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LAMMERT BROS.

AUVEONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVETORS, Public Auctions—

THE Undersi,med have twelved

structions to sell by Fable Auction,

FRIDAY. Febraxry i. 1821,

commencing a: 245 pm at No. 127, the Piak, "Bicton "

A Quantity of. Valuable Household Furniture.

Comprising

Chesterfeld sols & chairs, blackwood! tables, stools and jardinières, mother

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 quality during Hot weather (C) LAG TOSE (Milk Sagar) for swestening the foods of Infants and MILFORD MCGRATH PLUS (3) TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Fleas, Moequitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEX FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean is Houses.

PRICES ar Very Moderats. Ips- of pearl inlaid curio cabinet, teak!pection and Enquiries are cordially card table, easy chairs, pictures, old invited. brazzes, carpets, ruas brass fender,! -electric fittings, etc., etc.

Teak extension dining table and i chair, teak sideboard with bevelled

mirror, teak dinner waggons, Ameri)

can refrigerator, glassware, teak! <screen, etc. etc.

Single teak and kon bedsteads, teak wardrobes, teak dressing table, washstands, chest of drawers, enamell- ed baths, geyser, etc, etc.

th

Also

A Quantity of Feras in pots

And

1 Grand Piano br Steinway & Sors (in fine condition).'

On view from Thursday afternoon the 3rd February,

Comes wide wed

TransCash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS,

Aditivosets.

Bengkong, January 8, 1021.

ex

SATURDAY, February 5, 1921, commercinta: 1.

at their Sales Rooms Daddell Street,

- One Indian Motor (yel» complète)

with side car.

One case of Butterflies in good

rondition.

Oce American Combination Safe)

Cabinet."

One Grand Piano.

Three Gramophones (new).

Co view cow. -

Tera:-Cash on delivery.

LAMBERT BROS,

Acctioneess

Hongkong, Jasasry 3, 1021.

FOR SALE.

NE BORNSEY-ACKROYD DI

ENGINE 3 Borse Power, Fuel, Kareene. Complete with cooling appará- tas in good condition. May be viewed by ppointment at Gan Clab Hill Barracks, Kowloon. Apply to the undersigned

LAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street

To arrive shortly, large

quantities of White

Glazed Tiles, also Cast

Tron Porcelain Lined

Baths and the last word

in bidets.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

No:50 & 32 Des Your Rosd Central.

Established 1900

Telephone 370.

I 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 are thorough and reliable. Our facilities and sources enable us to carry out all

ro

work quickly and sur charges are

really reasonable.

Write for Price List and See!

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED.

General Draper. 22&4, Wellington Street. Bianch, 28. Nathan Road, Kowloon."

'Phone 1484

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Baba Apunta' forlangkong and Sotus Chi KIK. 67, AZAN, CANnanght Road Central, Hongkong Tasphone NOL. 1998.

理代泰豐

Just Received LAWN GRASS

SEEDS.

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CORPSES TO ORDER

JAPANESE PRACTICE,

THE CHINA MAIL.

AMUSING AND INTERESTING.

In London, it is said, under the auspices of knights, and even scientists, they can make spirits to

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would be to throw the whole worki of unseen spirits into indignant dis crder, with unspeakble consequences to this mundane sphere..

POOLING THE 'ASHES.

SIR PERCY SCOTT,

ADMIRALTY'S MISTAKE.

**PLUNDER THAT WON THE WAR.”.

In the course of a letter to The

for IS.

You must admit that this

But since the entire Japanèse com tingent in the Russian village was wiped out by the Bolsheviks, not a soul being left to tell the tale, the question at once arose as to how the Times on the battleship problem, Sir dead came to be rightly assorted: Percy Scort says: "You must admit how did the army decide who was that our belief before the wir of the order. But the Japanese are more) who among a miss of mutilated submarine being only a toy resulted clever and can make corpses; writes victims far on the road to vanish in our arriving on the brink of losing the Times of India's Tokyo correspan-ment? Relatives who duly received the war. dent. Now any fool can make a the ashes began to wonder whether erroneous idea before the war resulted corpse, even one that can make a they were not worshipping the ashes in our blunder of building the wrong split, or summon one, to order, of persons other than their families, which is much the same thing, but or worse still, those of enemies, even weapons to combat the submarines. any fool cannot make an artificial Bolsheviks, for the latter did-here that this blunder won the war

Strange as it may appear, I be corpse, as the Japanese can. At any have it all their own way in the

