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LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS|||LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

BRITAIN'S M.T.BS.

PUBLIC AUCTION. PUBLIC AUCTION. LITTLE BROTHERS OF

THE Undersigned have received TE undersigned have received

tors of

instructions from The Liquida-

The Chien Hsin Engineering Co., Ltd.

(in liquidation}

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Wednesday, the 26th June, 1940

commencing at 11 am.

at Godown No. 12 of The China' Provident, Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd., West Point.

A Quantity of Oil and Paints, etc.

(now stored in Godowns No. 12 and 13

Terms: As Customery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

O.J. Action No. 71 of 1940

THE Undersigned have received

instructions from The Official Administrator, Supreme Court,

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

Thursday, the 27th June, 1940 commencing at 10.38 a.m.

at No. 33, Morrison. Hill Road.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

al30

1 Cabinet Gramophone

1 Small Combination Safe 1 Frigidaire

Catalogues will be issued

DESTROYER.

Sea war becomes less and less the platuresque, slow-moving, 'stately affair that long reading of nautical novels would lead one to expect. Sea war, like everything else today, has been mechanized, Eight knots, which was good speed under sall, is just "doddling along" craft that today, and there are sweep into action at about fifty miles an hour working up and down the North Sea, writes a Naval correspondent,

They are not big ships. To see a flotilla of them streaking away from harbour gives you no true

of

GENERAL

English Girl Tells How News Was Kept From The French

LONDON, June 25 (Reater) --- An indication of how news

was

kept from the French people was given la a broadcast talk yesterday

by Miss Monica Stirling, who has been working with the French

radio.

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She has reached London by way of Bordeaux, Since the beginning of the was, she says she has been working in Paris with the French short-wave station,

Last Sunday she found a message asking her to be at the station that night.

Ittle louder but

Many people were there, the guns were everyone was cheerful, talking about how close to Paris the Germans set in the last war.

were

even

When the Director arrived he, England and France asked them to get ready to move partly separated. us the Germans were near enough When she got to the boat, she for was asked if she had heard of Mr, Paris to make it necessary another radio station to be made Churchill's offer to France. She read the news and sighed with ready in case of need.

away | relief until she "found that the

take news was a day old.

They did not expect to be for long. She was asked to fighting only one suit case.

of

SAT ON SUITCASE It was then about 2am. The exodus started next morning.

Impression

their strength. But to be in one' them, as I was going flat out" which is the modern mechanised Navy's word for full speed-at a

The trains were packed with target with guns manned, torpedo men, women, children and dogs.

Miks Stirling ·SAW two Siamese tubes ready, and men standing by to release depth charges at a mo- cats, a canary and squirrel. ment's notice, gives you a very She sat on her suitcase in the different impression of the des corridor scribbling an article in a tructive power of these little craft, dirty note-book to fill in the pro- 8 shortage They call them MTB's forgramme if there was short. They are motor torpedo of news.

There were no rooms- svällable boats, but I think we may fairly call them the little urothers of the in Bordeaux, but she and several destroyers. Little they certainly others were given a heap of straw On View from Wednesday, the are, a mere 60 feet in length, dia-to sleep on.

26th June, 1940.

Next morning the full orchestra placing no more than seventy tons, carrying no more than two arrived and, laking no notice of officers and seven men. Yet they the men and women strewn about can keep the sea in all sorts of the "place, burst loudly into "Ćar-

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS..

'weather, and the men who work

in them only ask for the chance) to attack a big enemy ship. '.

TEST BY STORM

men."

"TÖLD NOTHING They were called to work at once and they knew that Paris

instructions from The Regis PUBLIC AUCTION. They know what they can do was in danger although they stil

trar, Supreme Court

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

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сп

Wednesday, the 26th June, 1940

at 12 o'clock (noon)

at their Sales Room, No. 2 Con- naught Road Central, Second Floor.

The Valuable Leasehold Property

THE

22

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

against the sea, for the flotilla I had no news. was with today was called back! They were

told nothing. "The

THE Endersigned' have received from service overseas, and on the people got very irritable and in-

instructions

way, between Bizerta and Ajaccio. terrupted to ask: "Is Paris taken. they met one of the worst storms or not?"

Small newspapers carried that that particular ocean can pro-speeches by various people but no duce.

Two or the boats were adrift news of any armistice. from the flotilla for some hours,

In her programme, Miss Stirling but in the end all came through read extracts from Eve Curie's life the ordeal, without any worse of her mother. She is now in damage than smashed windows in London, Miss Stirling was glad to the wheelhouse and several hours be able to say. without food.

on

Friday, the 28th June, 1949 commencing at 2.30 p.m.

They have struck some pretty

STALE NEWS

Next morning, Miss Stirling gol

situate at Yuen Long. New Terr- at their Sales Rcom, No. 35, Hanheavy weather in the North Sea an urgent message from the Con- tory."known as No. 22 Hop Tick kow Road, Kowloon. Street.

Terms:-Apply to the Undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

comprising:-

sulate advising her to leave for since they came home, and the

a boat which was normal dress they adopt when England on putting out includes several layers going in two hours."

