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ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY WAR BOND DRAWING.

SALE OF TICKETS CLOSES

ON 15 FEBRUARY.

Tickets $5 each, obtainable at Banks, Stores, Clubs and Hotels.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ST, 1919.

THE UNITY OF THE ALLIES.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR ON THE

TON-PER-TON POLICY.

The Lord Chancellor presided at a dinner given, recently, by the Govern ment to the members of the French and

1talion sections of the Intor-Allied Parliamentary Committee, in the Royal

A PRINCESS IN THULE.

BAINT, HEROINE AND

UNCROWNED QUEEN.

"week or two since there was laid to rest in an island of the Hebrides the dust

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

Bcottish saint and heroine." Bo writes Walter Shaw, in The Scotsman.THE Undersigned have received instruc

tions to sell by Public Auction, TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY)

She was one of the Sisterbood of Bilëri-

Gallery, Palace of Westminster. There five whose names shine as the stars for the 6th January, 1919, at 10 a.m., Sharp at.

were a large and distinguished company present. On the immediate right of the chairman woru M. Franklin-Bouillon (President of the French Section), Vis count Bryce, M. Painlevé, and the Lord Mayor, and on his left the Italian A- Lassader, the Speaker, and Signor Frun- cisco Rufini (President of the Italian Bection).

The Lord Chancellor, proposing The French, Italian, and Belgian Section of the Inter-Allied Parliamentary Com mittee," said that the history of France had been long and glorious but he believed that the most glorious page was the

shc had *0- dured in this war. (Uhcera.) France had endured unto Lle end. Italy had proved by the might of her song that the old Roman valour was still alive in thom She could uphold her rights sad bid defiance to all who desired to infringe

them.

BELGIUM'S HERO KINO.

ever and evet." Happy the nation that reaza these daughters |

"She was bern in the island where sho now lies buried. Hor father is laird, in reality king, of the little domain. He is alao a chieftais, though not chief, of an or and sword. ancient and warlike clan, who plied both Look into the fades of of the Colt and the ice-cold daring of the these men, and you will see the dark fire Norseman lodged in the same countenance. The uncrowned queen of the island was our saint and heroine. She shone like a peart in the bosom of her loyal folk, They wear her now in their hearts.

M's Naval Depot, Kowloon, About 8,000 tons LUMP JAPANESE COAL "MIYAO" MINE.

Special conditions will govern the sale of this Coal which may be obtained on application to

BUGHES & HOUGH, By Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiralty. Hongkong, December 18th, 1918, [184

THE CALL UP DUTY, **The island of which I speak is remotel Events of the great world outside trouble it deeply only about once in a

hundred never reached it at all-for instance, the the years, and some mighty movements have religions Reformation. The natives are Catholics, and the names of the Virgin and Saints are invoked on all important occasions.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

Undersigned have received instruc tions to sell by Public Auction,

8th January, 1919 at 10 am, at H. M. Naval Yard, and at the Kowloon Depot.

respectively, Old and Surplus," NAVAL AND VICTUALLING STORES,

TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY),

Comprising:

Old and Surplus Naval Store:-One

No one could remember the name of Belgium without thinking of the unutter.

"When the present war broke out the able wrongs which she had sustained at folk of the island were not surprised. the hands of Germany. We could not They expect a war every few years. Who sufficiently admire the heroic stand which was the enemy was the first question. Steam Cutter 28 feet (full only), Various. the Belgians made. Belgium had indeed Their doubts were soon set at rest, by the

young lady of the buse,

Ships and Boats Fittings, Fan Engines, a bore King. They would recollect the had her education finished on the Con-hing Mate, Bamboo Poles, Canvas Hosen

who striking cartoon showing the Kaiser and

tinent. She

Hawsers, Papecatulf, Canvas Bags, knew, and they trusted her. the King of the Belgians aide by side.

Old The Kaiser was represented a

She addressed them from a rock front India Rabber, Old Leather, Buate Oars. saying, ing the sea, while stood on the sands Cable, Old Steel Wire Rope and Hawaers, Carpeta, Ruge Blankets, Furniture, Electrio You have lost everything and

arounds, and she spoke to them in their Old Steel Inhoe, Old Iron and Step, or King of the Belgian replied,

Not my

own Gaelic tongue, so full of soa!" (Cheors.) The Lord Chancellor, of war and tempest, love and tenderness, of the sounds.

