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LAMMERT. BROS.

ÁTETTOKITES, ÅFPEAINERS

· AND SURVEYORS.

=Public Auctions—'

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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 in-quality during Hot weather (2) LAC

THE Undersigned have received

structions to sell by Fabic Auction, WEDNESDAY, January 26, 1921,

commencing at 11.30 their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, (PIK ADCOVER OF VER DORCELAIN), ▲ Quantity of Wines and Spirits,

mprising:—

Brandy, Whisky, Gin, Sherry, Port Claret, Burgundy Peppermint, White Wine, Pesch Cordial, Apricot Cordial, Crema de Cacao, Bear, Stout, Bitters,

(Without Reserve), “

On view from Triestsy, the 25th înst. Terms Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,

Hongkong, January 19, 1921.

FOR SALE.

NE BORNSBY ACKROYD OIL

ENGINE-33 Börse Power, Fuel, i Berosene. Complete with cooling appara- the in good condition. May be viewed by appointment at Gar Clab Hill Barracks, vicon. Apply to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Duddell Street.

EUROPEAN AGENCY.

WHOLESALE Indents promptly

at lowest mah prica for all British and Coutinental goods. Sucluding

Books and Stationery,

Boots, Shoes and Leather, Chemicals and Dreggista" Sandples, -Chiza, Earthenware and Glassware, Cycles, Motor Cars and Accessories, Dapery, Milimery and Piece Goods Fancy Goods and Perfumery, Hardware, Machinery and Metalo, Jawellery, Plate and Watchen, Photographic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Dilmen's Stores,

ota, etc.

Commision 24% w b%•

Trade Discounts aforced. Special Quotations on Demand. Comp Cases from £10 upwards. Consignments of Produce Sold on Account.

WILLIAM WILSON' & SONS. (Establismo 18:4),

126, Abcruzes Lawn, Lezbor, EC. Cable Address: "Annuaire' Londox,

TANG YUE, Dai,

For O

the late 372H TING, 14, D'Aquilan Štxxxz.

ZERMS VERT MODERATS

- Consultation Eras. -

To arrive shortly, large

quantities of White

Glazed Tiles, also Cast

Iron Porcelain Lined

Baths" and the last word

in bidets.

CE, WARREN & CO., LTD..

Nos. 30 & 32 Des Vaux Road Central.

Established 1900

Telephone 370.

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 processer are thorough and liable.". Our facilities and re- sources enable e carry out all

work quickly did our charges are Sally reasonable.

Write for Price List and Bee !"

e Diamond Dyeing and

Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED,

Geners Draper.,

34, Wellington sit eet.

hope 1182.

28. Nathan Road, Kowk

TOSE (Uk Sagar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (8) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Flea, Mosquitoes, Brgs, Flice and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and JOHN: CAHILL'S GOLDEN (). FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything cleanin Blouses,

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Eaqaizies are cordialy invited.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

• Bolo Agents for Hangkong and South Cabin

(12tən, 1, dt, Coutanght Bond Central, Hongkong.

Trispdone on. 21%,

2

理代泰臺

Just Received

Tasteless

STAMP HINGES,

Peelable, Pure

and

Peerless.

GRADA & 00, "DEALS IN POSTAGE STATS, GARDEN SEX Tors, tr No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. Q. Bax 620.

Hongkong,

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Uppos te Hongkong Hotel | Telephone No. 492.

Hồngrong tích 3h 1914.

MASSAGE HALL Graduate from guzaki Massage School MES. HAN INOKUCHI

Phone No. 1904.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Westinghouse

ELECTRICAL APPARATUS-

This trade mark la the quarantes of dependable elec- trical equipment.

FOR EVERY PURPOSE

Westinghouse

Engineering

Whatever your individual power problem-whether of generation or application, Westinghouse engineers can help you arrive at the most economical and efficient type of apparatus, and Westinghouse manufacturing facilities cover everything needed for complete equipment of any power plant, large or small.

Westinghouse engineering and designing are prominent in the domain of current-using apparatus of every type, from giant electric locomotives to fans. and appliances for the home.

Westinghouse production-the canying out of Westinghouse engineering and designing-is so careful and thorough that Westinghouse products

are known the world over for their quality and service.

