LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURTUTORS.
-Public Auctions—
#TUK Undersigned bare received Instruc- tions to sell by Public Auction,
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SATURDAY, July 18, 1891. commencing at 11 a II.
at their Sales Room, Daddell Street,
1 Dictaphone,
3 Dictagraphs,
2 Storing Machines
8000 E.C.C. Egiption Cigarettes,
3000 ALE...
11
1650 Crema Irince Egyptian Cigarettes, 2150 Dollar Prince
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2100 King Egyptian Cigarettes.
A'Orient Egyptian
-1000 Fleat
Cigarettes.
290 Its. Navy Cat Tobacco,
60 be. Frmezdentes Cigars.
A Lao
A Quantity of Chocolates.
Ter-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
TUESDAY. July 19, 1921, commering at 10.30 am.
at No. 8 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.,
Kewloon,
A Quantity of Round, Equare
d Fiat Irco Bars, Steel Plates.
Angle Iron, Kiveta. Tinplates, Brass-WATE,
Also
A Quantity
Miscellaneous Goods.
Terms --Cast on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Bloogk. Jaly 14, 1921.
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM,
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the rust digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (9) LAC- rose (Milk Sagar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Drapeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and other Insect Pests in Summer day, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses
PRICES are Very Moderate. Los pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Bate Agents for Dongkong and Ecuth Chas
Nae, 17 45, Cemmar ght, Bond Central, Bengkeng
Talephone Nov, 123
理代泰皇豪
FOR SALE.
CHINA PICTORIAL
AERIAL
POSTAGE STAMPS,
at $3.75 net per set.
GRACA & 00., Dealers in Fostage Stamps, Philatelic Goods. Post Cards, Toys, &c.
No. 10, Wyndham Strest, P. O. Box 620.
Hongkong.
JAPANESE MAKERS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
"COMMANDER"
Super Size Virginia Cigarettes
“Commander "has many
leading qualities –
"Commander" smokers
know what they are-
"Commander", must be smoked to be app- reciated.
TRADE
MARK
COMMA Finest Virgins
Westminster
"Tobacco' Co. Ltd., London
PRIJAY, JULY 15, 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,
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Kodak Films, &c. &.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING & SPECIALITY.
No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Hoyarond.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong)
REPULSE BAY HOTEL (Repulse Bay)
PENINSULA HOTEL (Kowloon) (under construction)
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
TOWN GARAGE &
BUSSELL STREET GARAGE
SHOW ROOMS
(Pedder Street}
Ch
WEDNESDAY. July 20, 1921, commending at 2.45 p.m
No. 40, Humphreys Bailling.
Kexloor.
A Large Quantity of
Jainable Household Furnitare, (Full Particulars from Catalogne). On view on day of sale.
Terma :-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, July 13, 1921.
THE WATER SUPPLY,
Level and Storage of water in reservoirs
sa the 1st July, 1921-
CITY AND FILL DISTRICT WATER WOZKI
1920
отерик
LEYEZ
Delux! Level with overflow.
m Even wie Level with overflow
in Bolun corakow)
Sysm Intermečiste
Borel with overgaa
Briam Trix 13 in.
Below overflow
{ Imel withereda
Laval with overflow
Wong Net Unus, 171 Cin. Detox overbos
Below overtor
Lead with over how
WEBLOX IN MALLOY) ANT DESTALS BY GALLOWA
1150
NOVIN
x
Frum Liternečiste mun
125.2)
502.20
LIRANI 11.45 26.70
1,412.20
14.30
21027
Toda
קוגן
Consumption of water in the City and District in millions and decimals
gallons during the month of June,
Comermplice
potismon... 17924
$.6
per day comma 1799 and
1
> to
+ E
gullon
Constant supply in all districts during
Jerne of both 1920 and 1921.
KUTELOON WATER WOBER LEVEL.
Glen Gravite |
1521
1991.
Intel
Rost Bok... í with sTIJDOW wild, avotiem
GRCKAGE IN MILLIONS AND DECIMALS OF CALLĖJE.
15
$3.50
Minions Gravitation
1921.
392.40
Consumption of water to Kowloon in fia: mad decimals of galibus during the month of June.
Con
timated pupEISTICA -- detanglers per bandy
151
15%
18.500
Got
The Government Analyst's reports show that the water in of ercollent quality.
#Popolation supplied estimated from
121 Census
Public Works Department.
T. L. Praxis.
Water Anthurity.
LEE YEE'S
HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
12. D'Aguilar Street,
(opposite Hongkong Theatro,)
Razors Ground and Bet,
Children's Hair Cutting, Novels, Magazines, Ladies Fashion Books,
Toilet Requisites, etc.
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & '00..
PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Betol Telephone No. 491.
Hongkong, March 23, 1914.
TANG YUK, Dem.
*ccer to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.
TERMS VERY MODFEATE
CORRELATION FREZ.`
THE NEW FREKOM REMEDY.
