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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

121 Onderstgood have roestved fosteno-

velena

on

TRIDAY, December 18, 1921,

commencing at 11 am. - No. 400, Canton Road, Mongkokteui. 1 1400 H. P. Engine (from 8. B. Hongkong"), 3 Cylinders 28, 33 and 54. Stroke 40".

1 Shaft (no tail) with gearing,

Bhafts (no tail),

1 American Donkey Pump,

1 Ship's Pump,

And

A Quantity of Sundries,

Terma:-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Wonghong. December 10, 1981.

PARTICULARS and CONDITION

OF SALE

of

The Steamship,

"KONG CHOW" (formerly S. 8.KWONG TAI")

as she now lies off Samshaipo in the Harbour of Hongkong together with her gear, and appurtenances

To be sold by

ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE

by

PUBLIC AUCTION

תם

FRIDAY,

the 16th day of December, 1921, at 3 o'clock p.m.

IN ONE LOT ·

by

Mesers. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Auctioneers.

at their auction Rooms, Daddell Street.

Steamship" KONG CHOW"

The Ship is a Chinese ship registered at Canton and of a nett tonnage of 370,

Ber dimensiona ura :-

Longth

Breadth

Dapth...

113.8 it.

28.45 ft. 9.55 ft.

For further particulars apply to

F. E. NASH Esq.

Vendera Solicitor,

>

10, Queen's Road Central,

or

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, December 7, 1921.

THE Undersigned havs reaTER LINKI DO- dobo sail by Publis Auction,

00

SATURDAY, December 17, 1081. commencing at li a.m.

at their Salos Rooms, Duddoll Street,

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture, Comprising:-

Teak batetand with bevelled mirror Sideboard with bevelled mirror, Dining tables and chairs, Carpet, Silk embroidered screens, tea tablos, music cabinet, etc, etc

Double and Single Wardrobes, Dress- ing table with bevelled mirror, Chest of drawers, Washstand, etc.

$180

A Few Pieces of Black-Wood. Ware

(Wardrobe, Silver cabinet, Chairs etc,)

And

One Victrola,

On view from Friday the 16th, inst.

Catalogues will be issued.

Terme :-Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioncom.

On

MONDAY, December 19, 1981.

commencing : 10 30 a m No.18 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godowo Co., Ltd.

Kowloon,

A Quantity of Round, Square, aud Flat Iron, Angle Iron, Plate Cuttings, Iron Plater, Pip, Iron, etc, etsi

10.

A Line of Miscellaneon- Goods. Terms :-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

TUESDAY, December 20, 1931,

commencing at 11 am, their Sales Roogia, Duddell Street, A Selection of Bigh Grade

Cashmera and Tweed Suft

Longtha Sp.perior

Overcoating, etc.

Terms: Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.; Auctioneers.

Hongkong. December 14, 1991.

A GERM DESTROYER:

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AIR ENGINE.

GEAT OPPOSITION MET BY ITS 450-HP. MOTOR THAT 4 MEN

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A costly 3-years scientific quest has with ก now provided Britain large air-cooled aeroplane engine with features that no "ofher motor in the world can show,

Commodore Edouard Suenson, who died at Copenhagen on September 21, was born on July 24, 1842, and, was a Fon of the late Admiral Buenson, known to the outside world through his skil

Th small engines which cooled. ful Landling of the Danish fleet in the aaval battle off Heligoland during the themselves by spinning round and war of 1864 between Denmark and were fitted to the aeroplanes of many Germany. After having attained the piorcers present formidable problemos rank of Lieutenant in the Daniels to attempts to increase their power. Navy, Suenson served three years in Yet the air, with a 'p'ane rushing the French Navy, taking part in the through it, offers an ideal cooling French axpedition to the Far East medium for a motor; and, of course; against Korea, after which he was, on if one car air-cool it does away his return to Denmark appointed with the impedimenta and potential Naval Attache to the First Sea Lord of sources of breakdown involved in the the Danish Admiralty; but when water cooling system employed át

Great in 1870, the Northern present in the most powerful.aero-

and. China

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THURSDAY. OEMBER 16, 1921

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of laying submarine cables in the Far them stand well in the air flow, and East, Lieutenant Suenson, as he was to seeing whether a really powerful | then, was asked to join the company and reliable engine, such ca, is de- for the purpose of proceeding to the wanded for fighting or commerce, can Far East as the company's general be kept cool enough while operating manager there, to make the necessary at great speed simply by the flow of about to lose the services, through KAM HING KNITTING COMPANY. arrangements for the landing and lay-air round its cylinders. ing of the first telegraph cables be- tween Hongkong-Shanghai, Nagasaki' and Vladivostok...