Looking over some German rate a human body requires more carnage. The dissatisfaction and visible and convincing evidence for consumption arising out of this doubt respondence of 1914 which has its existence than a split does. was anything but müd, worse indeed reference to my letter in your paper How these man made human than that of the American tourist in preclaiming that the battleship was remains come into being in Japan is a Mexican hotel, who had ordered dead. I believe that the Germans. an amusing if not as interesting fagged hare and discovered, too late with their skewed minds, thought that I was not sincere (of course-l question. It is the rule of the Japa that be Had eaten.monkey. nese military authorities to send hone

was), but that I was trying to blaffi to relatives of the deceased the ashes: A careful investigation of the cir- them from building battleships, so of all that fall on the field of battle cumstances surrounding the question they went on with their programane jor. die in war. to show that the of how the bodies of the dead at and did not build submarines }soldier has not disgraced his country ) Nicolaevsk were identified revealed

Now my proposal to the Admiralty by allowing himself to be taken alive, the embarrassing fact that proper in 1913 was not to build two more use the money and to enable the family to have identification was not possible; and battleships, but to something to venerate in the act of so all the dead were cremated to allocated for them in building sub- ancestor worship. For a long time, gether and the ashes divided among marines, aeroplanes, etc., and in not however, especially with the increas; the number of relatives known. acting on my proposal I considered, ing sophistication of the populace Realizing that the asha were not and I still consider, that the Admir- now so much in teach with genuine, ashes but not the right.alty cornimitted a colossal blunder. modern ways and the tricks of civili-ashes, some of the more prominent } Had the Admiralty not committed 1stion, a measure of doubt has been relatives of the victims, that is, of this bit-der, but turned down two growing up as to how this custom of the massacred and not the deceived, | battleships, it would have conveyed the army could be possible on any have refused to accept the urns sent to the Germans that the Admiralty basis of reliability. Religion may be them by the army, and the army had full belief in the great utility of taken on faith, even to the extent of authorities know not what to do, the submarine. They would have believing in a bodily resurrection, but Consternation reigns; for the ur built them, perhaps have had 50 ready rot on faith in the infallibility of pleasant incident has created, a when war came, and we should now. Japanese military men. Were the suspicion as to the good faith of the be a German colony. ashes received from the army army in relation to this most sacred authorities, and made so much of in matter from which the relatives of Vegeta-parading, patriotic banners at many soldiers killed in war had so long funerals in quiet villates all over the ; been accustomed to draw some small empire whence the rank and file of consolation in their bereavement. the army is drawn, were these ashes: What if the ashes venerated at all really those of one's husband, son or over Japan after every war were brother, after all? Might they sat really not what the worshippers possibly get "mixed and leave one thought! Indeed dangerous thoughts able to become the recipient of may be incited in the army itself ani another's husband's ashes to treasure' conscription may be rendered still and to worship? Asful thought! more difficult than it is. It is at any

HOW DOUBT AROSE

tate obvious that the business of The gravamen of the doubt his manufacturing humah ashes whole recently come .10 à head and sale as a means of bringing con threattens a crisis, ia connection solation to the bereaved relatives of with the massacre of some 600 soldiers in Japan will have to be con Japanese soldiers and civilians at docted with greater caution in future, i

the Russian villaze of Nicolaersic, į if indeed it is to succeed at all. The slaughter of these Japanese took į One day a pretty Japanese maid place last Spring; and the army, opeel the room door and came into authorities, in accordance with their the presence of her foreign mistress custom, sent back to Japan the smiling, if not giggling, in an un- sshes of the dead. Not to have done! wonted manner. When asked why so would have been to invite the she looked so pleased, she produced (displeasure of the departed spirits, ala small bottle from her sleeve and, very terrible risk in Japanese eyes; holding it up to view, remarked with for without something tangible to "a louder giggle than before: Those represent the departed their spirits are the ashes of my husband." The could not be properly venerated, and Japanese smile, even in grief. But! not to worship one's ancestors aright it is usually over another's dead!

Grass is Mother Nature's Carpet provided to cover the ground. If there is an abundance of soft green grass your home will not only be more pleasing but it will also be more Valuable.

GRACA & 00., Dealers in Flower and bla Seeds. Postage Stamps..

Togel ate Ne. 10. Wyrdham Street, P.O. Box 20... Hongkong.