THERAPION NË. THERAPION NË 2 THERAPION NO3
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MITSUI “BUSAAN KAISHI,
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THE PASSING OF A FAMOUS BATTLESHIP.
VESSEL THAT CHANGED NAVAL
OUTLOOK.
REPULSE BAY GARAGE
PROPRIETORS>--
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Fest above Sea Level,
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of......
Mrs. BLAIR.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry).
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON
Recently renovated and rofuralahad, electric light and face throughou and entirely under new management. Culdne under the paracnal supervision of the proprietos. Bar and Billiard Exams. Tarma modarata. Special input 10 familie on application to
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J. EL OXBEREY, Proprietor.
HOTEL “ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON.
* Leading Hotel in Bouth
China
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans, and Elevators. Roof Garden.
Hairdressing
Saloon.
Views of City
Excellent Cuisine.
and Pearl River.
Moderate Rates.
Splendid
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"DREADNOUGHT SOLD, more when the Germans pretended has been varied, but its general
that they did not mind. This de- character may be traced in every! parture was the decisive, move in the capital ship now afloat, whatever its naval war, already in progress al nationality. From the new fashion though peace still reigned. and thence-initiated by Lord Fisher this country forward we had the lead by sea. alone gained any considerable ad- Of course. the Germans know that vantage. It was a stroke of genius. every one of their battleships had for it gave to us an ascendancy which been rendered obsolete by the Dread- stood us in good stead when the nought, with her ten 12ih, gunz, her floodgates were opened in August, The Dreadnought, the most famous complete armoured belt, and her 1911. The passing of the Dread- man-of-war of modern times, and speed, a matter of 21 knots, or 3 nought, after so comparatively short, knots in excess of the German max- though useful, an existence does, certainly the gae which has exercisedimum. They realised also that it however, suggest rumination. The more influence on the history of the they were to build, as they must. British Fleet has had Dreadnoughts world than any other, is being consign-sach vessels, the Kiel Canal had to be since the reign of Queen Elizabeth; ed to the scrap-heap. The Admiralty widened, the locks being also ea- the long line of vessels so named is has sold her, together with over 100 larged, and that all their docks had associated with such great men as to be lengthened and widered. They Drake, Frobisher, Leveson, Beeston, other obsolete battleships, cruisers, said very little about these costly and Suckling, Nelson's uncle, Cornwallis, monitors, destroyers, and torpedo- tedious tasks, and they found people Collingwood, and Exmouth, tó mer- boats, to be broken up, and no one in this country to co-operate with tion less than a dozen of the heroes can say what character her next them in pouring contempt on the of the gallant company. These shipe incamation will assume. The pacifist, Dreadnought. But when the Great played a great part in the making of War came, the whole world could England and the building up of the who objects to all expenditure on recognise the statecraft exhibited by Empire, since one of the number, naval armaments, will be pleased. Lord Fisher: money that would under Captain Thomas Fenner, "Did I not warn you," he will ex- bave been spent by the enemy on formed part of the squadron. with claim, that in a comparatively adding to his strength by sea had been which Drake singed the King of short time, even as we measure time devoted to "bricks and mortar," Spain's beard. That early vessel the mastodon which filled men's and the whole process of German of the family was built in 1573, and thoughts in the carly years of this expansion had been retarded. It she survived until 1645, undergoing century would be a thing of no use? was the unkindest thing which could in the meantime repairs and recon- He is quite right, but no more so, have happened to the Germans. structions. For upwards of seventy even in this restricted sense, than They are very methodical, and the years she was one of this country's everyone else. The Dreadnought, advent of the Dreadnought, with all bulwarks, and now, after a career it is true, cost as recently as 1906-it connoted, threw them out of their of fifteen years only, her great succes- she was launched on Feb. 2 of that stride, and before they had recovered sor, which moulded policy and settled
Though, according to Mr. Lloyd year-upwards of 100 golden soit the military caste in Germany, national destinies without winning
George's statement to M. Nabokoff vereigns a ton, and she has now been realising little the influence of sea shy battle honours, is about to be
after the first Revolution, Lord Mil- sold at the rate of £2 10s a ton in a power on history, had, with blind broken up. The Dreadnought passes
ner, who took a special mission to Russia in 1916, sasured the British sadly depreciated currency, represent-laith in their many battalions, pre-into oblivion, but the Victory,
Cabinet that there" would be no re- ed in paper money. But of all in cipitated the war. It has since been launched as long ago os. 1765 st vestments which we as a nation have admitted on the other side of the Chatham,-survives, to fly still the
Ghosts of Chesham-place, home of volution in Russia during the war, ever made she has unquestionably North Sea that the appearance of the flag of the Commander-in-Chief at officia! Roasis in London. fit through the warnings of impending trouble proved the most profitable, not ex. Dreadnought, with its new standard Portsmouth, Romance, in associa the pages of "The Ordeal of a piled up in London, Sir George cloding even the shares in the Suez of power, was the death-blow to all tion with precious memorics, has Diplomat," by Constantin Nabokoff Buchanan, our Ambassador at Petro-
wherein (Duckworth, 15%),
the rad, took the unprecedented step of" Canal of the insolvent Khedive of Germany's naval schemes.
