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LAMMERT BROS.

Acromiostess, AFFRAINERS AND SURVEYORA,

-Public Auctions-

FOR SALE.

ONE HORNSBY ACKROYD OIL ENGINE 31 Barse Power, Fuel, Kerosene. Complete with cooling appaza- tas in good condition. May be viewed by appointment at Gan Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon. Apply to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

MUMEYA.

Japanese Photographers. We have removed our Premises to No. 381, Queen's Road, C Sitting hours front & am to 9 pm. Passpure phoons finished in one boer.

MOHIDEEN & CO.

JEWELLERS.

$$ and in Queen's Rour Central.

Are shortly removing to No. 64 Queen's Road, Cen. tral, and to facilitate removal are disposing of their large stocks of precious stones and jewellery at exceptionally favourable prices. A splendid opportunity is offered of obtaining genuine articles cheaply.

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA. and Mrs. HONDA

Trained male Masscar.****

13 years' experience. Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital WILL VISIT PATIENTS' RBSIDENCES IN PREFERRED Na. 24. Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the China Mall)

TAIYO & CO.

JAPANESE

BOOTS AND SHOPS MADE TO ORDEZ 20.16, Wyndham St.

To arrive shortly, large

quantities of White

Glazed Tiles, also Cast

Iron Porcelain Lined

Baths and the last word

in bidets.

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C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Nos. 30 & 32 Des Voeux Road Central.

Established 1900 |l

Telephose 370.

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocka and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary -methods.

Our processes are thorough and reliable. Our facilition and re- sources enable us to carry out all work quickly and our charges are remily reasonable.

Write for Erice List and Bee!

The Diamond Dyeing and

Drycleaning Co♫ ↑

Agent

CASSUM AHMED.

Jeneral Amper. *#34, Wellington Street.. Bensch 38, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

'Phone 140%.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in during Hot weather. (2) LAC quality TOSE (Hill Sagar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes, Begs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Housen,

MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sale ApuntatoriHongkong and South Chusi

Xon, 47 & 18. Comaught Bond Central; Eongbang.

Telepianal Nou, 1299.

理代泰登

Just Received

Tasteless

STAMP HINGES,

Peelable, Pure

Ed

Peerless.

GRACA & CO.

DEALERS IN POSTAGE STAMPS, GARDEN SERT, Tors, &c. No.10, Wyndham Strest,

P.0. Bax 690.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

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CHERRY & CO.,

·PRÐDER STREET, - Opposite Hongkong Hotel Telephone No. 49%

Bongkong, March 20, 1914.

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KAISERLESS GERMANY.

MILITARISH SWEPT AWAY.

SUCCESS OF THE REVOLUTION.

A visit to Berlin in 1920, when the Kaiser has disappeared, is, says Mr, Noel Buxton in the Manchester Guar. dian, of peculiar interest to anyone! who like myself saw it at the very beginning of Wilhelm II's regime and observed it at intervala during his 30

years' career.

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an al fresco tea we discussed with Socialist members of the Reichstag (including lady members concerned with relief work for the hungry child- ren) the immediate problems of Socialist Germany.

MONT BLANC DISASTER.

TERRIBLE AVALANCHE.

ALES REPORTED AS IN A DANGEROUS

CONDITION.

wast the

In another of the places of Berlin, the residence of the President of the Reichstag, we dined with the new President, Loebe, who is so well

Seldom in the recent history of known in British Labour quarters. the Alps has such a terrible avalan- The shades of former aristocratic che occurred as that which fell from Presidents must have experienced the highest pyramid of Most Blanc, of Socialist MP's, talking familiarly horror as they witnessed the party a distance of some 10.000 feet, on to the Brenva Glacier. Owing to with the waiters some of whom were the sweeping force of its fall, the delighted to show off to English avalanche detached the side of the guests the English which they had moraine of the glacier and annihilated |=_forest. of ancient pines, which learnt in London hotels. At my first visit, in 1890, Bismarck

A visit to the Reichstag reveals both protected Courmayeur from had just fallen and the hopes of the another revolution, displayed in the avalanches, and wilder spirits were set upon the presence of great numbers of women pride and ornament of the Val considerable Veni, as the upper valley of the river young man whose white plume flash. members, forming a

The Doire was ed past down the Linden and whose percentage of the whole Chamber Daire is called.

women who in Germany were til blocked, so that it overdowed its restless personality was already at yesterday held in subservience, and banks, and had it not fortunately tracting the reverence of the less who now obtain from the electors a been very low, the Italian village of degree of confidence which is not yet Furtud might have been swept away reflective section of German loyalty the portion of women in England. by the water.