Let us know your requirements,

Westinghouse Electric International Co.

THE EXECUTIVE AND REPRISALS.

MR. ASQUITH CALLS FOR

IRISH ARMISTICE,

Mr. Asquith was the principal speaker at a London meeting, beld in the Albert Hall, under the auspices of the Peace with Ireland Council He was received with cheers, but had to meet many interruptions from Irish 2. Baler Street,

sympathisers who asked 1st Flour..

What about 1916?" He proposed the following resclution:

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HONGKONG "SLAVERY."

QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

STAIN ON OUR NAME IN

FAR EAST”

The following questions on the kong were put to the Secretary of subject of Child Slavery in Hong State for the Colonies on December 8 and 9:

Mr A. Short asked whether, under the system of adoption in Hongkong. girls, who in return for a money payment are transferred by their parents to another household for purposes of domestic service, rezzive wages for such service, and, if not, what safeguards exist against their being regarded and treated as claves by their employers?

The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies Lieut-Colonel Amery): No, sir, wages are not paid, the children being regarded as adopted daughters of the house.. Their status is well understood, and in cases of ill-treatment they are re moved.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 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 Jewellary,

CARS FOR HIRE PHONE 1036, EXILE GARAGE,

Agents for Cadillac, Buick and Oakland Cars, Reading Standard Motor Cycles, Firestone-tyres.

.

Cars repaired & Garaged at reasonable rates.

HONGKONG MOTOR GO. 141, PRATA EAST, WANCHAL

Operated by

UNITED MOTOR CO., LTD,

83 & 35, DI YORTY ROAD

PHOTO SUPPIES,

LONG HING & CO., Koda and Kodak Films, an..

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

NO. ITA, QUIIK'S ROAD CESil, Hazarona.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD,

OPERATING :——

Mr. Walter Smith asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any report regarding the 1,500

question of slavery has been received from the "Governor of Hangkong; and, if so, if it is the intention to publish the report?

arrested. Further interruptions) Do you want me to speak to you or not? (Cries of "Yes.") Then listen. These three men were arrested, they were brought into the barrack-yard, and, by the order of the officer in com mand, without trial, indeed without charge, they were shot. (Shouts of Murder.") They were murdered, I agree. - What, was done by the who ordered the shooting was Executive of the day? The officer brought up for trial by court-martial on a charge of murder. He was found guilty; and he was ret shot because he was insane. (Derisive cheers.) But we were not content with that We appointed a Commission of Inquiry, comsisting of thres of the This meeting records its profound most eminent lawyers Sir John Simon(cheers), an Irish Tedge, detestation of the murders of police Lord Justice Maloney, and the present and solders in Ireland, and deplores Attorney General for Ireland, Mr. the failure of the Government to Denis. Heary, (A. voice: "It was secure the conviction of the murderers your Government.") That Commis and to provide adequately for the sion of Inquiry met in Dublin. It safety of its servants. It condemus sat in open court for six days. It as immoral and ineffective the policy heard the evidence of, I think, some of reprisals, which involves revenge thing like forts witnesses. It upon the innocent for the sins of the pronounced the acts to be illegal and guilty, and has resulted in the death made a most valuable and exhaus of blameless men, women, and chil- tive report, I should like to read dren and grave destruction of one sentence of that report: The property belonging ta the law-shooting of unarmed and preslating abiding population. It calls upon the civilians without trial constitutes the Government to abandon all attempts offence of murd x." (Cheers.) to repress crime by crime, and MINISTERS RESPONSIBILITY. demands immediate action to restore No, the policy of reprisals and still the supremacy of law and order and more its condonation by the Executive secure the pacification of Ireland and of the day is a new departure, and its reconciliation with this country. In view of the public declarations of Mr. Asquith, in the course of his Ministers and the open incitements speech, said: When one asks the of that curious periodical called the assent of a great gathering such as "Weekly SummaryChisses)- this to a resolution which affirms which is circulated among the police the simple proposition that the pri from Dublin Castle, and, I regret to mary duty of a Government in the say, is subsidised by the British tax- maintenance of law and order is to payer, the officers and men of the set the example of even-handed constabulary and of the military justice, one bas to encounter a whole forces have every right and every series of more or less plausible irrele reason to think that the method of vancies. The first and perhaps the undiscriminating retallation is re- most popular of them is, as it was garded in the highest quarters as, to put in the House of Commons by the say the least, a thing to be regarded Chief Secretary with a brutal direct without undue disfavor ness which met, I need hardly say, We began in Parliament by askinged children, and to see that they are with a resonant response, the chal for an independent and impartial not ill-treated. lenge" Are you on the side of order or inquiry. That was bluntly refused. are you on the side of the assassin ?" and we were contemptuously rebuked I am not on the side of the assassins. for our disposition to swallow idle Crime is crime, cruelty is cruelty, tales which came from tainted barbarism is barbarism, from what-sources. What happened? The ever quarter they proceed, and to evidence multiplied from day to day. whatever purpose they are for the It came from first-hand witnesses, of time being directed.