She tried to object saying: "I

of woollles, a duffel coat or oil-can't as I've got to do this first." skins, sea boots, and stockings. And on top of it all they have to thing like that. She just could She was not being brave or any- Iron and Teakwood Bedsteads, wear a tin helmet all the time.

state in which not visualise a There is no shelter from air- Divans, Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Wash craft attack between decks in & torpedo-boat. There LA Stands Hatstands, Chesterfield motor Suites. Bideboards. Dinner Wag-ittle or no shelter, either, from gons. Dining Tables, Chairs, Tes-the spray that the bows throw up poys, Ice Chests, Desks, Cabinets, in great clouds even from a com-

THE

a Undersigned have received Bookcases, Filing Cabinets, Cup-paratively smooth sea.

instructions

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

Saturday, the 29th, June 1948

Room, No. 27 Connaught Road, Central

boards, etc., etc.

Warning In London

FIRST ONE SINCE SEPTEMBER

There is no "bridge" in the normal meaning of that word for Carpets and Runners, Rugs, Cur-the captain and the officer of the tains, Mattresses. Curios, Or-watch. They have to sit in the naments, Pictures, Cutlery, Port- open on top of the wheelhouse, LONDON, June 25 (Beater) able and Cabinet Gramophones. with their legs hanging down An Air Ministry communique E.P., Brass, Porcelain and Glass through a couple of manholes. Ware, Electric Ceiling and Table Fans, Cooking Utensils, étc., etc.

also

states that enemy aircraft crossed

Their sea boots swing to and the coast during the night, The fro just behind the head of the anti-aircraft defences went into helmsman, who is also in control action.

of the engines. With one hand The air raid warring was sound-

A SELECTION OF BLACKWOOD he turns the wheel as he steers; ed early today in a wide area, in-

FURNITURE

at 11 o'clock -8.7.

at their Sales

One 1938 Hillman Minx de luxe

2 Aquariums

14 Rádio Bets

1. Radio-gram

One 1937 Martie 12 Saloon.

One 1936 De Boto Saloon Two 1938 Chevrolet Sedans Two 1935 Chevrolet Sedana

One 1934 Standard 9 Baloon

One 1934 Austin-10 Saloon One 1833 Austin 7 Saloon One 1933 Standard-12 Tourer One 1928 Austin-7

One Willys "77", Baloon.

On View on Day of Bale

Terms: As Customary

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

INDIAN NAVY

CASUALTY

2 Upright Pianos by "Moutrie "

1 Typewriter "Royal".

1 Typewriter Underwood "

1 Typewriter "Underwood"

1 Grandfather Clock

1 Enlarger "Zelss"

(portable)

1 Cine Film Projector and Camera

1 Electric Refrigératör "Frigidaire"

with the other he moves the little cluding London. This was the levers that operate the 1.500 horse-first warning in London since Sep- power concentrated in the cramp tember last. ed engine-room.

“FLAT OUT"

זי

Incendiary bombs were dropped

in south-west England but 50 faz.

The responsiveness of those en- it is not known whether there gines is astonishing. One morning were any casualties.

We were moving along at a genţie "Two plates gura leei. In: Wales ten knots when the commanding but no bombs were dropped. There officer anddenly bellowed, Flat were warninge in south west Eng- out! The three switches were land- and planes were heard. flicked over with the pressure of Searchlights were active and the the palm of the hand. Within Wall-cleart was sounded" in //Lon- | seconds we had touched that don at 5 AI AIMT ft landi "flat out" speed which was the

utmost the engines could give us

The acceleration was frankly NEW HEADLAMP

incredible, But even more astonish ing, was the abrupt termination

On View from Thursday, the 27th to the run "Slow," came, the vidce

June, 1940,

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT "BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

HERTZOG'S LATEST

of the CO. The switches were moved back. We lost speed, but not gradually nor yet with a jerk.

MASKS ON LONDON BUSES

London Transport has announced

We just lost it. In eight seconds that the new and improved" type we were down to a crawl

of headlamp mask recently ap

It was the kind of tactics that proved for adoption on public sex- the M.T.B. carries out in attack-vice vehicles by the Ministry of ing U-boats. We did a number of Home Security has now been fitted runs of that kind.

en both the nearside and offside We practised attacks against headlamps of all the 1,557 trolley- surface craft, and I have' rarely buses in service, JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (Reu- experienced such a thril as at the The fitting of the new maska NEW DELHI, June 25 (Reuter. › ter)--General Hertzog and Dr. height of our dash-the full flotilla has been completed on all the The government of Indis announ-Malan, Leader and Deputy Leader in quarter line ahead, one ship nearside headlamps of the Board's ces that, the 600-ton escort ship of the Opposition Party respec- just away from the wake of the 5,200 ordinary buses and coaches, Pathan, of the Royal Indian Navy, tively, issued a joint statement next ahead, when we swung and they are now being atted to has been lost on patrol. Two off yesterday demanding the immedi- round to launch our torpedoes and the offside lamps at the rate of

then, mere specks in the smother 1,400 a week sy sk cera, a petty omcer and two ratate summoning of Parliament

ins were Zilled, and one officer They invite their supporters to of spray, dashed onwards to safe- The new masks give the driver and seven ratings wounded, the hold meetings to protest against ty out of range of the enemy's a visibility which lafar greater

In peace time the Fathan was the declaration of war against guns

than with the original type, and

used for training. She carries a Italy without consulting Parlia- The little brothers of the des- allows an ample margin for him to normal complement of 66 and is ment and to demand the im-troyer have yet to prove their pull up his vehicle even if he is Brzed with one 4-inch gun and mediate withdrawal of the Union value in a first-class engagement travelling in the black-out at (201 two 3-inch guna.

from the WRT.

But they are ready,

miles an hour

That sort of thing had been going on in the last fortnight in France, she said in conclusion.

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