SPACE SAVED.

How important this research has heen way be gauged when it is said than fixed-cylinder air-cooled motor, containing 25 per cent. fewer parts than one that is water-cooled, and yet developing several hundred horse power can be tucked in a fighting plane into a space only 2ft. from frent to back.

The U.B. forces in the Far East are

retirement in his 64th year, of an interesting personality and a soldier of much experience, in the person of Charles R. Noyes, Colonel of Infauty. Colonel Noyes, who is at prosent in Shanghai, is shortly returning to Manila and will go home to the States after having formally reported at Fort William McKinley.

Manufacturers of

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Telephone K $77. Manager, WONG KAM FUK.

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Master TAM KIT SANG.

On bisarrival at Hongkong Lieuten- ant Suenson arranged with the British Colonial Government for a suitable landing place for the first cable at Deep Water Bay with right to connect it by a laal-line, suspended on the

He has seen 46 years' service with Government's own telegraph poles, to

the Army, and has been an officer aa office at Victoria. At Shanghai

Success has now been achieved and for 42 years, having graduated at he met with the greatest difficulties

the engine is entirely British. The West Point in 1879, Much of this from the very beginning. European merchants of all nationalities estab- Bristol Company, whose efforts have long period has been spent in China, lished there were anything but dead the sympathetic interest of the where the Colonel first saw service in lighted at the thought of getting the authorities, have recently submitted 1900 as an officer of the 9th U.S. telegraph introduced in China, as this to the most searching Air Ministry Infantry Regiment which formed part would put an end to, or at all events trials the largest and, for its power, of the American expedition despatched || LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, &c. be.

the lightest, air-cooled motor ever from the Philippines to assist in the limit, the larg speculation going on built. This engine has just emerged relief of the Legations threatened by there, and would also deprive the

triumphantly from richer merchants of the advantage observed technical test that no other

officially the Boxer bordes. they had over their poorer confretes by despatching their quick sailing steamere to Singapore for the latest news of the state of the European

markets.

OFFOSITION.,

an

The regiment arrived about the engine of the kind bas survived. This time when Admiral, Seymour had test has been one equivalent to retired on Tientsin after an unsuccess- carrying 8 people in a series of ful attempt to reach Peking, and flights, entirely without overhaul, for was in time to participate in the 10,000 miles at a speed of more than taking of the walled city as a 100 miles an hour.

necessary preliminary to an advance on the capital.

The natives in and round Shanghai The big cylinders of this engine were also strongly prejudiced against develop 450-horse power when work- the talegraph, having only a few years ing at 1,840 revolutions a minute, and before destroyed a private telegraph yet the engine is so light that four

"} line almost before it was finished, men can lift it.

owing to their belief that "Fengshui” A new fighting machine, expected was quite against any article pro-to exceed in speed sad manoeuvring truding into the air. This supersti- power anything attempted hitherto, tion had then been one of the causes and also a British commercial of the severo riot at Tientsin, where aeroplane having a unique capacity the French fathers had erected a for making leads pay, are to be built cathedral with a high spire. The to take the new engine, Chinese Government and the local authorities, were equally opposed to the t legraph, and bad only a short | time before refused an application from an English company for the land- ing of a cable. Nothing discouraged, Lieutenant Suenson, whose clear in- sight of human nature and great re- scurcefulness stood him in good stead, Claiming to be a descendant of "the and having obtained the support of Syrian Royal Family," an elderly some of the more induential Euro-woman, named Theodosia Blundell- peans, he worked out a plan as to how Hayward was charged at Westminster and where the cables should be land- Cathedral,

QUEER MENDICANT.

A PENSIONER OF CARDINAL VAUGHAN.