JAPANES? MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

OHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Lypes to Hongkong Hotel ́ Telephone No. 49.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

TANG, YÜK. DENTIST

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- At last • remedy has been dis-hours of taking De Witt's Kidney anddiferent woman. I intended to make covered that gires almost immediate Bladder Pils, and a blue tinge in the good care of my case, sesing that I rief in the painful forms of kidney prius caused by one of the antiseptid getting so much relief, and I am trouble, and effects a certain care in ingredients proves to you, for your pleased to say that I have dong so, practically all cases of rheumatism, own satisfaction, that the healing because for the last twelve months i gunt, seistics, lumbago, stone, gravel, properties have actually passed right have been almalately clear of my old and even the temble Bright's Disease, threagh the kidneys and bladder.. complaint and have not had the This remedy-De Wilt's Kidney and]

sightest trace of any kind of back. Bladder Pit-dissolving in the M. Wykes, of 23. Victoria-street, stomach forma sa antiseptic solutioneaton, said in 1913 For over Nearly three years afterwards which washes out the kidneys and even years I aufered with terrible April 1926-31m. Wykes said: "Da bladder, and restores them to their kidney trouble and most acute back Wit's Kidney and Bladder Pills did. healthy normal activity in

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thethis long period of suffering I have slightest doubt about that; I always body. These impurities, in the form been in a very bad condition, pains of uric acid, it allowed to accumulatetriking me across the back and loin

in the blood, came rheumatic and To along wis birture, and every act dropical pains, backache, constipation, weakness, and depression—all of which|| symptoms lead on in time to the more serer and deadly forms of kidney, diacesc.

HERE ARE SOME WARNINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER NEGLECT —— Eeadaches, had breath, and nasty taste in the mouth first thing in the morning--tired, tarvot weakness and, irritability, wollen feet and limbs- rheumatic pains and stiffness of joints -backache, irregular action of howels or bladder-urinary weakness, irrita-] hon or scalding, barning discomfort. Any of these symptoms mesa kidsay and bladder trochie.

DO YOU REALISE YOUR DANGER?

These symptome may mean incessant tortures of rheumatism wearing cut, stabbing backache (lumbago). Gout that cripples and deforma. Bladder indammation or gravel that cause such excruciating pain, or the deadly Bright's Disease.

TREAT THESE WARNING SYMPTOMS NOW,

There in ons remedy whose hopest).

merit the experience of thousands of}

Mia WTXES, Les Photo)

mend them with a shong feel.

a cratitude for what they have

done for me.”

With this splendid testimony is wind, con you continue to enfer with. fout giving" De Wit's Kidney and Badder Pills a trial! For rheuma tim, goat, lumbago, sciatica, bladder pains and inflammation, stone, and Engh's Disease they are absolutely divalled They never fail to give relief. Within 24 hours the rele! from pain and a certain blue tinge in the nine show that they have pärsed right through the kidneys and com menced their work

Many women, with all the atmin of housework and motherhood, effet. pains and weaknesses that make do premed

and frritable, and yet art cotaut tog en suffering until the wakness has gone too far, when thay pay for their neglect with the tortures lot a deadly disenar.

Those dark circles under the eyes, bad breath and nasty taste in the mouth, Weary, stabbing, dragging down backache pains, headaches, wollen and rheumatic limbs are the warnings of deadly kidney complaints. Do you know that Bright's Disease CAPACE thousands of deaths every

kidney sufferers bis proved remedy tion was & trouble. It was just as if Delaya are dangerous.

As soon as

that is harmless and safe for old and vien had got hold of me and was the first symploma bagin to show. young alike that hardly ever fails to craving me op. I tried many remethemselves you should treat them, with care completely and to cure perma dies, fit one and then another res remedy that has cured thousands of neatly.....

commending me to diferent things, chronic cases, the remedy that thou DE WITT'S KIDNEY AND bat nothing seemed to touch my case'sands of people are taking to-day, the

BLADDER PILLS.

During the early part of 1913 heard only proof care for kidney trouble. This is not a feeble quack remedy: De Witt's "Eidney and Bladder De Witt's Bidary and Bladder Filla it professes to do nothing that is not Pills, and determined to give them These are the words of Mr. Briggs, amply proved in cases out of a 100.rial I am thankful I did, because of 2 Park-lane, Hayes, End, Middles Many so-called "Kidney Fila" merely beemed to gain relief after, the very "I own my ble to De With regulate the bowels. De Witt's go first dose. I got another 2a. Bd. box Riney and Bladder Pills; they made straight to the root of the trouble-from Mr. Baker a shop in Abbey atrest, mi s new woman."-Mrs. Briggs y the kidneys and bladder. Relief from and felt much better: I got brighter that after severe chill her "Kidays "pain is positively guaranteed within 24 and more active, and in fact felt beams inflamed

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