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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SORTETORS

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TILE Undersigned have received (netene. toms to sell by Publin Anchor

on

THURSDA7, August 23, 1921. commencing at 11 am

at Quan Lee Workshop, Hunghom. Far Account of ths Concerned ), A Quantity of Miscellaneous

Goods

Comprising:-

Rubber hose, Irca pipe fittings. Steel wire, Mastic wall boarding. Engine parts, Antifriction metal,

INTIMATIONS

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PRICES are Very Modersts. Ins! pertica and Enquiries are cordially invited.

Rivets, Bolts, Nuts, Washers, Files, SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Wood screws,

Also

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FRIDAY, August 26, 1821. Commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sale Rooms, Duddell Street, A Very Fine and Superior Selection of Genuine Old Chinese Caries of Estrame Rarity. Comprising:-

Bronze and Porcelain vases, incense barner, plates, figures. ginger jars, flower ct, bowls, wine cups, tea pots, joses, Fons and ornament, Fekin Glass sau bo ties sad vases, Crystal, Agate and Jade Figures, vases, lions, jeses Necklace, Pekin and ornament. cloisonne vese, enamelled plates, bowls. side table Lacquered screen, pace. shaira, Sochow Blackwood chaire in aid with porcelain panels, Mandarin costs, and Porcelain of Kanghi, Yangching, Kienlung, hing and Terkwang! periods. Ireluding Sorells of Targ. Eang, Yuet, Ming and Tsing Dynastie

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Agate Incense Barzer and cover On view from Thursday the 276 August

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LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers

Hongkong, August 10, 1921.

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FRENCH LESSONS

G. MOUSSION 18. Morrison Hill Kosá

Imperial conference affords States, Great Britain. Australasia, facilities. This indicates the value Canada, South Africa, India, France, of the new croat of inter-Britannic Italy, and Japan cannot in concert consultatio. The overseas States find some solution to the problem, are given a responsible share in i then it must be hopeless indeed. We arranging the foreign policy of the cannot believe that it is hopeless; we Empire, which must therefore be feel sure that, with goodwill and we Mr. Lloyd George gave expression adjusted and formulated in accord, know the goodwill exists-and sound with their aspirations and statesmanship, a way out of the to the general sentiment when he we comed with unreserved satisfaction interests as well as with those of the intolerable impasse can be found. peoples of these islands. In regard Yet the difficulties are great, and not underrate them. President Harding's proposal for a

larger the limitation of to the Pacific and the Far East there we

ideal of world- Conference on armaments. It is a bold and wise was commen agreement on certain That step which may have incalculable re- broad principles. It was accepted reduction most. he postponed until old ally, the creation of a settlement on the selta. The world, as the Prime! that

bas remained faithful to problems of the Pacific coasts and Minister said, has been looking to the who

ber pact during twenty trying mainlands. That, we assume, is why United States for such a lead, and it bails the President's initiative with Years, which included the hazardous President Harding's statement lays relief and hope. It detracts nothing and searching ordeal of the World special stress on this part of the War. She has fuifilled her part of subject. Mr. Lloyd George interpreted from Mr. Harding's courage

the bargain; she bas done us good it in this sense, since he told the bati aod judgment to the suggestion for a Conference service in a most critical period, and House of Commons that be under forward she deserves to be treated with stands the President to have suggest- had already been put by the British Fereign Office. Mr. friendliness and consideration. As to ed a preliminary Conference on the

and. Lloyd George's words on the subject China, it was also agreed that the Far Eastern problems. The peace English of the Pacific must be assured before gave rise to some misconception, English-speaking

bave no interest the disarmament of the nations can and were not, in fact, quite clear the ruled peoples reason being, as he explained later that vest tract of the earth's sur be carried far. The one achieve ibat be did not feel free to speak face, save bat of helping to make it ment is, indeed, consequential on the and safe, and other, for the centre of political and fully en matters which were at the free, prosperous,

the Industrial gravity is towards the great given that it is moment the subject of conversations seeing

opportunity 10 develop ocean on and about whose shores, or between cur own Foreign Office and fullest

resources the shores of its tributary seas, Live that of the United States, Japan, and its immense natural Chira. To all three Governments the and place them at the common much more than half the inhabitants Marquis Curzon had made the sug service of mankind. We want the of this planet. That is why the gestion of bolding a Conference cathe Open Door in Eastern Asia; we have Anglo-Japanese Treaty has suddenly problems of the Pacific. This was the no desire that China should be ex assumed an importance altogether outcome of a series of discussions and ploited, dominated, or controlled by transcending its somewhat, modest confidential consultations in the any State or group of States; we and. Jimited provisions.

the know that, in spite of temporary dis United States it is a test-case. The Imperial Conference, or Imperial Cabinet, Mr. Lloyd location, she is potentially one of the problem before the Micistern and George prefers to call it. The Pacific Great Powers of the world; and as diplomatists who will presently meet LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT out anything on earth or in the water question, in its special shape of the such, or at least as an independent in conference is to devise a scheme renewal or abrogation of the Anglo- nation, the mistress of her own des which will satisfy American opinion, Japanete Alliance, was the first item tinies, we are prepared to treat her. protect Chinese development, and be on the agenda of the Confererce. To Thirdly, and most vital of all, the Fre compatible with the true interest this topic the representatives of the lers and delegates agree that the alike of Japan and of the peoples of