THE MARCH ON PEKING.

The attack, in which 1,200 U. S. Infantry and 1,000 Marines took part was begun on July 12 and the Chinese behind the city walls managed to keep up a stubborn resistance for 24 hours, when the city was captured.

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The relief expedition set out for Peking 10 days siterwards, and it is recalled with interest that the Com- mander-in-chief of the American Forces, General Chaffer, struck a distinctly piquant note in the divided counsels among the allied-leadera as to when the troops abould march. No decision being arrived at, General Chaffer coolly announced: "Gentle- men, I shall move off with my troops on August &." August 5 was the day upon which the Allied army moved," and nine days later the Legations 1,500 were relieved.

Having been wounded in the assault

Noyes, was deprived of this interesting experience, but he returned to China in December and was with the U.S. force stationed in the Temple of Agriculture. The troops spent a com- paratively quiet time, but there were occasional diversions in the form of small expeditions to quell disturbances at outlying villages,

ed, the soundness of which has been When she was arrested letters ad-upon the walls of Tientsin. Colonel proved by the fact that after fifty dressed to well known people, includ- years the cables are still landed at the ing the Lord Chief Justice, were found same place on Gutzlaff and at Woo- on her. In these she said that money sung, near Shanghai. After having was being withheld from her.

Some remarkable details regarding made the necessary arrangements for landing of the cables in Japan, where, prisoner's career were given by M in contrast to China, no opposition Francis Hackett, sacristan at the was met with, and after the service bad. Cathedral. He said she spent the been thoroughly organised, Lieutenan. greater part of her time pestering

HIS INTEREST IN CHINA. Suenson returned to Denmark for the visitors. The late Cardinal Vaughan

Colonel Noyes is also an old cam- purpose of resuming his career in the made her an allowance of £20 or £40 Navy. He was, however, prevailed a year, this being paid by Bishop pagner of the insurrection in the upon to remain in the company, and Johnson, his secretary. It was con- Philippines. Having spent the after finally resigning bis commission tinued after the Cardinal's death, but greater part of the past 20 years in with the rank of Captain sub-prisoner had to be warned for writing China, the affairs of the country sequently raised to Commodore-he abusivo letters to the present Cardinal have claimed his interest as a social became managing director of the of Westminster and others."

and political student, and for this company in 1874, a post which he The socretary was prepared to pay reason his active interest in the keld without interruption until 1908, the allowance if prisoner now would country will not cease with his re- when ho was elected chairman of the consent to go into an institution, tirement. We believe it is his in- board of directora, having already where she could be looked after pro- tention, upon settling down with his had a seat on the board since 1890. perly,

family at home, to do such work as may be posible in stimulating in- terest in Chinese affairs,

In 1916 failing health compelled Com Prisoner: No, indeed, I will not go. modore Suenson to give up the active They want to keep me under lock and leadership of the company, and he key. was elected hon, chairman of the board of directora,

From the American point of view, Inspector Sexton said that the old the country is daily becoming of lady told him that she had been in greater importance, and while in all À DISTINGUISHED LINGUIST. receipt of money from a Syrian fund, the more important matters, the Although Commodore Buenson and she claimed to be a descendant States are well served with informa hver re-visited Chins, he was later (from the Syrian Royal Family. Ste tion, Colonel Noyes thinks that an on instrumental in the opening up of was, no doubt, a well-educated this vast country by constantly woman.

impressing upon the Chiness Govern. The magistrate sent her to jail for ment the necessity of erecting Innd month, without hard labour, lines between larger towns, and although several attempta met with

disappointment, his efforts were at English, French, or German, he soon

laat rewarded by the company being entrasted by the late Viceroy, Hung-chang with building a whole net of land-linow from 1881 and onwards.

ora Stenson was known to

a leading position amongst the prevent at the con 6 he was alwayslistened attention. Since his

iractpra

world, Fot

from

lity and on he was

expresa limebit flüchty #bol

papy and

as chairman of the

effort might well be made to arouse the interest of his country in the more intimate details of Chinese national life. The idea is very commendable as being an excellent way of putting experience of the country to practical use, and the many friends of Colonel

Noyes will wish him all success in the undertaking,

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