As it is, the avalanche stopped a Consider how far militarism had Titles and privileges mean no- developed from its status at the thing. The churches are disesta-few yards from Partud. The valley beginning of the episode of 1896 blished, with the happy result that for several kilometres is entirely till it reached its culmination in even in the Prussian Lutheran overstrewn with ice-blocks and, fir 1914. The doctrine of divine right, Church genuine movements sym- tree trunks. The Italian authorities bad taken firm hold in spite of the pathetic with Labour are growing have sent several parties of men to help to clear the village street, growth of modern thought and the P

and also to remove the inhabitants, movements of Labour. The very Above all, the legend of Kaiserism because it is feared that, now that burgomasters were not responsible is not only lost but degraded by the the forest is destroyed, Partud is too to the people of their own but to the ignoble end of the Kaiser's reign. dangerous to live in, It is also autocracy. The Reichstag itself was The shame of his flight eats into the feared that more-avalanches may powerless. The sole curtailment of soul even of those few who wish the descend from the summit of Mont Junker domination was represented monarchy restored. There are, of Blanc, especially as the weather by a dimunitive tax on land, which course, elements which cherish hopes throughout the Alps has been dry was only conceded in order to bar- of the restoration of the old regime since the beginning of October, and gain for a great increase of the Their dag was prematurely raised at the condition of the mountains is the Kapp revolution, and by its in sometimes made still more dangerous

army.

were dashed.

known as the fohr.

From the conservative point of aptitude and failure their last hopes by the warm south-west wind, view how desolating is the change! The police and the soldiers with What a galf lies between the past

No snow worth mentioning has shining helmets are no longer to be and the present, with its preoccupa fallen in the high Alps, and no rain seen. The "Safety Police" on rare Communiem on one side and of and ice are not cemented together tion in social problems, its fears of

for fifty-seven days: thus the rocks occasions are seen slouching along in pairs. The walls of the chief reaction on the other, fears which by fresh snow, as is usually the case. buildings are spattered with bullet Persist (although discredited by the by November. The crevices in the marks in the Palace from which in small Communist poll at the elections rocks and ice have become enlarged 1893 the Emperor had with a field and by the failure of Dr. Kappl but by the abnormal period of drought. glass successfully detected the which are overshadowed in these unfastened button of the sentry days of broken nerves by thoughts oreover, in the higher altitudes, at the guardroom 300 yards of Comeranist Russia or of land during October and November, there has been an extraordinary amount of warm sunshine, and almost bot away has its doors in ruin, while lordist Poland.

weather indeed. The cause of the seen the German alone appears well Mont Blanc catastrophe is probably The great houSES the Wilhelm based. Here you are not dealing with this abnormal drought and warmth. strasse, formerly the seats of the an unstable people as (in the case of On the French" side of the moun- mighty, are now occupied by civil the fool fury of the Seise of tain recently a somewhat similar servants and hum with the tap of the which Tennyson wrete), but with a catastrophe occurred, and enormous typewriter. The Palace, with lovely people who, even in revolution, main- damage was done to the Chamonix gardens stretching out to the Thierten tained a sense of order. In Berlin, Valley. The summit of Mont Blanc, formerly the abode of the chief of the during the hottest moments of fight which is generally a snowfield, on Emperor's bousehold, now contains ing, those who watched the traffic at which once an observatory was Ebert, the ex-harness-maker, the un- great crossings in the centre of the actually, erected, is now a block of assuming and cheerful friend town saw that no driver, though the ice, and, should another mass-of of Labour. delegates at inter police had disappeared, ever swerved | rocks break away, then the height of national conferences. Here, with from his right position in the road. Most Blanc may possibly become the leaders of the Majority In Leipzig where the

rolls of hoo- lower. The Observatoire Vallot,

the interior has been pillaged by a. Of the four revolutions which! have rabble.

Socialist party we entered from the our” just inside the doors of the about 1,400 feet below the summit. garden door unchallenged by any at University building are riddled with is safe. The inhabitants of the the guardhouse and enjoyed the bullets, a truce was called in the mountain districts are alarmed, and hospitality of the saddler and his wife street fighting for two hours each are praying for, snow as the only whose dignity as a hostert no Em morning in order that the women safeguard against dislodgement of press of the past has exceeded. At might do their shopping.

rocks and ice..

MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 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'

GEO. K. KEITH

SMART FOOTWEAR

IN-

BOOTS AND SHOES

COMFORTABLE WHEN NEW

STYLISH WHEN OLD

PHOTO SUFFLIES.

LONG HING & CO., Kodan and Kodak Films, do. d.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17, QUEEN'S BOLD CINNEAL, Harakang.

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,

KiTAGE.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Länding Stage. Under the Management of--

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Paas Entrance, Electele Lifts, Hans and Lightingf A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Syrien, throughout. Best of Food and Servies.

Telephone 373. Telegraphie Addrem :-* VIUTORIA."

J. WITCHIEL, Masaya,

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electrie Hght and fans throughout and entirely aviar new management. Quisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Biliard Booms." Terma modarata. Spesial terms to familes on application to

Telephone K. Telegraphie Add: *PALAOR"

J. E. OXEKRET, Proprietor.

HOTEL "ASIA”.

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Hairdressing

Rooms

en - Suite & with private Baths Roof Garden,

Excellent Cuisine.

ete: Saloon,

Moderate Rates..

Leading Hotel in South China.

attention given to Special Under the Foreign Supervision of,

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FRENCH LESSONS

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15. Merrines XII Rand.