Professor Flinders Petrie and his

Among the works of art there is a Dominions and India were invited-to mainspring of our policy should be the British Empire. If that task is apply themselves at once.. The im friendly cooperation and the frankest accomplished and we believe it can perial Government cleared the ground understanding with the United States be accomplished a glorious vista of experts are busy at, University fine ebony statue, of the sixth dynas- concord and Co-College unpacking the ninety cases ty. It is to the ancient Egyptian by ascertainingthe exact legal position of America. That co-operation and international

to that lasti ument, amity we believe-all members of operation may open before the eyes that contain thousands of Interesting belief that existence after death is a with regard

things dug up during the last two replica of this present life that we owe the little sculptured figures. The Lord Chancellor and the Law our British League of Nations believe of humanity,

winters by the British School of usually in painted wood, which re- Officers of the Crown, after due con- to be essentiel to the peace, well sideration, concurred with the view being, and progress of all the human

Archaelogy in Egypt Last winter produce domestic scenes from the taken by the Tokyo Government, family. And finally. Great Britain,

Investigation shows that the the School excavated a cemetery in ordinary daily round of work on the banka of the Nile thousands of years. which is that the Treaty does not Australia, New Zealand, Canada,

These fascinating Lapte until a year after it has teen Scuth Africa, and India concur in serious and widespread decline in the the Western desert, 70 miles south of before Christ denounced, that no technical denum-/ wishing to make the Pacific, in Mr.attendance at American kinema 1Calro. A rich. harvest of object be- statuettes are well known from ear.

a millperd. Eheatres is due not merely to the

the early dynasties.lier discoveries, but Professor Flin-/* longing to will therefore remain valid, even if troubled by an inserrate and bure extreme heat, which was responsible particularly the shuth and ninth, was ders Perle has added enormously to ciation has been made, and that it Harvey's phrase, notice of its abregation be given, densome competiton in naval arma for the death of thirty persons in Ohio

our knowledge of old Egyptian slope, but to the increasing demands

A large number of tombs of the life by his latest finds until the time-limit bas expired. Both media.

These are the points emphasised of the public, who are tired of bigbly.

realism, these groups. by Loid Curzon when he suggested paid stars in prosaic roles and highly latter dynasty which were entered and painted with surprising vigoar open desert to rock chambers were show .'" 'miniature granary of the League of Nations, and it will the idea of a Conference to Washing artificial scenes from the Wild West, by long stairways descending in the and

ton, Tokyo,and Prking. China signified which has now disappeared, for better opened, and a great many treasures filled with busy servants; a kitchen fulfil that condition.

ber's cceptance; Japan has not as yet pictures. According to one investiga The Treaty then, for the prezent, replied, but a favourable answer is tor" there is more bank in American that had escaped the thieves and where one cook furas a trussed despoilers of past centuries were goose on a spit, while another (his but the expected; and the response, of the movies than in any other business on found. Oldest of all was the body wig removed for coolness', sake) fans runs on anicmatically Governments of the British Empire United States has taken the form of earth." have to consider whether it shall be that epoch-making message in which invested here in the kineme tuiness. of a girl who lived (the experts say the fire; a sacrificial ceremony; the setting of a table, and high-prowed relewed next year, and, if so, on President Harding enlarges the more but it is increasingly obvious that, to about 8,000 years ago. what terms, or whether the dual 1mited project to a general Con- retain the public there must be less The mass of the exhibition is form boats with sails of brown linen, Alliance which established shall be ference to discuss the limitation of fabrication and a great advance lied of things that were burled with manned by crews of black-haired rebandoned. On these points certam armaments. The five Great Allied round en the part of the producers: the dead. Among there is a beauti sailors. The stone bead-ret, sandals, conclusions have been reached and clased "Powers would con The graving excellence of European ful "magic" jar of transparent tollet sets, tools and weapons de which Mr. Lloyd George tells us, fer upon the release of the peoples of films has been noted, but these are falsager found in the tomb of pusited in the graves make it possible hould not have been satisfactorily this earth from the procem of being excluded by the tapf laws, and their daughter of King Senuzert IL It to reconstruct every detall of that framed without the Intimate around to powder under the weight comteution for, the moment is not has an inscription saying that if she long-perished civilisation Cown to the

puts her hand into it she can draw, micutest particular, exchange of views for which of their own panoplies. I the United apprehended.

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parties, however, are anxious to bring

it into conformity with the Covenant

be revised, by content, in order to

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AMERICAN KINEMAS.

Immense sams, bave been

PROFESSOR FETRIE'S LATEST DISCOVERIES.

obtained.

that she wants. Some articles of copper are a very rare find, and one of the finest things is a stone cup carved in imitation of a lotus flower -a piece of most delicate workman. sbip,

Carved