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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SCRVETORR

-Public Auctions-

THE Undasizmed have received

Hose to sell by Pablle Anculer,

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INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

the

JUST received a large Consignment ot (1) LACTOGEN the most digestire | food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (9) LAC strucTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening

foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORDMCGRATH FLULD IN SEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fles Mosquitoes. Bngs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JON CAHILL'S GOLDEN

WEDNESDAY, ny 18. 1921, commencing 21 10.30 a m

at No. 18 Gedown of the Hongkong

Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.,FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA

Kowloon,

A Large Quantity of Round, Square and Flat Iron Bars. Iron Sheets, Angle Iron, Steel Plate Wire Sharts, etc.

iso

A Quantity of

·Miscellaneous Goods.

Teras-Cast on delivery.

LAMBERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

FRIDAY, May 20, 1921,

commending : 230 p.m. -

at their Sale Booms, Duddell Street,

A Valuable Collection of Antiqua China and Carios.

from Sang to King Dynasties and· Kanghi :c Towkwing Periods.

compelling

coloured, 3-colored, bine and white and famills rose vases, jure, how is, and plates, old bouzes. Feking enamel. ware, lacquered ware, crystal and agatel ornaments, isar and wood carvings, ald Chinese painting, etc.,

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On view from Thursday, the 19th "inst

Cataloges will be iwnrd. Trees -Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 14, 1921.

ce

MONDAY, May 23, 1$21.

<cramentit at 10.30 am.

at the Premises of the Chira Mining &

Emelting Co. Ltd. LOWE,

The Flant of the above mentioned Company.

Comprising all the Machinery,

Tooia, Spares, etc.

(To be put up in one Lot. Shoald thei property be not disposed of in this ner, the plact will be sold piecemeal).

Terme: Cash on delivery.

Ma

N. B. Inteading purchasers travel by the train raving Kowloos, at 9.15 am, and mad retorn by the min Lesing Sam Chuen at 11.40 amL

Inspection orders may be had ca application to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 27, 1921.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES

WESSRS LAMMERT EROS, are All instructed to sell

the S. 8. "KAM MAY the now lies in the Typhoca Refuge,

at YAUMATI,

br

PUBLIC AUCTION,

01

THURSDAY,

abe 25th day of May, 1921, at 2 F

IN ONE LOT

at their Asciou Rooms in Duddeli

Street.

The Ship in a Wooden ship of ap proximately 1800 tour expielty with commodation for about 800 Chinese Passengers now nesting completion. For particulars to view apply to Messrs. LAMMERT BROS, the Auctioaters.

For further particulars

Apply to:

Messrs. JOHNSON STOKES

& MASTER,

Soliciton, &c, Hongkong,

07.10

THE AUCTIONEERS.

Hongkong, May 6, 1921.

EUROPEAN AGENCY,

TWHOLESALE Indrabe promptly executed at lowest cask prices

for all British and Continental" goods: Indding

Books and Stationery,

Boots, Shoes and Leathers.

Chemical and Drogiste Sundrion, China, Earthenware and Glier WBERY Cynice, Motor Cars and Accessories, Drapery, Hillary and Praes Goode -

Fascy Gooda and Perfomery, Hardware, Machinery and Metals, Jewellery. Plate and. Watchne, Photographis and Optical Goods, Prurients and Gilzen's Store,

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-Commission 24% 100%

Trade Diaconals disced. Bymást Curatore on Domaine Sony's User from £10 sepsoords. ̈. Consignment of Product Bild eue Acement.

FIDILLIAM. SVILEON & SONN

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SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses

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

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ROMANCES OF CRIME,

AMAZING DRAMAS OF THE COURTS.

A TRAGIC PASSION,

An ex-official of Scotland Yard writes in Reynold's Newspaper

Was Jeanne Weiss à calculating,

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FOR EVERY PURPOSE

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Thus, as Madame Weiss, we see fite which was to close in terrible Jeanne accompanying her captain to Ain Fezza, a small town in Algeria at followed this unholy.compact

tragedy. where he took up a civil appointment.[

?

And here for a few years she seems to we do not know precisely. We know, have been perfectly happy in the however, that Jeanne's hastand grêw devotion of her husband and her love!

for the children that came to her. But fate and more alarmed at Roques's intimacy with his wife and her in- such days of peace and happiness were fatcation for him. He became gloomy,

fot to remain undisturbed: and the

ift within the late" came with the coal find no vent in action: for morose. the victim of a jealousy which arrival at Ain Fezza of Felix Roques, much as he suspected his wife's a handsome and fascinating railway.

cold blooded murderess, s fiend in the guise of a lovely woman, or was she the victim and instrument of the engineer whom the Captain invited infidelity there was no proof of it, so to his home. little dreaming what cleverly and secretly was the liaison strong-willed villain Felix Roques. under whose hypnotic spell she was tragic consequences were to follow conducted. We know, too—as was later proved that Roques was! compelled to execute a dastardly this act of friendliness and hospitality-always urging Jeanne to procure a

Before the engineer had been many divorce from her husband- step

days admitted to the Weiss household which, from love of her two children,

he had completely lost both heart and

crime? This is a problem as it scrutable to day as when, long rears ago, she protested her innocence st the bar of Justice; and her counsel, head to Madame's beauty, and began she shrank from taking. It was thus in fierce indignation. proclaimed. to par her marked attentions, which great relief to Weiss when, after a "The crime, if crime there was, she received with studied. coldness few months of such torture, his sup- was not hers. It was that of the and resentment. As she confessed planter was ordered to Spain to take infamous scoundrel who was her later, Though I admired him, IP a new post.

lover."

