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LAMMERT BROS.

ADOMOSHERS, AFPRAISERS AND SURVETORS. -Public Auctions-

FOR SALE.

OSE BORNSBY ACKROYD CIL ENGINE-3 Horse Power, Fuel, Kercsere. Complete with cooling appars- tus in good coúdition. May be viewed by appointment at Gun Club Hill Barracks, Aomioon. Apply to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS..

I say

Luddell Strel

KEATINGS LOZENGES

care the viorst Caugh

MASSAGE.

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Mr. H 'NDA and Mrs. HONDA,

Trained male Mass ur.

13 years' experi-cce.

Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital WI L VISIT PTETS RESIDENCES IF FREMRED Sɔ. 24. Wynik Ftreet.

(Opposite to the China Mail.)

MUMEY A.

Japanese Fbotographers. We live reared our Premises to No. 26A, Quern's Bond, C.

Sitin: bones from 3m to 9 p.m. Passport photos finished in ore Lour.

TAIYO & CO.

JALANTSI

ROOT- AND SHOPS

Σ

10 ANX

Tarrive shortly, large

quantities of White

Glazed Tiles, also Cast

Iron Porcelain Lined

"Baths and the last word

in bid ts.

C. E. WARREN & CO, LTD

So. 31 & Des Veur Road Central

Fiatablished 1900

Telepbose 310.

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS ·

is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they. keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our processes a thorough and reliable. Our facilities and re- sgrecs enable us to carry out all work quickly and our charges are really reasonable.

The

Write for Price List and See!

iam nd Dyeing and

Dry cleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED,"

General Typer. 32 & 34, Wellington Street Branch 23, Nathan Road, Kowloon

Phone 149%

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INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM,

JUST received a larga Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in

ty during flot weather (2) LAO (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) | MILFORD-McGRATH FLUID INSEC- TICIDE the Bess Fluid for destroying Fleas, Moequitoes, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer daya, and

JOEN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sole Agents for:Bengkong asć South China, „Nam, & & 65, Connaught Koad Central, HoREKODE, Trispionaj Noa) 13A

Just received

The

Fifteen Saturdays

of the

Rosary

English and Portuguese.

GRAÇA & 00,

DEALERS IN PEATER BOOKS, POSTAUK Stars, Toy, Garden 'Srids, đty. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box $20.

Eongkong-

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear. - MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & CO

PEDDER STREET, Oppos te Hongkong Hotel Telophore No. 49.

Hergkong, Mach 20, 1914

MASSAGE HALL

Graduate from Sagawak Manage School MRS. HAN INOKUCHI

Phone No. 1964.

26, Stanley Street,

Four.

THE NEW FRENCH HAMEDY,

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CH. 1 500 Cider Catarrh Na 2 for klood & Box Diagrams, o far razie WeakmannES JOLA VEZZAPsva čutatums PROTIP PROLAKOJŠA

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· BOLE APERTE Z MITSUI BŪSAAK KAMER.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GARRICK

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921,

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,

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

Phone 196

UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS

Phone 198

JUST ARRIVED

LADIES & GENTS'

Selected Virginia Cigarettes

CIGARETTE

VIRGINI BLEN

ARE MADE FROM THE

MOST DELICATELY FLAVOURED

TOBACCO

GROWN IN VIRGINIA,

Sold in Airtight tios of 50 Cigarettes and Obtainable at all Tobacconists.

This Advertisement is intoed by Britt-American Tobacco Do (China) Ltd.

SHIPPING DISASTER

A FIRE MYSTERY.

INQUIRY EY SHANGHAI POLICE,

WOMEN LIMPETS.

HANGING ON TO LONDON CLUBS.

WHY THEY WON'T GO

On the morning of Thursday January 6, shortly before. 10

"I ask all of you here, and all who o'clock the str. Albatross" sant in the

read this appeal, to make it a point of river near Kiangnan Dock, after

burned honour, before Obligation Week is having furiously for some hours, the fire ever, to use every effort to find or consuming everything and leaving make openings in steady work, and to only a mere shell. Circunstances influence others 'ia "doing so, for my attending the loss of the vessel, so far as at present known, are some patient and

weary. comrades.”— what curious, and the Shangbai | H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Municipal Police have been called in

We are half-way through with

to make investigations.

THE DRAGON SCREEN.

LITTLE KNOWN WALL.

ONE OF THE TREASURES OF PEKING.

of Peking is the dragon screen. It One of the unexpected treasures

is barely mentioned in some of the guide books and not mentioned at all in others. It ja hidden behind a hillock in the winter palace grounds, and nine-tenths visitors to Peking walk within a hundred yards of it and never dream of its existence.

GEO E. KEITH

SMART FOOTWEAR

BOOTS AND SHOES

COMFORTABLE WHEN NEW

STYLISH WHEN OLD

LONG HING & CO., PHOTO SUPPLIES,

Kodaks and Kodak Filma, DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, Quins's ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING:-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE,

J. H. TAGGART, MAXIER

THE PEAK HOTEL.

of thell 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

The "Albatross." a wooden vessel of Obligation Week, and it is being It is a wall perhaps twenty feet |

1,000 tons, was built in Japan in 1918 for Messrs. Lassaridi and Kerensky, of Vladivostok. Recently she came down, in ballast, from Vladivostok to ply in the China trade, being in the charge of Capt. Pavlov, whose first and second officers and first, second and third engineers were Russians. The crew was composed of Shantung men. The arrangement was, that these latter should be discharged and a local cres engaged on Tuesday afternoon, but no information is available as to whether the chance was made. The vessel was schedu led to leave Shanghai on Thursday afternoon for Haichow.