the highest and most unquestioned It is a recognized fact that Babien- I see that what is now being done impartiality and competence. The and in fact all Children-need medicines is defended by reference to what Chief Secretary told us, after 40 ines do more harm in the long run than of their own, and that most baby-medic occurred in Ireland during and after creameries had been destroyed, there good. Also great mistakes are often the suppression of the rising in 1916 was not a little of evidence to con- made in messuring dies for tiny Unterruption and a voice: "What pect, the military or police with patients. Baby's Own Tablets, the about Shezhy-Skeffington?") The any act of destruction. We now Canadian medicine for Children of all rising of 1916 was a case of open know and we know it from his age, meet every dificulty. They are. guaranteed to be absolutely harmless own: admission-that rebellion, Men were shot down on

fortnight and free from uplates. They am so soft both sides in the streets, and, after before he made that statement in the that they fall inte powder a very slight it was over, those who were put to House of Commons there was in pressure, forming an ideal dose for Dublin Castle, in his own office, a death ("Shame") were, with

a

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Lieut.-Col. Amery:Yes, sir, are port has been received." It is not in a form in which it could conveniently be published, I shall be glad to let the hon. member see it if he desires. Lieut. Colonel J. Ward: Does the hos, member propose to do anything. 23 a result of the report, to wipe this stain from our name in the Far East?

Lieut-Col. Amery: Yes, sir. think the hon. and gallant gentleman was not present in the House when, on 2 previous occasion, I stated that the Secretary of State suggested the formation of a strong local Chinese Committee to look after these adopt

TEETHING WITHOUT. TEARS.

A NEW LIGHT ON BABY-REARING.

infants,

Sta

single exception to which I am going police report which proved con- Baby's Own Tablets are pleasant to

the to refer, never put to death except clusively its untruth.

testo

; slightly laxative, comforting and digestire specific for feverishmess, after trial, evidence given and cross that Ireland is in a state of civil war. At the time of toothing they act like There is no disguising the fact constipation, diarrhea and worms. examined, too, and due sentence for what I want to appeal to you to say magic, giving painless sleep and easy

pronounced. There was,

law

I agree, one lamentable exception, with me is let us have an armistice teething.

the case of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington Armistice is the first step, upon the cents the vial, pet free from the Dr. Obtainable frour chemists, also at 60 LA voip #Three menwand his road to peace (Cheery

MITSUI BUBAAN KAISHA.

two cozapanions. These men were

The resolution was carried.

Boad, Shanghai.

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

J. EL FAGGARY,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Stage, Under the Management of--

Mrs. BLAIR.

(Two minutes from

PALACE HOTEL LOOS

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and rafunished, alacris light and fans throughout and entirely under hew management. Daisins under the personal anpervision of the proprietar, Bar and Billiard Booms.-Terma moderate. Special teman te falls on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegmphis Add. : "PALACE*

HOTEL

Rooms

Boof

J, IL OXBERRY, Froprietor.

“ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON,

en Saite & with private Baths.. Garden, Hairdressing Baloon, etc,

Moderate Rates.

Excellent Cuisine.

Leading Hotel in South China.

Special attention given to Tourists

Under the Foreign Supervision of,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

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