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feared him. I was afraid of his black, When Roques, willing to leave

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This drama of illicit love, mystery, piercing eyes, which seemed to look the woman he loved, declared that Le and tragedy, of which Jeanne Weiss through me and to read my most would refase the offered promotion, was the central tragic figure, had its hidden thoughts. I did not like his Jeanne begged him to accept it, and

A opening in a boarding-house at Nice. this lips and his smile. which to me not to consider her." "I cannot, and For weeks will not." she vowed to him in a The proprietress of the boarding. Suggested cruelty. house was a venerable, aristocratic frankly dreaded meeting him and spirit of self-sacrifice, "stand in your Water System throughout. Best of Ford sand lady, Countess Daniloff, and she was yet I seemed powerless to avoid him, way. That you love me as I love you,Teletons 53. Telegraphic Adiomes=" VICTORIA” assisted by her granddaughter, Jeanne, and seemed drawn to him as if by I know. But you will find some one else to love you, and I shall still have a strikingly beautiful girl of eighteen, some magnetic power." with the beauty of luxuriant golden-. Every day, when he did not see my dear children to love, So, terrible as the parting will be to me. it is brown hair, blue eyes, dimpled cheeks. her, he sent her a letter full of passion better that we should henceforth an exquisite complexion, and a tall ate rows; and each letter, as she figure which she carried with a rare received it, she returned. But gra- go our different ways in life." grace and dignity.

dually her power of resistance became But, though Roques affected to Jeanne was, like her grandmother, more and more feeble; and the climax take her advice, he left for Spain with an aristocrat to the tips of her dainty came one day at a picnic in the desert, i the intention that their parting should fingers. Her grandfather had been when Jeanne, who had wandered off be the prelude to a complete and fiñal the handsomest man at the Russian alone, suddenly found the engineer reunion. He had not been many days Court, a great favourite of the Tsar; by her side, pouring out his passion in Spain when Jeanne received a her ancestors for centaries had held in her ears,

their heads high among Russia's proudest nobles; but almost to a man-

THE TOSS OF A COIN,

letter from him, accompanying a cloak for one of her children. In the cloak she found a bottle of poison, which he

they had been profligates and spend- For a few moments she listened to commanded her to administer to her thrifts. Their large estates had been him in silence. Then, in a sudden, husband_

dissipated at the gaming tables and overpowering impulse, she turried to Soon after the receipt of this letter in riotous and extravagant living, him and eaid, “If I allow you to love Weiss became serviously ill with. until the widow of the last Count had me, will you give me your entire life's a mysterious Balady which puzzled been obliged to leave her native land, devotion 2. I could accept nothing his doctors, although the symptoms- to play the lowly zole of boarding less", to which he replied with a vertigo, sickness, shivering, a burning house keeper at Nice.

solemn vow that he loved her as never head, and ice-cold feet-should have THE COMING OF THE CAPTAIN. man had loved woman before, and suggested poison as its probable Not the least of the Countess's that he was here "body and soul to cause... troubles was -hez granddaughter, the last gasp." Then, taking

a coin

The doctors advised the waters of whose dangerous beauty and love of from her purse, she said, "I cannot admiration filled her with fears for decide such a terrible question my Vichy, which certainly proved benk her fature; and it was thus a relief self; I will leave it to chance--od, ficial; but on his retum to Ait Fezza to her when, among Jeanne's many fate. I will fees, this coin into the his illness returned still more alarm- lovers, she af last gave her hand to a air. If it comes down heads I am ingly. It was noticed that he was handsome and charming French yours; if tails, no," She tossed the only ill after eating in his own house. officer, Captain Wens, one of her coin; it fell on the sand at her feet, If he took a mes elsewhere, no ill boarders. It was certainly not a union head uppermost. Fate had decided cffects followed; but if he drank or worthy of a daughter of the house of that she was to Eelong to the man she ate at home violent sickness invariably Daniloff; but, at any rate, it was a had begun by dresing, almost hating, ensued. His wife, too, it was observed, provision for the girl's future, and and to whom she had gradually, always prepared his food with Ler "ît pat ka emi to her fears of aus unst her struggling at b

1 her will can handz, and she missied him with capade or a marriage which would been force to yield. This opened great tenderces and solicitude. bring dishonour to the family name.

new chapter in Jeance Weir's (Continused on

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