Oil, Firewood, dc. continuing, said that to him who kept At times her voice rose to a a rhapsody, for his soul everything else that was good she had imbibed the traditious and elo came in time. (Chcers.) They could

quence of the bards; and these grim 10en, not refuse their tribute to the Queen. with their women-folk and children, (Cheers.)

listened with growing indignation.

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But abb was loving as she was brave.

Old and Surplus Victualling Stores: Provisions, Seamen's Clothing, Blankets, quantity of Electro-plated Article and Table Transport Bedding, Officers' Mess Traps, fa Linen). Implements, Seamen's Mess Utensils,

This meeting," the Lord Chanocilor Her exhortation finished, she kissed each age Articles, Oak Staves, o., dc.

continued, ia symbol of the close co operation between the Allied countries. Co-operation is the business of the hour, and the business of the hour is to achieve victory,

to orush militarism. (Choers. Germany's methods had been auch that they recalled the description of the horrors of the Thirty Years War, with the addition that there had been during this war on the part of Germany a cold calculation in bratal excesses which was A novelty in the bistory of the world, Having referred to what occurred in Lille,

he said such crimes called aloud to Heaven for punishment. He pointed out, by their methods of warfare at sea and by the bombing and destruction of open towns, the Germans had violated international law.

woman and each child, and shook hands with the men. Next day abe was bound for Serbia Serbia, with its record of heroism, battle, death, Bight. fover, horrors unnameáble.

WHO GO HOME I

Her sailors and soldiers have covered themselves with glory by sen and land; but it is not of that I wish to tell; not that, but of a week or two ago. railway station.

"There was a strange sight at a London what aged, seafaring men, roughly clad Four grizzled, sonie and using strange apeech, were standing round a coffin. It was her retainers come to meet her and bring her bome. Through the influence and courtesy of an official they were granted, their carnest desire, that they should stand over her in the dimly lighted van as the train aped North with its precious casket through the dark-

Sale of Old and Surplus Viotualling at the Kowloon Depot, will commence 11 a..

Wednesday, 8th January, 1910, shout

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Teraun of Sale-As detailed in the Catalogues.

N.B.-The Sale at the Kowloon Depot on Wednesday, 8th January, will not commence until after completion of the Sale of Japanese Coal advertised for the same date at 10 am. Sharp.

HUGHES & HOUGH, By Appointment Auctioneers to the. Admiralty. Hongkong, December 18th, 1918. [toa:

PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instruc

Co., to hell by Public Auction,

tions from Mesara. D. MacDonald

at their premises Hung-bom, commencing FRIDAY, January 10th, 1919, at 10a.m., and continning on MONDAY, January 13th, at 10 am

&o, &c., contained thereon,

In the upinion of every man who brought a sound judgment to bear upon the question, such outragen were exe- Bess of the night. Ay, there they stood erable, and when they had been reduced over ber, and blessed her as they wept. to a system everyone must feel that those The same ritual was observed on the ship responsible for such a system must be that bore her to bar island kingdom. A THE WHOLE OF VALUABLE PLANT, dealt with, and sternly dealt with day later she was buried under the pro- (Cheers.) The only other thing under tection of lichen-covered Celtic cross the heading of outrages that he wished to dating back to the time of St. Colum. refer to was the most painful of all, the

The Atlantic sang requiem" ill-treatment of prisoners. (Hear, hear.) Wae it not borrible to think that prison. era were being starved and subjected to every form of outrage and cruelty that these ontrusted with their custody could

devise?

ALLIED AIMB.

is responsible for what has been done by the Kaiser, her ruler. They have never effectually dissociated themselves from what he did. They gloried in his auccesses and they condoned his misdeeds.

"We have had two aims in this war;" | (Cheers } he proceedod. "One was the punishment of those who had been proved to be

UNITY ESSENTIAL.

LARGE GALVANIZED IRON BUILD. INGS, STOCK AND MACHINE TOOLS.