STRANGE, OUTBREAK OF FIRE Precisely how the disaster occurred is not known. In short, at the time of writing, the matter is "shrouded in mystery," the Master's report not having been received. It has been reported that the vessel was observed to be on fire at about 10 o'clock on Tuesday sight

The probability is that the flames, seen by some observer, were sub posed by him to be on the other side of the river, since no alarm was raised and no assistance called for..

asked: What is being done in response to the Prince's appeal for his patient and weary comrades"? writes a Home paper,

The Globe has suggested, and now reiterates the suggestion, that several hundred ex-Service merean be taken on by Londen clubs as waiters in the room of the women who took on the work during the war.

These women are still hanging on to their war-time jobs instead, of go ing back to domestic service.

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high and a hundred long faced com- pletely with tile cast to represent nire life-size dragons in bas relief, of various colurs-yellow, purple, buff, maroon, orange-darding gaily above emerald billows, against a pale blue sky.

Doubtless, one should not speak of "life-size" dragons, but these creatures, of the screen, are the

to see they give rise to the feeling avest dragons one may ever hope

that if a dragon lived he would be exactly like one of these.

of servants, in the opinion of the This is one reason for the shortage proprietor of a West-End servants' agency, who told a Globe repre- sentative that she had on her books the names of several ex-Service men

Most sculptured Chinese dragons who would be willing to take on the are lifeless, angular beasts; but here work of housemaids and parlour there is an almost un-Chinese vigour maids for the same wage which the į and audacity in the spring and twist women were now asking-25s, or of the lithe bodies. They heap, whirl, 30s. a week and all found."

lunge and writhe until the spectator steps back, half afraid that they will come tumbling off the screen, strik- ing at the unwary with their sturdy claws. who teach that plastic art should There are, I believe, critics

never undertake to portray moments of activity. It this be correct, the dragons stand condemned; but if the sculptor may ever rightly give us life in its vivid, moving moments, here is a masterpiece-Muller in National Geographic Magazine.

It is still regarded, however, as a somewhat dangerous innovation to employ men in such a capacity.

Therefore let the women return to their proper sphere, and so leave room for the men in the London clubs..

In conversation with a Globe re-

It was not until about 430 am, on presentative the Secretary of the Thursday that the outbreak was re- Constitutional Club expressed the ported to the River Police The opinion that waiters are not asking Customs Fire Float, in the for the high wages they are said to charge of the Assistant Harbour demand. Master (Mr. Antoncich) at once"We have a staff of something went to render assistance, and ke 270," he said, "and about 40 of worked on the burning vessel these are women, who came to us until close upon 10 o'clock, by which during the war. They stood by us time the whole ship was reduced to loyally and we do not want to turn ja cinder. Captain Myhre, the Har them off now.

bour Master, accompanied by Mr, Justesen (representing the agents), went up to have the vessel removed

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so as not to le an obstruction to those who for various reasons had not other shipping, and it was thought returned. possible she might be towed forther

"I agree that many of these women

up river, but before this could be were formerly domestic servants, arid done, the "Albatross" sank at the side that they do not like going back

SICKLY BABIES.

Sickly babies-little ones who are "We have reinstated all the men troubled with their stomachs and bowels, who came back to us, though, and whose teething is painful, digestion bad, these women are in the places of and who cannot sleep well-may be made healthy and happy by Baby's Own Tablets, the Canadian children's remedy. Mr. Wilfred Damons, of, val Bril- liant Quebec, write Plesso and mo a vial of Baby's Own Tablets as I uld not care to be without them. I hate ased them for constipation and vomiting and am well pleased with the result."

The Tablets are recommended also a Temedy for worms, and to break

up from medicine dealers.160 at 60 cents simple colds and fovers. Obtainable the vial, poet free, from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. sef Szechuan Road, Bhang.. hai.

of the fairway, leaving only part of service."

the tunnel above water.

The vessel was insured with the Yamato Salling Ship Marine Insurance

Coy of Koot for Y 20.000 The "It was at one time feared that the

N. C. D. News understands that quite recently the owners refused an offer of Y40,000 for the chip.

all

Captain and his officers might have perished with the vessel, but safe" has been reported.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pai Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fane and Lightloj A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Syrien throughout. Boat of Food and Sarvino..

Telephone 373 Telegraphio Addres ;—* VIUTUBIA."

J. WITCHELL

PALACE HOTEL"

KOWLOON,

(Two minutes from Star Ferry)

Recently renovated and refurnished electric light and face throughoes and entirely order new management Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms. Terus moderata Spesial terms to familles on application to

J. E. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

Telephone K. A Telographic Adi.: "FALIOK"

HOTEL

“ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Rooms

en Suite Boof Gardén,,

Excellent Cuisine.

& " with Hairdressing

private Baths.

Baloon, etc.

Moderate Bates.

Leading Hotel in South China.

Special attention - given.. to -Tourists.

Under the Foreign Supervision of,

TANG YUE, DE

aby Lake BIEN TIso, -14. D'avuizen Bizarr

TERMA VERY MODERATE

"Consvitation time.

THOS. G. HUTCHINGS.

FRENCH LESSONS

G. MOUSSION :

· 13, Morrison: Eli-2.44.