preserved from destruction Nelson's Russian Charge d'Affaires under the personally urging the Czar to call a Egypt. She was born in an atmoɛ- And now the Dreadnought is to go lust flagship, a thing of perishing Czar and Kerensky, has set down his responsible Ministry to power and phere of mystery, and then she and to the shipbreaker's yard! That event timbers. The great abin of steel, memories of the years which saw the was snubbed for his pains. On the denly leapt into fame, to change the is a sad commentary on the rapid which had much to do with averting fall of the Romanofs and the rise of margin of one of M. Nabokoff's whole naval outlook. Before she progress of science in its application disaster to our sea-power in the Bolsheviem.
despatches reporting the assurance"
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELKOTBIG TRAMA PA Extrance, Bloo sele life on and Lighting Europea Patha and Sanitary Fittings, Hột sod Water Systems throughout Best of Ford and Service.
Telephone tra. Telegraphic Addros >—" VICTORIC"
3. WITCHELL, Mangur,
FALL OF ROMANOFFS.
CZAR AND HIS OFFICIALS.
"THE ORDEAL OF A DIPLOMAT."
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION
15. Morrison Bl! Kes
not always understand what he actually meant to convey.”
took the world by surprise, Germany to warfare. It seems only a few earlier years of this century, never His strictures это outspoken given to Mr. Balfour that the Czar. was rapidly overtaking us in the years ago that King Edward VII. fired a shot in anger, and she goes enough, but his sidelights on the was determined to continue the war construction of battleships; it would launched her at Portamonth, Lord unwept to her end. She has been ineptitude of the old Russian Foreign to the end, Nicholas wrote: "Of
have been only a matter of a few Fisher, by his Majesty's side, singing killed by the active brain of 'ber Office, the squabbles among the course."
The Czar's abdication brought to years before she would have possessed heart and soul the hymns appropriate creators; they have produced a Russian Duma Delegation which
more modern units than we could to the occasion. By taking guns in- greater than she in H.M.E. "Hood," visited England during the war, and London a comic emissary of the Pro- bring into line. She had created the tended for other vessels from this and it is common knowledge that's the distensions among the adherents visional Government, Commissary of the various "nationalist" Govern, Syatikov, with instructions to in- Kiel Canal and her docks on the basis quarter, and obtaining armour from super-Hood exists on paper in the ments which it was sought to set up vestigate the relations between the of a battleship design of about 13,000 that, she was completed and at sea Admiralty. Four of the ships of against the Bolsheviste, tell their dreaded "Okhrana" (Russian secret tons, and her crews
were in a year and a day, the first battle new design, each costing between own plain tale of the causes of the police) and the London Embassy, carefully calculated on
which, M. Nabokoff avers, never the same ship to be driven by turbines. There four and five times what the Dread collapse of Russia. pripple. The latest of the battle was no want of witnesses to state nought cost, to our amazement, are M. Nabokoff was, when war broke existed. This individual worked big- ships were of the four-big-gun-order, that it was all a mistake. She was about to be laid down. It would out, Russian Consul General at self into a rage because he found no- At the end of 1915 he body but a servant at the Embassy just as ours were, and they were far too big! She carried too many 12in be appropriate if high traditions of Calcutta. better protected. Then rumours guns! She was too spoey for the the past were to be preserved by was transferred to London as Coun at luncheon time, and generally gave spread that the British Admiralty line of, battle! She ought not to christening one of these ships the sellor of Embassy under old Count himself such airs that he was finally
fund brilliant conversationalist, whose; had quietly laid down at Portsmouth have had turbines, zepresenting & Dreadnought, the others being named Benckendorff, a shrewd diplomatist, disavowed by Fetrograd. Dockyard a battleship larger dis rahh and costly adventure! Well, Superb, Temerare, and Bellerophon
Vitalents, however, forssok him when
WHEN YOU EAT TOO MUCH."- laping about 18,000 tons of water time answers most criticisme: Since all Trafalgar names. In that way he took up the pen.
te powerful, and swifter than any the Dreadnought took to the water, great deeds would be perpetuated, His despatches and letters were in to an or
VISTIERS in the stomach after eat Germany had ever built. Lord not singis vessel of the familiar and the nation would be reminded of written either in long and confused Chamberlain's Tablets. Try is the beat Faber, the originator of the scheme, pre-Dreadnought type has been laid what it owes to the influence of sea, sentences, or else in short and time you eat more than you ah aid. For merely smiled, and he smiled all the down by any country. The design power on its destiny.
urintelligible lines, so that one could: mie by ali Chemists and Stornicempers.
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