Machine, Shaping Machine, Milling Machine, Comprising:- Lathes, Planing Machine, Screwing

Sawing Machine, Blotting Machine, Drilling Machines, Cold Punching and Shearing Machines, Blower, Weighing Machines Test Pumps, Engines and Shafting Sundry guilty of outrages, and the other was re-France, said the aim of that gathering Drills, Stock and Dies, Steam Hammer, M. Painlevo, responding on behalf of Pumps, Assorted Chain Blocks, Borew Jacks, Stretching, Screws Tools, Twist done. Panishment of the offenders would bring closer together the relationship Patterns, Band and Circular Saws, fipe paration for the wrongs that had been was not to draw up a protocol, but to

Blacksmith Tools, Sandry Wooden not be mere vengeance; it would be a between the Allies. In the dark days of vindication of international morality, the war it was unity of action that car- Foola, Euergens e Vices, Coppersmith's (Hear, hear.) No law is of any value ried the Allies through-the application fittings, Winchos Bollars, Diving Pumpe, Cupola, Water tanks and without some senetity, and unless inter-of the theory of one Allied front. He national law can be vindicated we may would have liked to have spoken of the band), a quantity of Stool Products includ Helmeta and dresses (New and second look forward in futuro wars to a recur marvellous effect of the creation of unity ing Steel Platos, Angles, Bars, Rulled Steel, rence of the horrors that characterised of command in the presence of Mr. Lloyd Joists, galvanized Steel Plates, wrought and the Thirty Years' War long ago in George. In November of last year that galvanized Iron Piping and Fittings, Brass. Germany. The second object is this, that question was being discussed by the and Copper Tubes, Muntz and Yellow Motal there shuuld be reparation. (Hear, Allies. It was at that time that Mr. Sheathing, Motal and Copper Tacks, etc. hear.) Let it not be said that these Lloyd George made his great speech at

ALSO things were demanded by us, as the Ger- the Ministry of War in Paris. In

it' he

One large galvanized Iron Building (wood mans are trying to say, in the friendly doclared that there must be unity of com-

Framing) arrogance of victory. We demanded mand-one front, one army, one nation.

One small galvanized Iron Shed (Steel these things from the beginning of the (Cheers.) That programme was realised,

framing) war, and we demanded things even when and they had seen the result. (Cheera.)

One Motor Boat 22 by 5' 9" by 8 feet fitted: the sky was darkest for us, and when M. Ruffiai responding on behalf of with 1520 H.P. heavy duty Kelvin Kerosene our prospects were at the worst. As re. Italy, said that at the time when things gards reparation, there are some wrongs were looking black for Italy Mr. Lloyd

AND cannot be righted. The murdered George came to him and told him "You vannot be restored to their familias; out must resist. Retreat and retreat, but raged honour cannot be made good still resist and keep on fighting. Punishment may be meted eat to the (Cheers.) The Italian Army did so, and, offenders; indemnities, compensation, is combined with unity of command under out of the question. But thord are things that can be compensated. The devasta tion that has been wrought to the terri M. Feron (Belgian delegate) said the tory of the invaded countries, the cut war was a war of democracies, and they ting down of fruit trees, the destruction could say that victory had been won of coal mines, the havoo wrought in M. Franklin-Bouillon (president of the houses and property all these things French section), speaking in English, must be compensated.

anid the spirit, which bad animated that There is another thing that I will gathering showed what had always been odd, and it is this: Speaking my own spirit of Britain and France, oven opinion, I

say that evory vessel that has when they were fighting against each been sunk by submarines ought to be feather. They had now fallon side by side placed (Cheare.) German morghant in

in the present war, and nothing could vessels have been for the most part in divide them.

Marshal Foch, they were achieving victory (Cheers.)

harbour. We cannot allow them to staft The Spunker (Mr. J. W. Lowther) gave with the advantage of their mordant the toast of The Allied Navien and shipping to

a great extent intact, and Armice. Speaking in French, the right wo trust that there may ba such repara hon. gentleman mid the Allies could tion in this particular maltor exacted congratulats themselves that, in good as will prevent the Germans from reap fortune and in bad, the common wille ing from their outrages that nefarious victory had never been endangered, and

remained unshakon. moral, had

You admire all (the righẻ hơn,

| HALF A CENTURY REPUTATION, Advantage which they hope to get the unity of the front, physical and

(Cheera) The German people must he

DR.LE CLERC'S VIDNEYS

PILLS: FOR THR thught that militarism does not bay.

for of hear.) hate

Motor.

direct coupled to dynamo illustrated on One 8 B.H.P. Bolinder Crude Oil Engine page 25. of Bolinders extologue. on Friday, January 10th, a 10 am,

The machinery will be put up for Auction.

(Fall Farticulars from Latalogue). * Trùms ---Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Austioneers. Hongkong, December 23rd, 1918: [116

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