSE BERZET,

-Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only a few minuws walk from the Banks and Central District 4 Bedrooms, Excelent. Oulaine scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Bates an application to the Proprietress. Launcher mest Passenger Boats.

Telegraphic Aidrow “CARLTON.“

M31. F. E. CAMBEOX.

PALACE HOTEL:

"KOWLOON.

Two minutes from Star Ferry''.

Recently renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fans throughous and entirely under new management. Unisins under the personal sparrisca of the proprietor. Ear and Billiard Rooms. Tema modaryta. Spaini imenin so families on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphie Add: "PALACE”

J. EL OXBERRY, Proprietor.

HOTEL "ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Rooms

Roof

i!

Saite en Gardén,

Excellent Cuisine.

with & Hairdressing

private Baths.

Saloon,

etc.

Moderate Rates.

Leading Hotel in South China.

Special attention given to

Under

Foreign Supervision of.

TANG YUK, Darzi,

sho lake BIKETING)

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